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The Tides of War Summer Seasonal Event



The battle for the throne of Atlantis continues! Ocean Master, Aquaman's conniving half-brother, has rallied a force of mutineer Atlanteans in an attempt to displace King Arthur and take the throne! The Atlantean civil war has breached the waters of Metropolis.

Track Tides of War in your Mission Journal and check the Events tab in the On Duty menu to battle for the Atlantean Outpost. Or alternatively you can now use the Warp Menu to head directly to the Open World Content by selecting Tides of War: Aquaman (Hero) and Ocean Master (Villain). Fight for your side, and reap new rewards including new feats!

New Feats

• Coral History
• The Shark Knight
• Pacific Swim
• King’s Beach

In celebration of our Summer Event this year, we have added new base items, beach-ready styles, and a new aura to keep you looking cool in the heat of battle!

Level Requirement: 10

 







 

Survival Mode: Season 1

Queue up for Titan’s Training Sim in the Events tab to challenge yourself against the most difficult battles DCUO has ever seen. 30 rounds of challenge await, if you can survive. Each round consists of two waves of three minions and one boss at the end of the waves.

Earn new Materials, Auras, Base Items, Style Items, Orbitals and Pets. There is a new currency specific to Survival Mode called Data Chips, which are granted after defeating a round boss. Every 5 rounds increases the amount of Data Chips awarded from bosses. This currency can be used at both the Survival Mode Vendor and the Survival Mode Season Vendor for unique item rewards.

Requirements:

• 4 Players
• Combat Rating
  • Minimum: 253
  • Recommended: 260

 







Tutorial Revamp

Join Superman or Lex Luthor as you make your way through Brainiac’s ship. Escape Brainiac’s forces as you learn how to use your powers in a more streamlined experience.

Universal Messaging System (UMS)

We added new announcement and tutorial screens to the game. These screens will teach elements of the game, announce new events, and replace the Welcome Screen on live. Keep an eye out for them!





Now available for a limited time: the Booster Bundle! Packed full of the most useful convenience items and all-new jaw dropping styles, the Booster Bundle is one of the best deals in DC Universe Online.

The Booster Bundle returns with the most-needed marketplace convenience items and the new Booster Reward Box. The Booster Reward Box will reward one of seven new Auras OR one of six packs all-new Chroma Materials. Chroma Materials allow for preset color customization on the different channels of gear colors, and each pack comes with three variants of the same color palette. Details below!

Each Booster Bundle costs 1000 Daybreak Cash (PC) or Marketplace Cash (PS, Xbox), and comes with over $10 of marketplace convenience items. Here's the full list:

• 150 Replay Badges
• 1 Artifact 1000 XP Pack
• 1 Nth Metal Detector
• 1 Radar Enhancer
• 1 Proto Repair Bot
• 1 Vault Ticket
• Bonus: 1 Booster Reward Box

The bonus Booster Reward Box will include one random item of the eight listed below, all of which are brand new to the game and tradeable:

• Metallic Chroma Reward Box: This box offers you the choicebetween six different packs of Chroma Materials. Each pack includes three variants of the chosen color. 
  • Blue Metallic Chroma Reward Box (three blue variant Chromas)
  • Green Metallic Chroma Reward Box (three green variant Chromas)
  • Orange Metallic Chroma Reward Box (three orange variant Chromas)
  • Purple MetallicChroma Reward Box (three purple variant Chromas)
  • Red Metallic Chroma Reward Box (three red variant Chromas)
  • Yellow Metallic Chroma Reward Box (three yellow variant Chromas)
• Gleaming Orange Aura
• Gleaming Blue Aura
• Yellow Tesla Aura
• White Tesla Aura
• Purple Tesla Aura
• Orange Tesla Aura
• Green Tesla Aura

 







The Booster Bundle will only be available for a limited time, from May 29, 2019, through June 23, 2019. Chroma Reward Boxes are tradeable. The individual color variant Chroma materials are not tradeable. 



