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I love this game. I loved it back in the days, I love it now. But what I never enjoyed was toying with Builds. 

 

So I want to say thank you to all of you who creates builds and publish them. Thanks to your efforts, I can focus on the parts of the game I enjoy most. 

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I'd like to add a special thanks to @Redlynne - almost every time I've looked something up, a wall of text crits me and I get an alarmingly in-depth guide (and I say that as someone who writes guides that are a bit too long). 

 

Shout out to the grand procmaster @Bopper as well - truly the build-maker's friend. 

 

Thank you!

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Ive robbed, modified and used so many builds from this forum. Mostly as levelling builds where I can which makes playing the characters so much fun.

 

So thank you build-makers, especially the ones who gave me tips and builds for some of my more obscure choices (Ice/Ice scrapper and my Water/Time blaster were especially fun)

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Hear hear!  I like the idea of messing about with builds, but it really is just sort of boring to me, too quickly.  I'd rather spend my hour just pewpewpewing.

 

Tim "Black Scorpion" Sweeney: Matt (Posi) used to say that players would find the shortest path to the rewards even if it was a completely terrible play experience that would push them away from the game...

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Clave's Sure-Fire Secrets to Enjoying City Of Heroes
Ignore those farming chores, skip your market homework, play any power sets that you want, and ignore anyone who says otherwise.
This game isn't hard work, it's easy!
Go have fun!
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  On 8/6/2020 at 2:00 PM, Gulbasaur said:

(and I say that as someone who writes guides that are a bit too long).

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A guide is never "too long".

It's always as long as it needs to be.

Not the guide-writer's fault that some have an attention span that'd shame a fruit fly.

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If you want to be godlike, pick anything.

If you want to be GOD, pick a TANK!

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I remember starting over when HC came out after the big brouhaha of Leo's secret server came out. At the time I was very interested in Sentinels and the forums were so brand spanking new they had 1-2 pages, so, of course, no guides. After lots of dithering I was like, welp, I used to do these a decade ago so lets get back to it.

 

And I was so rusty, god, of course I didn't remember all the tips and tricks and combos. Looking back at my first posted builds I cringe at the clunky way I threw things together 😄

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  On 8/11/2020 at 1:02 PM, Sovera said:

And I was so rusty, god, of course I didn't remember all the tips and tricks and combos. Looking back at my first posted builds I cringe at the clunky way I threw things together 😄

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I feel you on that. My first 50 here on HC is pretty much retired and my marketing character at this point. When I look at her build now, it's just bad or mediocre at best for high end usage. Every once in a while someone will be searching for Elec/SD Scrapper builds and I'll get a message asking me questions or my thoughts. I don't even share that build anymore and instead point them to other much better builds lol.

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  On 8/11/2020 at 1:02 PM, Sovera said:

I remember starting over when HC came out after the big brouhaha of Leo's secret server came out. At the time I was very interested in Sentinels and the forums were so brand spanking new they had 1-2 pages, so, of course, no guides. After lots of dithering I was like, welp, I used to do these a decade ago so lets get back to it.

 

And I was so rusty, god, of course I didn't remember all the tips and tricks and combos. Looking back at my first posted builds I cringe at the clunky way I threw things together 😄

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Hey, you gotta be bad at something to get good at it.

If you want to be godlike, pick anything.

If you want to be GOD, pick a TANK!

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  On 8/11/2020 at 12:19 PM, Hyperstrike said:


A guide is never "too long".

It's always as long as it needs to be.

Not the guide-writer's fault that some have an attention span that'd shame a fruit fly.

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But the pewpewpew!  If I have to read several pages about how to use Force Field then I'll never get around to playing the game!

 

Tim "Black Scorpion" Sweeney: Matt (Posi) used to say that players would find the shortest path to the rewards even if it was a completely terrible play experience that would push them away from the game...

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Clave's Sure-Fire Secrets to Enjoying City Of Heroes
Ignore those farming chores, skip your market homework, play any power sets that you want, and ignore anyone who says otherwise.
This game isn't hard work, it's easy!
Go have fun!
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  On 8/15/2020 at 10:06 AM, Clave Dark 5 said:

But the pewpewpew!  If I have to read several pages about how to use Force Field then I'll never get around to playing the game!

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Learn to read...FASTER!!!

If you want to be godlike, pick anything.

If you want to be GOD, pick a TANK!

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  On 8/15/2020 at 10:45 AM, Hyperstrike said:

 

Learn to read...FASTER!!!

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I gots an itchy trigger finger!  I scrapperlock when I'm peeling an onion!  Gotta go faaaaast!!

 

Tim "Black Scorpion" Sweeney: Matt (Posi) used to say that players would find the shortest path to the rewards even if it was a completely terrible play experience that would push them away from the game...

╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗

Clave's Sure-Fire Secrets to Enjoying City Of Heroes
Ignore those farming chores, skip your market homework, play any power sets that you want, and ignore anyone who says otherwise.
This game isn't hard work, it's easy!
Go have fun!
╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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  On 8/6/2020 at 7:13 AM, Banni said:

I love this game. I loved it back in the days, I love it now. But what I never enjoyed was toying with Builds. 

 

So I want to say thank you to all of you who creates builds and publish them. Thanks to your efforts, I can focus on the parts of the game I enjoy most. 

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This...so many times I have used builds and read guides and advice.  These people who provide this information and answer some of my stupid questions are what make this fun game even better. 

 

So....a well deserved thanks to all posters who have provided here on HC and on Live all those years ago.

Water Damage - Water/Ice Blaster

Atom Bum -  Rad/Fire Brute
Abyssal - Titan Weapon/Bio Scrapper
Razer's Edge - Katana/Bio Brute
 
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Yes, a giant thanks to everyone who helped me and encouraged me.  So many stupid questions and everyone just answers them so patiently.  I am learning to make my own builds now and that rocks!

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