Eric Nelson

Thanks, Rod, I completely missed that. Now I haz a sad.

You won't need to 6-slot everything, trust me.

I'd just play and read the wiki a bit more (and ask, ask, ask here, of course! ) to get a feel for what you like and don't like, and what works for your particular Archetype.

Welcome to the game -- enjoy the ride!

Oh -- when the heck did that happen? Must have been recently, she still did at the time of the Summit.

That's the way she rolls.

I'll take my turn at it -- I'll bid your 450 million and see where everything goes this time.

Wayne Barlowe is a longtime fantasy/sci-fi illustrator.

OP, I bought my copy of Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials back in 1979 when it was published, and it's been on my bookshelf ever since. I don't see any obvious similarities to his artwork and the new DA critters.

Why does it have to be "easy"? Can't it be a satisfyingly long-term and challenging goal?

Because to me, that's what makes having a large percentage of the available badges fun and interesting, not that they were practically handed to me on a silver platter...

The (live) game has 15 servers, all of which are currently up and accessible, so that's not it.

Must be due to the massive time differences between dimensions. >.>

Those other things come at the END of your billing cycle by design. In practice, there can and has been some wonkiness and unpredictability experienced by some players.

EDIT: Rajani may be right about the Paragon Points, but this is how it's phrased on the wiki page: "400 Paragon Points per month (or 550 per month, with Rewards Tier 8), awarded monthly on the player's renewal date..."

Including that was an inadvertent error on the devs' part, and so it was removed quickly (but not before some were able to take advantage of it).

I would be happy with the devs' stated intent, but nobody can point to an actual example that this is so. We'll just have to see what happens (hopefully what's on Beta now).

Same here. If I recall correctly, the devs indicated they would be back at some point (although plans, obviously, can change), and I see no reason they'd want to abandon a fairly popular concept entirely.

Yes, I'm aware of that, but that hardly proves it will be implemented like that. (It doesn't mean it won't either, of course, and I hope it is.)

EDIT: After seeing the interface, I have to admit it looks like the way they'd actually implement it. I assume that is the way they're going to go now (but I still don't recall them coming out and saying so at any point after the Pummit).

Source? Because I KNOW what I heard, in person. If you have more recent info (certainly possible), please cite its source.

Yeah, seems so. And if it ends up being this way on Live, I think it's a great change for all the people who are concerned about not being able to get to Tier 9 VIP in time for access to the Celestial stuff.

Yes, that's a good point -- the devs were VERY clear about there being a large amount of lead-time between when we are informed the rotation is occurring, and when it actually takes place. So at least people can assess how close they will be at the last possible time and save up to buy Paragon Points accordingly if that's an option for them.

That's NOT the way it was explained at the Pummit at all. If that's how they're handling it now, though, that's great -- it should make a lot of people happy. But the way Posi explained it then was that they would give plenty of notice, and then swap Fire and Ice Armor in, and Celestial out. I hope they do it that way, if for no other reason than to extend the time when some people will have access to Celestial this go-round (although I'm confident it will be available again somehow in the not-so-distant future).

They will not (unless they've been rotated back IN at that time, which I doubt). The devs told us straight up at the Pummit that around February-ish the Celestial pieces will rotate out, replaced by the Fire and Ice Armor set (which, IMHO, is godawful ugly).

Read it again -- he said he used them ON TEST over and over. So he was duping them to Test toons and using them, when PvP was occurring on Test back in the day.

No problem -- welcome to the game, and keep asking those questions anytime!

(And StarGeek is right, I STRONGLY encourage you to stay away from the wikia site, and if you see something on the REAL wiki that you think is outdated, feel free to update it or bring it to someone's attention!)