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Here's Fuzun's more specific FAQ to the Midnight Club and Cimerora. Fuzun [I12 Beta]

Guide to the Cimeroran Traitors Faction JadKni [I12 Beta]

Guide to the Imperious Strike/Task Force Silverspar [12 Beta]

Dev Diary: Ken Morse Lead Artist on Designing Cimerora gaming.Hexus.net [I12 Beta]

Fan Videos of the Midnighter Club and Cimerora (Under Issue 12) Dark_Respite [I12 Beta]

And don't forget, the VEATs story arc is also new story-content for I12 (see below).

The Hollows: New and Refurbished.

Added to the Hollows is an eternal mission generator contact named Meg (level 5-15).

And to make content there that was often avoided because level 5 toons sprinting across a hazard zone that’s up to 10 levels higher than them was a bad idea to begin with, the zone was revamped. Spawn sizes and levels were reduced. The ‘doors’ to missions were moved to be in the neighborhood of the contact (and not the other side of the zone). A hospital, ‘stores’ at both gates, and a trainer were also added. (Everything a normal city zone has except a difficulty level adjuster and a base portal.) The zone is still restricted to level 5 and up to enter.

If you miss the hazards of the old Hollows Hazard Zone, don’t worry, you can still find spawn sizes of 7-9 foes that go all the way up to level 15. And the Tunnels of the Trolls is still a packed level 12 Hazard Zone. (And Perez Park is still a densely packed Hazard Zone of the same level as the Hollows.)

Dev Diary (War Witch) on Revamping the Hollows

The Sewers Trial: Exemplaring Working! Maren MacGregor has been moved from Founders to the (regular) Sewers entrance in Atlas Park. She's gotten a new look and an even more Celtified name of Mairenn. And now, she auto-exemps high level toons to level 40 for the level 38-40 Task Force (it’s sort of a Trial / Task Force hybrid now since it still has a timed final mission, but the rewards are Pool C, Task Force Pool). So, no more exploiting this Trial by exemplared 50s unexemplaring and finishing it off with no risk.

Watch out, you lowbies in the regular sewers! When this Trial is started an ambush rushes the team in the regular sewers as they’re heading to the Abandoned Sewer Network (ambushes are suppressed in Atlas Park). That’s level 38-40 Rikti in the AP entrance to the Sewers where lowbies start power leveling themselves. At least there’s no debt at that level. This has been brought to the Devs’ attention to be fixed.

(And, no, the Eden Trial / TF’s exemplaring problem isn’t fixed like the Sewers Trial was.)

VEATs!

There will be lots of VEAT (Villian Epic Archetype) threads popping up, let me hit the highlights:

On the forums, the two VEATs are called collectively ‘Soldiers of Arachnos.’ One AT is the Arachnos Widow which incorporates three powersets for the Blood Widow, Night Widow, and Fortunata. The other AT is called Arachnos Soldier (and not Arachnos *Spider* for some strange reason). The Soldiers incorporate three powersets for the Soldier (Wolf Spider), Crab Spider, and Bane Spider. Note the confusing terminology of ‘Soldiers of Arachnos’ for both of the VEATs and ‘Arachnos Soldier’ as the AT name of one of the VEATs.

You need a level 50 villain to unlock the VEATs. When you create a VEAT you will *not* go into the Tutorial (you have a level 50 villain, what do you need a tutorial for?). But don’t worry, you can flashback in Tesseract's arc to pick up the Breakout exploration badge.

You will have a new first level contact other than Kalinda or Burke and then you will discover what your Epic Archetype is all about. Remember: ‘Epic’ is meant in the sense of a long narrative (i.e., story), not the in the sense of ‘gigantic’ or ‘overpowering.’ From level 1 – 50, you will have a special series of contacts and arcs that tell your story as a Soldier of Arachnos… and it is *not* what everyone supposed it would be.

One thing you should know now about the VEATs is that at level 24 you’re given the opportunity to branch out or remain the same ‘type’ of Widow or Spider. Wolf Spiders (‘Soldiers’) can choose either to become Crab Spider or Bane Spiders. Once you pick a power from the Crab or the Bane track, you’re locked out of the other track. However, you always have access to most of your base Wolf (Soldier) powers. Or you can chose neither track and just remain a Wolf (with lots of power pools). And the same scenario holds for Blood Widows as they get to choose either the Night Widow or Fortunata track.

Be warned, at level 24 you will be *forced* into a power respecification which allows the reconfiguration of your powers into the new track (even if you don’t want either new track, you still have to go through the respec). Hey, look at it this way: free respec!

Issue 12: “Villain Epic Archetype” Trailer NC Norcal [I12 Beta]

Soldiers of Arachnos F.A.Q. v1.1 Silverspar [I12 Beta]

Guide to Soldiers of Arachnos Guides & FAQ's compilation [I12 Beta]

Powerset Proliferation
Twenty Powersets of various ATs have been 'proliferated' to, that is, shared with, other ATs which did not previously have those powersets. So, e.g., Controllers now have the Plant Control powerset that previously only Dominators had. Since the MasterMind primary (Summon) is so unique, it didn't get a new powerset. But all the other Primaries and Secondaries got a proliferated set with Brutes getting two. Here's the run down:

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