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Each of the different servers out there has cool stuff that the others don't. You've just got to decide which one is best for you.

I remember before LTR when defeat was often used as a mode of transportation. After a mission in the middle of nowhere it was often faster to rez in a hospital than to run back to the contact.

I really like the Stealth changes too. Having one power available at level 4 that does what two powers or IOs used to be required for is a massive improvement.

Is there a way to do both Weber and Fire Wire in the beginning?

I've been looking into this too. The starting contacts are the five origin ones and Matthew Habashy, the initial contact following the Galaxy City tutorial. Matthew and the people he introduces you to are the 1-7 hero contacts not listed on the wiki. Add in Twinshot at level 5, and you should have Atlas Park covered.

I have been inspired to try this too! There is still so much in this game that I haven't seen yet and doing it all at level on a single character sounds like an amazing journey.

That's what Nemesis plotters would say!

56, 36, 97. Mercs Masterminds seem to be popular random rolls here, this one with a Jackpot for Trick Arrow. I'll go make the character!

Charge Mastery. Mu is basically the same thing, but better.

Temporary attack powers are the way to go. Temp powers don't take archetype into account, so they are stronger on masterminds than anyone else, relatively speaking.

"OK good, now perform the sacrifice."

That worked. Thanks!

Yep, that's the same url I have for the manifest file. It doesn't even try to download anything. It just validates and then lets me run, and then I get the error mentioned above. The actual error message is: "Wrong game version, run patcher and reconnect, server 20200329_1193, client 20200303_848"

So, how do I get the patch? When I load Tequila, it just validates as normal and lets me start the game. When I connect to a server, it says I have the wrong game version and need to run the patcher. How do I do that?

All you'd really have to do is change the default Follow command from Aggressive to Defensive. Then the defaults given to new MMs would include one command for each stance, which is how I always thought it should be.

I have seen this used as some kind of reverse psychology tactic before: someone is having trouble filling a group, so they post an exclusionary message hoping to goad someone of the AT they were actually hoping for into joining their group to "prove them wrong." I don't know how successful a strategy it is, but I did see someone admit to doing it in LFG.

No, it means that someone else has created a character with that name.

My favorite part is that it's T4V in Praetoria. Transact For Victory!

Robotics is by far the best primary for a healbot. The tier two pets give two more healbots to your healbot. Also, your healbot and your healbot's healbots get to heal bots.

There's a "Maintenance Notices" thread at the top of this forum. The relevant bit for today is: All shards will be going down for patches and maintenance during our normal maintenance window on Thursday 2019-06-20 between 1200 and 1400 UTC (0800-1000 Eastern US time). Estimated downtime is approximately 2 hours.

I'm 38. My first MMO experience was as a beta tester for the Sims Online. I wasn't really interested in the game, and I don't even know why I was invited to the beta, but I tried it out. It was kind of neat at first, but I found it boring and repetitive and did not buy the game when it released. A couple years later, I was dabbling a bit in Star Wars Galaxies when I learned about City of Heroes. I bought it at launch and I remember loading the game up for the first time and being told that it couldn't run on my computer. So I went out and got a new graphics card and performed my first ever hardware installation. It was everything I thought it would be; in my opinion no other MMO has ever matched CoX for sheer fun. The World of Warcraft took over. I had a lot of friends who played it, and after much coercion, I joined them. I played WoW from vanilla to Cataclysm. I was a raid tank during the Burning Crusade, the only time I was ever serious about endgame. This was kind of the golden age of MMOs for me. I played with a close-knit group in WoW (only one of whom I ever met in real life), and we would frequently take breaks to explore other games. I made us a supergroup in City of Villains. We all did free trials in Star Wars Galaxies. Someone else introduced us all to Lord of the Rings Online. We had all drifted apart by the time Cataclysm came out, and that was the end of WoW for me. The graphics upgrades made it run poorly on my computer, but mostly it was just a busier time of life for me. I've tried out numerous games in the years since. I did go back to WoW in Legion just to see what it was like now. I feel like I've outgrown it. I continued playing CoH off and on until it closed. I played Dungeons and Dragons Online for a while. I wanted to like that game, and the multiclass system is very flexible and fun, but the entire quest system annoyed me. I played EVE Online for a while. It was amazing at first, but eventually it started to feel like work, so I had to stop playing. I signed up to be a beta tester for The Old Republic, and was annoyed to learn that my system couldn't run it. (If you haven't noticed, outdated hardware is kind of a theme for me.) I did eventually play it, and I enjoyed the story, but I wouldn't spend much time there. I played Star Trek Online, and I liked it enough to buy a lifetime subscription. And now I'm here.

Stone Armor/Fiery Aura would be pretty good. Regardless, I think the potential for underpowered characters is being overestimated. Slap a disclaimer that no one should choose custom unless they know what they're doing. I do understand the other concerns people have. Maybe make it so custom archetypes can't team with (or PVP against) traditional characters?

I played a lot of terrible builds over the years when I played CoX. I had a petless Mastermind back when Thugs/ was the only way to have dual pistols. I remember telling groups that I was actually a Corruptor, and everyone being confused, if they didn't just kick me. I did something similar to this once too, but as a melee Defender. It was my entry into a SG contest to see who could create the most useless alt. But the actual worst/(best?) character I had was a Stone Tanker who was loaded up with so many toggles that the only other power he could use was Brawl. He was almost invincible though, and if he stood next to an enemy for long enough, they died.