Discussion: New Items at the Paragon Market - September 20, 2011
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Posted on: 2011-09-20 13:26 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
Forgot to mention the "Volcanic Aura" that made its way into the Featured category 
pohsyb: so of all people you must be most excited about the veats
Arachnos Commander: actually, I am
pohsyb: I mean you kinda were one already anyways ^_^
Arachnos Commander:
FPARN
And 225 for a 5 pack of Unslotters? YES PLEASE!
Wait.. I thought the sig arcs were free for VIPs?
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they are, they are just mentioning that they are now on the market (prolly for poeple to buy if they are planning on going to premium)
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Originally Posted by Benchpresser
FPARN
And 225 for a 5 pack of Unslotters? YES PLEASE! Wait.. I thought the sig arcs were free for VIPs? |
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Originally Posted by Benchpresser
FPARN
Wait.. I thought the sig arcs were free for VIPs? |
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Originally Posted by Avatea
Signature Story Arc
One by one, members of the Freedom Phalanx are being targeted by an unknown enemy. Play the first episode of the seven-part, monthly story arc to find out who will live . . . and who will die! Available free to VIP players! |
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I see... You actually don't want people to buy these, huh? That is the only explanation I can think of for the price.|
Originally Posted by Avatea
Revival Temporary Power (5 charges)
 Each charge restores a character to full health and endurance, with five seconds of invulnerability. Also available in packs of 1 and 3 charges. Store Market Location: Buffs & Boosts > Temporary Powers 1132 Points - 50% off |
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Originally Posted by Avatea
[b]XP Booster Temporary Power (5 charges)
 Use of this power gives a character a 25% boost to XP for one hour. Store Market Location Buffs & Boosts > XP Boosts 450 Points |
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i just made a bug report for the sig arch "sig arch bug no contact or clue? maybe im dong something wrong?"
im lvl 10 but no clue or contact have not tried it on other toons oh
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i think the prices they are listing arent entirely right|
Originally Posted by Snow Globe
I see... You actually don't want people to buy these, huh? That is the only explanation I can think of for the price.
Same goes for this. This is about 4 times what it is worth. |
on the website they have the revives listed as 225 (which is crossed out) and 1135 as 50% off (im thinking its supposed to be 113 but the .5 didnt get dropped and just got tacked on)
for the unslotters they are listed as 450 (crossed out) and sale price being 225
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OK my bad! I really can't read today....(Cut me some slack, I have spent the day bugtesting 2 versions of badly written software while playing help desk to nurses who I wouldn't trust with a Dollar store caculator let alone a $2K laptop!)
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Originally Posted by SolarSentai
They are
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"Well, there's going to be some light music and a short note of apology saying, 'The universe ended last week, we're really sorry, we don't know what you're doing here, didn't you get the message?'"- Steve Moffat
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Interesting, the blueside contact for this is named after a king from Middle-earth.
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Originally Posted by Avatea
Signature Story Arc
One by one, members of the Freedom Phalanx are being targeted by an unknown enemy. Play the first episode of the seven-part, monthly story arc to find out who will live . . . and who will die! Available free to VIP players! |
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Please *name* the new items. Don't just throw out "Oh, there's new stuff." Actually *name* the items that are new.
| New items have made their way into the Paragon Market this week! Check them out now! |
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So, never minding that basically, on sale, this is $2 for a single in game rez...|
Originally Posted by Avatea
Revival Temporary Power (5 charges) Each charge restores a character to full health and endurance, with five seconds of invulnerability. Also available in packs of 1 and 3 charges. |
There are a lot of powersets that currently have rez powers, and you have a very brief moment of vulnerability as you rez before the invulnerability kicks in. It's possible to die again in that brief moment between resurrection and invulnerability, and I've read a redpost before that talks about how this is a game engine limitation.
So, that's all fine and dandy for powersets, where no one intends to die and they are, after all, usually useful.
But if I paid $2-$3 to resurrect my character and literally died one second later, I would probably flip out.
Has the tech behind this changed to avoid that happening?
So, suggestion by way of making this more useful so people might actually give you money:
- Instead of doing it as a number of charges, how about offering a 30 day resurrection power on a 30-minute/1-hour timer? Basically, something similar to the jet pack. Or something similar to the newspaper/radio mission resurrection reward, perhaps. I think people would see that as a much better value, and someone leveling a character in a "high risk" way (say, lunatics like myself who were fond of trying to solo huge packs of mobs in Perez Park on fire blasters) might see it as valuable.
