The Hanzo Ninja Clan Presents: Take Me To Your Dealer

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The Black Market has some interesting changes, as of late. In the past, it was a rare shot at getting one, and even when you did, there was no guarantee that the 1 ware it offered would appeal to you. But now things have changed to give players more opportunity and chance to acquire the Black Market items they seek the most.

For 1 thing, BM wares have increased from 1 option to 3. With 3 options, you're more often than not going to get at least something you like. Furthermore, you don't have to choose, either. You can buy 1 of the choices, 2, all, or none.

Remember though, that BM wares sell for MP. So this new change is very much in favor of pay players. Still, MP now flow in this game for the dedicated play to win player. So these wares certainly aren't out of reach for the free/budget players. But if you want a shot at the BM wares for no cost, there is a new, but difficult, option to do so.

If you want to be a little more bold, or you just don't want to fork over the MP, you can opt to fight the Dealer. The Dealer is a demonic, or ghostly apparition that brings you the BM wares offers. By opting to fight (assault and attempt to rob the Black Market merchant, because you're a hero......... wait..... wha????) you go into the duels screen against the Dealer. If you win, some or all of the BM wares are awarded to you, potentially along with MP.

Not a bad gig. But don't take it lightly. The Dealer's core is both unknown prefight and changes between fights. And this NPC is TOUGH, and it gets a LOT tougher each time you beat it. All the top players agree that he's a challenge they lose to far more than they beat.

For the free/budget player that rarely spends on the BM, it's still worth a shot. Worst case scenario, you haven't lost anything. Best case scenario, you get some good stuff the big budget players pay for, and some MP you steal from a Dealer......... And who knows at this point? It's possible losing to the Dealer makes future tries easier?



For the bigger budget players, I feel that this NPC is far too tough to gamble with. It's best to go ahead and just spend the MP for what you want. On the off chance there's just nothing that you just got to have, then go ahead and roll the dice on a fight against the Dealer. He's definitely one of the tougher NPC in the game to test your mettle against.

Remember to use your patrol cons to increase your odds of running into the Dealer further. Maybe we can even convince Justin to let our Oracle buildings and Seeing Eye cons give us a glimpse of what these Dealers are working with. One can hope.

Good luck heroes and villains.

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The Hanzo Ninja Clan Presents: Power Patrolling

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Some new changes to patrols have players buzzing! For the high rollers, the Black Market now gives you 3 items to choose from. And you don't have to choose! Buy 1, 2, 3, or none! For the free and budget player that can't liberally afford to spend MP on the Black Market, there's now the option of fighting the Dealer to win some or all of the offered items, along with some MP! Be forewarned, this guy isn't a walk in the park and results have varied greatly, even for the same player. Being new, it's still anyone's guess if there's a rhyme or reason to defeating this new NPC, the Dealer, but theories are being tested. It does seem that he gets more difficult the more times you beat him.



Also, 3 new power cards have hit the streets and made doing patrols more worthwhile than ever! These cards have a low resell value of only 2 MP, but compare to some of the best cards in the Shuffle! 1% Shuffle power cards that are comparable generally sell or tier for around 50 MP, give or take, giving them a value of around 150 MP. To fully tier, they will cost around 200 MP. By comparison, these new patrol power cards only cost 10 MP to tier each lvl, 40 MP to fully tier. That's a HUGE comparable savings!



So let's say you rolled the Shuffle from a won Shuffle free spin and got an Agent Nova card, and at the same time pulled one of the new patrol cards. It will cost 40 MP to tier the Agent Nova card each level, for a total of 160 MP. But if you sold the Agent Nova card for 40 MP, it funds tiering the patrol card to lvl 5, and has 4 more stat points than a tier 5 Agent Nova that would cost you an additional 160 MP. Furthermore, being patrol prize cards, they are not limited in the number you can acquire.



Good luck in your hunting, heroes.

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WHERE THEM CONS AT? CONSUMABLES THAT IS

BY: Todd Goode id #12205

People often wonder, what do the patrols offer that is so good. Well, the answer is easy. You are playing a game that's based on creating a character to destroy another character and to create a character you must build it. Part of building a great character is having some great cons (consumables) to help back-up your character toon's power count or the max number of cards for your current level and having more cards than your level max only helps you have to do a little less building when you reach your next level.

Do where do you get these cons anyway? You find them in the patrols, but which cons are the best? How can I find them; a lot of them and keep my xp to a minimum.

Well, you're going to make some xp but you can control the rate at which you acquire it and its not by sitting or camping but crawling. Moving forward at a steady but slow pace. Let the speedsters do the heavy lifting.

"If I only knew where the best cons were?" That is what you may be thinking. Well, there are a few cons that you can find in certain places.

You should be aware, that there are some consumables that drop in every patrol zone. The stimpaks, energy drinks, hateraids and more-fun bars can be found dropping in every patrol, but others that are of great use, drop in particular patrols and zones.



(BREAKING NEWS!!!!! We'll get back to this consumable chart after this brief Announcement. For a very short time in the New Utopia patrol, find THE NIGHT BEFORE HALLOWEEN zone and play it until after Halloween ends. You are looking for pumpkineggs cons to drop. There are 3 +6% cons to boost your attack, defense and movement and a 5% con for + 5% life boost. Get them while you can. Now, back to our consumable chart.)



You can find a rare Turtle Shell con that give a 10% defense bonus amongst other things like mp, and stronger power cards.

Purgatory Penitentiary has a great many cons to find.







Some of the best cons offered can be found in Ardeal. Play all three patrol zones in Ardeal to take advantage of the fighting cons you can find there.







There are some other cons sprinkled around all patrols that are very rare. Some are good, some not so much, but they are there.

You can find AMA parts in every patrol.

Every patrol zone has a "Finish Now" button if you would like to finish the zone and restart and get to collecting faster. Currently, it will cost you 12mp to speed up and finish and start again.

Every patrol will every once and a while drop Supercharged Test Tube cons that when used, increase a random power card by 1 point to their respective attribute. It doesn't sound like much until you realize that you can add hundreds and sometimes thousands of points to a cards power. Sometimes they will drop for free but most often they will cost 20mp and can be found in your inventory after purchase to use at a time of your choosing. Also, when used, the randomness will often go to the power card you have the most of. That knowledge may help you choose when and how to use the supercharged test tube.

I hope you find this helpful in your search for cons.

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