When you are running out of HP, you drink a soda to top off your health bar. When a boss wipes your group in a high-level alert, you dust yourself off and repair your gear. When you need to shorten your dungeon runs, you trade with other players for stronger weapons and armor.
Soda, repairs, gear trades-all these can make combat easy as cake in the new superhero online game DC Universe Online. Actually there is no better way to spend and Buy DCUO Cash than on these 3 items, so be sure you have enough currency to last you from the starter zones of Metropolis and Gotham City, all of the way to the end game.
Drink Health-Refilling Soda Cola
As the equivalent of health potions in DC Universe Online, soda cola can bring you back from the edge of death with one swig. Soda cola is as helpful during questing as it is in high-level raiding and PvP matches, so purchase as much as you can carry with your DCUO Cash.
Sodas are so critical, particularly to non-healing specs, that many players hotkey them to their controllers or keyboards. For controllers, the soda hotkey can be programmed as R1+0 and R1+X button combos while for keyboards, it can be set with the default 7 or any other key that is simple to reach.
After you reach max level, soda cola becomes almost necessary in the harder high-level alerts and raids, where the demise of a tank or a healer may cause a badly timed wipe. Remember to stop by the police station or club to get them in packs of 6.
Perform All-Out Repairs
In DC Universe Online, your fancy-looking costume will receive a beating from the attacks of other superhumans, so you’ll have to consistently repair it.
Head to the closest police station or hideout and you will be able to fix your gear instantly with a few clicks on the vendors. Your DCUO Cash will be debited and your full gear returned to its maximum sturdiness.
How are you able to tell when you’ve got to head back for repairs? Small icons will appear beneath your user interface when you’ve got to mend your gear. The darker the red of the equipment icon, the more damaged it is and the more costly it’s going to be to repair.
Trade for Dynamic Gear
When you have stacked up on soda cola and fixed your gear to the max, and you have DCUO Cash to burn, then you could consider trading some for potent gear. Other players running quests and dungeons will on occasion pick up rare items that may be traded to you in exchange for DCUO Cash or Buy DCUO Cash.
These will not just give you a signature look but also turbo-charge your combat stats. Trading DCUO Cash will be the first way of collecting these unique items since there’s no auction house yet on DC Universe Online. To get a good trade for your DCUO Cash, try to go looking for a competitive seller to compare costs. But if the item is rare enough that only one individual you know has it, consider snapping up the item before other players beat you to it.
Gearing up is among the best investments you can make in DC Universe Online, so all that Buy DCUO Cash you spent on a rare gear piece will pay off down the line, or at the least, you can have a novel slot appearance to boast to your pals while chilling at the virtual bars in-game.