Trilogy is detached from the zone's main arc and is 30-50 but it isn't a repeatable contact. I thought it was interesting as well, it certainly is unique among contacts! The whole randomized arc thing didn't really click with me, though, is it meant to be an allusion to something?
Oh yeah, and it has to be pointed out that there's arcs with typos and then there's Trilogy. By the end I was wondering if mechanically sloppy writing was part of the schtick. The point was always intelligible, at least.
Good to know, I just assumed it was repeatable as it was detached.
And yeah, I think the writing is mostly intentional.
Main Hero: Mazey - level 50 + 1 fire/fire/fire blaster.
Main Villain: Chained Bot - level 50 + 1 Robot/FF Mastermind.
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I love the idea of being in random chapters of a book. I disliked the lack of variety in enemies. I've only run maybe a dozen or so missions, but they're all the Praetorian Clocks. I loved the idea though, and random cut scenes you get occasionally.
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Disagreed. This arc was a huge mess that I couldn't even bother to care anything about. An interesting experiment but totally failed in my opinion. I did enjoy the Clockwork named/speaking in binary, but that was about it.
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Great storytelling structure wasted on a very average story.
Having a purely Praetorian clockwork storyline was the biggest problem for me personally. They're great to look at but ohhhhhh so boring to fight. Having a third of the missions play out on Praetorian lab maps didn't help either. It was great to see them in Croatoa but the openness of the map heightened my awareness that there isn't much of a singular fighting dynamic to this NPC group at all.
Trilogy is one of the repeatable contacts of Night Ward and the mission are really good, they take the form of chapters of a trilogy of books (hence the name) and are definitely worth a look.
I thought I'd mention this as repeatable contacts are very often over looked for various reasons, but you'd be doing yourself a disservice if you just skipped over this one. A lot of work has clearly gone into them.
The contact is in the back of the Midnighter Mansion for those who want to take a look.
Main Hero: Mazey - level 50 + 1 fire/fire/fire blaster.
Main Villain: Chained Bot - level 50 + 1 Robot/FF Mastermind.
BattleEngine - "And the prize for the most level headed response ever goes to Mazey"