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We want to thank everyone who submitted their masterpieces of super-powered drama, comedy, action, live action, animation and overall film greatness. You made the 2nd Annual Paragon City Film Festival a rousing success!

You wowed us, thrilled us and made us laugh aloud with your creativity and skill. We have an amazingly creative community that’s overflowing with talent! Give yourself a big round of applause!

In the end, nine entries managed to stand out and capture us with their cinematic excellence. Check out the winners and runner-ups of the 2nd Annual Paragon City Film Festival on our contest Movie Page.

AASQ #1 is causing all sorts of nasty browser problems so - it must die.

Is it TEOTWAWKI? (The End of the World as We Know IT?)

Is Sally, the Salamanca Lake Monster, really a threat? Join Paragon Times senior correspondent Jackson Turner and folklorist Skipper LeGrange as they pursue the truth behind Sally. Read the special guest column in the Paragon Times.

NCsoft and Cryptic Studios are heading to the Indiana Convention Center for Gen Con Indy, August 18 – 21, and they are planning to storm the conference with some very cool events and products.

What is Gen Con?

Gen Con began over 38 years ago as a meeting between friends (among them, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson of D&D fame) to play games in Lake Geneva, WI - thus the name Gen (Geneva) Con (Convention). Today that name lives on in the gaming industry as the source for all the latest information on RPGs, Card Games, Miniatures, Wargames, Board Games, Computer Games – just about any type of game ever created. Since its rather humble and exclusive local beginnings, Gen Con has expanded to three shows worldwide: Europe, Indianapolis, and Anaheim. For more information about Gen Con, please visit the official site.

Show Hours:

Thursday, August 18

10:00 a.m - 6:00 p.m.

Friday, August 19

10:00 a.m - 6:00 p.m.

Saturday, August 20

10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Sunday, August 21

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.


Here’s a peek at some of the exciting activities that NCsoft and Cryptic Studios are hosting:

Daily Raffles – We will be raffling off Limited Edition collector’s prints made especially for Gen Con Indy. We will also be raffling off a few of the extremely rare E3 Capes each day! Attendees must be present to win – raffles are held 1 hour before the close of the retailer room each day.

The World-Famous NCsoft/Cryptic Studios Trivia Contest – Held three times daily, this event rewards those who aren’t afraid to share their mastery of comic book and RPG game lore. Prizes for the fastest correct answers include t-shirts, posters, and coveted copies of NCsoft games: City of Heroes, Lineage II, Guild Wars, and the just-released pre-order boxes for City of Villains. The contest is hosted Thursday and Friday by Kevin “No-Name” Sullivan, and Saturday and Sunday by Jack “Statesman” Emmert.

Adapting Game Designs Across Multiple Media - For those interested in finding out the nuts and bolts behind taking an IP to multiple game media, NCsoft is hosting a seminar on Saturday Aug. 20th. The panel of leading game designers includes: Jack Emmert, David “Zeb” Cook, and Shane Hensley from Cryptic Studios, Dave Williams from Alderac Entertainment Group, and George Vasilakos and Alex Jurkat from Eden Studios. Each of the panelists have been involved in taking the City of Heroes IP to new media. Check out the NCsoft booth #1835 for more details.

Live Game Play at the NCsoft Booth – NCsoft is showcasing City of Heroes, Lineage II and Guild Wars throughout the show on dedicated computers at their booth. We are also allowing visitors to see a portion of the character creator from City of Villains as well as limited game play from the upcoming beta of Auto Assault!

LAN Center – NCsoft is sponsoring the LAN Center at Gen Con where players may build their own characters and discover City of Heroes and Lineage II at their own pace.


Check out the ever-widening CoH/CoV universe! Our licensees are bringing their unique products based on the award-wining CoH MMORPG to Gen Con! Look for demos at the following locations:

COMPANY BOOTH PRODUCT

Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) # 703 City of Heroes – Arena CCG

Eden Studios # 1831 City of Heroes tabletop RPG

WizKids Inc. # 803 CoH & CoV HeroClix figures

Hope to see you there!

In consultation with Cryptic Studios, Millennium Interactive Group will be returning this year to Gencon Indianapolis with an exciting City of Heroes Live Action Role Playing (LARP) event entitled City of Heroes Live: “Back in Black.” The LARP will be performed on Saturday, August 20, at 12:00PM. Tickets are $6. Please keep an eye on the Gencon site for any LARP updates.

A villain’s life on the streets of Paragon City is certainly no picnic. With meddling heroes seemingly everywhere, how is a criminal expected to make a living, much less rule the world? After years of intolerable defeats and setbacks, the villains of Paragon City and beyond have decided to organize an event to address the woeful state of villainy in the world. Heroes have their conventions and socials—why not villains? Welcome to the first annual Henchmen & Evil Rulers Organization Conference. Set on a remote tropical island, this conference hopes to unite villains in a common cause—but can they put aside their differences and forge a new world order? Check out City of Heroes Live: “Back in Black” at Gencon and see for yourself!

