elvnsword09

So what your saying is it would behoove us to get to Tier 9 asap to avoid missing out on Tier 9 VIP rewards being given now, as when they rotate they're going unavailble?

I don't particularly like that idea...

I play Tanks because nothing in the game controls aggro like a tank, no Brute will ever get quite to the level of invincible a tank gets, and nothing feels more godlike then standing in front of a Rikti Pylon with complete immunity...

Zombies aren't after a girl for her breasts, they just want her for her BRAINSSSS!!

I also agree... furthermore, the lack of a solo path, and I do not recognize the current solo path (which takes 90 days for 1 tier four power, playing 6-8hrs a day) as viable, means that an entire community of players is left out in the cold.

Solo players are SOL and JWF when it comes to this.
Basically what Paragon is telling us is, "You HAVE to play the Trials if you want these new costume assets, not only do you have to play them, but you have to play them all three at least 3 days to get ONE PIECE of the costumes we have designed."

Now, locking content behind unlockables is fine, but you also have to consider that the players without time to play that much, and who haven't got a regular group, will be MUCH longer then the miniumum to get these assets. Assets which took the time of the Art Department to make, so those players without do not get any of those items which, our subscriptions paid for, until they manage somehow down the line to GRIND and get them.

This is a complete change of direction from Paragon's previous policies when it comes to costuming options.. If the prices where considerably lower, say 1 E-Merit per unlock, or if the merits awarded far more often, for example, doing things perfectly in a portion of the trial (dropped during a BaF when no prisoners escape, dropping either AV wihtout a death, and compeleting the badge requirements), then it would be fair-er but it is still locking those players unwilling to do the trials away from costume content that is unavailble any other way.

Even when RWZ launched, everyone complained about the high prices on the Vanguard uniform parts, but a solo player COULD STILL DO IT, because Rikti in RWZ dropped the neccasary merit.

Now we have a merit, unlocked only one way, in only 3 events in the game, and each is limited to dropping 1 of those merits a day per character.

The E-Merit system is broken, I said so in the open beta and I am saying so now.

I disagree... Core game play is the game play experienced players over the most amount if time. My main has been at 50 for nearly 3 years, and get's the majority of my game play time. Thus for a player who play's one character, or mainly plays a single character, the Core Game Play has changed. We are in a forced position of grinding, grinding to unlock powers, grinding to unlock costume elements, and grinding to unlock unlocks for other characters... (which sounds even more ridiculous then it is...

~~Elvnsword~~

Beastyle... this is confusing counter-information to comments from the Ustream cast, as Zwill said the new VIP server means "All kinds of fun stuff"

Please with a comment here...?

I am not sure here, but Priority Queuing is mentioned as a perk for VIP status. It could be that VIP players get first dibs on the space on the servers?

If your a truly great hero, you marry the heroine in secret, so when the villian kidnaps her she can rescue herself...

The new USTREAM clears this up, that is Ascension armor, aka the Incarnate armor... it is unlockable armor sets, using Empyrean and Astral merits.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=261742 for details

As for the Hamidon Tentacles, and they're relation to the Sewer Trail and Hydra, has anyone noticed the other similarities to Hamidon that the hydra share. Made of the DNA of common plant life, gooey, tentacles, etc. Could the Hydra be genetically engineered Hamidon lifeforms used by the Rikti against man in the war. Look at they're profile, and the way they move and compare that to the Shivans... Same profile, gooey, ties to space and otherworldly origin... could it be that the shivans are from the source hamidon organism the Rikti stole from to create the hydra.

I sincerely think the tentacles in the Alpha Slot unlock mission, are the Hamidon, but I do not think the Hamidon is the Coming Storm, I think it is part of the problem... the Coming Storm is imho a convergence of events in whch numerous threats hit at the same time, resulting in a crisis the likes of which not even the total number of heroes and villains can defeat, unless they are Powerful...

This threat is clearly multidimensional as the Well of the Furies is willing to destroy dimensional barriers to prevent it, and it is a threat to the Well's power, and perhaps it's very existence. You have to ask yourself what can threaten the Well of the Furies...

I leave you with that disturbing thought...