Base Defense Items

I am currently trying to update Paragon Wiki's information on base items since there is quite a bit that is missing or outdated. I have a few questions that I can't easily verify by myself however so I was hoping that someone here might know the answers.

1. The Improved Igniter badge gives an SG access to the Igniter base defense item. Does it also grant access to the Improved Igneter and elite Igniter or are those avaialble at SG creation?

2. Similarly the Analyzer Base Defense grants access to the Scanner and Analyzer items. Are the Improved and Elite versions of these items also unlocked by the badge or are they available to a new SG?

3. There doesn't seem to be an Improved Energy Beam item despite the presence of both an Energy Beam and an Elite Energy Beam. Is this correct?

4. The wiki lists a several defense items that do not appear in any of my worktables/forges. Were they removed from the game? If they are still available is there a badge to unlock it? And can you tell me what salvage they require? The items in question are the Tesla Cage, the Improved Sapper and the Elite Sapper.

Thanks
Adeon

Try this link for some other pics

Zappalina's Guide to Arcane Supergroup Defense Items

Some items have been removed from the game, such as the overseers control item, and item of power, etc.. which were obtained by base raiding, and completing the Cathedral of Pain TF many issues ago (issue 7 I believe for a span of 2-3 weeks it was active then taken down and never scene again)

So not everything is obtainable now but those SG's that obtained them at the time can still be seen in there bases now.

I am not in game at the moment (at work) otherwise I would log in and take a look at your other questions.

Thank you. The link claims that the Improved Igniter badge unlocks the Improved Igniter and not the Igniter. I think I'm going to have to make a new SG myself and test this, while it makes sense that the badge would unlock the Improved Igniter and not the Igniter those two items are pretty clearly messed up anyway so it might not so i'm probably not going to believe it unless I test it.

(in case someone is confused when I say that they are messed up I'm referring to the fact that Improved Igniter is the only Improved turret that isn't crafted)

Slightly off-topic, but I've been trying to find an answer: what is the Arcane defense item that looks like a purple hanging brazier? I'm not finding it in the available Wiki entries that have pictures, or I simply missed it.

OP: updating the items that are missing pictures to include pictures would be awesome! (Hint, hint!)

Anyone know why the tech stealth supression devices wouldn't have the lasers coming out of them after being placed? Saw pictures with lasers... reeeaaalllyyy want lasers!

-B

As it turns out Berliner the animations for most of the Defensive Items stop working soon after the item is placed. It seems the only way you can get them to work again is to relocate the item into a different room. This is a temporary fix though as the animations will stop working once more.

I got the impression that they're only really intended to function during base raids.

Which don't happen.

Grr.

I want decorative versions of most of the functional base items.




-np