Thanks for all the great questions - We should have answers later this week as well as Issue 2 of Ask a Dev - Geko!

Head on over to AEG’s City of Heroes collectible card game page for a cool preview of a typical CoH hero card. This much anticipated CCG is set to be released in mid-November.

In other exciting news, check out Eden Studios' City of Heroes pen and paper RPG game here. Be sure to take a look at the various manuals and support content that will be available.

Changes -

Increased the recharge time of Burn. Decreased its damage.

This thread is for you to provide feedback to the Devs on the above issues. You are allowed to post ONCE in this thread. Make it count! If you post more than one time - the extra posts will be removed.

If a dev responds this count will be reset.

Updated August 4, 2009
Official Guide Post Editor for the update was TheAedile
Links updated for new forum by Maynia

This thread is for posting Guide or FAQ links for Kheldians. Please create your guides in the "Player Guides" forum (since posts in that section do not roll off) and link the thread here. Also, do not post your guide in this thread - only the link to your guide. For non-Kheldian guides, check the master list of all Guides in the Guide to Guides.

Failing any clear identifier from the poster, I will go by the original post date vs. Issue releases (I6: 10/28/05, I7:6/6/06, I8 :11/28/06, etc)

After discussing it with the Kheldian Community on the Forums, it was decided that all Peacebringer/Warshade specific pre-ED guides would be removed as they were more of a hindrance to new players rather than a boon.

Guides appearing here were gleaned from links posted in one of the "Guide to Guides" threads (the Kheldian GtG or the GtG threads in the "Player Guides" forum). We cannot sift through the hundreds of individual threads to find a posting, so be sure to 1) place your guide in the "Player Guides" forum, nowhere else and 2) post a link to it in a "Guide to Guides" thread!


KHELDIAN

General

Kheldian Inspiration Macros (Microcosm) [I12]
Plasma's Ultimate Guide to Kheldians (Plasma) [I8]
Kheldian Backstory guide 1.0 (Memphis_Bill) [I6]
The Complete Kheldian Power List Ver 2.0 (DarkBoxer) [I6]
Just Hit 50 and Ready to Roll a Kheldian? (Tamerlane) [I5]


Peacebringer

The Processor PB (Human-only PB) (Santa_Laws) [I11]
All Human PeaceBringer (Energy_Aura) [I11]
The Pocket Guide to Binds for the PeaceBringer (Generic_Justice) [I7]
The Newbie's guide to the Triform PeaceBringer (Papaschtroumpf) [I7]


Warshade

The Solo Artist's Guide to Tri-Form Warshades (TheAedile) [I9]
A Warshade’s Guide to PVP (Combat) [I9]
Guide To Warshades And Human Form (_Brev_) [I8]
Guide to Human/Dark Dwarf Warshade (CDN_Guardian) [I8]
Iscariot's Guide to the Triform Warshade v2.0 (Justaris) [I8]
Warshade Human +Regen/+Damage Build (BloodPython) [I7]
The Dancing Warshade - A Guide to Tri-form Combat (Bunny_Man) [I6]

In Issue 5 “Forest of Dread” the long awaited Archery Powers arrives for your Blasters, Defenders and Controllers. In addition to Archery Powers, Issue 5 also brings Sonic Blast for Blasters and Defenders and Sonic Resonance for Defenders and Controllers. For full details on these exciting new powers, please head on over to our special Issue 5 Power Sets Preview.

City of Heroes web site creators, it’s here! The official fan site kit is now available for your web site designs. The kit is filled to the brim with CoH goodness—from amazing comic book art and icons to awesome wallpapers and hero graphics—that will bring super-powered pizzazz to your current or planned web site. Don’t delay! Download the fan site kit now.

Note to our European players: a European version of the fan site kit will be available soon, so be sure to watch the UK site for its arrival.

Heroic Filmmakers of Paragon City!

Fame and Great Prizes await you!

With just 3 weeks left in our contest—and your bid for cinematic glory—we want to thank those who have already submitted their masterpieces of super-powered drama, action, live action, animation and overall film greatness. Remember, if you can move us to tears or laughter or simply astound us with the sheer brilliance of your creative powers, you have an excellent chance of winning such incredible prizes as a Toshiba RS-TX20 Tivo/DVD-R System, a Lifetime (yes, you read that right) subscription to the Tivo service, an Apple Ipod 20 gig MP3 Player, a City of Villains Beta Test Spot, and much more.

The 2nd Annual City of Heroes Film Festival Contest ends at 11:59pm (CDT) on Sunday, August 14th 2005, so if you haven’t begun shooting and cutting you still have time to deliver the next Paragon City film classic! Good luck!

For complete details on submitting and contest rules, please visit our official Film Festival Contest Page.

