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With the release of patch 1.0.4 comes the introduction of Legendary Missions. These new challenges will allow you to retrace your steps through the story, revisiting some crucial early missions with some dramatic changes to the enemies you’ll face.

Below details what you’ll need to know about these Legendary Missions.

You’ll Be Able to Play One Legendary Mission Per Day

Six Legendary Missions will be available to play, each for one day a piece. You can access that day’s Legendary Mission from your Expedition Screen, either from the Launch Bay or Fort Tarsis. You’ll get to play that day’s Legendary Mission as many times as you want (until the new one rotates in). These six story missions will be available for Legendary Missions:

• Lost Arcanist
• Incursion
• Finding Old Friends
• Tomb of General Tarsis
• Fortress of Dawn
• Freelancer Down

These Missions Will Be Brutal

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With the release of patch 1.0.4 comes the introduction of Legendary Missions. These new challenges will allow you to retrace your steps through the story, revisiting some crucial early missions with some dramatic changes to the enemies you’ll face.

Below details what you’ll need to know about these Legendary Missions.

You’ll Be Able to Play One Legendary Mission Per Day

Six Legendary Missions will be available to play, each for one day a piece. You can access that day’s Legendary Mission from your Expedition Screen, either from the Launch Bay or Fort Tarsis. You’ll get to play that day’s Legendary Mission as many times as you want (until the new one rotates in). These six story missions will be available for Legendary Missions:

• Lost Arcanist
• Incursion
• Finding Old Friends
• Tomb of General Tarsis
• Fortress of Dawn
• Freelancer Down

These Missions Will Be Brutal

We recomm...

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Strongholds are some of the toughest challenges in Anthem’s already vicious world, and anyone who can take them on deserves a hefty reward. Now, even more spoils are waiting for you in Elysian Caches, chests that spawn after you’ve overcome a Stronghold.

Elysian Caches each contain one of 162 possible vanity or crafting items, and four caches will appear at the end of each Stronghold. Everyone in your squad will be able to get the rewards from all the chests – if, of course, you have the right keys. You can get Elysian Keys by completing daily challenges, and either save up enough to open every cache yourself or have everyone on your team contribute a key of their own. Once a chest is open, you’ll all be able to get one of these surprise rewards at random:

• Decal: High Guard
• Decal: Twin Fangs
• Decal: Skull Sign
• Decal: End Times
• Decal: Rattle and Bite
• Decal: Inside Out
• Decal: Down With Decay
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Strongholds are some of the toughest challenges in Anthem’s already vicious world, and anyone who can take them on deserves a hefty reward. Now, even more spoils are waiting for you in Elysian Caches, chests that spawn after you’ve overcome a Stronghold.

Elysian Caches each contain one of 162 possible vanity or crafting items, and four caches will appear at the end of each Stronghold. Everyone in your squad will be able to get the rewards from all the chests – if, of course, you have the right keys. You can get Elysian Keys by completing daily challenges, and either save up enough to open every cache yourself or have everyone on your team contribute a key of their own. Once a chest is open, you’ll all be able to get one of these surprise rewards at random:

• Decal: High Guard
• Decal: Twin Fangs
• Decal: Skull Sign
• Decal: End Times
• Decal: Rattle and Bite
• Decal: Inside Out
• Decal: Arch and Cross
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New Features

• Legendary Missions: Allows you to replay critical path missions again with a much higher difficulty level. One mission will be available per day that has no limit on the number of times it can be completed. These missions offer a new challenge and require team coordination to achieve victory!
• Elysian Caches: Earn Elysian Keys by completing daily challenges. These keys can be used on Elysian Caches, which appear at the end of each Stronghold after the boss is defeated to unlock vanity and crafting materials. Opening an Elysian Cache creates loot for each member of the Expedition. There are 67 unique vanity unlocks available, including vinyls, victory poses, emotes, and arrivals. You will never get a duplicate vanity item! This is our first version of the ruleset for Elysian Caches in the game and we'll look forward to your feedback and the data we gather from your play.

