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I love procs and specials of all sorts, so the idea of having a few more to choose from made me grin just on general principle.

That said, I really do like the Stalker proc a lot. My red-side main has the upgraded version, while my two blue-side favorites got the standard ones and it's been useful for all three.

Since they were cheap on Wents, I also picked up the Kheldian special for both of my bi-form Peacebringers ('Dropped 'em in Photon Seekers, since neither of them had anything interesting there-), a Mastermind set for the Bride, the Tanker proc for my blue-side main and one of the Defender procs for my Empath.

I haven't had time to see how the tanker one works in play, but the little defender AoE heal is cute. It actually fires often enough to have come in handy keeping her squishier Lore pet alive in the last iTrial I had Karasu on. The forum population seems to have deemed the Mastermind set a massive failure as a whole, but so far I don't have major complaints with the special. The Bride's zombies need all the help they can get.

I've gotten ahold of two of the Scrapper procs, as well. (I did say that I love specials and procs, didn't I?) I'm curious to see how those will work out... I'm giving them to my favorite Dual Blader and my Broadsword guy.

Can't wait to see these... That's going to be quite a collection.

(And somewhere off in dank and dusty Oranbega, the poor Nemissary just shakes his head and grumbles something about the Bride, imponderable mysteries and crime-fighting in fancy lingerie. )

It varies, depending on who I'm working on at the time...

This time around? I currently have about half-a-dozen characters in their 40's. I'd like to get at least a few of them to 50.

The Cute... It is strong with this one.

There are really only a few that I regularly abandon when they come up... "Your Life Story", "Out of the Corner of Your Eye" and "Malta Gunman Action Figure" are the main offenders.

This first two I ditch because I tend to run hero-side tips with Shade in Shadow, my KM Stalker, or Surruna, one of my DB Stalkers. KoA are an absolute pain in the rump for Stalkers, since every single one of them can see right through Hide. Doing those missions is like wading through a sea of Rikti Drones, only with more caltrops. Not exactly my idea of stalk-a-rific fun. <_<

The Panther action figure mission is just annoying because of the time span between the ambushes. When I play, I want to *play*, not stand around waiting for a bunch of goons to get their act together.

I opened 6 packs earlier and got...

3 Costume Pieces (Jacket, Sleeves and Gloves)
1 Catalyst
2 ATOs (Brute triple and SoA proc)
1 Windfall
1 Black Wolf O_O
2 or 3 assorted consumeables I'll never use
... and a pretty nice little pile of Merits.

Merits made up the bulk of the "not very interesting" cards I received.

Yep. I'll spent merits on the ATOs I want for Kestrel... and thankfully the Wents trading on those is functional now. I already bought the one proc I was interested in from the auction house, for a not-too-outrageous price. (It's a little round Valentine's gift for FCM's favorite stalker. )

That said... I did cave a little, even as bad as I know my luck is.

I really wanted that Elemental Order jacket for Mei, so I used some of my monthly points to buy a few packs. (Six all together-)

From those six... I got a pile of merits, one catalyst, a Brute ATO, the SoA proc ATO (Alas, my widow has nowhere to put it-), a couple of costume bits (The jacket and sleeves, which are what I was really after, and the gloves-), a few inspirations, one Windfall... and the Black Wolf.

Six packs... and I got the freakin' wolf that took me more than SEVEN HUNDRED pulls to get on Beta. I guess the Random Number Fairy figured she owed me a break after the crap she's given me with iTrial and shard drops or something.

I still don't think spending extra money on these is a good idea, and I really dislike the idea of putting things like the costume set in there with no other avenue to get them. But yeah... Throwing spare points from the monthly stipend paid off in my case, so guess getting lucky is possible.

Given that it took me over 30 packs to get the complete costume set on beta... several hundred to get *one* complete ATO set (and it wasn't the set I wanted-)... and over 700 to get the black wolf?

I won't be spending any extra money on these things. They're just not worth the gamble, and I really hope the devs eventually change their stance on releasing the costume set in some other way.

Really looking forward to these bits, guys... This set is going to be great fun.

Maybe someday guys will get the Carnival masks and sash, Chad.

I hope so, anyway.

Is the world really ready for TWO of him, though? One's bad enough....