Archetype sets

I see they are in the Auction houses now.

1. are they just random drops?
2. are they constructed?

I've tried to google this and can't find anything on the subject.

You can purchase them through the new super packs or via merit vendors, both for Reward Merits and Astrals. They're not cheap, on the magnitude of several hundred merits and a 4 day cool down.

And I think it was said when I22 goes live they will drop from mobs, but I could be wrong or misinformed.

Google? Really?

Obligatory wiki link: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Archetype_Enhancements

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

Some are selling fairly cheap on the market (around 15 million) while some are a bit more pricy (200+ million), as people are bulk-buying and selling what they don't want.

The market will probably stabilize over the next few days, so hurry up and check the markets and nab what's cheap. I saw some defender and kheldian parts for 15 million, haha.

To elaborate on the OP's 2nd question.

They are not construsted IO's and will not accept IO boosters, a possible factor in extreme builds.

Also, the baseline ATO's and the Catalyzed Purple of the same ATO, do not mix for set bonus purposes. Three of each type in the same power would mean two seperate sets of bonus 1 and 2. This may be an exploitable advantage in certain sets, but if you want set bonuses beyond the first two then all four, five, or six ATOs need to be one or the other.

Jak

Some of these sets are more game changing than others. I hate I will have to farm hardcore for these now. I just blew thru 1500 merits yesterday on alts that were hoarding them. I just want to know would it be faster to farm the reward merits than it would to farm the astrals? What puzzles me is the 4 day count on these. Its dumb as it really holds back how much money can get burned out of the system at one time. I figure if you already put time to get 400+ merits and/or 50+ astrals you should not have to wait since you already put time into this.

Ok, I have a whole set of ATEs slotted. But, I am not seeing the Special Enhancement Bonus listed anywhere. Am I missing something?

/infoself in your set bonus listing. They'll also be in your /combatattributes.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

I can fully support the Catalysts being account-bound, but character-bound seems a poorly implemented. The character-bound idea works well from the standpoint of redeeming them from Superpack rewards, which I am seriously considering getting some of. You have some number of catalysts available for redemption on the character of your choice, at which point they become character locked; if you didn't want that character to have it, then you shouldn't have hit the button to claim it.

However, these catalysts are also available as rare drops from enemies on incarnate trials (or iTrials), and this is where the character-locking model falls short. My personal situation: my blaster on Freedom has snatched a full set of Blaster's Wrath ATOs from Wentworths. Great deal, some of the best inf I've ever spent, given that (IMO) the set is superior to the majority of purple IO sets. I am now trying to iTrial my way towards getting 6 catalysts for them (1 down, 5 to go). Drop rates to be determined, of course, but I hope to get the others within a month or so. That said, my Blaster is my most played character, and given that the ATOs appear to be unique, after my blaster gets all 6 ATOs upgraded, any future catalyst drops he receives will be literally useless, until / unless future ATO sets are released.

Incarnate supplies (threads, etc.) seem like a reasonable comparison, since the catalysts appear to only drop from iTrials so far. There is a reasonable upper bound to the amount of threads / components any one character has utility for; once you have your favorite boost upgraded to tier 4 in every available slot, your zeal to accumulate more of them will logically decline. That said, there is still some use for earning more; you can either hoard them in anticipation of new Incarnate slots opening up (saving up a reserve of Shards to upgrade into Threads when Judgement and friends became available), or craft new varieties of incarnate powers; a different Destiny buff to suit your league's needs, different Lore pets for different character costumes/motifs, different Alpha boosts depending on if you're PvPing or running TFs or soloing or what-have-you.

With the catalysts, there may be future uses for them coming down the pipeline; I would hope so, but I (and most other players) don't have any evidence what timeframe we are looking at for that. If not, they will become literally useless drops on a character that already has a full set of superior ATOs. Going back to the Incarnate salvage idea, with the introduction of Astral Christie and Empyrean Michael (sp?), the dev team introduced a way for players to transfer what were originally character-locked items (astral/empyrean merits) to other characters on their account through the global email system, albeit at a slight fee, and I would hope that some similar arrangement could be made for this new flavor of character-locked item.

For reference, I'm just fine with the upgraded ATOs being character locked; if I went through the considerable effort of buying and upgrading them for a favored character, as some of the best sets in the game, I'm not about to field-strip them. The catalysts themselves, however, could use a second pass.

I'm not sure you have any grounds for complaint, Zombie. Yes, the word is being used wrong.
First: do you have a better suggestion?
Second: We're not in a chemistry class; the root word is being misused anyways, and it's quite common for words to be repurposed in games, in the context of said game, without altering the basic meaning of the word. I'd be willing to bet that the devs themselves say "catalyze an enhancement", in which case, the word has been repurposed, and this use IS right.
Third: Do you really expect anyone to say "I used a catalyst on my enhancement" or "I caused my enhancement to undergo catalysis", rather than "I catalyzed my enhancement"?

Hell, this is the internet. Give it a week and it'll be " I cat'd my enh."