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The Atlantean Warsuit from the first DCUO Summer Event is really the chroma before chromas as it features an animated special effect in one of the color slots. While it is a water style, I have always used it on my ice character, Kryo Jennyx (Jenny Xue) because the deep, saturated blue with the other slots set to white looks icy. It's also a similar palette to the comicbook character, Ice (Tora Olafsdotter). Here is the chest and legs of the classic set matches with some newer parts colored with the Surging Material (water): Kryo Jennyx and Armories Battle Stance Dual Katanas Kryo Cavern Security Displays Kryo Cavern

Crossbow (rifle style) Powered by Demon Fang I have a lot of alts and when it comes time for a seasonal event, I need to get through the quests as fast as possible. While most of the seasonal tasks are fairly optimized today, the time still stacks up for altaholics. The outside can be sped up considerably if you know how some powers work as they award different stats as well as how attacks hit. For all seasonal open world quests except Homecoming and Anniversary (because they're newer and use more of an episode template), NPCs have 5 health,but all of your attacks are reduced to 1 damage. So it takes 5 strikes or something that gives bonus on top of the 1 damage. Here are some tips from moderate to best... Rapid Fire The most basic, common sense is to choose weapons and powers that hit very fast. For weapons, dual pistol or handblasters are great. If this is not your character's weapon set, it doesn't matter. You don't need a good one because all damage is reduced to 1 ...

Alyssa's Batmobile It seems like a little thing, but it is a bit of a hassle to have to sync all of your DCUO settings to a new computer. But you can easily copy them over by following these steps: 1) First, go to the following location with your old system or the one that already has DCUO installed:  C:\Users\$USERNAME\Documents\DCUO Save Data\ 2) Display details and copy the directory with the most recent date (it will be a long string of capital letters and numbers) to a flash drive. This contains overall settings, character settings and you chat window layout/channels. It will have all of your accounts setup for the launcher. You won't need to cancel through all of the tooltips for new users. Chat will have whatever size, channels and other settings you had before. All of your ignore settings will be intact. 3) Then open this folder and select all contents. Atrocitus and Dex-starr 4) Make sure DCUO is NOT running on the new computer. Copy all of that into the most recent da...

Note: This is an old post, but the instance and its feats haven't been changed. Fortunately NPC are much easier to kill in the current state of the game, so there is some time savings. Original Date: February 25, 2019 Location: Justice Girls league site This feat entails taking out the following adds before killing off Corum Rath: 13 Flames of Sagittarrius 32 Brine 23 Drift / Silent School 5 Barnicle Golems 4 Morgwar While the list is daunting, it's really not as bad as it seems because many of the counts will come automatically while trying to get others and they come out during specific points in the battle. The Team Because this is a long winded feat (be sure to carve out about 2 hours to form, prep & execute), endurance is far more important than damage. You don't want to get 70% done with the counters and then wipe only to have to do it over! We had 2 tanks to separate the various add types & distract the boss. 2 healers to be completely safe. With 2 healers th...

Note: This is an old post, but the instance and its feats haven't been changed. Fortunately NPC are much easier to kill in the current state of the game, so there is some time savings. Original Date: November 23, 2018 Location: Justice Girls league site Silent School is an RNG-based alert with a lot of feats. I'm pretty sure every run we do will be some kind of feat run. So it's good to have this checklist handy and be aware of which ones you need before we go in. Pisces Be My Chum - KO statues in chum (pink puke) locate the shark with the red liquid (chum) at the timer, move clockwise as the chum shifts over rotate your self heals & have a lot of defensive abilities slotted in Electric Ave - don't get electricuted by eel statues locate the shark with the chum and be on the shark to the right of it (no traps, perfectly open) at the timer, move clockwise to the shark that had the chum as it will be clear the next round if there's no rush, you can also have 3 play...

Batman in JLA Watchtower NOTE: This is an old post, but the feat still exists and the way to get it remains the same, although the current state of the game makes this easier than it's original date. Original Date: October 15, 2015 Location: Justice Girls league site This a feat for both the regular Watchtower alert and the LPVE version. The regular version of this is a non-issue. This guide concentrates on the LPvE version where you're not using your powered up character. You have 4 rounds to defeat Eradicator before he enrages. So you must burn roughly 25% per round. Note that Round #2 is shorter than the other three. So don't get too much into a rhythm or you might kill a drone by mistake. Look for the drones to release much earlier. All 4 players should use the legend they output the most damage with. Don't worry about teamups and checklists for this run. I recommend going with a legend that has a 35% finisher like Wonder Woman's Coup de Grace. This should be sp...

Gotham City NOTE: This content is no longer relevant as base teleporters were added shortly after the Home Turf DLC. With the addition, there is no longer a need to travel from bounty to bounty by physically flying to them. This archive shows how inefficiently we did things back when it was current! We had to go back to the Watchtower or Hall of Doom in the middle when switching cities. The 2 in Central City are both available and the respawn timer was reduced across all of them. Original Date: AUgust 25, 2014 Location: Justice Girls league site I don't have too much experience with the villain bounties. I did 2 runs by myself and last night lead a semi-pugged group. As many know, the hero order is: Boom-Piper-Trick-Heat-Cold-Top-Weather (Zoom & Abra can be either at the start or end) ...which is based on shortest distance. You exit CC and go to the closet teleporter, Gotham East. You work your way to the Diamond District station and teleport to Metropolis Midtown. Then you wor...

