Adeon Hawkwood

Well the short answer is that we don't know for sure.

The following is my personal interpretation of the lore. Rikti Earth history diverged from Primal Earth history far enough back that there aren't any parallel versions of Primal Earth humans (compare with Praetorian Earth which had a relatively recent divergence point). Rikti "supers" do exist but the nature of Rikti society means that they are more likely to work within the system (where they invariably rise to high ranks) as opposed to the more individualistic nature of Primal Earth Supers. Rikti such as Hro'Dtohz, Dra'Gon and U'Kon Gr'ai can be considered supers on a par with the Freedom Phalanx but while the Freedom Phalanx operates as an autonomous entity the Rikti supers have chosen to operate as leaders of the military (and presumably others are active in different areas of Rikti society).

Here's the quick summary of the Incarnate panel based on my recollections:

Dark Astoria getting a revamp with Mot, PB and Tsoo (this was in the keynote but bears repeating). Old DA will be available through Ourborus (like Galaxy City).

New DA will have different story Arcs for Heroes and Villains along with repeatable content. Based on what they said it sounds like the repeatable content is implied to be co-op with tip mission style "moral choices" but they didn't say that outright.

Regarding new slots, they will definitely not be coming out in I22. However Black Scorpion did say that they have heard the complaints regarding the number of currencies and the current plan is that the new slots will not have new currencies/salvage associated with them.

The new Incarnate trial featuring Diabolique will effectively be an epilogue new DA storyline but will not be the culmination of it (so not like Striga and Croatoa where you have to do a TF to see the final story).

Maelstrom's Teleport Kick attack in TPN Campus was the inspiration for Vorpal Judgement.

Adamastor will appear in the new DA but will not be a major opponent.

In terms of Incarnate story, the Preatorian arc is intended as an "epic-cross-over, battle of armies" style story which is why it's Trial focused. The Mot arc is being designed as more of an individual heroes comic book and as such is more single character/team focused.

We will eventually fight Cole and when we defeat him the well will be left without a champion. And nothing bad can come from that... Right?


That's what I recall, I'm probably missing some stuff but I think I hit the high points.

My experience is that Ion is the most popular with Pyronic being second. Void and Cryonic seem to be very unpopular and Vorpal hasn't been out long enough to really say.

As for why, I think Ion is popular for two reasons. First when the powers were originally released Ion had a bug that caused it to frequently hit enemies twice if it wasn't target saturated. Since it's very rare to target saturate the Judgement powers this made it a lot more powerful than the others. This was fixed but a lot of people still had Ion judgements. and no particular incentive to change (it's no longer OP but other else became FotM either). The second reason is that Ion is easier to use than the others. You don't have to worry to much about which target you select, the chaining effect will tend to cause it to hit everything anyway.

Personally I'm expecting the Spanish Inquisition.


More seriously I expect the solo option will be one of two things. Either a tip style system which has a good rewards/time ratio but includes strong real time gating or an Incarnate difficulty setting that has worse rewards:time but no gating.

If I recall correctly it's:
Yellow: In a mission
Dark Grey: On a team
Purple: A Rogue/Vigilante in an opposite alignment zone
Light Bluish-Grey: Anyone else.

The latter. As with the standard mentor badges any time your team is SK'd to you (due to you being the active mission holder) you will gain progress on the badge.

It's not supposed to work that way. It sounds like a bug of some type (probably a display bug). Let me check my characters who have musculature.

EDIT: Just checked two characters, Brawl is showing 45% enhancement for both. You might try logging out and back in, see if that clears it.

I had a similar case a while back. I had a level 50 Earth/Storm Controller that I decided to re-roll as an Earth/Fire Dominator. For me it wasn't a huge deal, I didn't enjoy playing the Controller but did still like the character concept so deleting and rerolling was the sensible option. Once the decision was made I took a few days to clear out anything valuable on him (such as converting his Alignment merits to useful recipes and mailing his inf to other characters) and deleted him.