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Not sure, i think they are static but not guaranteed to always spawn in each Free Roam instance.

How many Legendary Contracts can you get in a day? Those guarantee MW Components Those MW Components though really boost armor and shields, really necessary to push to harder difficulties.

I've been running GM1 as well. The Interceptors ability to triple dash and triple jump helps that Class stay out in the open and constantly flank/dodge/attack/flee way more effectively than the other Classes. I ran Heart of Rage with my Interceptor on GM1 and could stay in the open just quickly moving all about dodging fire and attacking. Playing GM1 with my Colossus I can tank decently, but its def more of a fine balance of making sure you're near cover when your Shield does fall. They need to allow more attacks to happen with your Shield up as well. Ranger and Storm I haven't played enough at higher difficulties yet.

After finishing story I just finished up the Agent Quests I had, and Contracts. Did some Strongholds and Freeplay. I never really felt like I was grinding towards 30, just finished up the content I still had to finish.

I think that's the beauty of it, and it seems like this is where they want to keep expanding the world with more and more varied events. I love Free Play in this game, where as Free Play in Division was so boring and empty, and Destiny's free play really felt like just trying to time out public events and running from one to another. Neither felt interesting or varied, and just were the same exact thing over and over again. Even doing the daily contracts you get, its the same kind of missions over and over, but they keep you moving around the map, seeing different vistas or different encounters in similar places. if they can keep expanding on that, its something I can see myself jumping in pretty regularly. It's also fun to try different builds. I do hope they allow you to approach a Strider and change your load out rather than having to load out and in, but who knows.

So once you hit Lvl 30.... Legendary Contracts (Not sure if you need to do them on GM1) Guarantee a Masterwork Class Component Grandmaster Strongholds Guarantee a Masterwork Gear Piece

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I'm not sure if they spawn in the same spots, but 2 are on the south side of the map, 2 on the northern side.

Just did Heart of Rage on GM1 - got 6 Masterworks and a ton of purples. Not hard to get loot in this game. It was a good fun challenge too. Boss was dumb though, too much health with really not a huge challenge, just spongy. They need to retool that.

At the end of each week you'll also get Coins based on contributions from your friends list, or people that have you on their friends list. I'm set to get about 9k coins so far at the end of this week. It's dependent on how much people on your friends list do each week.

Regaring Inscriptions Also just saw that theres an Inscription for +200% Gear Charges, that's amazing, possibly have 2 additional charges to your abilities.

I’ve come so close to buying a PS4 Pro to play all the amazing games that released the last few years, but was counting on BC and figured I’d hopefully be able to play those games at their best performance with a PS5. Hopefully that’s the case. I have a regular PS4 but never really use it still for that reason.

Have you been focusing on one, or kind of jumping from suit to suit?

Drop Rates seem to be just right, seem to get a Masterwork roughly each time I run a Stronghold or Contract on Grandmaster, not every time, but prob 80% of them so far. Still no Legendary drops yet. The loot is more interesting than I initially thought it might be, some pretty cool perks so far. Having Masterwork Components and Skills with the special perks can really change up a build, so def looking forward to finding more.

Just saw a few things on Twitter. +Physical Damage refers to Impact and Acid Damage, guns inflict Impact Damage. +Luck is basically +Loot Find , increases chances at finding higher quality gear.

Was the BC thing just for PS5? I thought they’d be adding it to PS4 too i guess it’s selling so well anyways no point in adding it this late in the gen.

Just had a Masterwork drop off a regular enemy during a Hard Stronghold. Always love those surprises that pop up randomly. Hated Destiny how the only way to get Exotics were end of Nightfalls or Raids, the OG Destiny. Also, build diversity comes through even more with the Consumables, dont forget to use those everytime as well for extra shield, faster gear charging, ect.

My Masterwork Machine Pistol gets a 125% Damage boost to everything for like 5 seconds if you shoot something point blank with it, and also one of its random rolls is +115% Weapon Damage, so its putting out 550+ Damage per bullet for 54 bullet clip up close, it melts enemies, then pair that with my Interceptor Melee combos to get in close, and its a blast to play with. Completely changed up my play style to include my gun in combat now right so late in the game. I'm looking forward to getting some Masterwork Components. I think they have Legendary and Masterwork varieties for all slots except Support right now.

I'm about to hit Lvl 30, with 1 Masterwork Machine Pistol, rest purples. After you ht like Lvl 20ish you'll start quickly moving to all purples. People complain about how repetitive it is, but compare it to any other Looter Shooter, and how is it any less reptitive. If anything I feel they way they handle world events and Free Roam makes it feel far less repetitive than most. Diablo, arguably the king of a Looter genre, literally has essentially 2 enemy types gameplay wise. Modifiers on enemies apply to any type of enemy, so really the only difference from enemy to enemy is what they look like on screen, not their attacks, its just the modifiers. The gameplay loop essentially is always the same point and click. Variety is combat is essentially non existant. I found Destiny did a good job of making the gameplay in a Looter fun, because it forced you to think more, combat had more variety, and the co-op aspect was really fun. I think they failed on the part of exploration though, as exploring for the most part never was rewarded. I feel that Anthem's gameplay is really really really good for this style game, as you literally have 4 different classes that play drastically different in most cases, and force you to play each mission mostly entirely different. It makes repeating the same content far more rewarding when you feel like youre experiencing it in a different way. You also have the fact you dont have to repeat the same content 3 times to run different "Characters" like Destiny or Diablo forced you to. You play through once, and get to level up each class pretty much in line with eachother, forcing you to just search for each class specific items. Maybe thats why people are complaining about not enough content in this game even though I feel like it feels far larger than a lot of Looters. You only have to play the content once, not 3 times, or even more in Diablo's case. If they forced you to create 4 new characters to have each Javelin maybe they'd be better off for some gamers that are bitching after 80+ hours of playtime in a 7 days they have almost fully maxed characters.

Another patch tomorrow to fix some bugs, and also reenable HDR on consoles.

I can't handle GM2, but looks like ill be running some Free Play. Is it an entire mission you get, or just the Giants drop good loot.

https://www.ea.com/games/anthem/acts

I know some of you have talked about the NPC's in the game just being static and not interacting with each other, not having those one off convos like they do in Mass Effect/Dragon Age. I think its pretty clear that in a game like this wont ever be as deep as a single player game. But later into the game, there are deeper conversations with not so easy choices between different characters as well. Is it a Mass Effect level story, no, but its not bare bones skip every convo like Destiny or Diablo is either, which is what this game should more accurately be compared to.

Might depend on what Javelin you're using. I do okay soloing with my Interceptor