Miss the preview livestreams? Watch the replays here:

https://youtu.be/dOUKfBrBb6c

https://youtu.be/qDpQmOjklnA
 


 

Springtime Seasonal Event

Poison Ivy is back to wreak havoc on the people of Gotham City! We’ve added three new Feats, new Spring-themed Base items, a new Spring-themed suit and a Blossoming Spore pet. Collect Seed Pods and purchase Spring items from “Arborist Louis” next to Swamp Thing in the Watchtower or “The Misgiving Tree” next to Poison Ivy in the Hall of Doom.

Villains can learn more about Poison Ivy’s plans by speaking to her in the Hall of Doom’s Pit, while Heroes can speak to Swamp Thing in the Watchtower’s Aquacultural Area to help bring down Ivy and her minions. Speak to Veronica Cale (Villains) or Doctor Sarah Charles (Heroes) to find out more about taking on Swamp Thing. Level Requirement: 10

New Feats:

• Lord of the Wings
• Unsoiled Plants
• Best Fronds Forever

Character Updates and Skins

Wonder Woman, Batman, Circe, Lex Luthor, and the Joker have had their NPC models and comm-heads upgraded everywhere except for Legends. Additionally, three new human player character skins have been added for both for male and female player characters. These new skins can be found in character creation or at the skins vendor in-game.

Navigation Diamond

The navigation diamond is a new UI display that helps player’s get to their next mission destination. It appears as a colored diamond on screen during gameplay, points directly to your destination, and shows how far away the destination is. This feature can be disabled in the UI settings under the “Show Navigation Diamond” option.

Source Marks and Universal Tier Vendor

A new vendor is available in all safehouses. This vendor automatically offers players tier gear appropriate for their Combat Rating, to alleviate some of the confusion experienced when it is time to find the next vendor. The vendor currently lists gear up to Episode 31. Additionally, a new set of Level 25 introductory gear has been added.

Marks of Victory have been converted to Source Marks (1:1 conversion rate). Source Marks are earned in the same way (as Marks of Victory previously) in content and respecting relevancy, and stack to 999999. Costs for tier gear, now purchased with Source Marks, have been standardized and made more consistent.

Leveling Content Updates

We have made a large amount of updates and quality of life changes to early leveling content across the game. The main focus of our work was to streamline the early leveling content help players stay on track. Several changes include reducing mission objective counts, reducing damage from enemies, removing counter attacks from enemies, decreasing NPC density of combat areas for missions, better enemy placement, cleaned up text messages in missions and in instances, and adding waypoint markers to many boss instances.

These changes apply to the following story arcs up to their boss fight instances:

• Meta Hero Grodd invasion
• Meta Villain Parasite and Powergirl
• Shared Meta Hero and Villain HIVE
• Tech Hero Scarecrow
• Tech Villain Gang War
• Shared Tech Hero and Villain Gangwar 2 and Bane
• Magic Hero Faust content
• Magic Villain Trigon and Dr. Fate
• Shared Magic Hero and Villain Titans and Raven

 

An otherworldly daemonic entity looms over Gotham City, threatening to devour all of existence. Join John Constantine, Zatanna, Shazam, and a cabal of powerful magic-users to fight back the Devourer! Journey to iconic magical locations, including Shazam's Rock of Eternity, A.R.G.U.S.' fabled Black Room, the House of Mystery, and Limbo Town.

It's up to you to stop this ancient magic before it's too late! Justice League Dark features new daily and weekly Open World missions, a new Duo and Alert, plus normal and Elite versions of two new Raids!

Earn new feats, new collections, and new gear. To get started, look for Justice League Dark in your Mission Journal. Justice League Dark is free to access for Members.

For a limited time, special “Event” versions of all content in Justice League Dark will be available to all players, level 10+. Look for these Event versions in the Events tab of your On Duty menu.





New Open World Missions - Chaos Gotham

Enter Gotham to find the city deep in the clutches of chaos and disorder. A tear in the fabric of the universe itself covers the night sky. Aid Dr. Fate (Heroes) or Felix Faust (Villains) in tipping the balance towards Order or Chaos.

• Look for Chaos Gotham in your Warp Menu or use the teleporter in the Watchtower or Hall of Doom
  
• New Daily and weekly missions in Chaos Gotham. Minimum Level: 10
  

New Duo – JLD: Pub Crawl

Zatanna and Constantine are chasing down a lead about a “big time deal” in the Oblivion Bar. Help them out before the trail goes cold.

