Chad Gulzow-Man

Indeed! I was kinda hoping they might put the other melee power sets on sale and/or the Imperial Dynasty costume set, but I'm having trouble finding a reason to complain about the sales they did give us.

Tuesday again, time for another edition of NEW STUFFS DAY!

Today we've got the highly-anticipated release of the Staff Fighting Power Set for 800 Paragon Points! Bring stick-spinning justice to evil-doers (or for the purposes of wickedness, if that's your thing) with the new melee power set available as a primary set for Brutes, Scrappers and Stalkers or as a secondary power set for Tankers. Use Staff Mastery* to focus different energies through your weapon, choosing to increase the damage, reduce the endurance costs or lower the recharge times of your attacks as fits the situation!
* Note that Stalkers do not get the option to change Staff Mastery "forms," and will instead be locked into the Form of the Body for bonus damage purposes and have access to Build Up.

The Martial Arts costume piece bundle also makes a triumphant return to the store with a standard costume bundle price of 400 PP, but is on sale for 300 PP this week. (Only the bundle itself is new to the store; the individual Martial Arts costume pieces have been available in the market since Freedom launched this past September.)

For sales this week, we've got a bunch of melee damage Store Bought Enhancements for 50 (yes, FIFTY!) percent off, including Mako's Bite, Kinetic Combat, etc., and defense-related Store Bought Enhancements for 25% off. Ninja Run is also 25% off, and extra Character Slots are on sale again this week for 25% off as well.

I'm not completely certain, but I think they either added a couple Defensive sets to the market (namely Kismet and Gift of the Ancients) or I missed them in an earlier update. OP and spreadsheet have been updated regardless... I just wish I had time to play my new Staff/Stone Brute a bit before bed! x_x

T-minus 3 hours until STAFF FIGHTING!

Just to be snarky since Snow Globe upstaged me so completely... he forgot the following emotes:

/e StanceHero1
/e StanceHero2
/e StanceVillain1
/e StanceVillain2

EDIT: Actually, nevermind. He just didn't list them individually and had them lumped in with the costume pieces. Humph. Snowy wins again.

Yep. Just keep in mind that Masterminds and Controllers aren't permanently unlocked by having a Going Rogue code, so even though you'll always have the Demon Summoning power set unlocked for the Mastermind AT, you might not always be able to use it as a Premium player. (Electric Control, at least, can be used by Dominators.)

But you'll have full access to the level 1-20 Praetorian content, the alignment system, all the costume options (Clockwork, Resistance, Praetorian Police, PLUS Alpha and Omega if you got the GR: Complete Collection)... and you'll never have to pay another cent to access it if you don't want to.

The zones you should be targetting for 20-30 content blueside are Talos Island and Independence Port. (You'll find more players and better teaming opportunities in Talos, as well as better access to amenities such as stores and travel.) Redside, you should be hanging out on Sharkhead Island.

Popular activities in that level range include the new Drowning in Blood Trial (available to both heroes and villains, just like DfB), the Admiral Sutter Task Force (20-40), Sister Psyche Task Force (20-25) and Citadel Task Force (25-30) for heroes and the Mortimer Kal Strike Force (20-40), Silver Mantis Strike Force (20-25) and Operative Renault Strike Force (25-30) for villains.

I'm not going to tell you what you should and shouldn't do (other than you should do whatever you find the most fun), but running Death from Below repeatedly until you hit level 20 does not give you a realistic representation of the game as a whole, especially since it limits you to the powers you gain before level 10 at best. As you progress, you'll find that enemies have different strengths and weaknesses, and you're just getting to the point where new enemies will have the ability to use mez and debuff powers on your characters. Your play style will have to evolve as you progress through the content, and you might have some catching up to do if all you've ever done is fight Hellions, Vahzilok and Lost so far.

For some reason I just know I'm gonna get laughed at for asking this, but...

Z, what do you have 2 mice for?

Generally you're not supposed to post "polls" on the forums, but all you're really doing is asking people's opinions on what they like, so I don't think you'll get in any trouble.

Personally, I like the Katie Hannon TF, Apex TF and Imperious TF the best, with the Mortimer Kal SF being my favorite redside-specific one.

As far as iTrials go, I'm weird in that I think I like the Keyes Trial the best (as long as we're not doing a badge run), and probably Lambda second best.

FYI, the order the story takes for Incarnate content is: Apex TF -> Tin Mage TF -> BAF/Lambda -> Keyes -> Underground -> TPN -> Minds of Mayhem -> Dilemma Diabolique. (Then, obviously, the new Magisterium trial coming in Issue 23, which ends the Emperor Cole story arc.)

Is that... bacon-wrapped bacon? O_o


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Tuesday again... that means it's NEW STUFFS DAY!

This week, we get some new Store-Bought Travel Enhancements: Freebird, Celerity and Blessing of the Zephyr (all of which are 25% until next Monday night).

Quite a few sales this week, too!

Character Slots are on sale for 50% off, as are the LKT-1700 Rocket Pack temporary jetpack power, the Warwolf Whistle temp power and the 5 packs of Dual Inspirations (Protected, Precise and Invigorate).

We've got Respec Tokens and Server Transfer Tokens for 25% off, along with Enhancement Unslotters, XP Boosters and the aforementioned newly-added Travel Enhancements.

The spreadsheet and OP are up to date with the current info, though there might be new additions or changes made by tomorrow afternoon, as happened with the last two weeks.