Von Krieger

Count on the tier thingy. You get Number of Vet Badges + (Number of Vet Badges/4) tokens.

Cannot Ustream in HD mode from SDCC, alas.

SDCC's dedication connection for NCSoft cannot handle flavor of this magnitude.

We're introduced to Katie, one of the NC Soft Booth Managers.

The usual Atlas Park music is gone, replaced with new Atlas music. Hint hint, I think.

Black Pebble is going to be talking to us about the Paragon Rewards Program.

Forklifts and construction noises abound!

Construction Tangent!

We're shown the CoH part of the booth. The flatscreens have what looks like the costume creator.

Black Pebble is wearing a new CoH show shirt.

Recapping of other events taking place from Paragon at SDCC.

Second Measure has just barely escaped shirt shorting duty and requests this take as long as possible.

Tangent: First cosplayer: Luchador waving money

Stream freezes because Zwill didn't show the luchadore.

Anti-Matter has frozen time.

Black Pebble has likely murdered everyone at SDCC because Zwill showed him on air.

Or possibly the Luchador hit a Tope con Hilo on the booth. Or maybe a Flying Jalapeño

Maybe the luchadore was just a distraction, and a troop of minis came out of a forklift and attacked?

Voice over PA regarding power outage.

A tech guy, Jason, who is obviously The One, states that something knocked power out on the entire West side of the building. He likely had to fight Agent Smith in order to restore said power.

They have to restart AGAIN!

Zwill cannot convince Karen, the other booth manager, to appear on camera.

Zwill blames it on Ninjas. In order to defeat the ninjas, the luchadore destroyed half the building.

Tangent: background makes them feel like they're on one of those Hollywood shows.

Tangent: People are ALREADY lining up for panels.

Don't ask a Vahzilok "Who are you wearing?"

We're being offered something completely new, and insured Zwill's clothing will stay on.

Tangent: Con Plague/Rot/Crud/Cooties/PAX Pox.

Zwill banishes Second Measure to shirt sorting duty.

Three werewolf moon shirts! Being given away at booth and meet and greet.

Also: brand new posters!

We're getting a version of the presentation they gave the focus group.

Black Pebble appears.

Tangent: The PA system.

BP'S new shirt: based on the Freedom Stateman vs. Giant Robot graphic.

Black Pebble is a humorless, soulless marketing robot, that does not tell stories.

Tangent: McDonalds food: Nuremburger: two sausages on a bun.

Tangent: The PA system, again.









Vet rewards are unintuitive to claim with using the badge system, so they wanted to improve on the system.







Is not QUITE an in-game currency.





IO booster is like combining two SO's into one, but for IO's. Increases the stats slightly.

Tangent: Noisy Guild Wars guys. Zwill challenges them to a dance fight.



Existing Vet reward badges will still be earned by unlocking different rewards and tiers. There is a new badge for every year of subscription, one for completing the tutorial. They are not SELLING them. Technically. It's a free to buy badge that teaches how to use the Paragon Market.

Chat: Posi believes you can go past the current IO max level.

The thermometer thing on the side tracks the amount of reward tokens you earned.

It's not a tree. It's a Paragon Points Bush. Not a Shrubbery.



Most Tier benefits are if you're a VIP player, not a Premium. But some will be there for Premium.

Tier 1's 50 paragon points are apparently used in the tutorial.

There is an error on that slide, and they're muting to discuss it. They'll talk about Tier 1-3 later.





Going Rogue enhancements are for each new character.



IF you have all the rewards, you can use your tokens to get consumables every month.

Zwill: "So you're saying that I can have Statesline... er... Statemen..."

Black Pebble: (Terrible soulless laughing)

If you are a Tier 9 VIP player a bonus 150 points per month. Total of 550 points for free.



They don't flap, they swim.







Armor comes with new weapon customization options.

Video is shown.

They have angered the Ustream gods. We've lost video, but still have audio. Zwill restarts, condemning those of us without Adblock to Fabio.



IO booster is permanent effect.



Tangent: World's Largest Tape in background.





The stream dies again.

Positron-1: N/3+((N/3)/4)= Paragon Reward Tokens at launch (N is your number of months on your highest vet badge)

Chat is seemingly over, Posi will continue to answer questions in chat.

They're having technical difficulties. OR possibly technico difficulties due to Luchador attack.

Yes, you can indeed get to tier 9 by buying a huge load of points.

1:47 Zortel-1: Positron, it mentioned you get 1 Reward Token for every 1,200 points purchased. Does that take into account the Bonus Points for larger purchases mentioned?

1:47 Positron-1: I am not sure, Zor, so I'm not going to answer one way ort the other

IO unslotter merely removes the IO, it does not allow you to move the slot to another power.