Loot Changes

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New Features

• Legendary Missions: Allows you to replay critical path missions again with a much higher difficulty level. One mission will be available per day that has no limit on the number of times it can be completed. These missions offer a new challenge and require team coordination to achieve victory!
• Elysian Caches: Earn Elysian Keys by completing daily challenges. These keys can be used on Elysian Caches, which appear at the end of each Stronghold after the boss is defeated to unlock vanity and crafting materials. Opening an Elysian Cache creates loot for each member of the Expedition. There are 67 unique vanity unlocks available, including vinyls, victory poses, emotes, and arrivals. You will never get a duplicate vanity item! This is our first version of the ruleset for Elysian Caches in the game and we'll look forward to your feedback and the data we gather from your play.

Loot Changes

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Whew.  How’s everyone doing out there?  It’s been a wild ride these last few weeks.  On the one hand it’s been a rougher launch than expected.  But then as I think back we also knew that big new online games tend to hit some kind of problem once they go live, so as much as we tested and prepared to make sure everything was ready, we were also ready for the possibility that unexpected issues might arise at launch.  And we continue to be committed to responding to them.

We launched a game that so many of you tell us is really fun at its core, but we also had a degree of issues that did not reveal themselves until we were operating at the scale of millions of players.  We were of course very disappointed about that, as were many of you.  I’ve been in there playing with you since those early days (I’m a Ranger in Edmonton Oilers colors!) and it makes me sad to hear about any issues that would hold someone back from fully enjoying the game.  I take that very personally, a...

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It’s a new week and that means another batch of amazing new highlights from the community. If you’d like the chance to see your javelin in this round-up, be sure to tag your shots with #MyJavelin on twitter or submit them to our fan art site.

Truly incredible artwork of a Storm ...

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It’s a new week and that means another batch of amazing new highlights from the community. If you’d like the chance to see your javelin in this round-up, be sure to tag your shots with #MyJavelin on twitter or submit them to our fan art site.

Truly incredible artwork of a ...

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In the latest server-side update, we’ve made some notable changes to the loot drop rate in specific scenarios, which will take effect immediately in a server-side tuning update (you will not need to download anything.)

These changes include:

• Masterwork & Legendary drop rates have been increased for Grandmaster 2 and Grandmaster 3 difficulty levels.
• Masterwork & Legendary drop rates have been increased for harder enemies at all difficulty levels. This includes: Legendary Ancient Ash Titan, Elite Ancient Ash Titan, Legendary Fury, Legendary Ursix and Legendary Luminary.
  

In the latest server-side update, we’ve made some notable changes to the loot drop rate in specific scenarios, which will take effect immediately in a server-side tuning update (you will not need to download anything.)

These changes include:

• Masterwork & Legendary drop rates have been increased for Grandmaster 2 and Grandmaster 3 difficulty levels.
• Masterwork & Legendary drop rates have been increased for harder enemies at all difficulty levels. This includes: Legendary Ancient Ash Titan, Elite Ancient Ash Titan, Legendary Fury, Legendary Ursix and Legendary Luminary.
  

RoryPlays takes you through the different kinds of gameplay experiences you can choose in Anthem.

Starting in Fort Tarsis, you’ll choose from four primary gameplay options, depending on how much time you have and what rewards you might be searching for:

• Missions – Story-based encounters where you’ll experience the core narrative of the game.
• Contracts – Help allies and factions to achieve their goals or solve specific problems. Occasionally you’ll receive a Legendary Contract which is both more difficult to complete and far more rewarding.
• Freeplay – Freely roam through the world of Anthem, encountering creatures, enemies, and more. You’ll encounter world events, be able to gather resources, find treasure, and explore.
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Blessious takes you through the basics of the game’s matchmaking system and how to earn the most rewards for you and your friends in Anthem™.

Playing with Friends

It’s easy to join friends in missions or Strongholds: just go to “Social” and “Invite Player” then “Friends,” hover over their names and press invite. Once everyone’s joined you’re ready to head out on your next expedition. You can also join friends who are already playing, choose the “Reinforce Friend” option, and select the mission or Stronghold they’re currently exploring.

No Friends Online? No Problem

Looking for people to play with? Click “Social” and “Invite Player” and then the “Recommended” option to bring up a list of suggested players. Again, hover over their names and press invite to get your new squad started. You can also choose “Quickplay” from the “Expedition” screen, to be se...

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RoryPlays takes you through the different kinds of gameplay experiences you can choose in Anthem.

