Maelstrom's Pistol Craftable Costume Recipe

Arbiter Hawk is in a meeting, but he wanted me to post this:


Hey all, just popping in here to give some clarification on this point:

There are two ways to obtain Maelstrom's Pistols as a costume piece. The recipe has a 4% chance to drop each time you see a pistol get knocked out of Maelstrom's hand in the TPN Campus incarnate trial. This occurs twice per playthrough on a successful trial - once when you defeat him inside the main TPN Campus building, and once when you defeat him outside during stage 4 of the trial. That means there's a 7.84% chance of somebody in the league getting the Maelstrom's Pistol recipe that you are currently seeing in the auction house listing. This recipe is tradeable and can be used by any dual pistols character or thugs mastermind at any level, meaning you can send it to your friend's new level 1 character to make a cool pistol for him to use. Using the recipe allows you to craft either the left pistol or the right pistol.

The other method of obtaining this costume piece is to complete the TPN Campus trial with an Incarnate character who uses either dual pistols or thugs, and then visit Empyrean Michael. You should then find that he will allow you to unlock both pistols on that character for a moderate Empyrean Merit cost. This ensures that all characters who can use dual pistols have a way of eventually unlocking Maelstrom's guns if that's what they want. The main goal with this reward is to give players multiple ways to earn a signature costume piece from an incarnate level villain, while making sense within the story of the trial (each time you beat him, he loses a gun, until he's left with only his fists and feet in the grand finale.) The idea here is that the recipe drop feels like a "bonus" - it allows you to use the pistol on a low level alt, or on a character you haven't done TPN with - but that any Dual Pistols or Thugs character who wants to unlock the piece for having defeated Maelstrom at TPN Campus is also able to do so.

hmm, seeing that makes me wonder, so we have to get this drop TWO times in order to get both pistols and thats only per character?

is the version we can buy with emp merits account wide?

Having to unlock each pistol separately does sound a bit unnecessary. It would double the demand for the recipe on the market and thus double its price. And no other unlock works this way.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Story-themed costume drops aren't just for players - in the MoM Trial, Metronome tells us that he's using the repainted body of Siege after we defeated him in the BAF

Anyone have a close up picture of his pistols?

Did you not see where he said that the recipe will be available for purchase via Emps once you complete the trial? It's a low drop chance, yes, but they're also putting in a guaranteed way of earning it too.

I think they just announced this backwards. It should've been presented that once you beat the trial you can buy it, and *then* added that, hey, there's also a chance the recipe can drop when taking him out.

The chance to drop should be considered icing and not the main way to try to get the recipe.

As long as I have a way to make it on a level 1 (or level 2) I'm okay with this.

*shrug* oops, misinterpreted. Either way, it's a way to unlock it without relying on the recipe drop.

Great to see some loot that's actually hard to get (even if it's just cosmetic), although I hope they made the emp merit cost high enough to be noticeable. I'm sitting on hundreds of the things and have no use for them.

Unless they're releasing a single pistol powerset sometime soon, it seems pretty asinine to make you craft the weapon twice in order to have a matched set.