SmegHead

The cost of a power set is a lot for a costume if you ask me. Maybe 1000? To be fair if you paid to get these you didn't just get the VIP costumes. You also got other stuff.

On the other hand, does it suck for the people that thought this would be exclusive and spent literally hundreds of dollars to get them now? Sure does. But I bet the fact that they could make a pretty penny off of these AGAIN overlooks that small inconvenience.

On the flip side...
Stop greed. People want everything and can't be content with what they have...

Moving on from playing devils advocate, if they have a alternate means of getting tier 9 armor it should be on the market and cost much more than any other regular costume set. Its special, its VIP and if you want it you should have to fork out some cash like a lot of other people did to get access to it. I say 800 points for the whole set at minimum.

....that was a total slap in the crotch.

Fair enough, but for me if it makes it fun to play I don't really care about all of that. And being able to kill stuff faster did exactly that. Back on subject, until I hear a mass death cry from staff tankers or try one myself, I find it a bit hard to believe its all that horrible. I mean, nothing can be as boring as energy melee on tanks IMO.

And as others have stated, if you want a damage dealer go brute. Tanks aren't designed to lay waste to mobs with ease no matter what you were able to make other builds do. They hold aggro while dealing moderate damage. Not to say I don't think tanks need some love, but that's a whole different beast...

A power pool would be fantastic, but a quick easy option with a price tag behind it is much more likely to get implemented me thinks.

Then we earned it with cash...

Feel free to do the same.

What are you talking about when you say "outside the current tiers"? I was talking about your idea. And your idea is worse than putting a price tag on it since it pretty much gives them out for free on the tier system as a first pick. If this was how they set it from the beginning fine, but since so many people already paid for these it wouldn't be smart. And if you look at the tier system as a whole, it seems they try to make the better stuff higher up... go figure. To have some of the best stuff first wouldn't make very much sense.

Oh, and its a price drop and nothing more you say? Me, I had to pay about $70 to unlock tier 9. That is a $55 price cut. A friend paid about $200 just to access one set of celestial armor. That is a $185 price drop. Someone new just has to sub to get the same thing? That's pretty significant price cut for us isn't it?

From the amount of people I see in game with celestial that are only 1, 2 and 3 year vets I think it seems rather successful. And that's what it boil down to. Its proven people will pay insane amount of money for this stuff. As long as it keeps doing that I don't see anything changing soon. Not to mention the fact that most of your points were brought up in beta by people that loathed the idea of making costume parts tier 9 (ask techbot and myself), but it went up as is anyway.

I'm pretty sure its color tinted. I'm out of the costume creator and it looks the same as pictured above. Its definitely not black. It looks like celestial armor.

Thanks for the heads up.

No thats BB, but we could have just as easily disturbed people going for nukes.

You know now that I think about it, Warburg is a free for all zone so it would probably work best for something like this.