NeoGenesis

New F2P will basically have the same play experience as we had years ago before most of us experienced the power of ios. They will be in a time capsule when SO and HO were king.

I have loved this game for over 7 years and one of the reasons is the stellar community. For the most part people are very helpful (absent those elitist that live in moms basement) and will go out of the way to help.

I use to follow sewer teams in atlas with an emp or kin to help them on their push through the early lvls. Before the hospital in the hollows people would set up "taxi" service to help out.

With the potential of having a lot of new players it will allow the "true" heroes of paragon to shine again.

With regards to what new players need to know;
1) the game is a journey to 50 not a sprint. (so much of the excellent lowerer content is skipped. Looking at you faultline, striga, Croatoa.)

2) understand ED and know that even though slotting 5 damage SOs and 1 acc sounds good you will lose a bunch of that bonus after 3 SOs.

3) slot for acc at low lvls if you can't hit them you can't damage them.

4) you don't need to run all your toggles all the time. Become aware of what enemy does what damage and run that toggle, know what toggle will draw aggro.

5) as a controller it is not a good idea to open with your group immob

6) blasters are not tanks!!! ( recommend blaster be played first gives you a good idea how to survive and be aware of your situations)

7) even heroes run when outnumbered (if your team wipes it's ok to run)

8) don't be afraid to ask for help, but if you do do it in a polite way.

If your looking for the easy route to softcap and can wait till post 50 and incarnate buffs the clarion that also has the power boost is the way to go.

I played around with TM on beta pop clarion --> pop PBU --> pop farsight ---> chrono shift and go to town.

As far as all the love for TM on controllers I would agree with everyone else and the melee heavy primaries, but as stated Ill is plain fun to play and TM adds a new twist to it. Ill IMO is not a super active set and therefore you can focus on all the fun toys TM has to offer.

As far was the lack of love corrs are getting I had a BR/TM bumped to 50 tricked it out with iOS and can say that it was a blast. If you always want to be clicking something and like an active playstyle then go corr. Oh and scourgeration (scourge + disintegration) is just plan nasty. Not going to do fire damage but not everyone likes fire.

For the record I never said it was garbage on a scrapper, others have due to lower base Heath and lower res cap than tanks and brutes. I have crunched numbers in Mids and can build a fairly solid invuln on scrappers. Was just wondering how the synergy was with WM as both are heavy on end.

Couldn't agree more. I thought the same thing WTH, but first thing I do is pop it when I enter a mission. Best part is if you get in first and use it, it will open the map for your whole team.

I can't wait a few more days and I will have the remote access to the vault as well as the auction house.

I saw the build at SDCC as well didn't play with the reward system too much, but as you understand it we will have to fill the tree for each toon? If so if I select the tier 9 VIP costume pieces which as I understand are account wide on one toon I can select another tier 9 on another? Or will the consumables be made into a voucher in which only one toon can claim?

If the later is the case, as it most likely will be, my best guess is the tier 9s will be account wide whereas the consumables from the market will be a character based voucher.

Has this been confirmed by a red name or is it speculation?
I get currently get my consumable patrol xp on all toons.

Was able to check out the market while at sdcc and I did not see any of the "costume card" characters. What I did see was similar to what you get during the Halloween event. I was hoping to pick up the paragon police one I think they gave out at pax a few years back, but didn't see it.