Oh wow. I hate to break this to you, so have a seat. Relax. Chill, and assume crash position. Right. The baseline is - in US dollars - $1 to 100 zen. That's $10 to 1000 zen. So a Freeform slot is $50.
Yeah, okay. Moving on...
With that said, you can convert in-game currency to Zen, at player-determined exchange rates. I don't personally know of anyone who's bought a Freeform slot this way, but I do know folks who've made 5000 Zen purchases in Star Trek Online with this method. In part taking advantage of favourable exchange. Granted, they all said it took like 3-6 months of regular gameplay to do that.
I'm not sure how hard it is to come by a grav bike - you can probably purchase them outright off the auction market, but again that would require a certain amount of in-game capital. It's also possible some of the dedicated Champions players here might have extras. I don't know. I don't really care for the game that much - I used to, but at this point I've done most of the levelling content and don't particularly enjoy what endgame exists.
It's worth noting that the aggro issues as a Seraphim user are really exclusively group problems. I do not imagine this will be a huge issue solo. In groups, though - yeah, I wouldn't personally wish to play a character with the Seraphim secondary without the safety net of an aggro-drop or good self-protection power.
In fact, even running as a Freeform character with various kinds of self-protection stacked on top of Seraphim, I still eventually moved away from Seraphim on my healer mage to Aura of Radiant Protection as his passive, to be less squishy.
-- Acyl
Yeah, okay. Moving on...
With that said, you can convert in-game currency to Zen, at player-determined exchange rates. I don't personally know of anyone who's bought a Freeform slot this way, but I do know folks who've made 5000 Zen purchases in Star Trek Online with this method. In part taking advantage of favourable exchange. Granted, they all said it took like 3-6 months of regular gameplay to do that.
I'm not sure how hard it is to come by a grav bike - you can probably purchase them outright off the auction market, but again that would require a certain amount of in-game capital. It's also possible some of the dedicated Champions players here might have extras. I don't know. I don't really care for the game that much - I used to, but at this point I've done most of the levelling content and don't particularly enjoy what endgame exists.
It's worth noting that the aggro issues as a Seraphim user are really exclusively group problems. I do not imagine this will be a huge issue solo. In groups, though - yeah, I wouldn't personally wish to play a character with the Seraphim secondary without the safety net of an aggro-drop or good self-protection power.
In fact, even running as a Freeform character with various kinds of self-protection stacked on top of Seraphim, I still eventually moved away from Seraphim on my healer mage to Aura of Radiant Protection as his passive, to be less squishy.
-- Acyl