You can buy the 1200 points in smaller increments, you don't have to get them all at once.

Chat tangent: Confusion between Beastyle and Positron over the status of the chat.

The cost for the points is $15 per token. A player can essentially "buy up" the months they missed in order to get to higher tiers.

The video portion of chat is officially over. The dev chat team have been summoned to the Alienware park to help set up.

There will be further video chats on Friday and Saturday.

Premium players unlock being able to play AE arcs and being able to make AE arcs separately.

Not really. The only enemy group as a villain that I have trouble soloing at +0x8 is high level PPD, and that's due to all the damage being energy and all of it inflicting -Def.

Arachnos, Longbow, and Carnies usually require me to pop a purple or an orange or two before each spawn. But nothing else slows me down. Except CoT with their confuses from Succubi and the occasional stacked holds that blow through my mez protection.

Pre-Stream Show:

According to Beastyle the Paragon office smells like popcorn.

TheNet states it's because some people can't find their way around and use trails of popcorn to mark a path back their desks.

OCR offices used to smell like Cotton Candy, because they had a cotton candy machine. That could make cotton candy out of any candy. VK speculates they got rid of it because Black Pebble used it to make cotton candy out of loose-lipped devs.

Zwill is wearing a Gen-Con shirt and is not entirely awake yet. He is sunburned, tired, and peeling after taking his kids to the water park.

Opening Tangent: Gen-Con and Zwill waving his signed DnD book, with RA Salvatore having signed it.

Intern arrives with spare coffee for Zwill, who lords over it and DEMANDS Splenda and Cream.

Continued tangent: Dave Arneson (A DnD founder) has a nephew that played/worked on one of Zwill's games.

Zwill talks about Protean's DnD campaign and his Thri-Keen Monk. Utterly non-human party.

Protean calls Wesley Crusher a whiny ***** as people are saying in chat that he sounds like Wil Wheaton.

Mic re-arranging/table thumping. Check a box.

They're singing. God help us.

Samuraiko wants Zwill to sing "Bragadoon!" which Zwill says he did at one point sing/be in that musical.

No comment on Issue 22.

We finally get onto the topic of First Ward.

Or not. Tangent about Arbiter Nameless' monitor.

Tangent about tangents.

Tangent about Ultimate Frisbee.

Zombie-Man throws up the Tangeant Alarm in chat.

Tangent Re: Zwill's coffee.

http://www.cityofheroes.com/images/i...llentown_4.jpg

First Ward is all about people trying to live with scavenging through the ruins and rubble, having to fend for themselves.

Smaller groups in the zone:

Dregs - Civilians that raid other civilians, Mad Max style.
Shepards - Doomsday prophets
Dust - Praetorian special operatives sent into First Ward

"Some questions that people have been asking on the forums, specifically about the Seers, will be answered."

http://www.cityofheroes.com/images/i...n_seers_02.jpg

The Awakened, their full psychic potential has been unleashed.

Akira is a kind of influence, with a kind of psychic-influenced explosion of growth and power.

We do not get a giant laser cannon thing made out of motorcycles.

Zwill's son's middle name is Akira.

Emperor Cole has a stranglehold on magic in Praetoria.

Magic can bypass his security and block the seers.

http://www.cityofheroes.com/images/i...l_of_light.jpg

The Banished Pantheon is not combined with the Carnival of Light, despite the floating mask type creature.

Tangent: Is Protean really Protean? And is he telling the truth?

Protean: "Why would I lie?"

Chat Position: "Why would you tell the truth?"

First Ward is meant to bring the two universes back together into one cohesive story for the entire multiverse rather than just Praetoria.

Strange things in First ward require the attention of anyone and everyone that is ready to help.

Tangent: QA guy vanishing behind whiteboard.

The Carnival of Light is looking for people in First Ward. They're kinda sorta the good guys.

First Ward is not the end of the Praetorian story, but the beginning of the end. Dun dun daaaaaaaah!

Diabolique has a rich link to the magic of Praetoria.

Protean has a target in mind for the end of the Protean storyline.

Zwill: "Stay on target! Stay on tangent! Stay off tangent!"

The signature story arcs might be contributing to ending the chapter of Praetoria.

Black Pebble does not drink coffe, but does drink Jamba Juice.

Protean drinks Enriche.

Protean: "It has what plants crave. That's why Hamidon is attacking."

There are some things in First Ward that are kind of hidden and players might not want to go into dark alleys.

Zwill: "Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance! Err... answer questions from chat."

Hyperstike is organizing and un-official CoH meet and Greet at Gen Con at the Weber Grill.

