I love the idea of the new ATOs and catalysts, but as they are right now, they're a giant pain in the *** to actually use.
I bought a 12-pack and a 24-pack of super packs, and got lucky enough to get a full scrapper's strike set and 6 catalysts. I wanted to put them on my purpled fire/sr scrapper. The number of problems I ran into while trying to do so was staggering.
First off, I had claimed some of the catalysts on a different character, who is temporarily a villain. Then I found out that they can't be traded, even between characters on the same account.
The catalyzed enhancements can be traded from one character to another on the same account, so I decided I'd just send the enhancements to the character that had the catalysts then send them back to the character that wanted to slot them. Not that big a deal.
Then I found out that you can't combine enhancements with catalysts unless the enhancements are actually slotted into a power. So I used some enhancement unslotters and slotted the ATOs into the character that had the catalysts.
Then I found out you can't even use the catalysts unless you're level 50.
So now I have to wait until I get my villain to 50 so I can use the catalysts on the enhancements, then use more enhancement unslotters to get them out of his build, mail them back to the character that actually wants to use them, and slot them in.
It is absolutely ridiculous how difficult that entire process is.
Please implement any (or all) of the following improvements to make this process run more smoothly.
1. Make catalysts account bound instead of character bound. This should be easy enough to do since the catalyzed ATOs are set that way, so the code obviously exists already. This would solve nearly all the problems by itself.
2. Allow catalysts to be combined with ATOs without the ATOs being slotted. This could be considerably more difficult though, since I don't think there's a way to bring the combine screen up for non-slotted enhancements, but it's still worth at least looking into.
3. Allow non level 50 characters to combine ATOs with catalysts, but not to slot them. Might be kind of difficult to do if they can't implement issue number 2.
Honestly, just doing the first of these would solve almost all the problems.
I love the idea of the new ATOs and catalysts, but as they are right now, they're a giant pain in the *** to actually use.
I bought a 12-pack and a 24-pack of super packs, and got lucky enough to get a full scrapper's strike set and 6 catalysts. I wanted to put them on my purpled fire/sr scrapper. The number of problems I ran into while trying to do so was staggering.
First off, I had claimed some of the catalysts on a different character, who is temporarily a villain. Then I found out that they can't be traded, even between characters on the same account.
The catalyzed enhancements can be traded from one character to another on the same account, so I decided I'd just send the enhancements to the character that had the catalysts then send them back to the character that wanted to slot them. Not that big a deal.
Then I found out that you can't combine enhancements with catalysts unless the enhancements are actually slotted into a power. So I used some enhancement unslotters and slotted the ATOs into the character that had the catalysts.
Then I found out you can't even use the catalysts unless you're level 50.
So now I have to wait until I get my villain to 50 so I can use the catalysts on the enhancements, then use more enhancement unslotters to get them out of his build, mail them back to the character that actually wants to use them, and slot them in.
It is absolutely ridiculous how difficult that entire process is.
Please implement any (or all) of the following improvements to make this process run more smoothly.
1. Make catalysts account bound instead of character bound. This should be easy enough to do since the catalyzed ATOs are set that way, so the code obviously exists already. This would solve nearly all the problems by itself.
2. Allow catalysts to be combined with ATOs without the ATOs being slotted. This could be considerably more difficult though, since I don't think there's a way to bring the combine screen up for non-slotted enhancements, but it's still worth at least looking into.
3. Allow non level 50 characters to combine ATOs with catalysts, but not to slot them. Might be kind of difficult to do if they can't implement issue number 2.
Honestly, just doing the first of these would solve almost all the problems.