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Its up and done. Well, done until someone points out an obvious mistake. Or I fill in those <placeholders> for mirroring. Annoyingly the forum software works fine with copypasta'd tab, but using a tab manually makes it freak out. I'll have to go fiddle with making everything pretty another day.

And the Guide Index is open for business. There's bound to be mistakes I missed, so please point them out, I don't have an editor. I spent 5 minutes trying to get a link to work right only to discover a line above was missing its close tag, so my a'brain is a'pudding. If the amount of guides grows, I'll really want to go with the old Guide to Guides method of having other people maintain separate AT guides and link to them. But two Invulnerability Tanker guides is well within what I can cope with. At this point the Guide Index should cover all the guides in the Guides section of the forum. If there are any in the AT sections, I ain't looking!

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Its up and ready for submissions. Thunderstorm is passing through, and I lost internet once in the middle, so I may not actually get guides linked into it right away.

XVI. Getting Help and Other Resources Related Programs and Guides Guide: Pine's Hero Designer on macOs TXG Sync Official Channels Using the Homecoming Forums Other Websites with Guides and Further Information The CoH/CoV Technical Reference Guide [i26] Shenanigunner Links to offsite collection of guides

XV. Looking Under the Hood - Advanced Mechanics 3rd Party Customization (maps, graphics, sounds, fonts, icons) Give your UI a facelift: replacing the CoH fonts with your own [i26] GM Capocollo Ashlocke's Handy Menu Ashlocke Silencing/Modifying Specific Game Sounds [i26] Oubliette Red Screenshots, Demos, Videos Computers & Peripherals Homecoming Development

XIV. The Out of Character Experience Community History, Customs and Culture The Guide to Issues aka "When did they add/change that?" [i23] Trickshooter Leading by (Bad) Example Comic Books and "The Industry"

XIII. The In-Game World - Tale of Three Cities Background, Storybook, and Lore Areas and Zones and other Places Finding Yourself Hero Zones Villain Zones Praetorian Zones Shared Zones

XII. Other Game Systems Badges Setting Badge Title How to Get a Specific Badge How to get a Specific Badge Set Badge Lists Badge Trackers Arena and Gladiator Day Jobs Mission Architect

XI. Inventions - Enhancements, Recipes, "Loot" and the Market Inventions in General Guide to Cost Effectiveness of IOs vs SOs [i26] Erydanus Nic's Guide to IOs With IMPACT! [i26] Nic Mercy A quick and dirty crash course in Enhancement Converters [i26] Zolgar Attuning/Catalyzing Enhancements [i26] Venture Invention Salvage, Recipes, and Drops The Consignment Markets and Economy "I can't afford enchancements." A simple guide for making money at lower levels. [i26] Zolgar Enhancements, Inventions, and Consignments. Oh my! [i26] khy How to Make Millions on the Market in Minutes [i26] Robotech_Master A P2W Store Primer

X Powers -Enhancements and Respecification Enhancements Respecification

IX. Teams, Groups, and Bases Teaming How to form a team How to run a team- leader tips Team Strategy Knowing Your Teammates Capabilities Voice Communication Super (Villain) Groups and Bases Creating a group Creating a Base Base Salvage and Crafting (Not applicable in the Homecoming fork.)

VIII. Missions Contacts, Difficulty, and Missions in General Incredibly Useful Contacts/Mission ARcs You Won't Want to Miss [i26] Amidamaru Blueside Critical Path [i26] Almafeta Basic Guide for leveling in CoH [i26] Foxfyre Loyalist <-> Resistance... switching alignments EVERY TIME for Praetorians [i26] Redlynne Mayhem and Safeguard, Schemes and Policebands Specific Missions Trials, Raids, Events, and Task/Strike -Forces Hero Content Villain Content Shared Content Respecification Trials The Hamidon Raids Comprehensive Guide to Hami Raiding [i26] Foxfyre Lord Recluse Strike Force Miss Liberty Task Force Ouroboros and Flashback Ouroboros Flashback Badge Guide [i26] Almafeta Going Rogue and Praetoria Alignment System

