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Lightning Arrester
Deploy a device that will redirect and absorb nearby lightning strikes to itself. An absorbed bolt will not harm anything except the device itself. Only 1 Lightning Arrester can be active at a time.
Lighting arresters were deployable utilities that temporarily protected small areas from the dangerous effects of the electrical storms that occured on Esamir. Whenever a lightning bolt struck an area near to the arrester, the arrester instead drew the bolt into itself and fully consumed the strike, preventing it from dealing damage to anything else nearby.
Lightning strikes caused by the use of a Lightning Grenade were absorbed by lightning arresters.
A single lightning arrester could absorb up to four lightning bolts before being destroyed, although arresters can otherwise be damaged by players normally. Whenever an arrester absorbed a bolt, the player who deployed earned small amount of XP.
With the construction of the Containment Sites, the electrical storm on Esamir was quelled, and this deployable lost its use case despite remaining in the game until the end of chapter 3.
No longer available with the end of the Shattered Warpgate campaign.
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This item was only available while chapter 2 of the Shattered Warpgate campaign was active, and players who owned it lost access to it at the end of the campaign.
