Can someone help with a question concerning Maelstrom's Pistols?

Okay here is my problem and I would really appreciate any help I can get. I used Empyreans and purchased the recipe for Maelstrom's dual pistols. Currently I have two incarnates that both have access to and are using the weapons.. A DP/Ice Blaster and my Bots/DM Mastermind. So obviously once crafted the guns are available account wide (to any that can actually use them). That bring me to the problem I have a 30 level DP/Rad Corrupter and when I went into weapon choices I can't find the pistols anywhere. Thinking it might have been a bug I asked a friend that has a 25 level DP Corruptor to check since he also crafted the recipe. When he checked his 25 level did have the option to pick Maelstrom's pistols in the costume creator.

Now to be doubly safe before I even came her I checked again and my 30 level still does not have that option AND I did not check at a trainer or at one of the "mini tailors" in the RWZ.. I went to an actual TAILOR SHOP and my character can't access the weapons. Was there some limit on how many haracters could use the guns or do i need to file a petition to get access?

Thanks for any help you can provide.. This one has me totally stumped. Until my friend checked i thought maybe they just weren't available unless your character was a 50 level or even an Incarnate but last I checked 25 levels were not in the incarnate program YET lol

I wasn't aware that they WERE account wide, but it might be limited to level 50+ if it is. Ascension Armor is limited in such a fashion, for example.

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Originally Posted by Shubbie Im very good at taking a problem and making it worse.

Out of curiosity, how the heck can your bots MM be using the pistols? They use pulse rifles, Mael's pistols aren't available as a pulse rifle.

Did you misspeak and actually mean thugs?

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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.

If you use Empyreans to unlock it, you aren't unlocking the recipe but instead are unlocking the actual left and right pistols on the character that is making the purchase.

Obligatory ParagonWiki link to Maelstrom's Pistol.

EDIT: Since the Wiki notes that Fezitron ... er ... Positron ... posted Arbiter Hawk's comments explaining how to obtain Maelstrom's Pistols I'll post that quote here as well.

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Originally Posted by Positron 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.