

Once an item is in their collection, it will be accessible to wear even if the player sells that item in the future, however, all stat benefits are lost when the item is not physically equipped to your character. When a character equips an item, it is added to their "collection". While the first mission a player ever does is exclusive to their mentor selection, most of the missions offered by the other two mentors are available to all players of their faction.Ī character's costume is the clothing that defines their appearance in DC Universe Online. Mentors will contact and ask the player to do missions on a regular basis throughout the game. The player's choice of their Mentor affects their experience of the world, as well as the categories of armor and weaponry that will be available to them. Personalities do not affect stats, and are there purely for aesthetics. Their stance will change, along with their posture, simple movement as well as emote actions (example: when a Flirty character dances, he will do a fist pump type dance (male), while a Primal character will do more of a break dance type routine). The player's personality choice determines how the character acts and carries themselves throughout the world. Villains are the bad guys, characters that choose this morality will corrupt citizens and fight for all that is evil. The choice determines the character's mentors, allies and enemies in DC Universe Online.Ĭharacters that align themselves with the Hero morality will fight crime throughout their adventures. Morality is the choice of either being a Villain or a Hero. You will be able to learn new weapons simply by spending a skill point and you could switch between them later in game. All weapons have both melee and ranged attacks. Each weapon is specialized in either Ranged or Melee abilities, however some are equally useful in both. Your weapon is what defines your character's hack-and-slash abilities. It also determines whether the character is a flyer, speedster, jumps from building to building as an acrobat, or skims through the air. Movement Mode affects the character's speed, movement style, and maneuvers in combat. a tank, you have to pick one of the powersets which provides that role as the second role. That means if your focus is on dealing damage, you can pick any powerset, but if you fancy playing e.g. One is Damage Dealer (often called DPS), and the other is for support ( Controller, Healer, Tank). Each power has two roles that the character can specialize in. Power selection determines the player's combat strategy and role in groups. Inspiration is to give the player a template to work off of, although they can still play with that specific template if they choose to. After completing this process, the character is still open to change in any way or form. Main Article: Body Types "Inspired By" (Optional) īefore deciding Powerset, Weapon, and Costume, the player may choose to be inspired by a famous DC character.Ĭhoosing an inspired by character will have the computer automatically choose a Powerset, Weapon, Clothing, and Morality to match the DC iconic chosen.

Only gender and morality are unchangeable. Of the choices that are made during Character Creation, most can be changed with items that are available in the marketplace (e.g. The selection does not affect the character's statistics.

The player may choose between 18 total variants of Male or Female characters. The following is the selection process that the player must go through in order to create a character in the game. Each character is linked to a specific server. All players must go through the Character Creation process in order to play DC Universe Online.įree to play accounts are allowed 2 characters.
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The player is able to choose the statistics that determined their character's abilities, individual strengths and weaknesses, visual appearance, name and sound through a series of options offered to the player shortly after the game starts. Character Creation (also known as Character generation or Character design) is the term used to refer to the process through which a player must go in order to create their own avatar.
