WHen you drop down to free play, you will have 2 slots, + 1 per year of (VIP, now)) play as a veteran reward, +2 if you bought Going Rogue Complete Collection and applied it to your account prior to Freedom, and + whatever slots you have bought.
Myself, I have 11+ what I have bought as a seven year vet.
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Masterminds and Controllers are restricted to VIP or a certain tier level for Premium accounts; IOs are the same so unless you're at the right tier you might not have access to a controller or MM and you might be limited to playing using SO's only. It depends on how long you've paid for the game.
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Also any EATs or VEATs are restricted too. So is the auction house and the architect entertainment. There might be some other stuff too, depending on your reward level.
Generally, you want to hop on a global channel to get teams. Pop over to the Freedom and Virtue forums (here on these forums) and ask what are the good channels to join.
When you drop to free, you get two character slots. That's two period, not two per server. So make sure to pick your best toon and best server.
Since you are a VIP now, you'll get 1 free transfer token per month, and those are permanent until you use them, even if you drop to free. So by March you should have three of them, to transfer toons to whatever server you play most.
You should also have 1200 points to spend from your VIP status by March. You could buy some licenses from the store (I'd say IOs and Auction House, but sounds like you might not be interested). Or you could just spend the points on goodies like costumes or power sets.
This page on the Paragonwiki will tell you exactly what you will have unlocked as a Premium player -- just see how many Reward Token you have and what tier of the Rewards Program you have reached, and look it up on the list:
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Paragon_Rewards_Program
Not having bothered with IOs is an advantage if you're planning to play as a Premium account. Using IOs without paying for a monthly license needs a completed Tier 7 in the Rewards Program, but SOs are available to all.
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I actually have two questions but this one is regarding the new freedom stuff. I'm thinking about coming back and it says I have VIP till march so I guess that's good.
What happens after that? I have like 8 characters total, mostly on Justice, but one somewhere else I can't remember. They're all standard stuff like blaster and tank and one kin.
Will I be able to use those after VIP wears off or only two?
This is so confusing. I never made it to the crafting stuff (IO?) either, and wasn't real thrilled about it. I'm an old school "purist" that like things like they were like back before expansion 8 or whatever, but i'm willing to come back and have at it - I just don't know how much is really "free" or not.