Do you think Battallion should be minimum level 54?

They are maxxed out level shifts NOW. I'm assuming that the later slots will contain MORE level shifts. At that point the Alpha/Destiny/Lore level shifts would be considered the "basic" ones that you earn early in your career and the later ones would be the more advanced ones that you earn later.

Just add in an aura that shuts off incarnate powers and then they can enjoy a challenge just like everyone else.

They devour wells so taking a refreshing drink or two off nearby players shouldn't be all that unbelievable. It'd also be a good explanation why they've rolfstomped everything so far, everyone else thought their incarnates' judgement and destiny spam would lead to a facerolling victory.

I'm sensing DBZ logic here... Goku, Vegeta and Picollo didn't take Boo seriously at first, either. We should always thread lightly around a foe whose main strenght is absorving someone else's power.

The current lore seems to be that the Well connects all humankind in all dimensions. This includes the Rikti. They are attached to our Well whether they like it or are aware of it.

It's possible that the Rikti DID make themselves or their connection to the Well unpalatable. Their "allergy" to magic and loss of inherent magical ability (including the loss of their Gods) could be ascribed to an alteration in their racial connection to the Well. The method is mostly irrelevant - Maybe the magicians themselves acted when they realized the nature of Battalion.

The effect is that they erased the Magic Origin, amputating it if you will, and cauterizing the "wound" to prevent any future congress with magical energies and effects.

That damaged their connection to the Well just enough that it made them or It indigestible and turned Magic into something mythical and incomprehensible.

That's one way to tie the whole thing together and make the Rikti a possible ally against Battalion when it finally arrives.

You mean the ones who dress like Prometheus' friends?

Or the Battalion mightn't have devoured enough Wells at that stage to become the Incarnate race that we're now facing, or they could have only sent a small-ish invasion for to the Rikti dimension if they were splitting up to try and locate the Primal dimension.

That assumption has been contradicted by pretty much everyone in a position to determine whether level shifts are added to the incarnate system.

Edit: unless by "more" you mean "one."

So you are saying we won't go past 53?

Yup, those would be the ones...

I don't think so. Nor do I think the Rikti are all that powerful. I think Primal Earth is only vulnerable to the Battalion now BECAUSE IT HAS INCARNATES. The Rikti won because they where prepared to sacrifice potential incarnate power by destroying their Well. Without it, the Battalion had no power over them.

I seriously doubt we will see more than one more level shift before Omega.

My theory is that we will see more level shifts but not "Incarnate Level Shifts". I think we'll see some new type of shift "Advanced Incarnate Shifts" or some such that only function in the Battalion Incarnate Content.

I'm 53 now. An Ultimate inspiration will take me to 54. Omega will probably take me to 54, or 55 with an Ultimate. I doubt we'll get more shifts that work the way the incarnate shifts work. Its possible we'll *see* more shifts, but more likely in things like the Lights of the Well in the Magisterium trial than shifts we can take with us permanently (even permanently in the sense of incarnate shifts that only work in trials and DA).