Circle of Thorns Costume Set

Disguise yourself in villainous style as a member of the occult group Circle of Thorns. For Male, Female, and Huge characters.

Market Location: Costumes > Costume Sets
400 Points

After several months' wait since the official announcement, City of Heroes Freedom™ is now accessible to all!*
Free players can now join our Premium and VIP players on the live servers in order to experience the extensive content of our 7-year-old super powered MMO!

With the launch of City of Heroes Freedom, a host of content is indeed available and you may want to familiarize yourselves with our game before embarking on the adventure. Our brand new City of Heroes Freedom mini-site is now available with several guides aimed at the beginners amongst us, so don't hesitate to use and abuse this handy resource!

For more details on what content our Free, Premium and VIP players get access to, make sure you read our Player Choices page for a Side-by-Side Comparison!

But before you get started on your heroic or villainous career, here is the official City of Heroes Freedom video to send you off in style!

See you in-game!

*To download City of Heroes Freedom, please go to this page.

Starting this weekend, we are gradually reactivating all inactive game accounts. Over the next several days, more and more former City of Heroes players will find their previously lapsed accounts have been re-enabled as Premium level accounts! We've saved your characters, so you can pick up where you left off, and returning Veterans can check out the all new Paragon Rewards™ Program for exclusive perks just for having been a previous COH/COV subscriber! Please note that not all accounts will be immediately enabled. If you can't log in; Just check back at a later time!

If you don't already have a City of Heroes account, never fear! Starting next week we'll be opening the doors to new free players! So everyone can take to the skies and join in all of the action available at no additional cost in City of Heroes Freedom!

Returning players can download the NCsoft Launcher and City of Heroes Freedom Game Client here!

Check out all of the details about City of Heroes Freedom here!

We'll see you in game!

How to Refer a Friend from the NCsoft website

• Log in to your NCsoft® Master Account.
• Once logged in, click the Game Accounts link.
• Click your City of Heroes game account.
• In the Actions box, click the Refer a Friend link.
• On the Refer a Friend to Try City of Heroes ™ page, enter the requested information. We then use the information to send an email with a serial code to your friend.
• Return to your Refer a Friend to Try City of Heroes ™ page to view the status of your outstanding invitations.

How to to Refer a Friend from the Paragon Market

• Log in to your City of Heroes® game account.
• Once logged in, click the Paragon Market icon on your screen.
• Click on the button labeled My Account
• When prompted, enter your NCsoft Master Account password.
• In the My Account tab, click the Refer a Friend button.
• On the Refer a Friend page, enter the requested information. We then use the information to send an email with a serial code to your friend.
• Return to your Refer a Friend page to view the status of your outstanding invitations.

We will let you know when this is available!

Bring your friends, bring your family, you'll need help and lots of it!

Wednesday, September 28 - Defiant server

Start: 11:00 a.m. PDT (2:00 p.m. EDT / 7:00 p.m. BST / 20:00 CEST)
End: 1:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. EDT / 9:00 p.m. BST / 22:00 CEST)

Thursday, September 29 - Protector server

Start: 5:00 p.m. PDT (8:00 p.m. EDT / 1:00 a.m. BST / 2:00 CEST)
End: 7:00 p.m. PDT (10:00 p.m. EDT / 3:00 a.m. BST / 4:00 CEST)

Friday, September 30 - Justice server

Start: 5:00 p.m. PDT (8:00 p.m. EDT / 1:00 a.m. BST / 2:00 CEST)
End: 7:00 p.m. PDT (10:00 p.m. EDT / 3:00 a.m. BST / 4:00 CEST)

Monday, October 3 - Victory server

Start: 5:00 p.m. PDT (8:00 p.m. EDT / 1:00 a.m. BST / 2:00 CEST)
End: 7:00 p.m. PDT (10:00 p.m. EDT / 3:00 a.m. BST / 4:00 CEST)

Tuesday, October 4 - Champion server

Start: 5:00 p.m. PDT (8:00 p.m. EDT / 1:00 a.m. BST / 2:00 CEST)
End: 7:00 p.m. PDT (10:00 p.m. EDT / 3:00 a.m. BST / 4:00 CEST)

Wednesday, October 5 - Pinnacle server

Start: 5:00 p.m. PDT (8:00 p.m. EDT / 1:00 a.m. BST / 2:00 CEST)
End: 7:00 p.m. PDT (10:00 p.m. EDT / 3:00 a.m. BST / 4:00 CEST)

Thursday, October 6 - Guardian server

Start: 5:00 p.m. PDT (8:00 p.m. EDT / 1:00 a.m. BST / 2:00 CEST)
End: 7:00 p.m. PDT (10:00 p.m. EDT / 3:00 a.m. BST / 4:00 CEST)

Friday, October 7 - Triumph server

Start: 5:00 p.m. PDT (8:00 p.m. EDT / 1:00 a.m. BST / 2:00 CEST)
End: 7:00 p.m. PDT (10:00 p.m. EDT / 3:00 a.m. BST / 4:00 CEST)

