New Paragon Rewards Available: Fire and Ice Costume Sets

The fire wings and waterfall jetpack are very cool. The helmet pieces are also nice. Everything else is uggglllllyyyyy.

This is one of those sets where you can't just dump everything from it onto a character and call that a costume. You use a few parts individually when you design a costume.

People seem to want this:


When what they're getting is this:


Which seems less impressive until you see something like this:


Can't do that with the pre-packaged model. Thumbs up from me.

Well put! But to torture the lego analogy further, some people don't know how or don't want to spend that much time playing with legos if they don't have the assembly book.

ALL the Badges! (I can get. 1396)

Speaking of legos... but completely off topic... how awesome is this!



its completely made of legos and splits into the 5 lions and everything! Not only that its about 3 feet tall took 71 hours to build AND each lion has a compartment in its head where one of the pilots can sit

Well, there's your next tier 9 VIP set, devs: Robotic anime Lego-lions.

Form blazing sword!

The double waterfall back looks pretty cool with the artic fog power on

side note:
If the next tier 9 vip "set" isn't a set at all but a collection of seemingly nonsensical costume options, that'd be pretty awesome too.

heck... You could make it a collection of all the little things players have whined about over the years and call it "player request pack 1" and it'd be a sure fire sale for dang near every one of the forum whiners.

The Phoenix wings do not flap, and for that alone they have my undying love. I do wish you could make BLACK ones that didnt simply turn into almost-invisible steam.

Pretty much all I truly want out of this set are the wings and the helmet; but just those two pieces are pretty awesome.

I just figured out that my big issue with the fire set is, it is the same as the problem I have with Organic armor:

The leg detail/secondary pattern is so big and gaudy compared to the chest portions.

Whereas, Ice gets a pattern that's as simple as the rest of the suit, barring the crystals and waterfall etc.

Somewhat of a pointless post, but there goes:

I finally got around to playing around with the Fire and Ice set for the characters I listed earlier, and the results are encouraging. Very much so. The fire swords are awesome, and they don't bother me nearly as much as I thought they would. It's kind of jarring that the actual attacks retain their original sounds so that my fire dual blades sound like I'm banging two lead pipes together, but I can deal with it. The look is too amazing to pass up.

Moreover, I LOVE how the fire swords colour. Tunnel Rat talked about what it would take to make opaque FX, and I think this set is a pure demonstration of why that works. The swords are AMAZING exactly because they look like something between flowing plasma and thick ink flowing through water. And they're amazing for it! This is the sort of visual effect I want to see more of. No mere vague, transparent cloud of strikes but thick, almost viscous fire spewing jets of plasma at regular intervals. This colours much more solidly and much better, and it looks out of this world. I would really, REALLY want to see more effects like this. Hell, I'd pay the price of a new set if Fiery Aura could look like this.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I missed the Robot Arm 3 and Mace options, thanks for pointing those out, Zombie.

As for the sets themselves, I love them. Absolutely adore the costume peices in here, as far as I'm concerned, this is some of the best work I've seen out for CoH costuming in many an age, if not ever.

I noticed earlier that it was mentioned by someone who thought it sucked having outfit peices that screamed Stone Armor. All I can say is, I hear where you're coming from, I highly dislike the look of Stone Armor myself and how it covers my outfit, but using the Fire and Ice peices, I made an outfit that doesn't MIND being coverd by stone armor because it already LOOKS like stone armor. All in how you look at something. And yes, this is my first Stoner, I look forward to seeing how it works now that I've solved the cover-up issue that kept me from rolling it.

Anyhoo... Again, I give my highest regards for this set, look forward to seeing others ingame using it, and a big "Thank you" to those at Paragon responsible for it!

Now oddly at ease with my wings and tail being aflame,
~Raven

I think some of the set looks good, but most of it isn't for me at all. I especially dislike the non-elemental versions of the weapons that just look like crude stone carvings of swords and maces. Heck, the sword looks like a blunt weapon. The body parts look good as fire/magma, but using them as ice looks more like rock with glowing cracks in it.

I was recently annoyed by the inability to use Fire & Ice 1 boots (the one without kneepads) with pants. I have a character who was using Stone as a skin texture with darkish red Circles pattern to get the sort of pattern of red veins I wanted. I was able to change his torso and hands to the Fire pattern and it looks great (the pulsing glow actually fits the concept well, too). But since he's wearing pants I can't make his bare feet match up as well as I should.