Should Hokan be spamming Hallowed Armor (New Purity Version) instead of Haunted Armor?

[Mort]

Grinding through these stacks is a chore, and I thought they belonged to the New Purity Faction only?

[Pi'Xhel]

IIRC I had a quest from Hokan to kill some belonging to New Purity.
The quest description essentially:
New Purity somehow stolen the Hallowed Armor from Hokan, and he consider that a risk for the Circle and ask you to essentially mop his mess
But yeah hallowed are still hard to deal with, regardless of who's commanding them.

[Mort]

Well I'm glad there is a connection! But I figured they would've stolen haunted armor and then made them hallowed, which gives them the New Purity tag with +30% white/death resistance. I'm still a little confused as to how Hokan is getting the Hallowed versions back from New Purity?

[Celeborn]

Originally posted by Mort:

Grinding through these stacks is a chore, and I thought they belonged to the New Purity Faction only?

I can't remember the full lore from previous games but in general the purity do lot of messed up stuff and believe the hallowed essentially are necromancy which why Hokan they are part of his experiments. Which why he is connected least in this game to some degree with Purity in that has quest related to them. The degree of connection just meant his works why there is a whole soul forge in the northwest the armors and the soulbinding isn't necessarily new the purity just using for own purposes.

[Mindeveler]

Originally posted by Pi'Xhel:

IIRC I had a quest from Hokan

CIRCLE MAGES HAVE QUESTS?!
You mean that sometimes they forget they're angry ♥♥♥♥♥ and actually talk to you in a language that doesn't solely consist of threats?

[Mort]

Interesting - if it's intentional and a way to separate him from Raith, I'm ok with it - even though they are probably the hardest units to deal with (high armor, resistant to white/death, massive HP, immune to all status effects, good melee damage, etc.)

[Celeborn]

Originally posted by Mort:

Interesting - if it's intentional and a way to separate him from Raith, I'm ok with it - even though they are probably the hardest units to deal with (high armor, resistant to white/death, massive HP, immune to all status effects, good melee damage, etc.)

It definitely seems that way given that another quest besides his when doing Elyn's her sisters the Shakan their souls are placed in there and there are random events where Shakan are running away from Hakan as he seems to be hunting them. With all this it does seem to fit thematically and also does seperate him.