Holy moly this guy is a monster. The passive on his a3 alone makes him one of the best pve champs in the game...

I dont remember Kram being this excited about a new champ.  

I will be all in.  

Hes very good yes.  Also all the Titus owners rejoicing. 

Wait hold on, are you saying that shield buffs  also work on magma shield? Yeesh...

Yes.  That is why the Volcardiac Heart Relic is such a bonus for the Titus Hydra Comp.

I get the sense Pelops is going to be very popular. 

updated OP with calendar.

also, very juicy path event here...

You think? 

My initial impression on the Pelops Path is "Same Shit, Different Day!"  The Rewards don't really feel "Anniversary Special" at all.

Unfortunately, my Deeper Dive Impression is worse than that: 

By My Count:

• 2 Void Rares: 37,600 pts
• Add The Epic: 25,750 pts

Doing 2250 in both IG & FK will get you approximately 8000 Path Points, so unless you are gonna grind a whole bunch more Dungeons Runs, that leaves:

• 2 Void Rares: 30,000 pts (6.7 Sacreds, 40 Voids, 100 Ancients, 16.7 Primals)  
• Add The Epic: 25,750 pts (5.7 Sacreds, 34.3 Voids, 85.8 Ancients, 14.3 Primals)

So, that is roughly the equivalent of grinding out a Dungeon Diver and then still needing to pull the equivalent of 12 Sacred Shards. That is more shard-intensive than a typical Fusion Summon Rush, and unfortunately, all the rewards along the way to those targets are mostly shit.  

If I was pulling 12 Sacreds (6K points) in a Summon Rush, there would be at least 2 of these 3 (Lego Book, 5* Chix, Immortal Stone) contained in the rewards, but in this Pelops Path, you can go all the way to the Epic and not pick up any rewards of much value.  

If this is the way things are gonna go, including these Path Events in Fusions is merely the next step in increasing the Resource Requirements for Fusions, while simultaneously nerfing the rewards obtained through Fusion Events....but doing it somewhat covertly by hiding the changes in a different structure.

I really don't get it sometimes.  Plarium should want all players engaged with Fusions, but escalating the resources required runs counter to that. They give away solid legos every 3-4 months now, but covertly & consistently make doing fusions and aquiring resources more difficult.

Plarium always has a few extra cards up their sleeve to surprises.  It looks like about 60k pts to get the epic.  I can get 30k with 5 sacred and 10 void.   8k with both IG and FK.  That leaves 22k to grind out and I can overlap champ training.  I have 20k gems in stock and I dont mind grinding.  There will be a 2x on champ chase and I can use ancients and greenies plus a trick that Trips taught me.  

Pelops looks like a must have champ so they have us by the short hairs.   

I am certainly doing the fusion.  I was merely elaborating on the resource escalation. 

Yeah, I think getting a crack at old relics can certainly be worth it, especially for Stars or Cat's Gaze.

As for the points...I want to say I think it comes out to 57k or so for the 2 rares + epic which ends up being just below 12 sacreds, on par with rare + epic in a normal Summon Rush. I think the arguments against this format can be dilution of overall rewards (on the summon rush side, tourney rewards for dungeons during fusions usually stink)

As for the Relics Materials, 25 Rare Materials and 75 Epic Materials are absolute crap that will result in a few more rare relics on the vast majority of accounts. Meaningless. It will take tons of extra shards beyond the rares/Epic to get any useful Relic Materials.  

This could have been an "Anniversary Celebration" opportunity if they had left the Rare Materials out entirely and started with 50/75 Epic & followed up with 50/75 Lego.  As it is, the Relic Materials are just filler taking the place of actual rewards. 

Seeing as I'm day 18 of no sacreds from DL, it's hard to be excited about anything Raid.  I've been completely locked out of going for the 1+1 or getting path pts enough.  Sucks.