Impackt: Cardboard

Wonder if these have a higher break chance in Sunken Temple

Rei Note: With the change to the pack release schedule (weekly packs and the mega & superior packs being spaced apart) we’re having to adjust things on our side for impackts -they won’t look quite as fancy for now. The superior pack will either be added to this when it comes out or get its own post, undecided yet.

Blueprints

So long as you can keep your heroes out of puddles the Cardboard Clogs are an okayish option for levelling. The thing against them is that they’re on the same tier as the Nightwing Shoes, which offer 5% evasion which will normally make more of an impact over 8 health.

The Cardboard Kabuto on the other hand has the evasion and fills a decent-sized hole in levelling rogue gear. When I was last writing these regulary before Archon took over Precious Shells were used quite a lot – nice to see some things haven’t changed :P.

From a crafting perspective

Part of me is surprised they didn’t try and shoehorn iron/steel onto this but yes we do have another non-metal pack print again 🥳. The first ascension drops the essence count by 3 and with it not requiring jewels/ether the Cardboard Guard is quite a pleasant craft.

Terrible for Dragon Invasion but that’s standard for most things in the accessory class that are not spells.

From a meta perspective

The Cardboard Guard is the new best-in-slot shield that should be used pretty much anytime you’re thinking of using one (which admittedly isn’t many places right now but still.)

If you’re using it on Lords and Praetorians and don’t need the extra barrier breaking I would give serious consideration to matching its affinity instead of slapping Light on it – their previous best shield (Argon’s Shield) had light affinity so you won’t notice as much as a jump otherwise in terms of stat increase and if you’re running the current best-in-slot setup you have the room to drop 1 item and still meet the element count needed for skills.

Customizations

Avatar Items

Decorations

Summary

• A pack full of equipment that can be easily defeated with a hose pipe.
• The Cardboard Guard is the new best-in-slot shield, with Kabam having finally remembered we were missing a hp shield this tier.
• Yes, I know it looks rougher than normal, that’s what you get when you get Rei doing them instead of Archon and Neri. Just can’t get the staff these days.

Final Score

Mega Pack: 8/10.

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