**That is lifetime of the TiVo hardware - not your lifetime - Canadian winners will receive alternate prizes as there is no TiVo service in Canada**

* Steel Canyon: The Hellions are living up to their name and have taken to arson.
* Skyway City: The Trolls start a Rave (Troll-style) when they find a new supply of Superadine.

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In addition to new badges associated with Croatoa, many new Achievement badges have been added for those who have exceeded the existing ones.

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Changes -

Maximum number of targets that can be affected by Taunts (including Tanker inherent Taunt - 'PunchVoke') is set to 5.

This will limit the amount of 'herding' done by players to a more reasonable and realistic level.

Reduced all Archetypes’ base ability with Damage Resistance and Defense powers.

# Reduced Ice Armor/Frozen Armor Defense Bonus.
# Reduced Ice Armor/Wet Ice Defense Bonus.
# Reduced Ice Armor/Glacial Armor Defense Bonus.
# Reduced Ice Armor/Energy Absorption Defense Bonus and set its max number of affected targets to 14. Added an Endurance Buff to the Caster for each affected target.
# Reduced Invulnerability/Temporary Invulnerability Damage resistance bonus.
# Reduced Invulnerability/Resist Physical Damage resistance bonus.
# Reduced Invulnerability/Resist Elements Damage resistance bonus. Added resistance to Toxic.
# Reduced Invulnerability/Resist Energies Damage resistance bonus.
# Reduced Invulnerability/Unyielding Damage resistance bonus. Increased its Defense debuff.
# Reduced Invulnerability/Invincibility Defense and Accuracy bonus. Increased its max number of affected targets to 14.
# Reduced Invulnerability/Tough Hide Defense bonus.
# Reduced Stone Armor/Rock Armor Defense Bonus.
# Reduced Stone Armor/Brimstone Armor Damage Resistance.
# Reduced Stone Armor/Crystal Armor Defense Bonus.
# Reduced Stone Armor/Mineral Armor Defense Bonus.

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* Shadow Shard Maps show the location of each Jump Pad. A dotted line connects the Jump Pad with its end point.
* A teleporter on Firebase Zulu takes players to any of the other three zones in the Shadow Shard (works both ways).
* Dr. Scott Wachhorst, a prominent xenobiologist and Portal Corp. leader, willingly purchases Enhancements from players in Firebase Zulu.
* A renegade Brute, Kallarn, purchases Enhancements with the hope that he might gain enough power to overthrow Ruladak. It can be found in the Cascades.
* Slarrah, a Wisp who has been converted by Faathim the Kind relieves players of excess Enhancements in the Chantry.
* Nameless Mystic. An interdimensional mystic feeds off the energy kicked off by the dreaded Lanaru. He happily accepts Enhancements. Found lurking near the Storm Palace.

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When a Blaster’s health drops below 40%, they will begin to see an increase in their damage output. A small increase at first, but the lower their health gets, the bigger the increase becomes.

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Many existing missions have been updated with hostage escorts, friendly heroes who fight by your side, villain wave attacks and more.

Discuss the new mission types and how you liked them. More of them? Less? Hostages AI Ok?

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Change - New Powerset - Trick Arrow

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Change - New Powerset - Sonic Blast

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Croatoa and the Otherworldly Siege of Salamanca

Something strange is happening around the isolated resort village of Salamanca. Something evil. The woods and farmlands and mountains have become battlegrounds fought over by creatures of myth and mayhem. Join noted ghost hunter Skipper LeGrange and the Paragon Times as they report on this escalating supernatural conflict in today’s special article. article.

Meet Lord Recluse and live to tell about it!

NCsoft and Cryptic Studios will be taking City of Heroes and City of Villains on the road this week to the granddaddy of all comic book conventions — Comic-Con 2005 at the San Diego Convention Center!

The show, which runs from Thurs, July 14th to Sun, July 17th (special preview night is Wed, July 13th), will feature senior designer for City of Villains, Zeb "Lord Recluse" Cook at the NCsoft booth #3929. Meet the evil mastermind behind Arachnos, get the latest info on CoH and CoV, bone up on your CoH trivia and go head-to-head with the experts for great prizes, and much more!

For complete show times and more information about the San Diego Comic-Con, please visit: www.comic-con.org

Full Events Schedule

WHERE: San Diego Convention Center
BOOTH #3929
111 Harbor Drive, San Diego 92101
ENTER HALL G

WHEN: July 14-17

Show Exhibit Hours

Preview Night Wed, July 13
Exhibit Hall Open
6:00-9:00pm
(Pre-registered\4-day attendees & industry only)

Thursday, July 14
Friday, July 15
Saturday, July 16
10am-7pm

Sunday, July 17
10am-5pm

Hope to see you all there!

We are happy with these changes for now. Thanks for all the feedback!

Thanks for all the amazing entries. Winners will be in Issue 5 of the CoH comic - so watch your mailboxes!