BlackDecember

Thanks for the advice!

Long time blaster, first time sentinel. I'm thinking of creating either Energy/Rad or Energy/Inv ... are either or those good combos? And would one be significantly better than the other? Thanks!

Thanks. I believe I wrote that guide during CoH's first year so a few other things beyond enhancement slotting could be out of date.

My ICE/NRG Blaster guide from back in the day. BIG thanks to zart for digging it up. https://web.archive.org/web/20120905010424/http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=113594 The enhancement slotting advice is no longer applicable but the rest of the guide holds up pretty well, I think.

THANK you SO MUCH for finding that! It's been so long since I last played (I didn't even remember that I was ICE/NRG) that I can use a little guidance from the past. (Obviously the "slot 5 dmg" advice is a little dated).

My download keeps getting stuck on the pigg files. Do I just keep restarting the download to get past this issue? Thanks!

Others in this thread have explained it better than I'll be able to but I completely understand those who say COH simply has a better "feel" than CO. It's hard to define. The game is difficult, no doubt, especially when compared to something like WoW. But the controls in COH have always felt intuitive to me. And something always felt off about CO. It always felt like the lanscapde was moving around my character rather than my character moving through the landscape. I don't know if that makes any sense. And I didn't enjoy the power sets. I had really high hopes for CO ... so high that I bought the lifetime subscription ... but it just never kept my interest the way COH did. And it was never as much fun to play.

It's interesting. When I started playing this game, about a month after it first came one, it was my first true MMO love. And it's STILL my answer to the question, "What is the greatest game you ever played?" I only learned that it was back online last night and so I'm sitting at work today, champing at the bit to get home and revisit Paragon City. Will it hold up? I don't know. Quite a lot of changed in gaming since I last played. Moreover, I've changed. I was in my late 30s during my COH heyday and now I'm 52. I have a granddaughter. And I'm a completely different person than the person I used to be. I expect tonight will be a little like going back in time. What I remember about the game was a character creation system that STILL has yet to be matched. I remember death actually meaning something. (That death penalty was HARSH!) And I remember task forces that could take until the crack of dawn. (I will admit that I've gotten used to being able to do a WoW dungeon in an hour or less.) But I'm excited to get back and recreate my main. I'm glad this exists. And it's cool to see just how many people love and missed this game.

i THINK I was Ice/Ice back in the day but I honestly can't remember. I DID write a guide way back when ... I believe it was called the Ice Assassin Guide because it was VERY focused on single target damage. The build was essentially made to kill bosses. I don't know if that guide still exists anywhere on the Internet. Probably not.