Kelron

Originally Posted by Leese

They're pretty much all good, but at different things. Broadsword has your high burst damage. Claws, cheap attacks. Spines, AOE and ranged attacks. Katana, good all-rounder. Martial Arts, awesome animations. (awesomeness is more important than some people think! ) So on and so forth.

Not played DB much, but IIRC Dual Blades is pretty good, but a little more advanced than the others because of its Combo system, where using attacks in specific orders gets special effects. It can be a bit of a weak starter because you need to earn the right attacks before you can use any combos, and it's a bit heavy on the Endurance IMO.

Best bet, try lots of things and see what meets your expectations. None of my first few characters were my main.

Originally Posted by Leese

Willpower is very newbie friendly, being both durable and easy to manage - just turn on your toggles and go! Regeneration is also very good.

Originally Posted by Leese

Good to hear. Enjoy the game!

Originally Posted by Leese

OK, whats happened is the installer is annoying and nobody's ever fixed a peculiar wrinkle it has. This has happened to me too.


If you tell it to install in C:\, it will install in C:\City of Heroes\

If you tell it to install in C:\City of Heroes, it will install in C:\City of Heroes\City of Heroes\


the solution should be to copy everything inside your \City of Heroes\piggs, and copy it into \City of Heroes\City of Heroes\piggs

If I remember correctly, the next time you run the NA updater it should find those piggs in the "right" place and successfully verify them.

if you don't plan to play in the EU, you can delete the original EU piggs folder in the future and claim back 3.6GB.

Hope it works for you, and that you enjoy the game!

Originally Posted by Leese

Can you go into your original (EU) City of Heroes directory and tell me the size of the "piggs" folder please?

Also, do you have a City of Heroes directory inside your City of Heroes directory?

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Welcome to the game and the forums, Kelron

Originally Posted by Leese

In your EU install, rename cohupdater.eu.exe to cohupdater.exe

After you do that, running it will connect you to the NA servers instead of the EU, but it shouldn't need to redownload all your data.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

One unusual thing they've done with the Going Rogue Edition is that all new players have to make their first character in Praetoria instead of choosing a straight hero or villain.

They did this so they can showcase all the new content to new customers. Once you reach level 20 you can pick hero or villain. But on a trial you will get to choose between any of the three factions.


Personally don't know of any torrents or work arounds to speed up downloading.

Anyone else?

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Just so you know, while there's nothing wrong with the European servers, they do have a significantly lower population than the American servers, and quite a few less. They have 4 and we have 11.

There are several EU players that have chosen to get an NA account so they can have access to 11 servers and the larger player base. Some I believe have an account on both. So if after playing a while you feel you'd like something a little busier, you can look into starting an NA account. The only downside is that you can't move characters between accounts.

Originally Posted by TrueMetal

Welcome

Of the 2 English speaking servers, Union is the more populated one (and the unofficial role playing server if you're into that.) But the pop difference with Defiant isn't *that* big.

Vigilance is the French server

Zukunft is German.

Originally Posted by Exxar

You can't, because if what you say is happening, you are using the European game client. The European and American servers are separated, and with one account you can only play on either the European or the American ones (this is determined by your purchase).

If you live in Europe and have purchased the European version of the game all is fine, join either Union or Defiant (Union used to be much more populated than Defiant a few years back, but I hear things are much more closer now). If you live in America and have purchased the American version, you should download the American client.

If you live in Europe and have purchased the American client, be aware that although American servers are more populated than the European ones, you will likely be playing during off-hours because of the timezone difference. If you live in America and have purchased the European client... I'd try to get a refund in your place.

Originally Posted by Fulmens

nooo, you're going to spoil the new kid for regular play!

Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon

You might be looking for a Corruptor instead of a Defender. The two have very close to the same capabilities, when both are built for offense, but the Defender will be MUCH better, when built for defense. Your Infamous character throwing around lightning would be an Electric Blast, and with that you can either go with Kinetics, or if you want to be a "weather wizard" type, Storm Summoning.

One combo I particularly like with Electricity is Sonic Resonance. Which it's not a strong offensive set, it's strong enough on a Corruptor to make it, and I happen to think the sonic bubbles have a subtle similarity to electrics, if you change the colors. However, it may be tough going, you may not like it.

In short, if you want to be offensively oriented at all times, go with the Corruptor. If you want to have strong offense when solo, but trade it in on more team utility when you're on a team, go with the Defender. You'll also have a little more luck with the Defender if you stick with sets like Radiation Emission, Kinetics, Storm, and Dark Miasma.

Originally Posted by sleestack

Shadowy Presence, I find your lack of usefulness...disturbing.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

This game doesn't have spells or skills. You should check out the following link and read up on what types of characters you can make.

Paragonwiki