So here's hoping tomorrow's store release...

Edit: Aura Just Went Live

Second Edit: The aura looks better in game than in the CC. Was ho-hum about the individual particles in the CC, but the growth patterns are quite nice when tooling about the world. Good effect. Ideally, the particles for this particular path aura would linger perhaps 50% longer than they do, but there may be some tech limitations regarding this?

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So the aura is not in the store yet but can be viewed under path auras in the CC:

Autumn Path Aura

Despite the name, it is more of a verdant growth aura. Bushy leaves that grow while standing and running along with leaf particles that bounce off while running. Can be fully recolored to take any color. Looks decent with green. My one Eve-like plant heroine will look great with this aura option. No more repurposing Seismic as green vines.

Even if we hadn't had today's release spoiled yesterday, this thread would still have been moot since it is impossible to release something more underwhelming than the undead survival kit.

That said, how is anyone complaining about this? New story arcs and a new costume piece? Isn't that exactly the kind of thing everyone tends to hold up as the best stuff they can release? What would you have had them put on sale instead? Are you expecting a new power set every single week?

Whew, sorry! Just slightly baffled that anyone is calling this a lame release.

Well this time last month we got street justice, so while it's silly to constantly badger about it, titan weapons has been hyped since June/July and a WIP since then. Hell, knew about TW before I did Beam rifle, time, Street justice, etc.

Now there IS someone on virtue who got a TW set while it was in stores, and that sort of pisses me off that the toon hasn't been locked or anything. It's like a gigantic "Nah nah boo boo" sort of thing.

Well, later tonight I guess I'll be grabbing me some hero merits *Cracks knuckles*.

So let me get this right, you'ld all want them to do [for example] a monthly release onto the store than have the SAME items released more regularly?

Of course some weeks [like last week] will seem a bit "meh" and some of you are again going "meh" at this weeks, but i heard a lot of people ingame really liking the aura and even heard a few people thinking of buying mako's bite. Personally i like these small releases every week, some weeks i wont purchase anything while other weeks i'll purchase the lot. Know why i aint complaining? Because they are releasing content/items/costumes/auras at a much higher rate than ever before.

Ah i remember the days of having to go 6 months before issues before anything came out that was new to play with. Plus we're still getting i21.5/i22 worked on Part of my honestly thinks some of you are expecting something groundbreaking and newsworthy every single week, just chill out

The firemans hat so many people also went "meh" at? Yeah i have a friend who went nuts in joy over it because in his words "omg i can be fireman sam finally!"

I am very happy about the pacing of the store so far. I was hoping my initial investment of $30 at Freedom launch (+monthly stipend) would last until around Christmas time. At this rate, it just might. I buy almost every costume piece (minus fireperson's hat and school backpack) and powerset, but little else (I did buy 1 extra costume slot, mostly to have more available at lower levels).

Actually, I'd like to say the path aura alone would be a fantastic release for me. The SSA is frosting on the cake. I've been dying for something like this for my dryad character forever!

In order heres what we've had each week.

1. Barbarian Costume Pack, Rocket Board, Beam Rifle, Back to school backpack.
2. Signature Story Arc, Volcanic Aura, Revival 50% off, Unslotter 50% off, xp booster.
3. CoT Costume Bundle.
4. Street Justice, xp booster 50% off, Costum slot 50% off, Revival.
5. Signature Story Arc part 2, unslotter 25% off, respec 25% off, Firefighter helmet
6. Halloween Costume bundle.
7. 3 npc costume change powers.
8. Undead Survival Kit.
9. Autumn Path Aura, signature story arc part 3, Mako's Bite [plus two other IO sets].

I'm fairly content with not having to get something each week. Saves me money! I do wish the Paragon Rewards would get updated soon though.

I haven't gotten anything the two weeks before this and for this week the only thing of interest (besides the free SSA) is the Autumn Aura. I rather like it! I do wish it had a Heavy setting so the taller foliage could be what shows up instead of just the leaves when you're standing still (more foliage upwards, not outwards so that it doesn't disturb other people's personal space).