Talk:Heroic Mode/@comment-76.112.92.98-20160517002822/@comment-27770156-20160517200918

Of the 20 heroic events, they've duplicated element types 4 times: water, air, spirit/water, air/fire. The first two were an increase of ~200 combined attack+defence points, and the second two were an increase of almost 500 combined att+def.

Water/Earth was done recently in February with the Shell-Shocked Battleplate. The combined stat difference between Shell-Shocked and Dread-Pirate is only about 50 points. For this reason I doubt that the next heroic armor will be the Dread-Pirate.

My wager is a mono element Dragonforged, with the event starting sometime around 5/26. Also possible that they revamp the heroic mode entirely, though it's all speculation at this point. GREE hasn't been known to be very forthcoming about information and features in development in any sort of public manner or methods that I've seen.

If they don't do Dragonforged in this next heroic mode event and go with Dread-Pirate like you suggest, I'm guessing they are simply stalling for time by releasing a sub-par armor improvement. I might also guess they'll make Dragonforged fusable around the same time that they release a heroic mode Dragonforged (speculation).