Morgaren

I want to thank everyone again for all the helpful advice. I did a respec, I switched up my slots so I had more in my main attacks and armor, took a few more utility toggle abilities, set my enhancements as all IO's cause well, one I sold some of those converter things, and just bought what I needed, then while doing it some guy asked me if I was new and working on my build, I said yeah, so he gave me a million inf. WTF, okay I hope to pay it forward one day. Captain Canada if you see this, you da man But yeah, I am SLAUGHTERING stuff now.....well I am a hero, so maybe not slaughtering, but I went from dying a lot, to I died once cause I was like, screw it I am invincible. Apparently I am not, but a lot tougher than before.

Okay awesome, so while leveling I can just focus on the part that is the "ACC" or "DMG" to know what to slot in what powers That I get, I can work with that. I think thats it for theory crafting, now I just need to play some more. One more quick question (at least for right now) Every build I see does not list flying as a power. But.....flying is cool. Out of fighting, leaping, leadership, and speed, which one is the one to drop? Seems like fighting is a staple for most brute builds, I don't have it currently cause I thought "why have fighting, I got a melee power set" If It's really in my best interest to drop flying I can, I do enjoy going straight to a building to enter a mission area though.

So hey I am still looking at this stuff, and I really appreciate all the help. So I am going to copy and paste one thing I found, I seen the same type of stuff for each build, and this is giving the old sex daily a workout. Level 1: Radioactive Smash -- SprBrtFur-Acc/Dmg(A), SprBrtFur-Dmg/Rchg(3), SprBrtFur-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(3), CrsImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(5), CrsImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(5), FrcFdb-Rechg%(7) I am fluent in english and american french (shit, damn, etc.) What lanuage is "sprbrtfur-Acc/dmg(A)" I am currently searching for a language primer for this (I am actually googling things like "COH enhancement lingo") but still not finding an explanation on this, I did find the difference between SO's and IO's (while looking for the other, but thats good to know too. Thanks again

What the....helpful answers, sorry just not use to this kind of treatment in MMO forums. Thanks to both of you I am going to look some of this stuff up, it helps knowing "this is the right stuff to look at"

Okay I played this game back during live, it wasn't my cup of tea at the time, I had a dark/dark melee fighter, I am assuming scrapper, this was when city of Villians just came out, and I had city of heroes, not Villians. Then I came back a few years later, made a new character a dark/dark melee type, I am assuming brute cause I was a villian. Good fun, was still kind of slow. So now here I am I have come back and before I really interacted with the community, I wanted to make sure I was going to stay a while. I am digging this, what I used to think were downsides are now the reasons I want to play. I like the slower paced combat, I don't mind the aesthetics, and the community here is well, I have been called a crotchety old man since I was 13 years old, and when I see posts about the age range of the players here, I am still technically a young pup, but I am with my own kind. So I have a series of questions I want to ask the players who know what the hell is going on, cause while I am enjoying the game, I am not enjoying not knowing what to do. I made a rad/fire brute, because I wanted to use Corium in the name (radioactive lava made in meltdowns) Then after playing a bit I figured out this was a good combo to pick. I am currently level 17, and the difficulty of the game is changing so I think that I am not doing some things right. If there is a good guide somewhere that answers all or most of these just point me there, I am trying to look for stuff, but between the old live advice that is not current, and my inherent sex daily, I mean dyslexia, its sometimes hard to find what I am looking for in big walls of text. (Yes, yes, I know how I write, the irony is not lost on me.) Also some of the guides I read, well, they are obviously written for people who understand all the lingo and the what is there, but not the why. So it makes no sense to me to retain. 1) Where should I focus my enhancement slots while leveling? Do I dump them into one power so I have a few that are mega hit hard things? Do I space them out over all of them? I have been basically putting two in whatever power I got last, I don't think this has been a good way to do it. 2) Is there an in game way to find out what I need to do to get badges? and are they really worth it? I mean, I want them, so I am going to go get them, cause I want them. But do they actually do anything meaningful, when I am looking up badge info I see that some do something, but well, I haven't had time to read through all of them. Should I just focus on a few for game mechanics, and then others for fun? if so which ones? 3) it seems like some missions I blow through and others eat my lunch, what am I missing? (besides other players) I saw a warning that said for only one mission "I might want team mates" I blew through that one no problem, but then some random mission later the mobs just slaughtered me. 4) Seems like inventions are the shit. this the case? also should I spend the time and effort to build these instead of enhancements while leveling? first major problem I had was when I out leveled my enhancements and my powers went to poop, after upgrading I was back to being okay, and inventions don't go down when I level, I think that may be slightly more valuable than the extra 10% an at level enhancement gives me. Thanks in advance to any answers.