Warhammer Online’s current live event, Heavy Metal, awards three rewards; one per influence achievement level. The trophy reward, awarded at the Basic mark, is simply for aesthetics. Of course, the Elite level reward awards the advance week of KoTBS and Blackguard play. What I found most interesting was the Advanced level cloak reward.
Unlike most of the purely aesthetic tome unlock cloaks, the Harbinger Cloak reward actually has stats attached to it. Once you have obtained enough Heavy Metal PQ influence to reach the Advanced level, you have the option of choosing 1 of the following 4 Harbinger Cloak awards as a Destruction player:
Destruction Harbinger Cloak Rank 5
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Destruction Harbinger Cloak Rank 25
[/caption]Granted the resists are not the greatest per level of each cloak it doesn’t matter a whole lot due to the current ’state’ of resists not scaling to magic critical hits. Meaning, if you have a 20% resist to the corporeal damage type and a Bright Wizard hits you with a 100 damage DoT you will mitigate 20 damage of that 100, but if that Bright Wizard’s DoT were to crit you for let’s say…350 damage, you will still only mitigate 20 damage.
The interesting part is the reduction to be critically hit, the decent armor boost, and the ‘on use’ function of completely negating a hex, curse, and ailment. This could prove to be quite useful in place of the current resist mechanic and make an actual difference when in the process of being multi-insta dotted.
More to come when I have enough Heavy Metal influence to grab the reward and use it in a live environment. In the meantime, get out there and pick up one for yourself!
-Xo
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