ClawsandEffect

Sounds like someone used the XP booster, which also slightly increases drop rates.

If I can find a name I like to go along with it I might pick it up. I'm having enough fun with my Dark/mental blaster and Time/Fire defender that I don't really want to have another ranged character to try and split time between.

The name I wanted on Pinnacle is taken, so it will sit there in the store until I come up with another one that makes me laugh like the first one did. (The name was Ronald Raygun)

Time Manipulation looks, at first glance, like it will be a go to set for AV/GM fights. They'll resist the slows a great deal, but it has 2 powers with a significant amount of -regen in them, the first of which I believe is stackable.

I'm enjoying my Time/FIre Defender so far.

Doesn't really bother me, to be honest.

I can see how it would be aggravating for color-blind people though, perhaps they should add an option to set the color as you see fit. I'm guessing that with their stated interest in opening up the forums to free and premium players on a limited basis, the colors are going to serve to differentiate between them and the VIPs.

I suspect that free and premium players will probably be limited to Player Questions and maybe the Archetypes forums, since those are the places most commonly used for asking for help from other players. It would kind of suck to make it so free players can't even ask people for help with something.

If that turns out to be the case, those of us who help people with builds a lot need to refresh ourselves on SO slotted builds. All of our build wizardry will be lost on people who can't use IOs.

If I end up with any disposable income in the near future, I plan on purchasing some of the attuned set enhancements.

When Street Justice comes out I plan on rolling a SJ/Invuln brute. I will be purchasing some of the attuned Reactive Armor to slot in his resistance powers. I'm kind of looking forward to enhancements that will level with me. So, I don't have any personal experience with them yet, but my initial impression is that they sound cool. There's not much in the store that I need or want, so most of my excess points will probably end up spent on stuff like that.

Oh, and the /auctionhouse command is AWESOME. I put a token in that slot immediately, and it is just too convenient to be able to sell off salvage while I'm inside a mission.

Wow, so Freedom is a financial success for Paragon/NCSoft then?

I haven't spent squat yet, and I'm very unlikely to start dropping hundreds of dollars n points. They're still getting my $15 a month, but I don't have enough disposable income to spend like you guys are (I can barely afford my subscription some months)

Maybe aroud tax time I'll shell out some cash for stuff, but for now I'll just enjoy the free stuff and whatever I can get with the points I have already.

One of the tier 8 or 9 rewards is an additional 150 points per month, that could account for the 1750 and 2375s.

By my math I should have 800-1200 points, but I have 1600. I have a feeling they might have granted us some extra points to make up for things taking so long to get rolling on Tuesday. If that's the case, it was a nice thing to do. We lost a day of play time, but got a months worth of points? Sounds like a good deal to me.

I deliberately did not participate in beta testing this time around, so I could have a fresh perspective on the new stuff (well, as fresh as a 6 year vet can have at least).

So far, I like what I've seen.

Time Manipulation seems to be a good set, fairly well balanced and fun to play. It seems to me that it may be the new go to set for AV and GM fights, what with stackable -regen in a couple different powers.

I like the new tutorial, I just wish it were a little longer. With the destruction of Galaxy City, I really hope we'll be going back there sometime soon. Please, please, please don't do a Boomtown/Dark Astoria with it.

So far I've only done part of the new hero side content in Atlas Park. It is MUCH improved over the old contacts, and actually has a cohesive story to it. I kind of like some of the new mission ideas being used as well. Controlling the reporter with the camcorder reticle was a neat touch. I am, however, a little concerned that the transition from the new AP content to the old Kings Row/Steel Canyon/Skyway City content will be a little jarring, just because it is so different. A good move, in my opinion, would be to update those 3 zones next (and Port Oakes/Cap on redside as well).

I like the Atlas makeover. It looks and feels like it should be called Atlas "Park" now. Everything is pretty much in the same place it was before, it just looks better now, even on minimum graphics settings (my computer sucks).

Not too sure about the Paragon Market yet. So far it seems reasonably easy to use, and I like the fact that I can get single costume pieces instead of having to shell out for a full set I'll never use (the only thing from the Animal pack I'm even a little interested in is the Minotaur head). There is some other interesting looking stuff in there, but I'm trying to save points for Street Justice, so I won't be spending a whole lot just yet.

Haven't tried Beam Rifle yet, not sure if I'm going to. But, from seeing other people using it, it seems like a neat set.

I have created, so far, a Time/Fire defender, an Illusion/Time controller (I think I may have rolled a future GM soloer in that one), a Dark/Mental blaster, and a Spines/Energy scrapper (not sold on the scrapper yet).

Overall, I'm impressed with what I've seen of Freedom thus far. It's got some flaws (most notably the low level content being very linear), but for the most part they did a good job on it. It gets a thumbs up from me. We'll have to see what the free and returning players think of it (though the returning players probably won't see the new lowbie content right away)

I'll be running the First Ward stuff in the near future, and I'll share my impressions on that as well. I also need to run the new lowbie sewer trial, didn't want to dive into it while I was getting ready for work.

Anyone else have thoughts on it, good or bad?

Wait a month or so and roll a Dark/Street Justice tank.

I'm staying on Pinnacle.

I'll make an alt or two on Exalted, but someone snagged my main's name within an hour of the servers coming up. I won't move permanently to a server where I can't have my name. It's my main character and my global name (and my forum handle). I have the name on Pinnacle, so that's where I'm staying.

I do have a couple semi-retired characters that might make the transfer to free up space on Pinn for more alts. Probably at least one 50 so I can run trials on the new shiny.

I don't know what I'll be getting first. If Street Justice were available now it'd be that. SInce it's not, I'll probably buy a few costume pieces I can think of a use for and hang on to the rest of the points.

I doubt this will affect me at all. I don't PL characters and I don't farm, so the odds of me ever triggering it are slim.

I do look forward to the threads that are guaranteed to pop up about how unfair it is that the devs are not allowing people to exploit their game. They will be hilarious and chock full of entitlement whines, those threads always give me a chuckle.

Honestly, I'm not too pressed about a costume set, no matter how cool it is.

I'd have to drop over $100 to get it today, and nothing in a video game will EVER be worth $100 to me. If I'm still here in 2 years, maybe I'll get the costume set then.

It won't be the first time that I wasn't one of the first people to get something, and I'm sure it won't be the last.

From what I understand about Beam Rifle's mechanics, it will be beastly on a corruptor once Scourge starts kicking in on a single hard target (AV or GM)

Yeah, Green Ink Men suck.

Enough of them can stack stuns through even a Stone tank's Granite and Rooted. Every single attack they throw at you has a chance to stun, so they can stack like, mag 30 or 40 in a matter of seconds. Fighting more than about 5 will suck in a big way for melee characters.