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Which is actually something to be careful of. Depending on your Paragon Rewards, some of those things you get from applying the GR code may go away after your VIP month ends.

1. Invention Origin enhancements.
2. Auction House access.
3. Global channels.
4. Inf cap, might be less than 1 million or so.
5. Super Group access.
6. ... I think there's at least one more big one...

Anyway, don't count on these things sticking around if you are only Tier 1 or Tier 2 right now. I think as long as you're careful what you "invest" your game time in, however, you should be ok. Plus it really doesn't take that much to get these back, if it becomes really important to you.

You know, I totally forget. I think we switched leaders after one trial, and I forget who was the original one.

EDIT: Thinking back on this, the league was nearly full. I assume they just re-queued after ending another trial with out advertising the fact. Some folks will do that just to get things moving quickly.

There is an image, but I'm not allowed to link to it.

After you get out of Cap Au Diable though, it can go downhill fast. In Sharkhead, I don't care for any mish involving CAGE at all. It's demeaning at level 20+ to be fighting security guards. (I feel the same way about Family blue side, btw. It's just silly to still be fighting those guys at level 20+.)

I'm hopeful that new technology might be used to enhance those missions. More in-game cut scenes and scripts. Character stories. But the main thing would be to find a villain or hero group and make them the main focus of who I'm fighting. Security guards don't cut it.

(Maybe explain why every single mob boss has telekinesis too.)

This. For villains, this a hundred fold.

Writing on legacy red-side content is way too forced. There's a mish in St. Martinal where Hardcase, a contact there, tells you to undo all the trouble you've cause after a particularly destabilizing series of missions. And you'd better do it right now because the rest of the powers in St. Mart's is teh way stronger than you!

It's a terrible end to a boring arc. I can see a designer at 4:30 in the afternoon just writing this thing as fast as possible, just to get it done. No consideration for the player's point of view, good story telling, or anything else. Fill in a box on the punch sheet that says "villain content" and move on as fast as possible.

All of the content after level 25 or so for villain side should be more like Dean's arc, and only feature "more powerful" villains (or heroes) if they are going to be used as an antagonist for a while.

Yes, it's the Tier 9. If you aren't at least Tier 3 (I think, off the top of my head) you're kinda boned. Real free players don't get quite the experience you are getting.

But since it's free, you can just make a second account and run around as a complete newbie for a while. You don't even have to download the client again, just use a different username and password.

On the slots thing: If you still have all your slots (6?) as global slots, then you never used any. Conversely, if you aren't currently on a server where you spent extra slots, I don't think you'll see the option to spend them.

Scroll around with the character selection when you first log in. There should be 12 characters if you filled up the server. If there's more, then you should have extra slots on that server to spend. You can use extra characters over 12 in the selection list to clue you in that you should have extra slots on a given server. I guess just looking for a server with more than the default number of slots would tell you too.

Hmm, it would be nice if you could get a list of servers where you have spent "server slots." It would make returning easier.

Ayup, I just checked the mouse over text for superior. It does indeed say 6 per minute, which would give a 10 second recharge power a 100% proc rate. I hadn't noticed that, thanks for pointing it out.

For my situation, it's roughly two weeks in either direction from my bill date, and therefore when my anniversary should be.

I'm still betting on "when someone gets around to it."

This is actually an excellent suggestion imo and one I think we should bug the devs about. A Tier 3 reward (same level as "use global channels and join an SG") such as a new /gvault command would be an awesome addition to the game.

I'm playing around in Mids now, with a night widow build.

The new ATIO does indeed look tasty up to the 5th slot. But I'm looking at something like taking out some Sirocco's Dervish (which has 3.13% AoE Def in the 5th slot) and replacing it with ATIO, and it feels like a nerf because I loose a good amount of AoE defense.

I'm not actually testing this, so I'm not really accounting for what the Proc is worth. But it does kinda feel like a step down.

Suggestion:

6th slot: 2.2% Res Toxic and Psi (as now), plus 2.5% Defense to AoE, Ranged, and Melee.

Purple 6th slot: 2.52% Res Toxic and Psi (as now), plus 3.13% Defense to AoE, Ranged and Melee

That would be a clear step up. Perhaps not truly needed, but no one could argue numbers then. Just an idea, and I don't know what chance this would have of actually being done.

In a unique set though, seems hard to see where this would be truly unbalancing. Hard to get unique too, not a cheapo one. OK, just my 2 inf.