Xalon

Hey all! I've come across some great stories from other players and think it would be awesome to have everyone post how they first started playing. 1 - When did you first play and what/who introduced you to CoH? 2 - What do you love the most about CoH? When CoH came out, I wanted to play it sooo bad! This was before I knew about WoW or other mmorpgs. But I did not have the right computer to handle it, so I had to wait. A few years later, having a new computer, WoW became my first mmorpg. And then a year or so after that, I played Champions Online. Once I did, I had to play the game I always wanted to and the game that came before CO. When I played I loved it, but the graphics took a while to get used to. But once I got used to them, everything was awesome. But I never played more than 20 levels so it always felt like it was just open maps and doors and not much variety. So years go by and I find out about Homecoming (last year) and I played again and everything clicked. I guess it was the right time because I have loved every second since I started playing again. And now that I have more time, I'm trying to play at least a few hrs most days. What I love the most is the stories and the flying. But also the community. Everyone is so genuine it seems and want to help and teach others to love the game they surely do. It doesn't matter what our difference are because once we log in, we are all swept up in the love we have for this amazing gameworld and all it contains. What about you?

What is the point of this? Is leveling to just 50 that much of a hassle for people? We get double XP and can use AE for nonstop mob kills. Why rush even more with multi-boxing? I really want to understand what goes through someone's mind to think that this is fun. Honestly, lmk.

I love King Arthur and all things Camelot. All 11 Knights plus King Arthur!!!! Where did you get this? Did you paint it yourself? Msg me and lmk it's gorgeous.

Did they do anything for CoH's 20th anniversary? Not sure if they did. Would be cool if on that day, everyone goes to the PVP zones and earns influence when they defeat enemies. Or have a special Strike Force with rewards that for 24hrs has no cooldown and can be repeated.

You are correct, good sir! My mistake.

There are some enhancements I would take that only go up to level 20 or 30 or 40, and I would choose them because they were cheaper than the 1-50 sets. Some are good, but it seems none will ever come close to what we get with the max 50 sets

Knockbacks are amazing! Especially when you get the angles right they allow you to be more strategic with which order you fight enemies and great for keeping AVs or mobs away from each other while taking them down. Maybe there could be an enhancement or something, that can turn KBs into KUs (knockups). KnockDowns work great as well. Peacebringer is my main and I love that I have KB abilities and KD abilities. So cool.

Lunar Ronin... THANK YOU!!!! This is amazing! Thank you soo much! Storylines can be followed for arcs by when they were added to game which can be seen in Ouro and the zone levels show that progression, so what you just added, plus the chart for praetorian content is everything I was hoping for!!! AMAZING! Thank you again! S!

Welcome! There is honestly no point in joining any server other than Excelsior because it has everything - RPers, PVPers and everyone else. Maybe if you have a different time zone than another server might be better, but none of them come close to how many players are on Excelsior. The PVPers are there, but you should reach out on PVP forums to find others. Sometimes you can find them online depending where you go and which channels you ask on. But it's maybe like 5% of the playerbase, if even that much. AE has a TON of content, though stick with the higher rated missions as they are the most complete. But for REAL content, you have tons of story arcs and missions and repeatable missions, as well as dozens of trials, taskforces, strikeforces and raids. You will have years of content just playing one character and if you make alts and play a Hero, Villain and Praetorian, you will never get bored. You can also become a vigilante or rogue, which opens up some special story arcs as well. Ease yourself back into things and check on the wiki for "what has changed" (link below) and it gives a nice outline of everything added or changed since GR ended. WELCOME BACK! S! https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/What's_New_in_Homecoming_for_Returning_Players

Yes, all are older guides, but I always used to love these guides for mmos and they have lots of info some might not know. There is one for CoH, then an updated one for CoV. I do know they had another update with GR stuff added, but couldn't find it. Anyways, I just wanted to let you all know its there and free to download and keep. Now I wanna find the links for the 3 novels. That would be epic to add them too.

I want to have 4 main characters. One Hero/Vigilante One Villain/Rogue One Resistance Praetorian - that becomes vigilante/hero One Loyalist Praetorian - that becomes rogue/villain With what was posted, I have a good flowchart now for all content level 40+ going through everything in the Praetorian story for my hero and villain from primal Earth. And my Praetorians have the 1-20 content, First Ward and Night Ward to do consecutively, and then jump into level 40+ to continue Praetorian stuff. But what about all the TFs and Trials before Apex+, as those I'd like to do in order if possible, just not sure what the order is other than release order I guess? I'm doing the Phalanx member TFs (6 of them), and the 3 old Ouro TFs. Then after Numina, not sure the order of the others like Moonfire, Hess, Reichsman and a few others. If anyone knows that would be awesome!! I hope we can all come together and eventually have a list like what is here, but for pre-Praetorian content.

Neogumbercules wrote " ... 5. Gain a passive that removes your endurance pool completely. Powers now cost HP instead of endurance. Enemies that have been struck by HP spending powers drop orbs that heal you. Orbs can overflow your hp pool up to +200% HP. You deal x% more damage where x is equal to your overflow HP %. Powers and set bonus effects that would provide +end or +recovery instead provide +HP and +Regen respectively. Your overflow HP quickly drains down to normal when out of combat. You are completely immune to healing and -healing effects (powers, inspirations, procs, debuffs, etc) and +Regen effects have no effect beyond your normal HP cap (they can't contribute to HP overflow). The only way to recover HP is through natural Regen up to your normal HP cap or by picking up the orbs." This is a really cool idea that can used for a new AT. It would definitely be interesting. CoH can be so much more than it is currently, and it is AMAZING currently. The only problem is we have to find a way to let NCSOFT allow the devs to collect and keep the money they get. And those funds would be used on staff, servers and some marketing. Even if NCsoft got HALF of all funds coming in, it would still be plenty to hire staff fulltime and then we could see full issues releasing twice a year at least. Marketing, actually, can be handled mostly by players. Give us a badge and many would spread the word beyond what they already are doing lol. That is the ONLY way we will ever see new content and changes at a faster rate and I hope we can find a way to do it as a community. COH deserves to be around another couple of decades and I really hope we can make it happen. The devs put in a lot of work and deserve to be compensated.

Hey all! I found this online and figured I would share it with all of you. It's everything in the manual, plus so much more! Definitely fun to have as we play COH. Retro Game Strategy Guides - City of Heroes (Prima... (PDF) See you all out there! S!

There are a ton of things we could do with SuperGroup Bases. Maybe we can have a door in our SG where we can have AE missions that groups can do that are special challenges. As a SG earns badges, they unlock different parameters and challenge settings. IDK. I'm hoping we can get SG bases back to where they were on live or even better. Even without Prestige or power needs, we can definitely have base raiding and maybe more options through that.

This is all such great information. I appreciate all of you for taking the time to add your thoughts. So for purple IOs, do you mean you can only slot on set per type per build? or just one purple io per set, in one build?