Okay it was a bit of a wild ride last night. The only new power set currently available is the Dark Control powers and its corresponding secondaries. I did try it out briefly, but it didn't thrill me so much at the low levels I saw. Of course I wasn't the only one trying it out. Getting on a Death from Below team with ALL Controllers and Dominators was needless to say ...unusual to say the least.
I also got on one of my 50s. I've never gotten into the post 50 incarnate stuff yet so I'm finding it a tad confusing as yet. Getting to the revamped Dark Astoria is fairly easy , although I took Flagborn -- a jumper. Getting to DA you have to go through an apartment complex, a "forest", until you find yourself in an odd corridor and eventually a vertical pit. I was in that pit a while, found my way back to the corridor, then the pit before FINALLY finding the "entrance" to Dark Astoria. I felt that could have been done cleaner.
Dark Astoria itself is weird -- the Warwalls glow red. The mist is gone. This gives the zone a weird tone. Villains abound, but there are also contacts to be found here as well. Missions give you incarnate threads and various incarnate XP. In the zone and missions are a lot of new villains -- some with bizarre new powers. I ran into one weilding dual elemental swords. Another WAS a staff weilder. A couple weere half woman/ half snake types. This could get so interesting so fast.
Already Virtue hit RED last night. And Atlas Park and Dark Astoria went to a third zone each. Zwillinger was on shortly before I got online, and apparently had been doing something, but I must have just missed it.
It will be interesting to see when the Beast Mastery and Staff fighting powers are added. The CoH world is changing -- and for a while it will be interesting to ride out these changes . Why do I feel like a surfer on a tidal wave???