Xalon

Peacebringer should stay as it is. I'll take buffs, but there is no need to make any nerfs or add cooldowns or anything. The difference in power between PBs is selection of powers, slots and enchancements and procs. So why change that? Other than other ATs complaining it's unfair we have 3 forms, is there really a need to make any changes? I don't get it.

It's not hard at all to click the forms to change and use those abilities. I don't get why others have such an issue with it. We are getting bonuses from each form rather than just using those extra powers, so I like it. Once you map things on your keyboard comfortably, it's really quick to switch. Ranged and extra DPs = bright nova main damage with toggles and more variety + melee or ranged = human form extra defense and invul to a lot of cc = dwarf Switching between them is part of the fun IMO.

White dwarf - 3 slots for each of the 4 attacks, and 3 in form for extra survivability Bright Nova - 5 slots in each attack (all) and 3 slots for the form Inner Light needs more for better dmg, maybe 3 total. Why take Grant Invisibility? I have Stealth but thats it. Also, do you find Quantum Acceleration worth it? Really good build. Good selection of enhancements. Gave me a few ideas too. Great job!

Would it even be possible to use a gamepad when most characters are using like 20+ powers? How would that even work?

Bio, when someone has a rifle/axe or whatever weapon on their back (as it isn't being used) does the back item show (like backpack/cape/etc.)? They should make shield work like the weapons. But then idk how someone could have a rifle and shield and it not look clunky. I believe Shields are only "active" when you have a toggle on, but I may be wrong.

I'll never understand how players can be so lazy in an mmorpg game. It's sad.

Found this on the wiki: Paragon Protector (Dark Boss) Dark Real-ID Paragon Protector Crey's new Altruist Division supergroup is staffed by these Real-ID Protectors; heroes from around the world specifically recruited by Crey to help protect the city from an evergrowing list of threats. Unlike the Paragon Protectors, these Real-ID Protectors are unmasked and have their identities publicly listed on the Altruist Division website, supposedly proving that none are a result of the Revenant Hero Project. This Real-ID Protector has successfully participated in several medium-to-high threat missions and has been trusted with a core role on one of Altruist Division's subteams. Levels: 40-54 Powers Fly Self Fly Crey Cloned Heroes can Fly! Dark Blast Ranged, Moderate DMG(Negative), Foe -ToHit A long range blast of dark energy. Deals moderate Negative Energy damage and reduces the target's chance to hit. Gloom Ranged, High DoT(Negative), Foe -ToHit Gloom slowly drains a target of life, while reducing his Accuracy. Slower than Dark Blast, but deals more damage over time. Tenebrous Tentacles Ranged (Cone), Moderate DoT(Negative), Foe Immobilize, -ToHit You can create a cone shaped rift to the Netherworld that allows its native creatures to slip their oily Tentacles into our reality. These creatures will snare all foes within range, Immobilizing them while the Tentacles drain their life and reduce their chance to hit. Life Drain Ranged, High DMG(Negative), Foe -ToHit, Self Heal You can tap the power of the Netherworld to steal some life from a target foe and reduce their chance to hit. Some of that stolen life is transferred to you in the form of Hit Points. Shadow Punch Melee, Light DMG(Negative/Smash), Foe -ToHit You wrap your fists with Negative Energy channeled from the Netherworlds, then perform a quick punch that deals minor damage. Shadow Punches cloud the target's vision, lowering his Accuracy for a short time. Smite Melee, Heavy DMG(Negative/Smash), Foe -ToHit You wrap your fists with Negative Energy channeled from the Netherworlds, then perform a Smite that deals more damage than Shadow Punch, but has a longer recharge time. Smite clouds the target's vision, lowering his Accuracy for a short time. Siphon Life Melee, Superior DMG(Negative), Foe -ToHit, Self Heal You tap the power of the Netherworld and create a life transferring conduit between a foe and yourself. This will transfer Hit Points from your enemy to yourself. Foes Siphoned in this manner have their Accuracy reduced. Midnight Grasp Melee, Extreme DoT(Negative), Foe Immobilize, -ToHit Mastery over the forces of the Netherworld allows you to create dark tentacles that can Immobilize a foe and continuously drain his life force. Dark Embrace Toggle: Self +Res( S30 L30 N20 T20 ) You tap into the energy of the Netherworld to protect yourself from damage. This Dark Embrace shrouds you and grants resistance to Lethal, Smashing, Toxic, and Negative Energy damage.

Let's see... Stealth/Invisibility - you can go translucent or solid with a toggle Spirit Strength - as a ghost, you are harder to hit, so you take less of all damage types Haunt - you terrify/scare the enemies around you so they go running Poltergeist - can work like the Kheldian power Photon Seekers (you summon 3 ghosts that attack and disappear) Possess - you can take control of any enemy nearby for 60secs Possess (ver. 2) - you can take control of 2-3 enemies for 30 secs (while still having control of your character, making the possessed like pets) Banshee Wail - aoe kb attack with a scream that sends enemies flying Add a mix of Ghost Widows powers, the Spirit Shark powers with ghosts appearing instead of shark/leviathon/coralax stuff, and what I have above. Or maybe have it like Kheldians, with tri form: Spirit/Ghost (main form), Banshee (ranged/support), and something else to tank. Would be cool. I always wished that Ghost Widow had a set that matched her abilities perfectly.

I know for sure that when you have an NPC teammate that can heal, they will resurrect your other teammates when they go down. And I hope that they all use rest when no healer is around and they still come back. If you are in the mission and lose someone and they aren't coming back, you can leave mission, change to another mission and then select the original mission again and start with fresh team, though the mission will reset. But if it happens early on, it's a big help. I'm gonna try out some things and verify what you are saying but I believe you are correct. Veterans can jump in and say if they know for sure.

Would be a great idea to have that. Your shield can replace your cape/back item. Then when you turn on any defense toggle, it goes to your arm and back item is hidden. Not perfect but simple enough to possibly happen.

That one and the never ending caverns that have like 5-6 levels going down. Also, any of the early Council cavern maps. Just ooof. The part with the 3 levels of water sectioned off with generators and scaffolding.

Welcome!!! Hawkman was always one my my favorites! I'm a huge history buff and went to school to become an acrhaeologist before I had to switch to something to earn money faster - which was commercial art and design. Now I own a design firm in NYC but I still love history and will read as many texts as I can and do my own research at times. If you are ever interested in the Revolutionary War, read 1776 by Bill O Reilly. It's an amzing read. I was more focused on ancient history, mythology and theology. Hmu anytime to talk shop. @Xalon

Amazing responses everybody! We get to learn a little more about each other, how we started and what we love. Brings us all closer together as a community. I'm gonna try and have more open posts with questions and see how we do 🙂 GJ! Keep em coming!

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.