Incarnate Abilities and Salvage Questions
By
AF_Bill,
Posted on: 2011-09-11 08:54 in Player Questions
All I can really give you an opinion on is the Empyreans. Keep them. Only 1 or 2 per trial, they build up way too slowly to convert. You don't know what may be added to the Incarnate rewards that you will want, and building them up takes a long time if you are a casual Trial runner.
Astrals are easier to build up, so if you want to convert them I would. I am using mine for the costume bits right now, then I will worry about what else to do with them. If the costumes don't interest you, or the IO recipes, then do as you want.
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For ideas on what lore abilities might mesh thematically with your scrapper (I'm going to be working with existing ones, as I have not heard anything about them expanding the lore abilities again)... we might need to dance around the "dark" aspect - A number of summons have a few dark powers in their repertoire, but none seem exclusively dark themed (even the dark ring mistress has but one dark cone; the rest are psy).|
Originally Posted by AF_Bill
Hello all,
I have a few questions as to what to do with my DM/WP/Blaze scrapper. I already have T4 Spiritual and working towards T4 Judgment/Void. Im pretty sure I will take Barrier, but I have no idea what to take for my Lore or Interface. The problem with Lore is I would want a pet that goes along with a dark hero, so I would really appreciate ideas there. |
-If your Character has any strong ties to Longbow, Arachnos, Carnival of Shadows, Cimerorans, Nemesis, Rikti, Vanguard, or Praetoria; We could hand-wave it as using your dark powers to (forcibly?) summon assistance from your friends in [faction].
-Storm Elementals, while perhaps they might not match the colours of your dark powers, could be considered clouds of dark energy that fire off lightning bolts.
-If your character (beyond being dark), is tech-ish based in origin, perhaps you could work in robotic pets? Warworks, Clockwork, and Robotic Drones could serve that purpose.
-If you don't mind using your dark powers to summon other-worldly monsters, Rularu could be a good fit.
-Vanguard - particularly any from this tree with both the Sorcerer and the buff-pet Magician (t3-Partial-core, t4-Radial-superior). The sorceror only has Lifedrain for dark (also 2 ice and one elec), But the buffpet has twilight grasp and assault. Bonus; vanguard tend to dress in black/gray/purple.
Lore can be tough to fit in thematically with some characters. I had a heck of a time picking a lore tree for my plant based character. In the end I went with Rularuu for the organic monster look. Polar lights were a close second
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Robotic Drones uses the same little bugger from Blaster's Targeting drone, as such they are small and discrete, as well.
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For one of my dark hero theme character I ended up taking Phantoms as the Lore Pets and just considered them as ghosts of prior conquests/victims. Its a pretty you cant customised them to make them darker, but they look ok with the essence mist around them.
Got agree with Justice Blues advice also, keep the Empyreans until you need them, but dont be afraid to use the Astrals.
Hello all,
I have a few questions as to what to do with my DM/WP/Blaze scrapper. I already have T4 Spiritual and working towards T4 Judgment/Void. Im pretty sure I will take Barrier, but I have no idea what to take for my Lore or Interface. The problem with Lore is I would want a pet that goes along with a dark hero, so I would really appreciate ideas there.
I guess what I really need to know is what to do with my Incarnate Merits. I dont find enough time to do the trials, so its not like I have a ton. What I really want/need to do is finish my Judgment, because right now I have knockback and that drives me nutty for this build.
Looking at the Incarnate store I really dont see anything I want at the moment. So, should I trade the merits for threads? Should I hold on the empyrean merits until I have enough for a rare salvage? Or are there known upgrades in I21 I should just wait and see?
Thanks in advance!