Monday, October 10 - Liberty server

Start: 5:00 p.m. PDT (8:00 p.m. EDT / 1:00 a.m. BST / 2:00 CEST)
End: 7:00 p.m. PDT (10:00 p.m. EDT / 3:00 a.m. BST / 4:00 CEST)

Tuesday, October 11 - Infinity server

Start: 5:00 p.m. PDT (8:00 p.m. EDT / 1:00 a.m. BST / 2:00 CEST)
End: 7:00 p.m. PDT (10:00 p.m. EDT / 3:00 a.m. BST / 4:00 CEST)

We apologise once again for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

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The Live European and North American City of Heroes servers will be taken offline for necessary hardware upgrades on Thursday, September 22, 2011.

Start Time: 1:30 a.m. PDT / 4:30 a.m. EDT / 9:30 a.m. BST / 10:30 CEST
Expected Duration: 12 hours
Expected Finish Time:1:30 p.m. PDT / 4:30 p.m. EDT / 9:30 p.m. BST / 22:30 CEST

This maintenance is to perform necessary upgrades to the City of Heroes server infrastructure.

We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience! There will be a UStream cast starting at 8:00am PDT (11am EDT; 4pm BST; 17:00 CEST), which will run until the servers are back up!

Join the community discussion here!

As of today, after the end of the maintenance, the Mac system requirements for official support from the City of Heroes team are Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

Thank you for your understanding.

Hello everyone! Sean "Dr. Aeon" McCann here to talk to you about our first signature story arc series entitled Who Will Die, a story which will include the death of someone from the Freedom Phalanx. With the release of City of Heroes Freedom, we wanted the players to have a constant flow of new content every month, but we didn't want it to just be random bits of content; it had to be a continuous story from month to month. Matt "Positron" Miller, Nate "Second Measure" Birkholz, John "Protean" Hegner, and I sat down and threw various ideas on the table as to what story we could do for our very first signature arc.

There were a lot of ideas thrown out there, some of which will be seen future signature arcs, but in the end we decided the story that would be most impactful for our very first series would be the one in Who Will Die. However, we understood there would be a lot of challenges involved in writing such a story. The first would be to keep the suspense and mystery in the air regarding the identity of the character who will be meeting their fate. The second challenge was ensuring that the story was still focused on the actions of the player character. This isn't a story revolving around the life and death of the Freedom Phalanx with the player as an onlooker; it's a story about your character and how your own story intertwines with that of the Phalanx.

The first of seven episodes of the series is meant to set the stage for all the other episodes, with heroes and villains experiencing the story from opposite ends of the spectrum. Heroes will find themselves working with Theoden, an arrested member of the Lost who believes his brethren are going to commit a horrible atrocity, which would be 'infecting' the Lost with magic through the use of an ancient obelisk. Villains are contacted by an ancient spirit, Alastor, who claims to have created an obelisk that can transfer powers from one being to the next and wants the villain's help in retrieving that obelisk from the Lost; in exchange, the spirit says that he will use the obelisk to give the villain the power of Synapse, the speedster of the Freedom Phalanx.

One of the challenges when writing and designing the story for Who Will Die was to get the same plot points across by telling two different stories. The first arc involves a magical obelisk which is one of the key points in this series. Heroes and villains both need to understand specific things about the obelisk in order for the story to progress and make sense, but they can't necessary reach those conclusions the same way; a villain needs to be doing something villainous, and a hero something heroic. However, heroes and villains will find smaller clues in their own specific arcs which foreshadow future events in the arc series.

The first episode of the signature arc series is live on the servers now and is free for VIP subscribers, so go out and see the beginning of the arc that will dramatically change the world of City of Heroes forever!

Sean "Dr. Aeon" McCann

Volcanic Aura

The Volcanic aura causes flame, smoke and bits of molten lava to burst sporadically from your character. Once purchased, this is available for all characters on your account.

Store Market Location: Costumes > Auras
80 Points

Signature Story Arc

One by one, members of the Freedom Phalanx are being targeted by an unknown enemy. Play the first episode of the seven-part, monthly story arc to find out who will live . . . and who will die!
Available free to VIP players!

Store Market Location: Content > Story Arcs
400 Points

Revival Temporary Power (5 charges)

Each charge restores a character to full health and endurance, with five seconds of invulnerability. Also available in packs of 1 and 3 charges.

Store Market Location: Buffs & Boosts > Temporary Powers
225 / 113 Points - 50% off

Unslotter (5-pack)

Each use removes a single Enhancement assigned (slotted) to a power without destroying the Enhancement. Also available in packs of 1 and 3 charges.3-packs also available.

Store Market Location: Enhancements > Enhancement Modifiers > Enhancement Unslotters
450 / 225 Points - 50% off

XP Booster Temporary Power (5 charges)