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    PRAETOR, STOP THIS CRAZY THING!: Leveling too quickly for Praetoria's arcs

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Gulbasaur

    2 hours ago, AspieAnarchy said:

    What do I do?

    As someone who regularly runs story content at lower levels, the answer is usually this: 

    /macro_image "DayJob_XPBoost" "XP Toggle" "option_toggle noxp"

    Copy and paste it into your chat bar and press enter.

    XP scaling in this game is almost totally unrelated to how you actually play content if you're doing story arcs. At low levels, you probably get too much XP. It sort of evens out by level 35ish. I'd argue that at from level 40 onwards, you probably get slightly too little. 

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    Best of Both - Blood Widower Fortunado Build

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    On 10/12/2022 at 11:17 AM, artfulveils said:

    I love version 4, but i was wondering if there is a more expensive version of this build that uses more purples etc?

    Err, not explicitly, but apart from the procs and a bit of recharge, I don't think the bonuses from purples are that great. They kind of solve problems that fortunatas don't have, if that makes sense? 

    I'm sure you could come up with something with some experimentation, though. 

    Hold on, anyone ever completely forget a toon? Only to level up one with the same sets?

    in General Discussion

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    I have more than one Peacebringer with almost identical builds. They're... different heroes. I couldn't just rebrand one. 

     

    Also, due to the way levelling works, it's much more fun to level at a glacial pace than go in and out of Ouro every twenty minutes with a team locked in task force mode for it. 

     

    My current slow levelling character is a combination of those two ideas... a peacebringer doing every mission I can find in every level band. 

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    Dark Melee

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    I have a dark/dark tanker that I really enjoy. I think the two powersets were really designed to be used together as they have a good number of AoE powers that work similarly. If you can deal with using Hover to mitigate knockback, it's a fun combo. 

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    UNfocused Feedback

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    19 hours ago, Snarky said:

    I started hanging out in CoH again the last few days.  It is NIGHT and DAY different.  It is dead. D E A D.  Deadsville man, and that is sad.  

    Comparing WoW to CoH isn't really fair.

     

    WoW is still top five in terms of MMO population with many servers hitting tens of thousands of "active" players (whatever that means). Homecoming seems to have plateau'd a while ago at around 1k off-peak, 2k peak.

    While it would be nice to see them regularly at the 2k point, the majority of CoH players are, I would suspect, nostalgia junkies. CoX was never one of the top games in terms of numbers when it was live, so I wouldn't expect it to see those numbers on a private server.

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    Bi-form PB (Nova/Dwarf) anyone...?

    in Peacebringer & Warshade

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    6 hours ago, Nostromo21 said:

    Which gives me an idea...has anyone gotten any AT to 50 before just on pool powers i.e. without picking/using a single primary/secondary

    I think the term is "pool boy" for that kind of build. A few people have done it!

     

     

    6 hours ago, Nostromo21 said:

    Would a WS fair better without HF perhaps...?

    Warshades are very good at buffing themselves to higher damage and higher survivability, provided you're always in the thick of it in melee. You'll also be dipping in and out of human form, though.

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    Things you enjoy that other people seem to not enjoy

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    Posted · Edited by Gulbasaur

    On 10/3/2022 at 12:53 AM, Norl said:

    After noob levels, I stop renewing 2x xp

    I haven't used the XP boost for a long, long time.

    Like @Snarky, I'm a story player. I try to hit every mission in a level band that I think fits the character. I've spent more time with XP paused than with a XP boost active.

    I don't think I'm rare in this, though - my good missions guide has had over forty-seven thousand views and the villain equivalent has had over sixteen thousand.

    There are dozens of us! Dozens! 

    Weirdly, I see it recommended by other people, which is really gratifying to see. I've actually been recommended my own guide before.

    Anyway, my real answer: Peacebringers and Widows. Widows are the least-picked archetype and peacebringers are often seen as a weak choice in the post-IO game. They are so much fun. I'll take a jack of all trades over a master of one any day.

    Also, exploration badges - there's some really nice map design out there that has literally no relevance to anything else in game, other than it looks cool and some dev clearly enjoyed themselves, all those years ago.

