Yes. All factions have different weapons and armor. You should plan on going with what you like as stats and skills.

New monarchy has Int and Strength.
Dead Orbit has Strength and Discipline.
Future war cult has Int and Discipline.

They all have different weapons and skills.
Just plan on what you like.
(Are you can get to rank 3 in all factions like I did)

As for light and level. Yes they are all lv 20 legendary gear. Which fully upgraded will be plus 27 light.

They are not the same items at all.

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Another thing I wanted to point out. Legendary gear and weapons can have different skills if they are a drop or vendor bought. This is just random and drops tend to have better skills. Vendor bought are all the same.

This post was edited on 10/20/14 at 1:38 pm

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Posted by Mystery

Member since Jan 2009

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Posted on 10/20/14 at 1:31 pm to Mystery

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Next week's Hotfix is going to contain some fixes to the Atheon encounter.

We've added "baby bumpers" to areas where players could knock Atheon out of the environment.
Knocking a boss off a ledge is a bug. We will seek to address bugs like these as quickly as possible.

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The encounter goal for Atheon is to act as a climax and the culmination of learning for a given Raid group. Part of that is making sure that each player in your group can perform every job as required. A change will take effect next week which fixes a bug with Atheon's target selection. When using its Timestream ability, Atheon will select 3 players at random, instead of choosing the three players furthest from it.

Did not see this posted yet. For everyone who runs the raid, we will have to get ready to take on each others roles. As the teleportation roles will now become random at the next hotfix.

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Posted by taylork37

Member since Mar 2010

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Posted on 10/20/14 at 1:45 pm to Mystery

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Yes. All factions have different weapons and armor. You should plan on going with what you like as stats and skills.

Good to know. Not having enough play time to get to level 3 in each faction, I should have researched this before.

Something I haven't been paying attention to is the Strength/Discipline/Intelligence stats. I kinda just go with what piece of armor has the most light. That may be something to think about once I am not so dependent on random rare drops to level up.

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