Agent White

shonen jump

Are you talking about Catalysts or Converters Ironblade?

Catalysts are the rare drops in Incarnate Content that transform an ATO into it's Purple form. You can't use them on anything else.

And to the OP, if you're waiting for non-ATO sets you're probably going to be waiting a while. They've already confirmed a new round of super packs with a 2nd set of ATOs coming.

Trials always get first dibs on new goodies. Solo stuff gets added later. That's just the name of the game now. People can still unlock and slot the first 5 slots on their own

here's a simple question:

Which would people have been more angry about?

Gating the slot behind a new kind of XP only available through the trial or letting it unlock via normal XP but gating the abilities behind new salvage available in the trial?

Pretty sure people would be way more up in arms about the latter.

Anyone consider maybe that's -why- the trial is front loaded to begin with?

The only reason it's a grind is that it's the initial way to unlock. There'll be more later. Just like with BAF/Lambda.

I wasn't really thrilled by the arcs but I generally liked the characters. And I'm curious if we'll ever see Flambeaux's break from the team and her descent into villainy.

Grym also showed up in DA in the Dream Doctor's finale.

If it is indeed a bug.

You're not going to get in trouble

At worst you'll just not be able to get missions from the contacts if it's some bug they 'fix'. But again, they don't offer anything really that's all that important. The repeatables are just random missions. Fireball and Trilogy are very poor 'arcs'. It isn't like they give you something you shouldn't have except play experience.

Frankly, any Mastermind is going to be pretty good for solo play. You're a one man army, the only time you may have problems on your own is hitting an elite boss or the like. There are 'bad' Primaries, but that's pretty subjective and even the worst primary still makes a more solo'able character than say, most blasters.

Two strong combos off the top of my head are bots/traps and zombies/dark.

Bots/traps synergizes well because one of the bots has a defense shield and traps has the forcefield generator, resulting in some very nice stacked defenses, which can be boosted even higher with certain unique invention enhancements. You've also got good debuffs with the Acid Mortar (reduces resistance and defense) Poison Trap (can hold foes and -floors- their health regeneration) and seeker drones (Good to summon in a spawn to draw their alpha, then explodes and can stun and drops their to-hit)

Alternately, Bots/Force Field. Same idea, stacking the big Defense shields on top of each other.

Zombies/dark miasma is a lil squishier but Dark has a -lot- of tools for survivor, almost everything that targets enemies causes a -to Hit, which is as good as adding defense. it's got very strong enemy targeted heal, a debuff slow patch, an aura that gives stealth, defense and certain types of resistance, a rez, an extremely good fear power, a hold, an ally rez that doubles as a stun and floors regen. It's an amazing little tool box.

I'm sure others can talk more about good comboes. Heck, 'Beast' is considered one of the lower tier primaries but I've been having a blast with my beast/time (between fortify pack and far sight, I can nearly soft cap defense for a boss battle).

Pfff. Don't be crazy. Statesman has always been a mekman.









that is pretty silly though. MA is basically fan fiction and in game justified as virtual reality. There's no reason to remove them from there. Nothing says an arc couldn't be written before their deaths, or in an alternate timeline where they didn't die, etc.

I don't know if it's a bug or not. Honestly my instinct is to say 'no'.

The main draw of First Ward and Night Ward are the ongoing storylines they add to the game. That's basically what they're selling, like the individual SSA arcs, only it's a whole zone worth.

The 5 contacts in First Ward just offer a small handful of repeatable missions. It's like newspaper missions for those zones. There are no end of arc rewards, no massive chunk of experience, no reward merits, just the standard single mission completion rewards.

This is the same for Sir Lionel and Atherton (sp?) Cromwell in Nightward. I finally found them after I hit 30, I assume their level range is 30-39 like the First Ward contacts are 20-29. Interestingly, both are available to Heroes and Villains, though the Drudge is -definitely- more villain flavored.

I'm not sure if Fireball and Trilogy have end arc rewards though. So, they might just be exceptions.

But I'd guess that it's okay they're available to everyone. At least I don't really see why the Devs would feel it's an integral part of the zone's experience to tie it up in the purchase. Just think of it as a taste of what the zone stories offer.

I don't believe the patch notes actually meant Monsters as in the class of Devouring Earth seen on Monster Isle and in the Hive/Abyss.

Night Ward has no Monster class enemies, but plenty of enemies that Taunt you.

pretty sure the lightning damage is untyped instead of energy.

Having the level shifts from popping the wells helped, if I had one up I could heal back fast enough with Twilight grasp to not die.

Stil generally easier to just jump back though.