• Open your On Duty Menu and look for JLD: Pub Crawl under Tier 9 of the 2 Player Tab. Combat Rating: 253
  
• For the Event Version – look for JLD: Pub Crawl (Event) in the On Duty Menu under the Events Tab. Minimum Level: 10.
  

New Alert – JLD: Darkness Rising

Join Constantine as he “invites himself” into the A.R.G.U.S. Black Room. Once there, assist Constantine in acquiring mystical aid from the agency, in hopes of defeating the daemonic attack on Gotham.

• Open your On Duty Menu and look for JLD: Darkness Rising under Tier 9 of the 4 Player Tab. Combat Rating: 253
  
• For the Event Version – look for JLD: Darkness Rising (Event) in the On Duty Menu under the Events Tab. Minimum Level: 10.
  

New Raid and Elite Raid – JLD: Fellowship of the Arcane

Zatanna is assembling a fellowship of powerful allies in the House of Mystery to formulate a plan for dealing with Klarion and the ancient magic that has been unleashed in Gotham.

• Open your On Duty Menu and look for JLD: Fellowship of the Arcane under Expert Tier 9 of the 8 Player Tab. Combat Rating: 253
  
• For the Event Version – look for JLD: Fellowship of the Arcane (Event) in the On Duty Menu under the Events Tab. Minimum Level: 10.
  

New Raid and Elite Raid – JLD: Shattered Gotham

The Lords of Order have assembled in a much-changed Gotham City for a final stand against the daemonic invasion.

• Open your On Duty Menu and look for JLD: Shattered Gotham under Expert Tier 9 of the 8 Player Tab. Combat Rating: 253
  
• For the Event Version – look for JLD: Shattered Gotham (Event) in the On Duty Menu under the Events Tab. Minimum Level: 10.
  

New Gear, Base Items, Feats and More

• Earn a new event currency: Daemohedrons!
  
• Master four new Artifacts!
  
• Acquire new gear inspired by Etrigan and Steve Trevor!
  
• Plus collect new base items, feats, and more!
  

https://youtu.be/cZZK76_Xj5w

Questions or comments? Join the discussion on the official forums. Chaos awaits!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BATMAN!

The whole world is celebrating Batman's birthday this week, and we are too. Lined up, we have a gift, a sale, and a special new reward, all to honor the Dark Knight. Read on!



 
DC is celebrating Batman with a special #1000 issue of Detective Comics, with a ton of variant covers. We hope you have some spare room in your bases, because your gift is these covers as base items, and they are many! Players must log in to claim the gift by April 11, 2019. 
 

 
PLUS, read the special edition Detective Comics #27 for FREE at this link, courtesy of DC: Detective Comics #27



 
What's a celebration without a sale? Batman-related items and more are all 80%, now through April 4, 2019. The sale includes:

• Dark Specter Batsuit
  
• Dark Knight Cowl Pack
  
• Batcomputer & More Pack
  
• Batcave Trophies & More Pack
  
• Digital Weapon Style Pack
  
• Daytrader Amenity Pack
  
• All Escrow Tokens
  
• All Toys
  
• Bank, Inventory, Shared Bank, Auction, and Character Slots
  

 
80 years of Batman only comes around once. The celebration continues with a very special and classic Batman emblem reward. Earn this emblem in-game or grab it from the Marketplace. The emblem will be available on the Justice League Dark reward vendor for Daemohedrons (episode currency) and will also be added to the Episode 35 vendor for its currency when that episode is released. 
 

 
This most iconic and treasured of styles will only be available for a limited time. It will be removed from both episode vendors and from the Marketplace on September 30, 2019. Already-purchased and earned emblems will not be removed. 
 
 
Batman Anniversary Sale begins at 12PM PT on March 28, 2019, and ends at 11:59PM PT on April 4, 2019. Players must log in by April 11, 2019, to claim the Detective Comics #1000 gift. The Batman 80th Anniversary Emblem is only available until September 30, 2019.