LiquidX

Greetings boys, girls, and beings of indeterminate gender!

I'm LiquidX. Some of you may remember me from such educational films as "101 uses for 5th Column Mekmen: For when you really need a desk" and "Vahzilok Wasting Disease: The silent killer". Now, as anyone who may browse the forums with any amount of regularity may know, one of the more common questions is "How do I get <Insert exclusive item name here>?". In order to facilitate quicker answers, and help clear up some of the confusion that normally results in these posts, I have decided to create this handy guide to limited and exclusive stuff.

Following will list what packages provide exclusive content, as well as what things are included in the packages. Notes as to availability and how to purchase said packages will be included as necessary.

City of Heroes Pre-Order Box
One of four Prestige Powers, which is dependent on where the box was purchased from. Powers are:
Dash
Quick
Rush
Surge

(Note: All four powers are now available as the 12 month Vet Reward)

City of Heroes Collectors DVD Edition
Prestige Power: Slide
Cape of the Four Winds
V.I.P. (Hero side)/Destined One (Villain side) badge
Statesman (Without Cape) Heroclix figure
PvP Mini-Comic

(Note: The CoH CE is no longer in production. If you really want it, you can get it from E-Bay. However, it will most likely be expensive. Also, use caution... Make sure the box is unopened before you purchase it, otherwise the code may have been used.)

Heroes Gear Kit
It had all the goodies from the CoH CE, including the Heroclix figure.

(Note: Was only available for a limited time through the NCSoft online store. It's no longer available, and is unlikely to be brought back since it fulfilled it's original purpouse)

City of Villains Pre-order box
Includes one of four exclusive Arachnos Helms, which was dependant on where it was purchased:
Fortuna (Female Only)
Wolf Spider
Crab Spider
Mu Helmet

(Note: Only one code can be applied per account. Certain codes now give you access to more then one helm, due to complaints that were issued about the helms originally being gender specific. Namely, the Fortuna helm was for females only, and the other three were only for males. This was changed so that the Wolf, Crab, and Mu Helms would be for male and females, and the Fortuna helm was given access to a second helm to compensate for still being female only. Also, the helms are now going to be made available via the Villain Epic AT.)

City of Villains Collectors Edition
Arachnos Chest Symbol
Arachnos Cape
All Seven of the CoH/V Heroclix figures (Statesman W/ Cape, Positron, Manticore, Ghost Widow, Black Scorpion, Captain Mako, and Lord Recluse.)
Limited Edition Statesman CCG card
CoH CCG Demo Deck

(Note: While Non-CE editions of City of Villains only came with one of six, randomly packed CoH/V Heroclix figure, the CoV CE came with all six of them. It was also the only way you could get the seventh figure, Lord Recluse, who was available exclusively through the CE. Also of note is that the Arachnos Chest Symbol in the CoV CE is NOT the same Chest Symbol that's granted via the 30 Month Vet Reward. Finally, the CoV CE is no longer in production. You can probably find it via E-Bay, but previous warnings apply).

City of Villains Valentines Day 2006 buddy code
Hellenic Sandals
Victory Laurel

(Note: For a previous valentines day event, NCSoft gave out buddy codes that would allow friends to try out CoH/V. If the person subscribed using the code, then both the referal and the referee would both be awarded these items. This offer is obviously no longer good, and is only listed for the sake of completion. However, the items in question are now choosable awards for the Valentines Day missions)

City of Heroes/Villains "Good vs. Evil" box
Prestige Power: Jump Jets
Pocket D V.I.P. Badge (Grants access to the Tiki Room)
Pocket D Teleporter power (Allows you to teleport to the Tiki room. Requires you to be level 3 or up to use)
Justice Costume Set
Sinister Costume Set

(Note: Still in production, and can be found just about everywhere.)

City of Heroes/Villains "Good vs. Evil" in-game item pack
Includes the digital items from the Good vs. Evil pack.

(Note: If you already have CoH/V, you can purchase this to get just the digital items from the "Good vs. Evil" box set for $10 from the NCSoft store. However, unlike the box set, the digital items pack does NOT give you access to CoH or CoV.)

