Nostromo21

As an original beta player I can honestly say I have never attempted to min/max a single hero I've ever created. And i have 10 already here on Excelsior, none over level 20 yet lol, all about theme, internal self-roleplay and fun, fun, FUN! Alt-o-holism I think it's called :). And I mostly solo, yet to team up once in the past couple weeks, but I'll get there...Most other mmos I have definitely tried min/maxing at some point, looking for cookie-cutter builds to make life easier or feel stronger, more 'heroic', etc. Having said all that, there certainly is a way to 'soft-min/max' in CoX and that is basically which class you pick for the task at hand. If you mainly solo like myself, I would recommend a Minion Master as an easier starter, newb-friendly archetype, if a little more fiddly with pet management. Given Kheldians & Arachnos are unlocked from level 1 on these servers, those are also quite powerful at low levels. I particularly like my Peacebringer, who has more bang for buck than a blaster, a bit more survivability and with innate flying from level 1 is super-quick to get around. The Arachnos Widow 'Flygirl' I started as a Villain is also great, the theme I made was for fastest flier ASAP. You could also consider a Stalker (just started a rad/rad one myself, a lot of fun even if I usually don't like melee classes), as you can skip most of the mobs in instances & run super-quick to the bosses/mission objectives, possibly leveling quicker as a result in most missions, YMMV. If you intent to mostly group, you can't go wrong with a Tanker or Defender, possibly the new Sentinel class I would suggest.But I am by no means a CoX guru, really more of a long-time casual player. I don't think I ever even got my main ice blaster to 50 back in day, again, too much alt-o-holism + I stopped around Issue 14 & only came back briefly around I21 when it went F2P, but just couldn't stuck to it as I think I had RL commitments and other games distracted me, more's the pity. Even though a lot of the game is dated & clunky by today's mmo standards, there is just something magical with the whole roleplay (again self/internal), cosplay, escapism, feeling super-heroic in the game. Thanks to the SCORE/Homecoming crew we can all relive that magic now, along with thousands of other new players :).

Given Spidey is my all time favourite superhero, I would love to see a web-based powerset, along with swinging for travel. Not sure if the engine could do it as it stands however. Plus I know it could bring down the wrath of Di$ney, ahem. But I miss this mechanic hugely from Marvel Heroes RIP...sigh

Quality artwork mate! ;)

One of my old favourites from early days: Kelvin Ator (ice blaster) A more recent fave - Carriona, MM Necro: And one of the worst I've ever seen I just had to take a screenshot of :)

I started an Ice/Ice one (Kelvin Zero) and the name was a bit of a self-full-fulling prophecy lol! A bit of a lackluster blaster, not much of anything else, but he looks really cool! :) Went back to my MMs & Kheldians eventually. Even had more fun with a staff/ninjitsu scrapper (MonkeyKing :) for a while & I don't like melee heroes at all, eh.

He, he, my knees and back are 100% thanks, even after 30 years of skiing on them! :) I may be on in an hour or so, but I have to warn you, I don't do Amish or Justice, only Tech and Revenge! ;)

Hey guys, I'm a GOB casual gamer (actually a time-limited power-gamer :), and was wondering if there are any GMT+10 SGs out there (mainly English speaking ideally)? I mostly play on weekday evenings after 7pm & randomly on weekends, being a busy married professional. Also being an original CoH beta player, I'm now in my 50s and would prefer not to have to deal with any kiddies who are most likely more mature than myself - it's not good for my self-esteem apparently :). In-game handle @Nostromo - please feel free to PM me on Excelsior. Cheers!

Why not just go totally freeform, throw ALL of the powersets into one giant pool and let us pick any primary + any secondary...? <EG>

Cool thanks guys, I'll persevere with him for a bit longer & go back to my MM main if it all becomes too much (or not enough :).

I just rolled an ice/ice Sentinel. I don't recall them being in CoX when I stopped playing - are they a new class the SCORE devs have created perhaps...? Or are you just saying these are not viable or underpowered? I also noticed you can get your super travel power at level 4 - wasn't it always 14? :-/

Yup, servers look like they're up right now, you wait in the queue for a half hour (luckily I'm in GMT+10 APAC region) and then just shit themselves getting into the server after trying to finalise char creation. Are they actually up or down, under maintenance, overloaded, what???

Kooooiiii!!! Virtue from down under here. Kelvin Ator was my main (ice/fire blaster) - see below. Ruby Rock sentimental second (fire tanker). Had a nice Aeroman energy blaster as well on Rogue (mainly built for max flight speed :). Too many alts to remember eh. So, when are these servers gonna be up again? Spent all night downloading this bastard & lo & behind, server goddamn maintenance all day so far *grumble*. Some of us ain't gettin any younger you know! ---- They came up about 10 mins after I posted this! Level 5 Necro MM & livin the dream all over again guys! :)))

I'd second a pinned server status page with any upcoming scheduled maintenance & expected outage times.