I don't believe it was pay ONLY since I have 2 sets of them. You can usually only purchase once right? The other set had to have been from an event... I mean am I right? If I'm wrong I apologize and if it truly was pay only hopefully they'll bring it and other sets (primordials!) round for Christmas as a gift or something.

Once they've gotten the suckers who will pay for it --like me apparently lol --to buy a set, then they may as well let everyone else get them a bit later. At least that's what I would do... Which brings me to another idea I had.

We've had troopers from the beginning. Wouldn't it be cool if we could let our fellow troopers on our list "borrow" a set of our talismans for a single 24 hour period once per week? It would be like getting to use the cool new Eddie you didn't get but instead you could try the talismans on different characters you have. Not sure it would ever happen but it would be nice -- especially for newer players with less "resources".