Dark Knight Batman at Arkham Asylum Note: This is an old post, but the instance and its feats haven't been changed. Fortunately NPC are much easier to kill in the current state of the game, so there is some time savings to what is still a grindy feat. Original Date: September 2, 2013 Location: Justice Girls league site Description: Wrap up each of the Gotham Heroes in Quick-Growing Vines inside the Arkham Asylum solo instance. This is a villain only feat from Ep6: Home Turf . This has to be one of the worst feats in the game. I finally got it the other day, so I wanted to share all the information I gathered. You need the quick-grow vines from one of the external missions. So when you have that mission, don't waste them all... use only as much as you need to complete the task. The vines expire in 7 days. So when you get the random daily task, know that you'll be spending some time replaying the interior instance... possibly without completing it right away. This took me abo...

Note: This is an old post, but the instance and its feats have never been changed. Original Date: August 18, 2013 Location: Justice Girls league site Here are some screens of the visual cue for telling which boss you'll face in the Huntress solo. You don't even have to start fighting to see it. Just go to the corner of the conveyor belt and look towards the mobs. There will be a different object to the upper right. Venom Canister = Bane Cage = Killer Croc Dufflebag = Hush Lab Vat = Scarecrow

NOTE: This content is no longer relevant as recovery kits were phased out on July 18, 2018 when Augments were introduced. However the article still shows how calculations can be worked out for spending in this game. Recovery Kit Value Formula Original Date: April 26, 2013 Location: Justice Girls league site One of the things that seemed appealing about GU25 was the ability to recover exobytes from modded gear... until I saw the price tag! So I tried to come up with a formula to figure out if the plan is worth the marks and here’s the result... Step 1 - figure out farming time saved from the # of recovered exobytes Avg # of bits recovered / exofarming rate = time saved Avg # of bits recovered seems to be 1/3... so a Mod III will give back 3 of 9 Exofarming rate is # of bits you can gather in 1 min of play time Step 2 - figure out time it takes to get the marks to buy the plan Basically, add up all of your missions until you come up with the number of marks for the plan. Then get the tot...

Supergirl and Kryo Jennyx in Antimatter Metropolis I looked back at some past content I created spread across different platforms, before creating this site. Things tend to be easier to search on Blogger than the DCUO Forums, YouTube, X, etc. The DCUO Forums are using a proprietary software and don't have a modern dynamic search, so that is nearly unusable. You're actually better off going to Google and then search DCUO Forum + $SEARCH_TERM. YouTube just has too much garbage on it. X actually has an accurate search, but it takes too many steps. Blogger's tagging system is simple, but clean. I don't cover that many subjects here anyway. I plan to move some of those items over here. A few user guides may not be totally relevant anymore, but I will note that on the top. I think even old guides have historical value because they show the changes across the eras. Older instances that had heavy mechanics used to take a lot of coordination and may have been cancelled out by ho...

The P90 is a unique and practical submachine gun and is Earth's weapon of choice for battling aliens on the ground! It was the weapon used by the 4-person SG teams in Stargate SG-1 . Colonel O'Neill and Captain Carter demonstrate why it's both versatile and formidable... Aside from Stargate, the P90 is a real life weapon made for vehicle usage, given it's short barrel and top loading magazine. You can easily step out of a jeep or tank and be in ready position instantly. For the same reason it makes sense with gate travel where the SG teams are constantly dumped into unknown terrains and threats. For more on the P90, click here . In DC Universe Online Opening 25 of the Absolute Gotham Time Capsules released on June 2, 2026, you can now have the P90 weapon and back styles for your Stargate themed characters! Apparently, the weapon is also used by Absolute Catwoman, who is being featured in this capsule. I had suggested this style ages ago with the caveat that it needed a...

Azrael in Bombshell Paradox It can be overwhelming to return to a 15 year old MMO that's been through many structural changes and core enhancements. It would take years to get up to speed at the rate you were grinding back when you first started and you'll always be behind current players who are grinding at the same rate, but didn't take time off. This article is designed for you to have a substantial amount of skillpoints with light but efficient grinding. Do these things to have anedge over new users who simply use a CR Advance token to skip to the current episodes. You'll have a  respectable SP-to-CR ratio. NOTE: This article was written in June 2026, with Episodes 51-53 being the recent 3. AAA Checklist Before diving into the episode content, it's important to make sure your character is squared away first. There have been many additions to the character's arsenal and they all start with "A." Below is the order in which you should activate them as...

