monkeyslap

I think I know what your problem is and how to actually check your account status.

When you log into your NC Soft master account CoH will show up as "Account Type: Free" no matter if you are a free player or premium. If you are VIP it will say so.

How to actually check: Log into the game and click the Paragon Rewards button on your screen. You can find it at the character select screen at the top where it says "Tokens Remaining #", or in game on screen somewhere. It is a round button with shooting stars on it. If you have at least 2 reward tokens earned you are a premium player. Note: you do not actually have to spend your reward tokens. Just having the proper amount of unspent tokens for a reward tier will max the tier. Example: if you have 8 reward tokens earned but 0 spent you would still be considered maxed in tier 4.

I have seen many players in the help channel ask how to become a premium player and often times someone will say that 1 way is to add a retail box code to your account. If you have the going rogue expansion and are able to create a Praetorian, you should be at least tier 2 with 2 tokens earned in the Paragon Rewards Program which would make you a premium player.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Paragon_Rewards_Program

Edit: I should have read further responses to see you got it figured out. Oh well. I'll leave this info up for anybody else who may be interested in finding out.

No, no, no. Go past this. Pass this part. In fact, never play this again.

This has been a problem reported before here on the forums. The only solution is to purchase the Archetype for the character that is inaccessible or gain the appropriate tier in the Paragon Reward system.

The character slot is actually unlocked but since you don't have permanent access to the AT you aren't able to play it. If you purchase the Mastermind from the Paragon Market you shouldn't need to unlock the slot again and should be able to play your character. Also, if you were to delete the character you should find an empty available slot unlocked for use.

Sands of Mu and Ghost Slaying Axe are veteran rewards. They are not available from the Paragon Market. I don't see why you would lose access to that when it has nothing to do with the shop.

And what do you mean by "claiming items will be down"? Are you talking about claiming items from character email? I don't see why you would lose access to that without losing access to the entire in game email system. I don't think the in game email and Paragon Market are connected like that.

All in all, I don't think we will lose access to anything purchased from the Paragon Market prior to the downtime unless there was a major glitch/bug in the system. What was stated in the announcement is that, the ONLY thing that will happen is you won't be able to spend points in the Paragon Market to purchase new items. You can log into your NC Soft master account through the NC Soft website and buy points but until the market is back up you're out of luck in spending them.

You make a good point and I can understand getting powerleveled when you're quite familiar with the power set(s) already.

Basically what I was referring to are those idiots that get PL'ed to 50 and then go into the help channel and say things like "Please help me! I need help with my build!"

Some of them could be new players that only play the game to get to the max level as quick as possible for end game content. Where does a new player get all that inf for buying a PL service anyway when they haven't even played the game yet? Buy it from an RMT site I imagine. And if you're a free player and want end game content you're S.O.L.

Trust me, I have 3 level 50's I leveled up myself doing missions, some TFs, and repeated holiday trials (for badges) and all that's left to do on them is flashback missions for badges and being a completist, getting exploration badges, trying to find people for TFs for even more badges, badges, and more badges. And I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

But currently I have 27 characters created out of 31 character slots and I'm just enjoying the game. Been doing the summer event trial on over half of them all month. About 20 of them have all the summer event badges.

But it is kinda a running joke when a new power set comes out. The day Water Blast came out the first thing I did when I logged in was say in the help channel "I wonder how many water blasters have pl'ed to 50 already" to which 1 person replied "I was wondering the same thing". Similar comment in help channel when Darkness Control came out.

Pretty ridiculous when a new power set is released around 6am Pacific time and I log in around 4-5pm Pacific only to see a bunch of level 50s running around with the new power set. It's impossible even with XP boosters to get to level 50 in that short amount of time without power leveling.

No Ruluru shield huh?



Goes great with my Ruluru braodsword

Thanks for that. I was just going to ask about it myself.

I have a lot of store bought enhancements. Got a few sets on my level 50 main hero. If I had the money, and more sets were available in the paragon market (no steadfast protection set ), I'd deck out all my characters will all store bought enhancements so when exemplaring I wouldn't have to worry about losing their functionality and bonuses.

OK so I was mistaken on that. Still though, there are no exploration badges inside the underground resistance bases. If there were, villains and loyalists would not be able to get all of them unless they switched to hero first. The other thing is, there is no real reason to even enter the underground resistance bases unless you are a praetorian resistance alignment and in the proper level range of the zone to do the missions. Sadly the level 1-20 praetorian missions can't be done through ouroboros flashback.