Wedding Pack
Tuxedo costume parts for men
Wedding Dress costume parts for females
Four emotes:
Throw Rose Petals
Throw Rice
Throw Confetti
Propose

(Note: Available from the NCSoft store for $10.)

And there you have it, kids. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to star in my next educational film: "How I met your Arch-nemesis".

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You people lie! There is no hidden links!

It just jumped out and bit me! Thats not hidden!

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IT'S COMING RIGHT AT US!

*Opens fire*

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AAAAAH

MY DAUGHTER SHARES A BIRTHDAY WITH LIQUIDX!

That...explains...EVERYTHING!

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*Flash of white*

This... isn't... HAPPENING!

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I think my head just esplodedded.

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I have that effect on people.

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Happy birthday Liquid

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Thanks!

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Wait a sec...when did I have a daughter?

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It was after the third identity crises on infinate earths with civil wars and a secret war. Y'know, the one where we found out all the Signature Heroes were really Nemesis Automitons, and that Manticore had made a deal with Beelzebub to make everyone forget that he had married Sister Psyche so he could hit on Ghost Widow?

I think a Wizard was involved, too.

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Please don't take away al the fun adds, like the Crey and Vanguard posters.. I understand selling advertizeing space is important but let's keep alot of the boards as they are

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Ahem...

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fans worried about the intrusion of real world marketing into their fantasy life can simply opt out of the new ad program and retain the existing fictional ads.

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I find this hillarious. ....

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This is the kind of thing that makes this forum so warm and welcoming.

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As opposed to the posts of people complaining about stuff that haven't even gone on test yet, complaining about how it's going to ruin the game? And how they are going to quit and go to Champions Online, because it's obviously going to be "soooooo superior", despite the fact that it's nothing more then a couple of screenshots and buzzwords at the moment?

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I'll say it again... THIS IS JUST THE START.

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Actually....considering there will most likely be only one or two updates between this and CO's coming out party this may be the only round of PP many of us will see.

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I find this hillarious. You do know the person responsible for Champions Online is Jack Emmert, right? The same Jack Emmert who people have been ready to crucify for ED, Regen Nerfs, His belief of "Risk versus Reward", and for his constant ability to promise stuff only to find out he was full of it?

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THIS ISSUE HAS NOT BALANCED THE SIDES. IN FACT, I WOULD SAY THE HEROES NOW ARE MORE OPed THAN VILLS. Prove me wrong.

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Prove your right.

Until the issue goes up on test, we have NO CLUE what changes, adjustements, and other things are going to be done to the sets. So until then, nobody has any way to prove how good OR bad the sets will be on the AT's they are being added to.

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Proof I'm right. NP!

Psy/ Blasters with boost range, and buildup, and power boost.
Anyone that has ever fought a rad/psy before will know what powerbuildup will dom does (immediately drops toggles and ignores ur bf). So, powerboost (perma-able on a blaster) and boost range and buildup on will dom, and then all the other psy powers. So, ok sure, its strong. How will villains counter. We all get the psy mastery shield in our epics! oh wait, no we don't that's heroes. Oh yea, and we couldn't respec into it if we even wanted to, because hey, we can't respec patrons.

So, what is the vill side resistance to a psy/ blaster? thermal shields do nothing, sonic shields do nothing. Defense has always done nothing to a blaster with 1 fort. (ask any /sr or /nin stalker how well defense does against heroes) The only toons that have any type of resistance to /psy is /dark, and /wp. um, yay, that's a joke.

But we vills have psy damage, yea, in our doms. LOL!. the squishiest of squishies. Vs, your defenders and now blasters. Very "even and balanced" right?

resistance sets for a stalker is a joke saying one mastermind pet will keep you out of hide for an entire match. LOL! Electric melee for stalkers, I'm guessing is a joke. High animation times for lower damage than EM/. great.

