SwellGuy

I am completely biased in favor of flying so believe me when I write the following:

Fly is the safest, easiest and slowest travel power.

Superjump is faster and you can land in trouble but you can control your movement while in the air similar to fly.

Superspeed is fastest in a fashion but completely on the ground so getting up in some zones it is not efficient.

Teleport is technically the fastest but a total endurance hog until/unless well slotted to reduce endurance. Plus some people have trouble with the temporary hovering in it not being long enough and plummet to their deaths.

Anyone can get any of the travel powers. At level 6 you can start choosing pool powers instead of just your primary and secondary powersets. In order to obtain a travel power you need to choose a pre-requisite power from the same pool. In the case of fly that would be Hover or Air Superiority (a melee attack which I would recommend over hover).

At level 14 or higher if you have the pre-req power you can take the travel power.

There are temporary versions of fly and superjump available in the game. You can get fly at level 1 with the temp power we just got for the jetpack. You would need the salvage and influence to craft it. There is also at levels 5-9/10 you run radio missions in Kings Row and after 3 of them your detective will offer you the Atlas Park safeguard which will reward you with the temp power jetpack.

At level 10 it is a 50/50 chance for Atlas Park or Kings' Row safeguard. Levels 11-14 it is Kings' Row and Kings Row has the Superjump pack temp power.

There are 2 other temp fly powers. One is purchased with real money at $5/month and the other costs 40,000 influence in the Shadow Shard.

So you have a ton of fly options without even taking the power.

[Edit] And Dechs' link is the bestest.

There are so many times I want to reply to you with your signature image.

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Almost all activity is done via instances from contacts though you can fight "in the wild" so to speak.

A group is usually formed either by /sea (search) command to find people looking for teams and sending them a tell asking them if they want to join or by sending the invite. This can lead to some ruffled feathers either way so go with what you think is best. I would recommend a tell and wait for the answer but some people just want to get going.

If you do send a tell a short polite message is best "We are doing missions. Want to join?"

The great thing now is the team members get set to the same level as the mission or the team leader if no mission is set.

Level cap is 50 but mostly irrelevant since there's not much that just starts there. It all is pretty well going from level 1 on.

You can level to 50 and have a blast completely solo if you want to. I often do.

Welcome to the game and forums.

A good website to link is paragonwiki.com which has links to other useful resources.

Also be aware of the Guides forum below.

Questions on this forum get answered fairly quickly.

I am not sure what you are asking about worrying about PUGs. If you mean getting on one it is easiest on Virtue and Freedom but there are global chat channels on the other servers however since you are on a trial you will be experiencing unique challenges in that regard because you will be unable to send tells, reply to tells or use broadcast. The best thing you can do is set your looking for team prompt that you are on a trial and looking.

If you are wondering about the quality of PUGs, well the game is pretty easy so it is hard to get on a complete disaster but it can happen.

If PvP is your interest you will want to play on Freedom however since you are on a trial you will only be able to use the arenas. The PvP zones begin at level 15.

We have a major new expansion coming soon: Going Rogue. There's a lot of waiting for that going on.

About the author of the guide:

That would be nice. A contact list would also be good so you don't have to type in their global to mail it each time.