Discussion: Featured Items at the Paragon Market - 12/06/11

New featured items are now available in the Paragon Market™!

Titan Weapons Power Set - New!

Decimate your enemies with a variety of COLOSSAL weapons using the Titan Weapons melee damage power set. For Brutes, Scrappers, and Tankers. Purchase unlocks this power set for your entire account.

Market Location: Powers > Power Sets > Melee
800 Points

Limited time bonus: Purchase the Titan Weapons Power Set and get Weapon Pack: Titan Weapons #1 free until December 19!

For a limited time, purchase the Titan Weapons Power Set in the Paragon Market™, and you can purchase the Weapon Pack: Titan Weapons #1 for free! This brand new pack contains four (4) additional Titan Weapons (in-game models) for the Titan Weapons Power Set:

• Atomic Smasher
• Demonic Axe
• Plasma Sword
• Purgatory Sword

This offer is only available for two weeks; after December 19, the Weapon Pack: Titan Weapons #1 will be removed from the Paragon Market and reintroduced at a later date, so hurry and receive these new Titan Weapons customization options for no additional Paragon Points!


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Signature Story Arc 1: Ep #4 - New!

Who Will Die - Episode 4 is part of a seven part story arc in our episodic "Signature Story" content. This story contains one hero and one villain story arc for characters that are Level 30+. Summary: Sister Psyche's mind has been attacked by Malaise, and Statesman has gone missing after the events in Warburg! A portion of a woman named Aurora Borealis is now trying to break free of Sister Psyche's mind and take complete control. Can Sister Psyche's mind be saved, and who else is Malaise working with to attack the Freedom Phalanx?

Hero Contact: Dakota Berg in Seven Gates, Brickstown
Villain Contact: Tyrka in Babylon, St. Martial (outside of the Golden Giza)

Market Location: Content > Story Arcs
400 Points for Free and Premium Players (Free for VIP Players)


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German Shepherd Pet

A Hero or Villain's best friend! This playful companion follows you into danger, lounges lazily or scratches behind its ears.

Market Location: Powers > Permanent Powers > Pet
500 Paragon Points


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Character Slots x5

Purchasing this allows you to unlock five character slots. Once purchased, "five" additional Character Slot Tokens will be granted to you on the Character Select Screen. Each Token can only be redeemed once. Also available as a single token or 3 tokens.

Market Location: Account Services > Character Slots
Regular Price: 1600 Paragon Points - 25% off
Sale Price: 1200 Paragon Points


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XP Booster Temporary Power

Gives a 25% boost to your XP for one hour. Also available for purchase as a single charge or 3-pack.

Market Location: Buffs & Boosts > XP Boosts
Regular Price: 450 Paragon Points - 25% off
Sale Price: 338 Paragon Points

Awesome! Too much win!

Supergreen.

I just squee-ed at work.

Weapons pack with limited availability?? From the get go?

Makes this power a No Go with the ***** About add on.

I bought Titan Weapons, and I'm seriously considering the discounted character slots. I don't need them right now, I've got 3 open slots as it is, and 5 of my used slots are level 1s for concepts I haven't taken the time to play yet, but the discount is tempting.

I didnt see the railroad crossing post from the drawings... is that still in there?

Even at 25% off I feel the xp booster is too high priced. At the reduced rate it was sold for during the holiday weekend I bought four of the five packs. If that price was the normal price I'd likely buy them frequently to help level alts. Considering the fact that they only last an hour per use, I don't feel like they need to be as expensive as they are.

At the normal or 25% reduced price I'd rather save points for other things.

I really enjoyed Titan Weapons on Beta and recommend it for anyone who wants to play a character that feels like they're wielding a massive weapon!
Both from a thematic standpoint and from a fun gameplay standpoint, I give this powerset an A+!
I'm glad to see the weapon pack is free! Very nice. Even if it is limited time only, it's still free right now and that's a nice move on their part, since they obviously feel they can and should earn money from it!

Nice to see a sale on character slots, wasn't discounted enough to warrant me buying more slots, but nice to see.

Interesting pricing trial with the 'slightly' discounted XP boosters. I'm curious how many increased sales that yeilds compared to the massive Black Friday discounted price.

I cant wait to get home.

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Dangit!

I was feeling pretty confident I'd be able to pass on Titan Weapons until such time as the urge came upon me to create such a character...

Lessee if I need to top off my Paragon Points pool...

Alrighty...

#1) The right hand placement is way off in the costume generator, though annoying take heed that it is far better once in game.

#2) When you first grab this power and run around to test it out please note. With only one attack this powerset at first feels like a bit of a let down in delivery. Animation and Sound FX are cool but there's just no seemingly appropriate damage given the sights and sounds and as advertised animation time and recharge are slow. HOWEVER don't get discouraged. Push through to grab a second attack and go run around again. The ability to do back to back attacks and see the attacks increase in both speed and damage is when things start to feel right.

#3) Had to hunt down the free weapon pack at first but before jumping on the forum they had already added it to the front of the market (had to hunt for it before). Remember you have to add it to your cart like a new product (you dont auto get it with the powerset product).

#4) So I'm a bit confused is there no longer a distinction between Smashing and Edged damage? With blunt objects and blades (visually) in the exact same set what kind of damage are we dealing?

#5) I was glad to see that this powerset is not available for Stalkers. I'm always excited to know someone is thinking on a higher "themes that make sense" level like this instead of just blindly throwing things wherever to fill space.

#6) To coin a phrase "COLOSSAL" let down for me as far as weapon choices of course. Especially with the freebie weapon pack I thought for sure there would be some simplistic, under-stylized, basic weapon choices to fit a far broader range of character concepts. As it stands now only the Minotaur Axe can pass as a non anime or non silly (garage board, railroad post, etc) weapon... but even it still has completely unnecessary afterburner jets spewing out the back of it. Limiting. If you are more of a purist like me and were thinking you could build characters that use normal, albeit giant-sized, weapons of any sort - I'd steer clear and stick with current weapon sets. As mentioned the Axe is passable though if you have an idea rooted in that (a non-anime non-tech executioner for example). (but don't get too excited I already grabbed all the "good" names along these lines)

#7) Take note Dev's... This would be the perfect time to finally introduce "Choose A New Powerset Respecs". I have several toons that are advanced in level with War Mace and/or Battle Axe. These toons have all the exact badges, unlockable costume pieces and IO's that I grinded for. The ability to simply switch to a new larger weapon in the same vein, and see my slaved over slotted toon performing a few new animations to boot, is easily worth 1000 pts or more to me. I know I'm not alone and I'm glad Positron more or less hinted it was at least on the table a few coffee talks ago.

In summary this isn't my cup of tea from a conceptual level. I'm not a child of Anime and this mostly doesn't make sense for any character theme I would create and invest time and money in. However I think it will do well in the Asian market and with a lot of the F2Pers so I can't fault anyone.

However if you would have included just a basic "oversized" regular good old fashioned sword, axe, and mace I could have forced this to work with a few of my back-burnered concepts, or re-rolled my low level axe, mace and broadsword wielders, and would have been far more apt to run it in game - and more apt to purchase the set on my other accounts.

Until then I'll personally hold off for Staff Fighting and look hopefully to the future for the next TW "weapon pack" to fill these gaps and make the weapon choices have more universal appeal/use.

How come today's patch notes don't mention any of this? In particular Signature Story Arc episode 4?

I'm seriously thinking about passing on this one. Especially with an 800 point price tag. Do the weapons look any less ridiculous with a larger character types?