DCUO: NEW Feats for Ally Grinding

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On August 11, 2026, DC Universe Online added a new and pretty large category of feats for leveling legendary allies. This is obviously retroactive so that players don't lose any hard work they put in over the years of the ally feature. With 19 allies and 2.6 SP per level 10, players could potentially login with an additional 49 unspent SP! There's a lot to swallow here, so I'll break down the immediate and ongoing plans.

Day 1

When you first log in, if you maxxed out 5 allies or partially worked on more than that, you will have over 11 SP unspent, thus invalidating your armories. This just means you won't be able to switch using the 4 shortcuts. The best way to update your armories is to interact with each one physically. 
  1. Stand next to the armory and choose "activate all." This will let you use the armory despite the unspent SP.
  2. Assign you new SP.
  3. Imprint all... then repeat for all armories

In this particular period... August 2026, also consider that we're at the end of the current episode (54: Shadows Over Argo), so you might want to save some SP for when they increase the stat max by 10 very soon. I try to leave 10 unspent when we start getting close because it's the max you can walk around with without getting the invalid error. Then when the new episode comes out, you can max out your primary stat on Day 1.

Besides awarding SP, leveling allies also award Ally Legion currency used for unlocking allies on alts. Because it is an account currency it will only award once per ally across all alts. So the first thing you should do is login to all of your alts and let all of the feats pop and redeem the Ally Legion from the grants menu. This way, the account is aware of the max level of each ally across your account.

Managing Alts

Now that you did the admin work above, your account is all clean for moving forward. Next, you have to look at each ally and decide if it will ever have a chance of being used on each of your alts. If the answer is "YES," then you'll have to plan for saving/grinding Ally Legion to unlock either for all or individual alts. It the answer is "NO," you'll never use this ally on a particular alt... then you'll take the cheaper route by unlocking the feats for that ally in the feat menu using replay badges.


Unused Allies

After you've maxxed out 1 instance of each ally you plan to use on any of your alts comes the money grab aspect of this feature! You have to invest in the allies you'll never use on any alt! It's all for the SP! Go to Cyborg in the House of Legends and purchase 1 of each ally that has not been bought on any alt on the account. And you'll have to grind those out. Remember, this is the last priority, but the ongoing workflow is that you will have to max every ally that comes out!

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