Jim Lee's Supergirl (2011) The original lineup of DCUO NPCs were largely based on Jim Lee's style and I personally label this the "Hush Era" because the big deal about that story arc was that we saw Jim Lee's Batman (along with Bat Family and Rogue's Gallery) and Superman in the same comic books. In a sense, this is what Supergirl would look like if she was mixed into that arc. This is also the pre-New 52 design. Thankfully the New 52 costume never made it to DCUO! Original DCUO Supergirl Bombshell Supergirl (2015) The Bombshells designs actually started out as fun illustrations by artist Ant (Aunt) Lucia, which then became variant covers. Out of popularity, the comic books turned them into an alternate universe in a WWII-like setting (Earth 24). And now, they're in a short DCUO episode (#15, Bombshells Paradox & Corrupted Zamaron , 8/12/2015) back when content was being released monthly. Though this design didn't batch replace Supergirl across the...

Character Showcase I actually decided to and completed my first DCUO Recruitment event. As outlined in my analysis of Ultimate Recruitment 2026 , I felt most of the items were not worth it for active players, but there was one unique variant item that doesn't drop anywhere else... the Umbral Green Aura , a variant of Red Umbral. I has a few days with some extra time so I put some effort into it. With all that work, I made sure to put it in the armories of my 3 green characters on the account. So let's start with that showcase! Sylvia Knight, Green Lantern Shaolin Longfist, Nature Xiao Qing (Green Snake), Nature The Event I am a bit uncomfortable with this particular event because I have a built-in completionist complex. When I normally level a new character, I go as slowly as possible farming out every side quest, exploration task, briefing, feat, etc. I come across with while doing the main storyline. This takes weeks. The recruitment event is meant for speeding through the ma...

  Unfortunately, there's no special trick in "Hope Burns Bright: Summit of Sorrow" solo mission for getting the Perfect Path run/feat. It is a run that you'll strive to get every time because it's not just a feat... it makes the daily mission significantly shorter. It's almost a 2x difference between the perfect run and all wrong. However, there are a few things worth knowing that can reduce a little bit of time: First, when the summit begins, the first 2 nodes are guaranteed blue and you can skip them to save a couple of minutes of combat. Just run... er... walk past both of them and either continue straight or turn right... either has equal chances at this point. The majority of the nodes work via conditional logic. If you come across a gray, then the adjacent one on the other path of the fork will be 100% blue. The 2 gray logos that have a blue glow on the map above are NOT at forks. If you pass either of these 2, the next one on the path will be 100% blue....

Being reluctant to both run through the leveling missions again and then have another alt to add to the lineup, I judge the rewards for these event harshly. So here's a list of all of the rewards and whether or not I think it's worth it. Gotham City Emergency Signal This is a kickstarter reward for the event. You don't actually have to do anything to get this other than log on to a character that's below level 30. Keep in mind that you can pass this to any character after that. The Gotham City Emergency Signal gives you a massive 25% XP boost while equipped, but with 1 per account, I think it's better to keep on an actively used character. It's an additional AoE damage that helps out from solo to alert. In some solo situations, it will clear adds as it does in leveling. Because of it's long cooldown, I do not save this to my armories, but will swap it in during combat if I need an additional 360 clear attack. And now for the rest of the rewards after you com...

We're in another "Ultimate Recruitment" event in DC Universe Online. While I was never motivated enough to bring in another alt, it is is interesting to see how strong they could be now before the first mission on Brainiac's ship even starts. For context, I have a 14 year old account that was Legendary for a good 13 of the 14 years. In this article, I'll limit it to just things we can do for FREE (or already purchased on the account): Marketplace:  You can redeem all of the account bound items, things that are redeemable on every character. This will certainly get you some if not all of the style counter feats (100 being the final). You may even get feats from Legends you purchased. I think the only thing you can't redeem yet are the base themes. Event Reclaim: This is the newest and most SP loaded item. Go through each category carefully and reclaim all. Each one gives 1 SP and most will make you more powerful. You can have elite backup and elite orbital to...

Celestial Eyes is a 1924 painting by Francis Cugat, but most known for being the original cover art for Francis Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby . The image is a combination of 2 references in the novel: The billboard of Dr. Eckleburg watching over the Valley of Ashes and Daisy Buchanan. For more information, see: Celestial Eyes The Great Gatsby   The image of Lyssa Drak watching over The Book of the Black in DC Universe Online's Raging Night episode looks striking similar to Celestial Eyes, especially since Lyssa has bluish skin and yellow eyes. One has to wonder if it was inspired by it. Here's a version I merged with Gotham Amusement Mile so that it looks similar to Coney Island at the bottom of the original...

Happy 15th Anniversary! The 16th year starts off with a pretty big bang with the addition of a 2nd row of loadouts. The sudden addition increases our characters' power levels considerably once ironed out and used right, but can be quite overwhelming at first. Hopefully this article give you some direction in how to set up your loadouts. I will keep it as general as possible so that it can apply to all power sets. From Patch Notes: New Additional Ability Tray The Additional Ability Tray is a major quality-of-life and combat flexibility upgrade that significantly expands how players build and use their loadouts. This new system introduces a second, fully functional ability tray, giving players more room to adapt, specialize, and react during combat. With the Additional Ability Tray, players gain access to a second full set of abilities that can be configured independently from their primary tray. While only one tray is active at a time, players can instantly swap between trays with ...