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    Bi-form PB (Nova/Dwarf) anyone...?

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    Posted · Edited by Gulbasaur

    2 hours ago, Nostromo21 said:

    So, is this bi-form viable to end-game?

    Define "end-game", really. You can absolutely play shape-shiftin' peacebringers up to and including incarnate content. 

     

    2 hours ago, Nostromo21 said:

    Am I missing something major from the human form that will gimp me later on perhaps...?

     

    Dawn Strike and Photon Seekers do a very respectable amount of AoE damage. 

     

    The melee attacks in human form are clunky because their cooldowns mean they don't slide easily into a melee rotation, but they hit like a truck. Incandescent Strike deletes quantums and void hunters. 

     

    Human form also has a number of click buffs, including a heal, and HP boost, a damage boost and an endurance discount. 

     

    The other big one is LIght Form - it brings your damage resistances up to Dwarf numbers, but allows you to keep using the heavy-hitters. If you've got permanent Light Form or are on a team and getting the passive resistance buffs, you're probably not lacking survival skills. This sort of eats into Dwarf's space unless you're tanking and need the aggro control and extra hit points. 

     

    I think, fundamentally, both forms hit a plateau, but human form is a late-bloomer. The vast majority of "high tier" powers are only useable in human form... but they don't really "fit" until you've got enough of them to make it worth staying in human form. 

    Nova's blast powers area great for the level you get them, but they never really get past the equivalent of tier 4 or 5 powers for other ranged sets - your nukes are in human form. Dwarf is mathematically one of the better resist-based tanks at the level you get it and does okay (but not spectacular) damage but ten levels later it's just a resist-based tank with no T9 power and your high damage melee attacks are in human form so you're middling tank doing middling damage. 

    Personally, I think all three forms have a place. By 50, I slide into human form for big damage numbers and self-buffing, hit nova and rain down balls of energy to keep up the pressure and drop into dwarf when I need a big sack of HP with a taunt on every attack. There's also the point about flashbacks, Ouroboros and exemplaring - you won't always be operating at top levels and sometimes being able to turn into a giant space lobster is exactly the right choice. Kheldians, having a solid toolkit quite early, scale down very well. 

     

    @Doomrideris Homecoming's resident Kheldian-whisperer. The GD peacebringer guide is good, too.*
     

    2 hours ago, Nostromo21 said:

    I currently have all 25 IOs slotted, not sure how far they will take me and when I should upgrade again, or switch to attuned IOs.

    The crafted IOs will generally take you all the way to top level to be replaced gradually. 

     

    I'd recommend looking at the Archetype Enhancements, if only to get the Form Empowerment one - it's a flat damage boost to nova and then some other bits that aren't nearly as useful. The usual suspects (the two 3% defence boosts, performance shifter etc) are probably with slotting too. 

     


    * although I feel like there is a better pun somewhere (c.f. the MF/MultiForm/MotherFumblin' Warshade). OP Peacebringer? Orl the Phorms? Go home, Gulbasaur. 

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    Picking AT and sets based on concept only

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    Posted · Edited by Gulbasaur

    I'm concept all the way down, even if the concept is "let's see how hard I can break X". 

    I really like matched sets. 

     

    • Rad/rad on a melee artchetype  is small scale AoE glory. 
    • Dark/dark on a melee archetype has nice synergy, particularly as one compensates for the other's shortcomings (low defence, but lots of -ToHit, endurance heavy but an attack that restores endurance). 
    • Storm/water - strong area lockdown, very strong power combo synergy, knockdown can convert to recharge via procs and Storm scales in efficiency hard with extra recharge. 
    • Dark/dark on a corruptor is cones-a-go-go and the -ToHit stacks very quickly. 


    This is one of the best puns I've ever seen:

    On 9/30/2022 at 6:57 PM, Zhym said:
    • Siouxsie Tsoo: Kin/Sonic defender dressed up like a Tsoo.  Kin/Sonic is a great combo, of course, and this is a fun toon to play in groups. 
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    Blaster vs Corruptor

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    Posted · Edited by Gulbasaur

    On 9/20/2022 at 6:51 PM, Diantane said:

    Say what you want, but according to MIDS,

    MIDS isn't 100% accurate and likes to apply certain bonuses by default and then not apply others. Anything situational (like both the Corruptor and Blaster inherent powers) has to be set up correctly by the user or you get results like you did. It's generally excellent, but it gets quirky when powers get quirky. 

