Discussion: Featured Items at the Paragon Market - 3/13/12

Does anyone know what the buff rate is for this inf pet?

I'm sorry but this one is such a epic fail its borderline sad.

In this game and at this point in its history Inf is the largest joke this community has, any VIP can make a few mil in a single log in with out trying throw in actually trying and drops cash flow is a non issue.

In fact cash flow is so much of a none issue the Devs have put in how many massive INF sink holes just to bleed the stuff out, Crafting, Prestige conversions, Market kickback just to name a few.

This pet would be useful IF it had the "windfall buff" but it dose not it only buffs INF that's pointless, and why was nothing else listed in the store, all the sales were just left out of the post, sloppy just sloppy.

I know you guys are rushing head long to keep up the pace of this dumb once a week release plan marketing has forced on you but its starting to show in your work. I beg you just slow down and put your all in to this stuff.

So is he untargetable/invulnerable, or does he die in one hit like the other buff pets?

Why is there confusion on this point? It's being claimed both ways in every thread about this.

Shouldn't that information be clearly stated in the item description? The difference between 8 seconds of buff (how long he'd live in a fight as a standard buff pet for most ATs) and a permanent buff is a big one.

Wow I'm surprised at you people. It is painfully obvious that this little guy is a precursor to a new power set. Just Like the german shepard brought the shadow wolfie thing in dark control and the new beast set for masterminds. I just know this has to be part of the new mastermind set "Cereal Killers". You would have the Lucky Charms Leprechaun, the Trix Rabbit, and Tony the Tiger. So give em a break or else Ghost Falcon will have to post how the players aren't the targeted customer for this item. They only want to sell it to Gingers without souls. And even though I truely, madly deeply support Paragon I will have to pass on this awesome item; I'm saving up for next week when the new Hokey Pokey Dance emote hits Live for 1200 points.

At least the German Sheppard had value in looks and future promise. This... this is NOT getting my points... even once it finally goes on sale (unless it appears in a bundle full of lots of OTHER stuff I am interested in), I have no plans on ever buying it....

I will really, really like to see the sales figures for this once after it's 'limited time' period is over.

BTW, I felt 250 for a cosmetic 'fun' power like Flying Disc is also a 'won't buy it'. Yes, it makes sense because it is something that the game studio does for fun in house and the programming on it was done 'off the clock' and all that as a 'fun for US' (US being the in house studio).... and it does prove the studio does 'fun' stuff just for themselves. But 250 points??!

This vanity pet (even with it's little buff) for the price of a power set is WAY over priced. It must have really cost a LOT to program!!!

Paragon, please note what you don't see here:

"WOW AWESOME I'M SO EXCITED TO LOG IN AND BUY THIS!!!!"

"A Leprechaun? Suuuhweeeeeeeet!"

As for my gripe, THIS is what comes out in time for the DXP???
I'd rather see the DXP delayed til after the new sets. (You can delay just mine if you want )

sure it's cute, and I DO like the rainbow effect when he appears, but 800? for something that useless? Maybe if it helped with ALL transactions, but it only affects drops, and the inf that drops is nothing compared to selling items, so this doesn't help in any way, shape or form, definitely not $10 worth, even with a 100% increase it's not that much more inf in my utility belt. Especially when it kills my other pets. Or if it was 10% on all transactions (like in the AH and the regular store). but no, it only affects the smallest part of our income. If I had to rely on the inf I gained from things that this affects, I would never have inf on anyone. I would have considered it if it had been cheep, but at that price, it ought to actually come with a huge pot of gold the instant you summon him, BOOM, pot o inf, Boom, pot o inf.... you people really don't get the value of a $1 at all. $10 I could eat on for days, if I am spending that much on something then I am going to get something of value out of it, this isn't it.

You guys really need to rethink this whole vanity pet thing. The way you guys have ruined them and now set them up they are completely useless and I will never spend points on any of them ever again. They are so ridiculously useless that they are actually a detriment to have out due to the way you have reworked them. And as if the timer on recasting wasn't bad enough now it doesn't happen until the pet is dead! Which makes it twice as difficult to replace every time one of the mobs I just attacked targets my buff pet instead of me. One possible way to work it is to differentiate between buff pets and vanity pets and the way the buttons work, change the buff ones back. Then you could allow one buff pet and one vanity pet out at a time and actually have some value to the one that is just for looks, or at the very least not make it have negative value. I assure you if you hadn't made those changes to the buff pets to make all of these vanity pets kill them you would be selling a lot more. I can't even bring out any of the ones I had bought (or gotten free) before that change anymore because, I NEED the end buff one, desperately, on many characters.

And seriously this is IT, one useless thing? Why are we still waiting on the power sets? Has Staff Fighting not been ready for weeks now? I have seen no change on it in all that time. You put out the Imp Dy costume long before it was ready (not that it ever will be since you guys seem to be refusing to fix the pretinting on so many of the pieces, gold? really? USELESS) but the ones that I would want early? of course not. The ones that would be useful to have early? With all this waiting you guys need to be working on a spear for the ID costume set then... =/ or a bunch of new weapons or something! It seems more like you are just waiting till you want to boost your numbers instead of when the stuff is ready. It really would have been nice if you had put out the new power sets BEFORE double xp weekend.... =( And, for the record, I won't be buying anything else on the market until they do. Saving all my points for them. And I won't be buying the Imperial Dynasty costume until you fix the /w skin option and give us what we actually asked for, the tight piece with the tinted section cut out, not this golden monstrosity. How hard could it be to cut out that one section and leave the rest of it alone? It isn't like there aren't two tone pieces in that section already, even if they don't show any 'skin' (Fire & Ice at least), so it's obviously possible, and if it were not, then wouldn't that be a better use of the tech you used to put a slightly different toned version of the one you actually picked, as opposed to one that doesn't match anything available to us on anything else? (sorry, sorry, I digress, ...as usual) But while we are on the subject shouldn't there be a gold and silver color option? as opposed to yellow and grey respectively?

I was so looking forward to today on here, I figured at least the market would bring something new to play with, like the staff I have been waiting on for years, but like FiOS canceling my favorite channel this week, my step dad going into the hospital and no one else I know even having gas money to come by for cake, including me (can't even afford to drive enough to keep my battery charged), my birthday week is going to be full of disappointments. You would think I would be used to it by now...

Murphy's Rulz!

About the usage of "Sure and beggorah" (which is used with "Sure" elsewhere)...

Since most people's exposure to a Leprechaun is pretty much represented precisely with overly done fake Irish sayings and such... I am thinking, you know, that is the inspiration for them using the phrase...

I don't know... if there really is a major problem with this phrase, then I am not aware of it.
Although, I am half English, so... I don't really care one thing about the concerns of the Irish!!
B'dum Pshhhh

normally I pride myself in being a CoH fanboi, but unfortunately I have to agree with the rest of the sentiments in this thread.

$10 for a non-combat pet is too much. I know its a limited edition, but non-combat pets should not be the same price as a complete powerset.

I feel there should be some kind of price uniformity.

Powersets: 800
Costume sets: 400
Non-combat pets: 200

The sales on the other non-combat pets that put them at 325 points (about $4.06) is almost reasonable, but for 75 more points (not even a dollar) you can buy a whole costume set.

I really like super packs because if I have less then 200 points I'll just buy the super packs because they are a buck each. The non-combat pets should be this way. At 200 points a person who is sitting on like 210 points would be like "well I don't have enough for a costume set, I could buy 2 super packs, or grab this snazzy leprechaun who will give my toons some extra cash. yeah, lets do that!"