Brutes getting more lethal/smash is NOT going to make them better at pvp. and also, if /EA brutes are a joke, then what makes /SR any better? besides the fact that you have no heal or +hp at all?

ice/cold corr vs ice/cold defender. Let's see, Defender wins because his slows and debuffs are UNRESISTED, they get Power Boost or hibernate or TK. Vills get yay webnades, which does compliment ice/cold. However, in the long run scourge and webnades does NOT win against unresisted debuffing, power boost or hibernate, and better endurance usage in a high endurance set.

So, villains get storm now. Hero storm vs Vill storm. Stormies are massively heavy on endurance. Heroes can buff endurance with SB + RA + AB. Vills get SB. Heroes also can counter storm with their boost range blaster. Vills get to counter the -range with NOTHING, oh yea, I gotta kiss someone to get in range for a heal. Great.

ele/ blast is a joke as kin/elec is way stronger defender side than v-side so, uhm lol?

So, did I miss any evidence? How in ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM can you call this balanced. This has given the heroes the upper hand (again) and the few advantages villains once had are slowly disappearing as well. AGAIN PROVE ME WRONG!

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Except WE DON'T KNOW WHAT ADJUSTMENTS/BALANCE CHANGES WILL BE MADE TO THE SET. We don't know if certain powers will be removed/changed. Hell, we don't even know if certain villain powers will be *GIVEN* a way to resist Psi just to help balance things out. Everything right now is PURE SPECULATION, and NOT hard fact.

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AFAICT, not all villains are calling doom. Just a certain group - the ones that always cry doom. So really, is it to be taken seriously, or is it just another round of Chicken Little?

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Not everyone who sees issues with the change is calling doom. Not all critisism is doomsaying, and the fact that we're getting something (some if it quite nice) doesn't mean we shouldn't point out reasons that other things are disappointing.

Franky, certain poster's response to critisim regarding the changes is disgusting. It gives rabid new face to 'fanboi'. Are some detractors going overboard? Yes. So are some of those going on about how we should bow and scrape at how wonderful the devs are.

The reality is that, especially in PvP, heroes are very dominant. One of the most consistent villain ATs for PvP is the Corruptor, and part of (not all of) the reason for that is the strength of the Thermal and Cold powersets, which were previously unique to Villains.

Now those powerful powersets have been graciously provided to heroes, who already arguably had the PvP edge. So new, powerful tools which the side with the edge never previously had are now theirs. Villains, in comparison, got very little, if anything of PvP value - certainly nothing I'd spec on par with Cold Domination with Defender AT mods and Power Boost. And certainly nothing that compares to Blasters getting Psi Blast. (I suspect that giving Psi Blast to Corr's instead of Electric Blast would have been vastly more popular.)

Is it the last of powerset crossovers. We've been told no. IMO That's no reason to just zip it and not tell the devs what we think of these options at this time. We aren't being "gifted" with this - there's no gift horse to look at the teeth on. This is content of a sort that the devs are providing to try and keep us happy. If they didn't succeed, it behooves us to let them know.

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See, I am fine with people going "I am dissapointed that we are not getting (Insert set here)". That's completly subjective, and not everyone is going to be excited about the same thing. (Some people don't care for Axe and Mace Brutes. I myself can't wait to get my hands on 'em). What I have a problem with are the people complaining that this is going to completly destroy PVP, is a total slap in the face to villains, completly unbalanced, how they are going to quit becuase the dev's have spit in their face, yada yada yada... Without ANYTHING other then RAMPANT SPECULATION AND GUESSWORK at how the "new" sets will handle, be tweaked, ect.

We have NO HARD FACTS. At *ALL*. We don't even know what powers will and wont be in the sets. (And we know they are not just gonna do straight ports for every set, as some of them HAVE to be adjusted to work with their AT. Like Stalkers) And yet some people are acting like the Dev's just shoved a shiv between their ribs, [censored] their sister, killed their pets, then ripped the tags off of their matress. It's stupid.

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Kinda disappointed.

Is it really that hard to spread the powersets around? What about Thermal Rad for defenders? And storm for MMs? Don't get me wrong I love this game - and any improvement is improvement...

But guys a few more powers? Pretty pleeeease

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They are coming. But remember, theres alot of other content in I12, and only so much time and resources. We'll see more "shared" sets, but it's gonna take some time.

