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We were lucky enough to make it out to the first PAX East and while we missed the City of Heroes Panel, we were able to go to the meet & greet and get the highlights from Matt “Positron” Miller.

There isn’t a lot of detail, but here is an overview of what was presented at the CoH Panel:

• The panel was centered around how to keep an MMO fresh and new
• History of Paragon Studios
• List of many things that went into the game since launch
• Issue 17 release in April- open beta “very soon”
• Ultra mode graphics
• New story arcs
• Revamp of Positron task force
  • split into two TFs (as was always intended)
  • fight at the dam
  • spruced up missions to give them a new feel
• Going Rogue
  • New level 1-20 experience
  • The GR system itself
  • Praetoria
    • 4 Zones, showed some concept art
• New power sets
  • Dual pistols
    • if you pre-purchase Going Rogue now, then you immediately get dual pistols
  • Demon summoning will be launched with i17
    • again if you pre-purchase you get it as soon as it hits servers
    • Demons are elemental based
      • Each Fire, Ice, and ?? will be launched in sequence, kind of like the medic coming out for mercenaries.
    • All new graphic models – they’re not just rehashed CoT stuff
• Powersets debuted at PAX East 2010:
  • Electric Control (controllers and dominators)
  • Kinetic Melee (scrappers, tankers, brutes, stalkers)
• The future
  • Issue 19 tentatively called “Incarnates”
    • End-game system that Matt has been working on for several months.
    • 10 Incarnate levels past 50 – first level will be in Going Rogue
    • Hopefully all will be released with i19 (perhaps not all at the same time, but as close as possible)
• Matt was glad to finally make it to the east coast (woot!)

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