An Armadillo & A Really Big Sword

I basically spent the weekend trying to level up several different characters. When I played Cupid, I found this area in Canada where I never went before. And I fought this cool bad guy called: The Armadillo!

The Armadillo kind of reminds me of Juggernaut in the X-Men comics. He fights with punches and his big power is when he transforms into a ball and hurls himself at you. Yes - like Sonic the Hedgehog. I think it's cool nonetheless. He is officially my favorite bad guy in the game. Too bad he's really easy to beat.

When playing my Dual Blades character named Technoblade today, I got an interesting upgrade. It's a primary defense upgrade but it also comes with an offensive weapon called a Rune Blade:

Now THAT is a really BIG sword! It's funny because my normal attacks use two samurai swords and then when I want to use my Rune Blade this GIGANTIC blade all of a sudden appears! It looks so badass. Especially with my Santa costume.

Christmas Transmorgrifications

Another item you can get in the winter event is a transmorgrification. It temporarily turns you into different toys depending on which transmorgrification you get.

Army Man

Cheerful Holiday Teddy

There's also a version of the Teddy with a hat.

Harlequin Teddy

Holiday Tin Soldier

When you morph into one of these Christmas toys, your character retains all of the power he or she had before the transformation.

So, when my Dual Blades character changes into an Army Man, he can still use his swords to fight.

That same character can also shoot lasers from his hand.

And whatever travel powers you have, like jet boots, will be used when you are a toy. Fun stuff!

Toys, Toys, and MORE Toys!

I have to admit I have been going crazy on Champions Online lately to get everything associated with this Winter event. One of the hardest parts of the Winter event is getting all of the new action figures:

Patriot Justiciar

Winter Witchcraft

Winter Kinetik

Winter Ironclad

Winter Defender

And if you get all five, you get Winter Foxbat!

To get each of the action figures, you have to open presents around the different zones that either have goodies or worthless stuff. Each action figure has three pieces: the head, the torso and the legs. The drops for the action figures are extremely rare. I was able to get all of them by trading my extra pieces that other people needed. In fact, I got ALL of the pieces of the Ironclad action figure through trading ONLY.

Getting each action figure gives you a Winter event perk. Getting all of the action figures is another perk. Then, killing Black Harlequin's pet Clarence is yet another perk.

The only perk I have yet to get is the one that I have to kill 1,000 toys. Then, when I got the three major perks I'll get a final perk that will allow me more Winter event goodies. Stay tuned!