Tangeant: Coffee burp.

XterraAmazons: "Who is going to be at Comicon?"

"Zwill, Avatea, Posi, War Witch, Black Pebble, Second Measure, and Noble Savage at Comicon."

Steelclaw: "Will we still be able to leave Praetoria at level 20 or will the expansion of First Ward to 25th content raise the departure to 25th?"

Protean: "Still be able to leave via the rift as normal. Or you can come back and stay."

Snowglobe: "how does sonic fences = magic?"

Protean: "They don't. Not everything in First Ward is magic."

Samuraiko: "Will Anti-Matter even win Dominatrix's heart?"

Protean: "Wait til Valentines day to see..."

"Will primals be able to join the Loyalists or Resistance in First Ward?"

No.

"Will we be able to exemp down to run mission arcs?"

You'll have to find someone running it.

"Is First Ward like the Praetorian Croatoa and will we see any irish myth love?"

No, nothing of an irsh myth nature will be focused on.

"Can a primal get the missions in First Ward?"

Yes, everyone can. Some hero, some villain, but mostly co-op.

"Do any devs play on Champion?"

Can't tell, to keep Dev 'player' ID's secret.

Solasau: "What were your big influences in the style of First Ward when you came to fleshing it out?"

Post-Katrina New Orleans. Flooded, ruined, people wandering around kind of forgotten. A "Holy crap!" disaster area. Find out how people are surviving, etc. People have been surviving there for years.

"First Ward arcs via Ouro?"

Protean: "I think so, I have to double check."

"Malaise/Infernal praetorian version?"

No comment

"CoT and Mu Mystics in First Ward?"

Protean: "I want to explore the Praetorian versions at a later time."

"Can you tell us more about the Tellurian Plague?"

Protean: "It is spores from the DE creatures that takes them over and turns them into Devouring Earth. It's like what the Primal DE do to heroes to make Devoured. Kind of like zombie plague meets plant. Can't get rid of it but nukes.

Neuron has a cure for the first stage of the Tellurian plague. It has stages."

http://www.cityofheroes.com/images/i...ed_hamidon.jpg

The seed is bigger than it looks in the images.

Zwill tangents with bad accent and So I Married an Axe Murderer quotes.

"His head's like Sputnik. Spherical, but quite pointy in parts."

Positron: "Does Praetorian War Witch have a beard?"

Protean: "No, that's blood."

Zwill: "I thought that was a tribal tattoo."

Protean: "Nope. Blood. She is hardcore. Also very angry at Cole."

Zwill: "She's angry because Vancouver lost."

"Are there Praetorian Kheldians? If not, why not?"

Protean: "Try to find one."

"Could you expand of the story of the rogue isles?"

Protean: "I'd love do, but we have limited time and resources. We want to make it as polished as possible."

"Will there be community events scheduled fro the release of Freedom?"

Zwill: "There's a whole bunch of things planned."

"Will we have anything for the anniversary of Brass Monday? (Nemesis attack)"

Protean: "It keeps popping up and we always want to do something for it, but it keeps getting skipped for other things."

7-11 is a nemesis plot

SnowGlobeCoH: "will there be DE incursions into the "regular" areas of Praetoria?"

Protean: "Not at this time."

Zwill: "Wiggle the mouse! Wiggle the mouse!" (Check off a box)

ShadowWail: "Quick question about the timeline of First Ward? When does it take place compared to Mother Mayhem becoming Mother Mayhem"

Protean: "Definitely after."

Solasau: " If you were going to describe the feel of the Praetorian metastory, what themes/stories would you compare it to?"

Protean: "The theme in Praetoria is that everything revolves around Marcus Cole, and the theme I used with him is that the road to hell is paved with good intentions."

http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2011/06/graveyard.jpg

Samauriko wonders about this church/graveyard bulding.

Protean: "The Chapel of Endearing Light, it's in the Mercyview cemetery in First Ward."

Zwill: "We probably shouldn't tell them what that is, then."

TheNet requests that I put in the summary that he is a possum. Or maybe awesome. Not sure.

I'd also like to throw my hat in the ring and say that it's probably best to shoot for 32.5. I've managed to make a Kat/WP Scrapper that's softcapped to everything damagewise except Smashing and Psi. She's very sturdy for the most part, but her damage is so anemic I realized that I essentially made a HP-lite Tank out of her.

Everybody else pretty much has a pile of sets yet to be proliferated. Except Doms, I think all they're missing is Illusion. Dominator Secondaries may be pieced together from other powersets, but I am thinking the reason Doms didn't get any proliferation is because as was mentioned elsewhere. the Animation team has had their time monopolized by non-proliferation based activities.

*gets popcorn*