Issue 19 overview

Mender Ramiel will give an arc that will unlock the slot, similar to the way Monatgue Castanella gives an arc that unlocks the Midngihter Club.
The slot probably won't be able to be bought with merits, as that was one of the things people complaiend about during the GR closed beta - it made the slot seem less special or tied into the game lore.

Ha, they could not resist the siren song of my promised $8 bribe!

Castle said it was unclear; apparently he had it changed to conform with his clarifying post.

Oh okay, also i am unaware of how you would 'fill' this slot?

If we're judging by the way the slot originally worked in GR closed you do the following.

There are several IO style recipes you can pick from and craft to fill the slot, coming in common, uncommon, rare and purple flavours of recipe, the rarer the recipe, the more it costs to make but the more powerful it is and the more powers it enhances.

Level 50 enemies drop 'incarnate shards' which are used to craft the slot and to make the other salvage needed to make the more common/uncommon/rare/purple salvage you need to make the power.

One of the examples was a power which enhanced damage.

The Common version enhanced damage by, I think it was 25%

The Uncommon version enhanced damage and endurance by 33% or Damage and Hold duration by the same amount

And so on.

The purple version had one option which increased Damage, Hold duration, Confuse duation and Immobilization duration by 33% as well as giving 33% Endurance discount to all powers.

Soon.

Soon(tm)?

Probably

tyvm

I think it's all levels getting access to it, not just 50s.

They said "Fall" earlier. Which would mean anything between tomorrow and December.

They're tied to the avatar that crafts them - like merits.

Thx

I too was a little disappointed to not see Fire and Ice Melee on the list (although Fiery Assault for Dominators is...) since I hate having sword attacks thrown in there. But on the whole this looks like an awesome issue.

I am going to guess they were planning for early November to coincide with the release of DCUO to try and maintain subs. NC did a similar thing last year with their loyalty program that yielded rewards for maintaining a sub at the same time CO was released. Now that DCUO has been pushed back to Q1 2011, who knows?

Apparently this is part of the incarnate arc. That is what Positron told me, this evening. When he redeemed the hour of playtime with a Dev I had won in the raffle at the PAX Prime meet and greet.

I didn't dig further because I didn't want to ruin his enjoyment playing the game.


~MR

I'm sure there will be new animations for the melee sets soon. Maybe they figured since Super Strength and Martial Arts got new animations last time that they should focus on ranged sets this time.

So will PI and Talos link up with Rogue Isles via the Ferry's?

I think you'll still need to take the submarines for switching sides - the merged ferries are just the red side ones.

Well, if you want to be pedantic, it should probably be "Merged monorails and merged ferries". Submariner Janus seems like he'll still have a job.