Starting in Fort Tarsis, you’ll choose from four primary gameplay options, depending on how much time you have and what rewards you might be searching for:

• Missions – Story-based encounters where you’ll experience the core narrative of the game.
• Contracts – Help allies and factions to achieve their goals or solve specific problems. Occasionally you’ll receive a Legendary Contract which is both more difficult to complete and far more rewarding.
• Freeplay – Freely roam through the world of Anthem, encountering creatures, enemies, and more. You’ll encounter world events, be able to gather resources, find treasure, and explore.
• ...

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MTashed takes you through unlocking blueprints, gathering materials, and generally optimizing your crafting in Anthem™.

Unlocking Blueprints

Using gear and weapons to complete Challenges will give you direct access to blueprints. These blueprints fall into the following rarity categories:

• Common
• Uncommon
• Rare
• Epic
• Masterwork

The Challenges you’ll need to complete to unlock each blueprint will depend upon its rarity. So, for example, an Uncommon weapon blueprint may require you to kill 50 enemies, but a Rare one may require you to take out 25 elite enemies. As the rarity increases, so does the difficulty of the Challenge you’ll need to complete.

If you want to unlock the best blueprints for the weapon you love, you definitely can, but until you increase your level you probably won’t have access to...

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Blessious takes you through the basics of the game’s matchmaking system and how to earn the most rewards for you and your friends in Anthem™.

Playing with Friends

It’s easy to join friends in missions or Strongholds: just go to “Social” and “Invite Player” then “Friends,” hover over their names and press invite. Once everyone’s joined you’re ready to head out on your next expedition. You can also join friends who are already playing, choose the “Reinforce Friend” option, and select the mission or Stronghold they’re currently exploring.

No Friends Online? No Problem

Looking for people to play with? Click “Social” and “Invite Player” and then the “Recommended” option to bring up a list of suggested players. Again, hover over their names and press invite to get your new squad started. You can also choose “Quickplay” from the “Expedition” screen, to be se...

Read more

MTashed takes you through unlocking blueprints, gathering materials, and generally optimizing your crafting in Anthem™.

Unlocking Blueprints

Using gear and weapons to complete Challenges will give you direct access to blueprints. These blueprints fall into the following rarity categories:

• Common
• Uncommon
• Rare
• Epic
• Masterwork

The Challenges you’ll need to complete to unlock each blueprint will depend upon its rarity. So, for example, an Uncommon weapon blueprint may require you to kill 50 enemies, but a Rare one may require you to take out 25 elite enemies. As the rarity increases, so does the difficulty of the Challenge you’ll need to complete.

If you want to unlock the best blueprints for the weapon you love, you definitely can, but until you increase your level you probably won’t have access to...

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We’re excited to share some more of the great screenshots and fan art coming out of the community! Keep sharing your personalized javelins using #MyJavelin and we’ll keep sharing them here. You can also submit your creations here through the Anthem website.

Expert stealth ...

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High level fixes and changes

• Respawn restrictions have been removed - Respawn timers are now based on the activity a player is in. Crit-Path, Agent Missions and other non-end game missions now have a respawn timer of 10 seconds. Strongholds, Legendary Contracts, and other end game missions now have a respawn timer of 30 seconds. The respawn timer Freeplay remains unchanged.
• Loot Changes - Common (white) and Uncommon (green) drops will no longer appear for players that are level 30.
• Improved stability for all platforms - this includes fixes for a number of issues that were causing crashes or connection problems
• Audio Improvements - Fixed a number of issues that could cause audio to drop out

General Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed a number of issues that were blocking players from accessing the Forge
• All missions should now properly end when all conditions have ...

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There’s nothing quite like heading into battle in a javelin that shows off your unique style. It’s easy to spend hours in the Forge making small tweaks and adjustments to get the look you want just right. While you’ve already got access to a huge selection of personalization options, we wanted to let you know about other ways to secure vanity items.

By subscribing to Origin Access or EA Access you’ll receive a special vanity item reward, and you’ll be able to use your 10% subscriber discount to purchase in-game currency called Shards*. Let’s start with the subscriber reward and how to claim it.

So what is this special vanity item reward? As a subscriber, an Anthem™ “In All Directions” javelin decal is all yours and it can be used on any of your javelins. Starting March 26, head to the Store to collect your reward. That’s all there is to it. Want more details...

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