     

    Those numbers are with Scourge applied all the time and without Blasters' inherent giving additional damage buffs. 

     

    Personally, I think blasters are one of the weaker archetypes and their main contribution is often that you can cast Vengeance on them while they hold floor aggro, but they're not that bad. 

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    The Good Missions Guide: A Heroic Levelling Journey through Story Arcs

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    4 hours ago, littlelitz said:

    Can you outlevel a story arc once you've started it? Say an arc is 5-9 and I start the story arc at 9 and level to 10 during the mission, will I still be able to complete the arc?

    You can continue it until the end of an arc. If you start the contact at level 9, you can keep going until that story arc is done. You can always finish an arc you've started. 

     

    There are a couple of contacts that give you more than one story arc (more common redside, though), so make sure you don't outlevel the next story arc. 

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    Is this game too solved to be fun? :(

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Gulbasaur

    It's definitely a thing. I think a lot of endgame builds seem to be designed to be totally self-contained with massive recharge, stamina and defence buffs, and that's against the spirit of an MMO, especially one with such a cool buff and debuff system as CoX.  It's not uncommon to have like +90% in defence buffs floating round when you hit level 45 and at that point it just becomes a mob grinder. 

     

    I'm a big fan of slow levelling - pause your XP at any levels with a 4 or a 9 at the end and only move on when you're ready. I'm currently enjoying "self-sufficient" character levelling, where you don't just shit a load of inf on a character at level 1. It makes the game much more interesting. It's also pretty easy to find groups of 3-5 players if you run mission teams - a lot of players don't really want to run the same 3 task forces week after week. 

     

    Mid-level builds tend to be more chaotic and less I-can-solo-everything and this means that the game feels more challenging. There's a sweet spot around the time that players hit Founders Falls, in my opinion, where characters are quite well rounded but not overpowered. 

     

    Writing "chilled out" in the the LFG if you post seems to instantly increase the quality of team if you're not clock-watching. I play on Everlasting and RP-friendly groups are often the most fun to roll with because people tend to have a bit of a sense of humour and not focus completely on converting mobs into inf. 

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    Homecoming apparently not dying

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    51 minutes ago, Ukase said:

    There are a collection of players that have found other games or other social outlets.

    I think that's probably a large part of it. I was unemployed for a significant chunk of the pandemic and I inhaled MMOs because they were a social activity. City of Heroes was a big nostalgia trip and GW2 is good for achievement hunters and boy howdy did I hunt achievements. 

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    Homecoming apparently not dying

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    Posted · Edited by Gulbasaur

    5 minutes ago, thunderforce said:

    I am comparing it with the current numbers on Discord. It comes as a surprise to me that I am North American, I admit.

    Me? Assuming everyone on the internet is American until proven otherwise? Never. 

     

    I'll just be over here quietly eating marmite on crumpets fight me, you know I'm right  and drinking ale that is brewed to be drunk at cellar temperature in the same manner that red wine should not be chilled, causing some people to assert that it is "warm", contemplating the finer points of morris dancing. 

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    Homecoming apparently not dying

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    Posted · Edited by Gulbasaur

    37 minutes ago, thunderforce said:

    They're not as high as they were in 2019 (Dec 2019 has the lowest peak total players at 3,308) - but does anyone have 2020/21 figures? I suspect Homecoming player numbers flattened out from the initial burst of enthusiasm some time ago and now are more or less steady.

    I think this is very much the case. 

     

    Occasionally, you get people on reddit using the drop-off from 2019 numbers as evidence that HC is on its way out, but the reality is that a few people came for the novelty and figures have been pretty stable. 

     

    Also, I'm English so write the dates as DDMMYY and wondered why you were using an incredibly detailed view of early January to base your numbers on... but you're probably North American so dates are MMDDYY. 

     

    Homecoming numbers are pretty stable, though. Certainly doesn't feel hard to get teams, and I've been playing in UK hours on an American server when half of you are still asleep. 

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