Discussion: Featured Items at the Paragon Market - 3/6/12

New featured items in the Paragon Market™!


Flying Disc Power - New!



Loft a Flying Disc to a friend! Your friend can catch it, return it, or pass it on! When you have the Flying Disc power, you can throw limitless discs, but a friend can only have one disc at a time. Fun at the park, or on the beach!

Market Location: Powers > Permanent Powers > Misc
Price: 250 Paragon Points

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Darkness Control - New!



Darkness Control is a "Control" Power Set available to Controllers* and Dominators. You can control darkness and shadow to disable your foes with negative energy. Enemies affected by your attacks will have their chance to hit your character be reduced. Purchase of this Power Set unlocks it for your entire account. NOTE: This Power Set is auto-enabled for VIPs. *Controller Archetype required for Premium Players.

Market Location:
Paragon Picks > Featured
Powers > Power Sets > Support

Price: 800 Paragon Points

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50% off Rare and Uncommon IO Sets for Dominators and Controllers!

Ghost Widow's Embrace Enhancement Set (Rare)



The Ghost Widow's Embrace Set is a RARE Hold Enhancement Set. This set contains 6 Enhancements and is designed for characters that are Level 20 to 50. Store-bought enhancements cannot be sold or traded to other players but can be emailed to other characters on your own game account.

Market Location:
Paragon Picks > Featured
Paragon Picks > Sales
Crafting / Gear > Max Level 50 > Mez / Status Sets > Holds

Regular Price: 856 Paragon Points - 50% Off!
Sale Price: 428 Paragon Points!

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Additional RARE IO Sets for Controllers and Dominators!

• Pet Damage IO Sets:
  • SET: Commanding Presence (RARE)
  • SET: Edict of the Master Set (RARE)
  • SET: Sovereign Right (RARE)
• Recharge Intensive Pets IO Sets
  • SET: Call to Arms (RARE)
  • SET: Expedient Reinforcement (RARE)
• Hold IO Sets
  • SET: Neuronic Shutdown (RARE)
  • SET: Lockdown (RARE)
• Immobilize IO Sets
  • SET: Debilitative Action (RARE)
  • SET: Trap of the Hunter (RARE)
• Fear IO Sets
  • SET: Unspeakable Terror (RARE)
  • SET: Glimpse of the Abyss (RARE)
• Endurance Modification IO Set
  • SET: Performance Shifter (RARE)
• To Hit Debuff IO Set
  • SET: Dark Watcher's Despair (RARE)
• Accurate Healing IO Sets
  • SET: Theft of Essence (RARE)
  • SET: Touch of the Nictus (RARE)

Youn really need to call that a "Throwing Disc" - "Flying Disc" sounds like a new travel power

Too late now, I guess.
I'm really surprised you didn't change that, but... eh, people will find out what it is before buying it (one would hope, hah).
Still... that period of time, no matter how brief, between reading "Flying Disc Power" and finding out that it is NOT a travel power results in the sort of disappointment that I'd think a game company would want to avoid.
...BUT... this has all been said.
Carry on!

EDIT:
Besides that... HAPPY ISSUE DAY!

Is 'frisbee' trademarked?

Oh yeah. Guess it is. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_disc

It looks like 'Flying Disc' is the preferred term used by people who actually play with them, so I'm willing to bite onto that one.

It's just dumb, so people misuse a word so we will copy them? Good job, copy people who don't know how to speak the language.
BUY A DICTIONARY PEOPLE!
Trowing is not flying. (it doesn't fly, flying assumes under ones own power)
Medium is not long. (Long hair goes BELOW the shoulders)
Primary is not Secondary... (Primary means MAIN! 1st! the largest part!)
Learn what the words mean before you use them in a professional setting! Misleading your customers is not a good way to get money, its a good way to get sued, and/or lose customers.

and 250 points for that?!?!?! something with no value what-so-ever? it's expensive at 40!

The flying disc is cool and a fun mini-game for players, but 250 points seems a bit much. especially since, unless they fixed things in beta, there's a chance you can permanently lose it.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

250pp for a frisbee "power" is absurd.

All the attuned IO sets that are on sale is nice though. If the sale prices were the regular prices I would buy a lot more of these.

I just can't bring myself to spend $10 real dollars on something I can obtain in game, even if they are attuned. $5 otoh can be rationalized away as "one fewer large latte" this week.

250 for an emote? really? and its an emote the relies on somebody else spending 250 to get the full effect? Please tell me if you toss the "disc" that the wolf/dog/coyote will at least play catch with it? Or that if you buy this you will get a discount a future blaster type power set of flying discs? Oh well a lot of good stuff today so I'll give you the lolz one.

They didn't change the name... /facepalm

Makes me wonder if they aren't secretly hoping more will buy it thinking it's a travel power since it costs so much more than an emote should.

250pts? Really?

No thanks. I'll buy a few more SuperPacks instead.

Will. Or is this leading to a power like throw disc?
For example for blasters or corruptors

Flying Disc: Misnamed. Too expensive. Unsold

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

Agreed -- too expensive.

But it won't stop some people from trying it...

Passing on the disc for all reasons already stated.

250?

Seriously, what the hell are the guys and girls in marketing on? Because they are either on strong stuff or frankly INSANE.
No. Just no.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Zwill came on at one point and was having a throwing disc party in Atlas on the Victory server. I felt bad talking about how it was over-priced then, since it was just a fun "whee, let's have fun!" event that he was doing, but it really does bug me that this was over-priced by so much. It's a GREAT idea, great animation, and the temp power pass on is a great execution on and already great idea. It's a shame that the price is ruining what is otherwise a good (great? did I say that enough? ) thing.

well the good thing about prices is they tend to go down overtime....sometimes
and if one of those 20 to 40% sales is coming one of these days one of these months..ill wait till then

seems like a great temp and ultimate frisbee is a fun idea....but waiting on

Beast mastery 400 to 800 pts (aprox)

Staff 400 to 800 points (aprox)
so total for both either
800 (min) leaving me with 400
1200 ( if one 400 other 800) leaving me at zero till next month 400 pts
1600 (max) leaving me with buying one at 800 and saving 400 for next month so can buy other

which will wipe out my points i saved for them. anything left over goes to
saving for the next power set....

It's using the right name. Sheessh. Cut Paragon some slack. Just because they went with the correct term and not your preffered colloquial term doesn't make it the wrong name.

A throwing disc is a discus, as in the sport most often seen in the Olympics.

I also don't think its badly over priced. Fits in under the allowance nicely, works on every character.