Game systems & updates
General game systems, tutorials and update missions.
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Powers
Choose a power set around the role you want to play.
Read guideInvestigations
Follow the green markers to complete investigation sets.
Read guideCollections
Find collection sets by neighborhood and reward.
Read guideFeats
Earn feat points, gain skill points, and understand optional unlocks for alternate characters.
Read guideEquipment
Understand weapons, costume pieces, and the other items your character carries.
Read guideWeapon Mastery
Unlock stronger weapon combos and chain attacks into another weapon type.
Read guideArtifacts
Equip long-term upgrades and improve them with Nth Metal and catalyst breakthroughs.
Read guideFire
Fire abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideGadgets
Gadgets abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideIce
Ice abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideMental
Mental abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideNature
Nature abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideSorcery
Sorcery abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideCelestial
Celestial abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideAtomic
Atomic abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideEarth
Earth abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideElectricity
Electricity abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideLight
Light abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideMunitions
Munitions abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideQuantum
Quantum abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideRage
Rage abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideWater
Water abilities, role effects, power interactions and source-listed costs.
Read guideArtifacts (Mission)
Artifacts is a mission automatically becoming available once a player character reaches level 23.
Read guideBounties
Bounties are missions which task players with defeating powerful heroes and villains. These missions are started in various Safe Houses and across the Multiverse from Wanted posters or quest givers.
Read guideDaily Mission
The term Daily Missions (or Daily) refers either to any mission that can be acquired and completed once per day; or to the special instance of every category for that day.
Read guideJournal
The Journal is an interface that allows players to keep track of their current missions.
Read guideMembership Has Its Perks
Membership Has Its Perks is a mission for heroes and villains which automatically appeared in their journal on December 9th/10th, 2015 as a means of appreciation of the players' DCUO membership.
Read guideMission collections
Mission collections are special drops that are only dropped by monsters when doing certain missions. For example, Minions of Wrath drop "samples" when the player is doing Sample Of Sins. They are not actual items that go into the inventory, but simply count towards the mission progress.
Read guideMission Set
A Mission Set is a set of missions randomly granted by the same taskmaster in an open-world zone. Mission Sets are typically recurring and available on a Daily basis.
Read guidePlaytest as Batman
Historical beta reward mission: the source describes claiming Batman Exobyte Data during DCUO's preorder promotion.
Read guideStory Missions
Story Missions are introductory missions meant to be played through the first time a player begins a new Story Arc ( Episode or Chapter). In many cases they need to be completed before recurring Daily or Weekly Missions will become available via taskmasters.
Read guideThe Demon's Head
The Demon's Head is a wrapper mission to introduce the player to the League of Assassins Stronghold alert. It automatically appears in the player's journal upon reaching a combat rating of 53.
Read guideWeekly Mission
The term Weekly Missions (or Weekly) refers either to any mission that can be acquired and completed once per week, mainly from end game Story Arcs. The prime examples are Bounty Missions, but can also include other large-group or cumulative open-world efforts.
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