Here’s one thing I didn’t know about till yesterday — seems the discounted subs also bring early start privileges. Yup, if you’re living in the US and didn’t pre-order from Gamestop or Best Buy and wanted in on the head start… get one of the subs!

Something else I need to correct from yesterday’s Stat talk — Ego isn’t worthless… now that I’ve had some more in-game time I can talk about: Criticals. They’re different from the usual MMO.

There are two stats that effect critical hits in Champions Online: Dexterity and Ego. Dex gives you a higher chance to critical, while the critical damage is determined by your Ego. If you have high Dex you may crit more, but with low Ego it won’t be doing as much. High Ego could result in big crits, but without some Dex you won’t be seeing them as much. That’s a bit more complicated.

Also, it seems Telekinesis works on Ego for damage — at least it does Ego damage (I didn’t even really know that was a type). For anyone interested in the power set — here’s a brief explanation of what I’ve seen so far (I’m only level 10 on the character, so remember that): It’s a psychic melee DPS/Tanking set. If that sounds odd, it pretty much is. You have a ranged energy builder and some melee attacks mixed with melee/ranged AoEs — then some buffs a block… Others that I haven’t gotten to, yet. What surprised me the most about the set is the damage; I was doing enormous amounts of DPS with Ego Blade Frenzy when I had Ego Surge on. I’m not quite sure which tanking set I’m going to focus on now…