VII. Foes Combating the Environment (PvE) Giant Monsters ArchVillains and the Hero class Foes in General and other Specific Foes Combating Other Players (PvP)

VI. Combat Mechanics Introduction to Combat How notto Visit the Hospital -Layered Resilience in CoH. [i26]marcussmythe Defense, Accuracy, and To-Hit The Best Defense - Beginner's Advice for IOs, Builds, and Survivability [i26] Cheli Damage, Experience, Rewards and Leveling Health and Endurance A Guide to Health & Regeneration and how they work [i26] Harlequin565 Other Combat Mechanics Recharge and you [i26] The math of recharge Zolgar Control, Aggro and Strategy Pulling Managing Aggro

V. Communicating With Others Playing Nicely Know Where and How to Speak Understanding One Another Sying it With Style

IV. Operating Your Game - How To Make Things Go Commands User Interface Silencing/Modifying specific game sounds [i26] Oubliette_Red Advanced Buff Bar Filtering [i?] Adeon Hawkwood Fixing that Tiny Text in the Information Window (A Guide Comparison) [i26] Dallayna Reconfiguring your alt's HUD [i26] Shenanigunner Binds & Macros How To Bind & Macro Macros for the Masses (and keybinds too!) [i26] TrexelCat Binds for Specific Purposes The Inspiration Maker's Guide [i26] Microcosm PnP Macro/Keybind setub [i26] hooliganj Priority targets - quite possibly the most useful macro you will ever make [i26] Zolgar Ninja Run Bind file set. [i26] Ashlocke Travel Binds Remapping

III. Archetypes, Powersets, Powers and Builds Guide to Archetype and Powerset Heroes (Blaster, Controller, Defender, Scrapper, Tanker, Kheldian) Invulnerability Tankers- the first 20 levels[i26] Call Me Awesome Invulnerability Tankers - Soft Cap Defense [i26] Call Me Awesome Fire/Storm (Controller) &nbsp;The Only Way to Burn [i26] Harlequin565 En/En (Blaster) The Murder Bunny [i26] Harlequin565 Villains (Brute, Corruptor, Dominator, Mastermind, Stalker, Soldiers of Arachnos) The Homecoming of Sandolphan's &nbsp;MM Numpad binds [i26] Warlawk Lobsters Guide to Picking a Dominator Secondary [i26] lobster Lobster's Guide to Mastermind Epic Pools [i26] lobster More Than Just a Ninja: A Guide to Stalkers [i26] Croax New! (Sentinel) Sunsette's Guide to the Energy Blast Sentinel [i26] Sunsette Collabrative Project: A guide to Sentinel Sets [i26] Community <Work in Progress!> Pool Powers Travel Powers Other Pool Powers Ancillary/Patron Pool Powers Specific Powers & Character Concepts What Archetypes Can Do Powers used by Several ATs Support Set Overview[i26] Inco List of Thematic Powers [i26] LaconicLemur Character Concepts Farm Fresh Builds! &nbsp;Farming focused builds [i26] Warlawk In General Incarnate System General Early Incarnates Mini Guide [i26] LKMarleigh Incarnate Powers and Slots Hybrid Slot, Assault Radial vs. Core [i26] Cheli Homecoming Incarnate Guide a.k.a Incarnates made easy [i26] jimjimjimmeh

II. Before You Start - Preparing to Play Manuals, New Players' Guides, Accunt Info, and Overviews Official City of Heroes Manual Archived Official City of Villains Manual Archived Other Official Guides (Thanks, Troo!) Homecoming - What's New with City of Heroes Homecoming Account Information Beginner Guides The Holy Trinity Isn't. Advice for veterans of other MMOs [i26] Zolgar "So What's Good?": Advice for NEw Players [i26] Zumberge Tips Guideposts for Long Range Planning Character Creation Names and Titles Rolling Role-Players Origins Alternative Characters Costume Hero/Villain Planners

