Flowchart has answered your questions exactly correctly. I'll just add that there is no mechanism in this game for increasing the range of a bomb (or sword or gun).
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Bomb UVs used to reduce their radius, but that was a very, very long time ago.
Are you serious? I don't remember that. Was it changed publicly in a patch? Which one? Or was this a stealth "feature"?
So I'll need to buy 2 ultimate evo catalysts. This guy told me that my UV sucked because of the range decrease for some reason. New questions added!
You want to find Shining Fire Crystals? Have you tried the wiki? The page "Rarity" tells you roughly where they are.
Try searching Google (not the forum's built-in search function) for stuff like "heat site:forums.spiralknights.com" and "shining crystal site:forums.spiralknights.com".
I'm asking for a exact mission, not the stratum or depth.
That's not much help. Shinings can be found throughout stratums 4 and 5, so try doing missions in there. I can get plenty on ones such as Rotting Metropolis and In Cold Blood.
Q: What ultimates should i choose for my maskeraith? What advantages do each of the ultimates give?
Once again, please try searching the forums. Here, I'll even show you how: ultimate maskeraith site:forums.spiralknights.com
Q: Where can I find great amounts of heat and shinings?
A: For lots of heat its obviously vanaduke. But what are shinings? If you meant Shining Fire Crystals just do the danger missions. At the end there are massive amounts of treasure boxes.It will give you mostly radiant but you will be able to turn them into shinings with the Shining fire crystal recipe.
FSC now gives shinings as well as radiants, radiants are the hardest to get now I think.
I have been helping Lancer Knightz collect their mission payout data. So I've been redoing a lot of missions, on multiple levels of difficulty. Sparks of Life drops are pretty random, and I've found no good place for them. Like with any drop, I recommend that you find places rich in treasure boxes: treasure vaults, the treasure levels of danger missions, etc.
My guess is that you will NOT have access to the obelisk of creation when this event ends. It would have to be installed somewhere accessible, such as Haven or Emberlight, which doesn't make much sense. But I have no verifiable information on this one.
On the other hand, I recall that Nick has officially declared that all items related to the Apocrea --- sigils, materials, weapons --- will persist after the event ends. So you can save them up for the next time it happens (assuming that it ever does).
Are they ever going to increase the chance of radiants because now it takes me ages to heat up one level.
Are you aware that currently about half of the General Discussion forum is taken up by threads asking this question? Until the developers chime in, nobody knows the answer.
I don't check other threads, just ask questions on my own. They better fix it soon my armor is stuck on lv8 -_-
You need 3. But you get one from a mission reward.
Damage bonuses don't have anything to do with range.