Next on Test: Anniversary Event, New Artifacts, Krypto, and More! The DCUO Anniversary event returns for 2018, and you can preview it now on the public test server. All players are invited. PC Membership is NOT currently required to access the test server, and Daybreak accounts are free. We’re looking forward to hearing your feedback! To get started, you can download the test client on PC here. The Anniversary event features the Anti-Monitor and returns this year with new Artifacts, a new solo mission, and of course new styles, base items, and rewards - including Krypto! For full update notes, click here or read below. To discuss the update and provide feedback, please join the conversation in the Testing Feedback forum. Thank you for testing!
Attack of the Anti-Monitor Anniversary Event The anniversary event is back, featuring open world missions, the Centennial Collapse raid, a new daily solo mission/instance, and a ton of new feats, styles, and rewards. Open your Mission Journal and look for "Monitoring the Situation" or queue up for "Centennial Collapse in the On Duty menu to get started. Here's what's new this year: New Solo Mission/Instance: A World Past Hope and Fear! A mysterious portal has appeared nearby and a researcher has gone missing! It’s up to you to investigate just where exactly this portal leads and what became of the missing researcher. Look for this mission in the Antimatter Invasion Zone. New Styles and Base Items! Unlock a new style-only gear set inspired by Fracture, the original Exobyte-enhanced superhero. Look for the "Exobyte-Boost" styles on the vendor for Qwardian Crowns. Enhanced versions of the style can be crafted with recipes also found on the vendor. Discover two new collections for a title and new Fourth World New God Aura. Find new Brainiac-inspired base items. New Base Pet: Krypto! Adopt a new Base Pet: Krypto! Make sure to pick up his doggy food bowl and bed to keep him comfortable in your base or lair. Available on the vendor for Qwardian Crowns. New Artifacts and Artifact Equipment Slot! Three new Artifacts launch with the anniversary event! Complete the event's pointer mission, Monitoring the Situation, and you will be able to choose any one of the three as your reward. All three will also be available from John Constantine in your Headquarters. Scrap of the Soul Cloak Stats: Power, Health, Might Soul Tap - Passive: Increases maximum Supercharge, Supercharge regeneration, and reduces Supercharge ability cooldowns. Legionnaire's Sparring AI Stats: Precision, Health, Dominance Predictive Counterstrike - Passive: Countering an enemy grants CC immunity and a Precision and Weapon Damage buff for a short time. Parasite's Power Harness Stats: Vitalization, Health, Power Power Distribution - Passive: Hitting an enemy with a Controller Debuff increases group members' Power and Precision for a short time. This stacks for each type of Controller Debuff on the target. PLEASE NOTE: Shortly after the anniversary event has begun, we will launch a SECOND Artifact equipment slot! This will allow you to equip two Artifacts at a time, and reap their combined benefits. The second Artifact equipment slot is not yet enabled. Because of this, we will -temporarily- disable the ability for players to use existing Artifacts as fuel for new ones when the event launches next year. We want to prevent players from mistakenly destroying their current Artifacts before they realize they will be able to use both their old ones and the new with the second slot. Updates and Adjustments! A variety of adjustments have been made to the event based on feedback from last year. Centennial Collapse The Centennial Collapse raid has been changed from a daily lockout to a weekly lockout. Currency rewards and replay costs have been adjusted to match the lockout change. Reduced crowd control from Anti-Monitor. Reduced health on Anti-Matter Shards and Anti-Monitor. Reduced Qwardians protecting Anti-Matter Shards. Vendor Vendor costs have been reduced (includes last year's rewards and this year's rewards). Last year's Anti-Monitor gear has had it's maximum item level increased to item level 192. Open world solo missions can now be replayed. Qwardian Crowns will be sold on the marketplace, like other seasonal event currencies. Known Issues: Villains cannot currently enter the new A World Past Hope and Fear mission. We expect this to be resolved tomorrow (Saturday).
Nothing is perfect, but i think this event will be good to play alongside Earth 3. I like to see that we are going to have new artifacts, this was really well done.
This part bothers me because I personally spent money and, time leveling two artifacts to 100. This should be fixed internally not disabling my artifacts and for how long? . This is not fair to me as a paying customer for you to do this taking away something I paid for , paying for as in buying items needed from the marketplace.
Cool stuff. Now regarding the Scrap of the Soul Cloak artifact, do you plan on making adjustments/balances passes to certain powers before these artifacts launch? because as you know, not all supercharges are equal in their damage output, the outliers will benefit tremendously from this artifact.
Read it a little more closely - they're just disabling the ability to use a second artifact as fuel for leveling up your first artifact (as though it were a piece of Nth Metal). The first few weeks of the Artifacts System's release, there were a lot of reports of this happening ("Where did my Artifact go?"), so the devs are probably trying to cut this possibility off at the pass. Of course, if you mark your artifacts as important or have them in your Armory, there's no chance of accidental loss.
They aren't disabling your artifacts. They are disabling the ability to feed your existing artifacts to the new artifacts, thus stopping you from losing your hard-earned expensive artifacts to a mistake. You should be glad.
I did read it maybe you need to read it more carefully , Nowhere does it mention a second one, "Because of this, we will -temporarily- disable the ability for players to use existing Artifacts as fuel for new ones when the event launches next year"
Hrm. Maybe you're just not getting the context. When you upgrade your Artifacts, you usually use Nth Metal. However, you can also use other Artifacts to upgrade. Many people did this accidentally when Artifacts first launched. (They won't appear on the upgrade screen if you have them marked as important or if they're in an Armory) The only thing being disabled is the ability to use one artifact to upgrade another - that's what the phrase 'to use existing Artifacts as fuel for new ones' means. I hope that's clearer.