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Thugs/Storm = ... uh. Ok. Ya got me.

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Outright [censored] Chaos waiting to be unleashed?

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THIS ISSUE HAS NOT BALANCED THE SIDES. IN FACT, I WOULD SAY THE HEROES NOW ARE MORE OPed THAN VILLS. Prove me wrong.

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Prove your right.

Until the issue goes up on test, we have NO CLUE what changes, adjustements, and other things are going to be done to the sets. So until then, nobody has any way to prove how good OR bad the sets will be on the AT's they are being added to.

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So, your Popeye then?

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Mmmm, Dark Tanks. Me Likey.

But Super Reflexes for Brutes? As much as I love Super Reflexes, that just doesen't seem to fit Brutes from a conceptual standpoint at all.

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I would say Venom at least is a SR brute. There is plenty of scaling resists to show toughing it out when you do get hit, but being super fast when dodging an attack doesn't seem against the brute process.

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Hrmmm. Maybe. I dunno... To me, Brutes always seemed like the kind of people that sit there, taking damage and shrugging it off/ignoring it, and just getting really, REALLY [censored] off.

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Mastermind: /Sonic; I think Storm Summoning is actually too good for MMs. HEck, I think even /Empathy would have been a better choice than /Storm. (It's laughably easy for me to keep my robots' HP topped off, and I haven't a heal in my secondary at ALL ... just aid other!)

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You think Storm's too good, but Empathy would be better? Really? The Empathy with Fortitude? The buff that out of the box could always be on 2 of your henchmen, and with slotting could easily be on 4 or more?

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Not to mention that from a conceptual standpoint, Empathy would make absolutely no sense for villains in General, much less Masterminds where it would make even LESS sense.

Mmmm, Dark Tanks. Me Likey.

But Super Reflexes for Brutes? As much as I love Super Reflexes, that just doesen't seem to fit Brutes from a conceptual standpoint at all.

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So when we gonna see one with UniqueDragon?

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We tried to get an interview with him. However, he refused to talk to a publication that he believed was "Gone to the Americans", and that would hire an advice columnist known for Dupin' Rares for the illegal Cuban Marshmellow Peeps trade.

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Unfortunately, I do believe you just peaked with this one. How are you gonna top it?

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We'll have an issue full of Cheesecake.

Just wait till you see the pictures of the New York Style and the Strawberry Swirl!

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soon™.

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So...

How many wedding packs do you have to sell to cover Jack's royalties for everytime you guys use that word?

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Some stores don't return opened software to the vendors for disposal - they rewrap*. Even MMOs. I could see some stupid numbskull doing this for the time cards.

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One of the local stores had a huge problem awhile back with one of their employees removing time cards, using the codes, then putting them back in the box for them to be sold. They had to institute a policy to check the boxes at the register to ensure the card hadn't been tampered with before the customer left, since they were unreturnable.

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I suspect that the DVD case packaging is mostly for the retailer's convenience, as it's the same size as all those other DVD cases that sit on the shelves and easily compatible with the store's DVD security measures.

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Not to mention it'd probably make it easier to spot as well.

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Today, I got one of the new PlayNC time cards. I grabbed a quarter and opened the DVD case. Found the card on a cardboard back, popped it off, turned it over, and lo and behold! There was nothing to scratch off! It was easy to read (though the font was a little small), and easy to enter.

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Urgh. I don't like this change, as it makes it *much* harder to tell if the code has or has not been compromised.

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So... LiquidX is dating Positron?

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I KNEW IT!!
FINALLY. Been trying to get that damned kid to settle down for years.
Now...those grandkids...GET ON IT! I want them bouncing on my knee this time NEXT YEAR!

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I am not dating Positron.

I am, however, stalking him.

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It's apparent from this thread the that devs are apparently too lazy to read this thread. <grin>

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Except for Positron, who is apparently the only dev who was willing to admit he was lazy by virtue of posting in this thread.

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Don't forget Ex Libris!

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Ex isn't a dev.

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Touche!

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I swear, I never once Touche'd that woman in my life!