Or, alternately, you could make it a lot cheaper. I could maybe, just MAYBE see paying like $1 for 5 charges. (Maybe it's hard for me to value this, since I play a fire blaster who practically uses Rise of the Phoenix as part of his rotation).
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What's interesting is, I was thinking to myself, "Maybe I'd pay like $10 for an xp bonus that would see me through most of my leveling". And then I was thinking: "I could probably get through 1-50 in about 40 hours on a reasonable solo toon with some IOs."|
Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Same goes for this. This is about 4 times what it is worth.
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And then I did the math, and lo and behold, $10 for 40 hours would be almost exactly 1/4 of this price.
So in a roundabout way, I found myself thinking exactly this.
(BTW, I have very little interest in xp boosters or self-rezzes per se, so I don't care a lot about the pricing, but I am a guy who had no problem dropping $400 the first week in the store, so when my gut feeling is, "Woah, that's expensive", that might mean something, fwiw. So my pricing feedback will hopefully be construed as for-the-benefit-of-Paragon.)
Wake me when Street Justice comes out...
Considering that I can buy a low-level awaken inspiration in the game for 50 INF or by combining three like-item inspirations or get it as a drop, and one can earn a rez-other through day jobs, and some powersets have either a rez-other or self-rez powers, and there is a 'return to battle' self-rez in the paragon rewards... it all adds up there being more than enough ways to rez in the game. So the revival powers in the market are for those people that don't want to wait, go to the hospital, or the like and prefer to spend real-world cash to get them... you don't HAVE to buy it. And believe me, if no one buys them, they will go away or come down in price.
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Glad to see the signature arc is starting.
I'll pile on the XP booster. Needs to do a lot more, or be much cheaper.
Since Ghost Falcon's post in the other thread gravitating around whats in the store made it clear you guys want feedback from the forums on this sorta stuff.
Volcanic Aura-
Brilliant Price
Looks Awesome
I bought it as soon as I saw it in action, even without a character concept to directly apply it to yet.
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Originally Posted by VoodooGirl
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Originally Posted by BeornAgain
Wake me when Street Justice comes out...
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^^ This...
Or when the Titan Weapons or the bo/staff powerset comes out too
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Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
^^ This...
Or when the Titan Weapons or the bo/staff powerset comes out too |
So that revival power is obviously mistyped. I hope. Honestly though paying for a glorified wakie? Really?
About the XP boosters: is that 450 points for 5 the sale price? What's the usual price? I thought 450PP was the going rate for 5 of them.
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Originally Posted by BeornAgain
Wake me when Street Justice comes out...
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I wanted CoT or Gunslinger to go live this week...
Do it soon!
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Yes - ♥ this. Made my Volcaniac happy and Mister Halloween SUPER HAPPY. Finally an eye aura that plays nicely with hats!! |
Originally Posted by Commander
Forgot to mention the "Volcanic Aura" that made its way into the Featured category
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Even at those prices (113.5 & 225), they are double the price of what they should be.|
Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
i think the prices they are listing arent entirely right
on the website they have the revives listed as 225 (which is crossed out) and 1135 as 50% off (im thinking its supposed to be 113 but the .5 didnt get dropped and just got tacked on) for the unslotters they are listed as 450 (crossed out) and sale price being 225 |
The more I look at the market, the less I want to use it because the prices are stupid. They say these are micro-transactions, but they are set at macro-transaction prices.
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New items have made their way into the Paragon Market™ this week! Check them out now!
Signature Story Arc
One by one, members of the Freedom Phalanx are being targeted by an unknown enemy. Play the first episode of the seven-part, monthly story arc to find out who will live . . . and who will die!
Available free to VIP players!
Store Market Location: Content > Story Arcs
400 Points
Revival Temporary Power (5 charges)
Each charge restores a character to full health and endurance, with five seconds of invulnerability. Also available in packs of 1 and 3 charges.
Store Market Location: Buffs & Boosts > Temporary Powers
113 Points - 50% off
Unslotter (5-pack)
Each use removes a single Enhancement assigned (slotted) to a power without destroying the Enhancement. Also available in packs of 1 and 3 charges.3-packs also available.
Store Market Location: Enhancements > Enhancement Modifiers > Enhancement Unslotters
225 Points - 50% off
XP Booster Temporary Power (5 charges)
Use of this power gives a character a 25% boost to XP for one hour.
Store Market Location Buffs & Boosts > XP Boosts
450 Points
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