I. Introduction: The Guide Index Player Guide Forum and the Guide Index Thread This is an index of the Guides created for City of Heroes Homecoming, here in the Guide Forums. This Index is primarily for new material created for I26: Homecoming and beyond. If you make a player guide, please place a copy in the forums, even if you are hosting a copy elsewhere. It will help prevent dead links and will make backups through Archive.org (and any other mirroring) more consistent. This Thread is the Guide Index, a collection of links to guides in the guide forum. Writing Guides If you have written a guide, please let us know by posting a line in this thread. Do us a favor, and use 24pt size to call attention to it. Listing what section you believe your guide belongs in would also speed its inclusion in the index. Please do not post the guide itself in this thread. Start a new one in this forum, then post a link to it in this thread. When you title your guide, make sure its purpose is clear. Puns are wonderful, but if anyone is going to find it, we still need to know what its about. It will be helpful to list what issue the guide was written for. Homecoming starts with [i26], but [i24] and [i25] servers are in the wild, and an [i27] isn't unlikely. Finding Guides If you have general questions or requests for guides, please make them in the Architype or General forums. This thread, and the Guides section are primarily archival in nature. If you are looking for a specific topic, you don't need to rely on this thread's internal links. Your browser search function (commonly brought up with ctrl+f) can find a specific topic or even cycle you through by Issue tag. If that doesn't help, try using the search function of the forum. Advice can be found all over the community. As new guides are added to the thread, we'll try to get to adding them to the Guide Index proper. But data entry is boring and CoH is right there. So expect significant gaps between updates. Reader Beware These guides are for players, by players, so are filled with lots of opinion. Many guides will contain factual information, but even though we have access to the program these days plenty of old myths still crop up from time to time. Old information is often outdated and incorrect, pay attention to the Issue and date when looking for guides. Particularly if you use the old Guide to Guide, its 7 years out of date! Updating Guides Going foreward we encourage everyone to revisit and update their guides. Just checking once each issue to make sure nothing changed and updated your guide's Issue tag can help players be confident that they're getting updated information. You may even find others have provided useful advice, builds and commentary in your thread that warrant inclusion. Go ahead and create a brand new thread with your update, include the new material and give credit where credit is due. Link your new guide here and in your old guide too. If you want to update a guide that has gone inactive (including this one!) copy what you need to your own thread, give credit (Thanks Zombie Man!), link back to the original (like this did), and link to it in the Guide Index.

