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Discussion: Featured Items at the Paragon Market - 5/15/12

Agent White

By Agent White,
Posted on: 2012-05-15 09:22 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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New featured items in the Paragon Market®!

Panther Stealth Power New!


Transform into a black panther and turn invisible to stalk your prey from the shadows! Once purchased, this power will be unlocked on all characters on your account, and usable at Level 4. When the Panther Stealth Power is active, all powers become disabled and untoggled (although use of one Vanity Pet is allowed).

Market Location:
Paragon Picks > Featured
Paragon Picks > New
Powers > Travel Powers

Price: 650 Paragon Points



Additional Featured Items at the Paragon Market®!

Team Transport Power

Market Location:
Paragon Picks > New
Paragon Picks > Featured
Powers > Travel Powers

Price: 700 Paragon Points



Staff Fighting Power Set

Market Location:
Paragon Picks > Featured
Paragon Picks > New
Powers > Power Sets > Melee

Price: 800 Paragon Points



Additional Sale Items at the Paragon Market®!

Coyote Travel Power

Price: 600 Paragon Points - 25% = 450 Paragon Points!


Beast Run Travel Power

Price: 500 Paragon Points - 25% = 375 Paragon Points!


BUNDLE: Animal Costume Pieces

Price: 400 Paragon Points - 20% = 320 Paragon Points!



Check out other offerings at the Paragon Market here!

Kevin Callanan
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Isn't there something else that's supposed to be avail today?

 

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I get to save my points yet another week.

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Staff aside, april and may were pretty weak when it comes to releases in the market.

Cant wait for superpacks #2 and Water blast though.
And I23 of course.

 

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"Once toggled, this power will grant [level of invisablility quote needed] so that you can stalk you foe...etc etc."

I would like to know this. Can I walk up to Hami and lay down for a nap, or is this something I can run past baddies with on the way to a mission? Or are power stats taboo for sales?

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Panther has my eye -- but I'm still waiting on Mecha/ Sci Fi Retro , etc. The longer they hold on to that the less I'm likely to jump on anything else...


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Originally Posted by Kractis_Sky View Post
Can I walk up to Hami and lay down for a nap, or is this something I can run past baddies with on the way to a mission?
It's pretty much a Beast Run type travel power with a stealth temp toggle that's about as good as stealth. Superior Invisibility, it is not, so no naps.

Running around and jumping as a panther is quite a bit of fun though.

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I guess I will pick up this pet as it would fit my furry spines/regen cat themed toon, who will be my 15th or 16th 50 (lost track). I'm bummed there is no Mech Armor... or I23 u_u

 

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Whaaaaaat no new cossie pieces and yet another animal travel power?

What a smack in the face

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I own and love Ninja Run- how does Beast Run compare?

If it's equally cool and functional I wouldn't mind picking it up for my animal-themed characters.

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Wow.... Another animal vanity thingy. I can't wait to get home and play "City of Animals" (aka Zoo Tycoon).

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
I own and love Ninja Run- how does Beast Run compare?

If it's equally cool and functional I wouldn't mind picking it up for my animal-themed characters.
I believe the stats are the same as far as speed/jump height.

I actually searched for it on YouTube so I could see it in action before I purchased a month or so ago.


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Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
I own and love Ninja Run- how does Beast Run compare?

If it's equally cool and functional I wouldn't mind picking it up for my animal-themed characters.
Beast Run is identical to Ninja Run stat-wise, it only has a different animation of running on all fours. The run itself isn't so bad, I'm not a fan of the idle animation for it myself.

 

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Originally Posted by Titania_Blue View Post
Wow.... Another animal vanity thingy. I can't wait to get home and play "City of Animals" (aka Zoo Tycoon).

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Eh.

I'd be more interested without the "panther" part; maybe 5% of my characters have any business transforming into an animal (and even then it's a bit of a reach conceptually), and I actually like to see the costumes I design. If this didn't replace my character model, I'd probably grab it. As-is, I'll just keep using Ninja Run + Sprint + stealth IO like I've been doing.

Beast Run being on sale is tempting, at least. I'm not sure it's worth it since I've already got Ninja Run, but I'll at least think about it.

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Originally Posted by Miakis View Post
Beast Run is identical to Ninja Run stat-wise, it only has a different animation of running on all fours. The run itself isn't so bad, I'm not a fan of the idle animation for it myself.
I'm with you on this! I've always hated the idle animation.

 

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Originally Posted by Miakis View Post
Beast Run is identical to Ninja Run stat-wise, it only has a different animation of running on all fours. The run itself isn't so bad, I'm not a fan of the idle animation for it myself.
neat- I'll probably end up getting it then.

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Just to be clear....I can pay 650 points for a stealth 4 legged toggle that wont allow the use of anything else at all including inspirations when in it, or I can buy a celerity stealth IO for 260, drop it in sprint and it can be used with just about everything whenever I want?


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Originally Posted by Lachlin View Post
Just to be clear....I can pay 650 points for a stealth 4 legged toggle that wont allow the use of anything else at all including inspirations when in it, or I can buy a celerity stealth IO for 260, drop it in sprint and it can be used with just about everything whenever I want?


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it is if you like re-enacting your Cat People fantasies in game!

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Originally Posted by Lachlin View Post
Just to be clear....I can pay 650 points for a stealth 4 legged toggle that wont allow the use of anything else at all including inspirations when in it, or I can buy a celerity stealth IO for 260, drop it in sprint and it can be used with just about everything whenever I want?


Epic.
In fairness, the Panther power is a one-time purchase giving you all that on every character on your account, from now until forever. A stealth IO gives you stealth for that one character only. Buying them for as few as three characters means spending more than the cost of the panther transformation.

Which is why I buy cheap Celerity/Unbounded Leap non-stealth IOs with Inf and use enhancement converters.

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Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell View Post
In fairness, the Panther power is a one-time purchase giving you all that on every character on your account, from now until forever. A stealth IO gives you stealth for that one character only. Buying them for as few as three characters means spending more than the cost of the panther transformation.
Y'know, that hadn't occurred to me.

I'd be able to stealth missions on all my characters without having to mess about!

Tempting...

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I'm starting to feel a bit silly for buying bulk points at the beginning of the month in anticipation of all the cool sales that I figured would be coming as part of the anniversary celebration.

Guess the month's only half over...

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
I own and love Ninja Run- how does Beast Run compare?

If it's equally cool and functional I wouldn't mind picking it up for my animal-themed characters.
I wish they would come up with one of these pseudo travel powers where you ball yourself up and roll. That would especially be good when they release the mecha set.

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
I own and love Ninja Run- how does Beast Run compare?

If it's equally cool and functional I wouldn't mind picking it up for my animal-themed characters.
As others said, it has the same stats as Ninja Run.
It made a huge, positive difference for my character Amazing Ape. And I happen to love the idle stance for that character (It's a hunched over, heavy breathing sort of a savage type animation. It starts off a bit fast, but calms down quickly to a steady breathing/bobbing rate).

The run is on all fours (more horizontal than would really be possible as a biped, but it looks good) and the jump has no flips or anything fancy (so it can be especially nice being used with the JumpPack to speed things up without giving the ninja flip every tap of the space bar).

Like I said, it made a huge visual difference for my gorilla character, but it is purely a cosmetic option for Ninja Run.

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I found a video that shows it off a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Egu_uUC616o#t=15 4s
Half way through it starts showing Beast Run and there's some better footage of it later on. You can see the idle stance in this as well.

Also, here's the official Animal Pack trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egjAlnFItQM

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