Help with Going Rogue and Duel Pistols
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Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2012-04-01 14:23 in Player Questions
1. Best option: Order GR from Amazon for $6.35 (fulfilled by Amazon partners and available for free shipping) or $2.99 + shipping (other venders). Wait about 3-4 days, apply to current account. You now have everything that comes with GR including side switching, Praetoria, Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning.
2. Buy from Paragon Market -- but there's no "buy GR" option so far as I know, you have to buy each thing separately. Ability to make Praetorian does not grant Dual Pistols or ability to side-switch.
3. You can, by the way, create any AT on any side now. Except for kheldians (epic hero AT = always starts hero) and Soldiers of Arachnos (epic villain AT = always starts villain).
4. There are a lot of new cool sets out. Dual Pistols is very flashy and works well for a lot of specific character concepts of course, but it's generally considered an average or slightly underperforming set... just as a warning, not everyone enjoys it.
Other sets that have come out since GR include: Time Manipulation, Beam Rifle, Street Justice, Titan Weapons, Darkness Control, Beast Mastery... maybe one or two that I'm forgetting. Staff Fighting should be out very soon.
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Sounds like you are now a free/premium player. If you want to play a character with dual pistols, you will need to either purchase the powerset from the Paragon Market (yes, this is a separate thing) or subscribe as a VIP player. VIPs get Going Rogue included, and Dual Pistols was a part of that expansion. As a free player you can buy whichever parts of that expansion you wish.
Being a Rogue and being a Praetorian are different things. If you wish to make a Praetorian, you must buy that unlock ("Create a Praetorian"). This will allow you to make a character who starts in Praetoria rather than in Atlas Park (hero) or Mercy Island (villain). Characters in Praetoria can be either Loyalists or Resistance and can switch between the two by doing certain missions that offer moral choices. At level 20, a Praetorian gets a mission which allows him/her to become a hero or a villain. Praetorian content goes to level 30 now with the level 20-30 First Ward content, but this must be unlocked separately for free players.
Being a Rogue is part of the alignment system and is not connected to being Praetorian. There are four alignments available in the game (six if you count Loyalist and Resistance, but those are only for Praetorians). These alignments are Hero, Vigilante, Villain and Rogue. You must buy the Alignment System to participate in this (or be VIP, who have it included). This is how it works:
- A Hero is based in the heroside portion of the game, can belong to heroside SGs, can earn Hero Merits, and is eligible for the Hero alignment power Call to Justice. A Hero cannot enter villain zones, join villain Strike Forces or gain villainous contacts.
- A Vigilante is based in the heroside portion of the game, can belong to heroside SGs, and is eligible for the Vigilante alignment power Fear Incarnate. A Vigilante can enter villain zones and join villain Strike Forces and teams but cannot gain villainous contacts. A Vigilante cannot earn Hero or Villain Merits, and will immediately lose any Hero Merits he or she might have if converting from Hero.
- A Villain based in the villainside portion of the game, can belong to villainside SGs, can earn Villain Merits, and is eligible for the Villain alignment power Frenzy. A Villain cannot enter hero zones, join hero Task Forces or gain heroic contacts.
- A Rogue is based in the villainside portion of the game, can belong to villainside SGs, and is eligible for the Rogue alignment power Duplicity. A Rogue can enter hero zones and join hero Task Forces and teams but cannot gain heroic contacts. A Rogue cannot earn Hero or Villain Merits, and will immediately lose any Villain Merits he or she might have if converting from Villain.
The main upside of being a Rogue or Vigilante is the ability to join (almost) any team anywhere on either side of the game to do Task/Strike forces or just plain missions. The main downside is the lack of ability to earn Alignment (Hero/Villain) Merits and the fact that the Rogue/Vigilante alignment powers are generally agreed to be inferior to the Hero/Villain powers.
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I'll do the amazon option as I have Prime so I get free 2 day shipping 
Thanks a lot.
That's likely the best way to go if you don't mind spending a small amount of money, since that will permanently unlock all of the Going Rogue features on your premium account.
I believe it even gives you a month of full VIP included.
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Which is actually something to be careful of. Depending on your Paragon Rewards, some of those things you get from applying the GR code may go away after your VIP month ends.|
Originally Posted by Justaris
I believe it even gives you a month of full VIP included.
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1. Invention Origin enhancements.
2. Auction House access.
3. Global channels.
4. Inf cap, might be less than 1 million or so.
5. Super Group access.
6. ... I think there's at least one more big one...
Anyway, don't count on these things sticking around if you are only Tier 1 or Tier 2 right now. I think as long as you're careful what you "invest" your game time in, however, you should be ok. Plus it really doesn't take that much to get these back, if it becomes really important to you.
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7. Incarnate content.
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8. The Exalted Server. Which is an even bigger problem if
9. ....you've used your global unlocks on that server. This happened to someone else recently, and they weren't able to play any characters at all because their global unlocks allowed with a Premium account were locked behind the VIP-only server.
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Wow! That really sucks. It just goes to show you how messed up that system of locking character slots to a server instead of a character and allowing transfers is.
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Originally Posted by Organica
8. The Exalted Server. Which is an even bigger problem if
9. ....you've used your global unlocks on that server. This happened to someone else recently, and they weren't able to play any characters at all because their global unlocks allowed with a Premium account were locked behind the VIP-only server. |
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Character slots have always been locked to servers whether it was the base 8/12 slots or any purchased slots.|
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Wow! That really sucks. It just goes to show you how messed up that system of locking character slots to a server instead of a character and allowing transfers is.
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You have always had to have an empty slot on the server you wanted to transfer to.
Nothing has changed there. The only thing that has changed is now having a single server restricted to subscribers, where previously all servers were restricted to subscribers.
If you want to transfer a character off of Exalted, you have to do it while you are still subscribed. Since most people know when they are going to unsubscribe and which characters they might want to play that are on that server, it's their responsibility to transfer them before they lose access to them.
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Unfortunately, in the case where you've applied your account unlocks as extra slots on Exalted, you can transfer all your characters from Exalted but when you drop to Premium you won't be able to unlock any characters on any other server without buying new slots.
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I'm returning to CoH after like 4 years and need help with deciding what to buy from the Paragon Market. I remember hearing that the Going Rogue expansion come with the Duel Pistol powerset that I want to use, and I want to try out making a character starting as a Rogue or a Praetorian. So what do I buy from the P-Market for Going Rogue? the Alignment System? Or the Create A Praetorian? And do either come with the Duel Pistol powerset or is that now completely separate?