Last Update: 8/112019 (Internal links repaired. Please notify me if any are still faulty.) This is an index of Player Guides, for players, by players. Thank you to everyone that contributes. This is a resurrection of Zombie Man's pre-shutdown Guide to Guides. You can find The undead Guide to the Guides (Zombie Man 4-21-12, [i23]) on the web archive. Its full of all the pre-shutdown guides that countless players wrote and an excellent resource. This Index will be focused on the material written for the I26 Homecoming servers. [glow=yellow,2,300]Mirrors to be found at <placeholder> and <web.archive placeholder>.[/glow] Information on contributing is in section one, the first linked post. This post contains the links to the Index subsections below, allowing quick navigation to the links to the guides. Click the header to be on your way. I. Introduction: The Guide Index. II. Before You Start -Preparing to Play Manuals, New Player's Guides, Account Information, Overviews. Homecoming - What's new with City of Heroes Homecoming Account Info Beginner Guides Tips Guideposts for long range planning Character Creation Names and Titles Rolling Role-Players Origins Alternative Characters Costume Hero/Villain Planners III. Archetypes, Powersets, Powers and Builds Guide to Archetype and Powersets Heroes (Blaster, Controller, Defender, Scrapper, Tanker, Kheldian) Villains (Brute, Corruptor, Dominator, Mastermind, Stalker, Soldiers of Arachnos) New (Sentinel) Pool Powers Travel Powers Other Pool Powers Ancillary/Patron Pool Powers Specific Powers & Character Concepts What Archetypes Can Do Powers used by Several ATs Character Concepts In General Incarnate System General Incarnate Powers and Slots IV. Operating Your Game - How To Make Things Go Commands User Interface Binds & Macros How To Bind & Macro Binds for Specific Purposes Travel Binds Remapping V. Communicating With Others Playing Nicely Know Where and How to Speak Understanding One Another Sying it With Style VI. Combat Mechanics Introduction to Combat Defense, Accuracy, and To-Hit Damage, Experience, Rewards and Leveling Health and Endurance Other Combat Mechanics Control, Aggro and Strategy Pulling Managing Aggro VII. Foes Combating the Environment (PvE) Giant Monsters ArchVillains and the Hero class Foes in General and other Specific Foes Combating Other Players (PvP) VIII. Missions Contacts, Difficulty, and Missions in General Mayhem and Safeguard, Schemes and Policebands Specific Missions Trials, Raids, Events, and Task/Strike -Forces Hero Content Villain Content Shared Content Respecification Trials The Hamidon Raids Lord Recluse Strike Force Miss Liberty Task Force Ouroboros and Flashback Going Rogue and Praetoria Alignment System IX. Teams, Groups, and Bases Teaming How to form a team How to run a team- leader tips Team Strategy Knowing Your Teammates Capabilities Voice Communication Super (Villain) Groups and Bases Creating a group Creating a Base Base Salvage and Crafting (Not applicable in the Homecoming fork.) X Powers -Enhancements and Respecification Enhancements Respecification XI. Inventions - Enhancements, Recipes, "Loot" and the Market Inventions in General Invention Salvage, Recipes, and Drops The Consignment Markets and Economy XII. Other Game Systems Badges Setting Badge Title How to Get a Specific Badge How to get a Specific Badge Set Badge Lists Badge Trackers Arena and Gladiator Day Jobs Mission Architect XIII. The In-Game World - Tale of Three Cities Background, Storybook, and Lore Areas and Zones and other Places Finding Yourself Hero Zones Villain Zones Praetorian Zones Shared Zones XIV. The Out of Character Experience Community History, Customs and Culture Leading by (Bad) Example Comic Books and "The Industry" XV. Looking Under the Hood - Advanced Mechanics 3rd Party Customization (maps, graphics, sounds, fonts, icons) Screenshots, Demos, Videos Computers & PeripheralsHomecoming Development XVI. Getting Help and Other Resources Official Channels Using the Homecoming Forums Other Websites with Guides and Further Information

And you can save yourself a boatload of typing by copying HeroReborn's work into a simple .txt file to save, then using /bindloadfile to install them all at once. And even make other keys swap you between sets of binds, like you were some kind of Mastermind. Which would be accurate if your pets ever listened to commands. ;D

I could, but this gives me an offline copy in simple text. And I'd have still left dead links in there as placeholders so I don't forget to insert them when I post the Index. I won't have urls until then. Cribbing from Zombie Man's Guide to Guide has made me realize, it would be great if I could get individuals to manage each AT's Index separately. That would allow those sections to be updated more frequently and let someone with passion for that AT choose which discussion threads are worth including with the outright guides. If someone went silent, I'd find a new caretaker for that AT and link to the replacement too. (And if I vanish, anyone willing to do the work can copypasta everything I leave up.) I'm looking for caretakers for each Archtype's Index. If you want to be the Hetman for your favorite AT, speak up and I'll put you on the master list. If someone has already started one, let me know about it too! Did I miss anything in my outline? (Other than Sentinels under ATs. Corrected in my docs.) Is there anything specific to Homecoming that should get its own section that I haven't included yet?