MikeRobe

I've done the three Solomon Island dungeons probably 60 times between them and my 3 alts over the past couple of months. I have run into 2 "jerks" and it was a bit of a stretch to call them jerks.

1. Hell risen - guy was shouting out mid-afternoon for a team, we got the 5 together. He asks what role people are doing.... me and two others are damage dealers (me because I had no aggro control or healing skills, dunno why the other 2 wanted to be damage) After the first boss he turns and raves about how long it took and how dare people with more than 2500hp call themselves damage dealers. I offered to leave and let him find someone else to deal damage for him, he was quick to apologize and say "no, just for next time get some better attack rating gear and less hp gear". We went on to finish.

2. Darkness War - first attempt as a healer for me and I was very undergeared for the role; our tank was the only person experienced with the dungeon (I had run it once before but had no idea how the fights actually worked). First boss we managed OK. Second we wiped and wiped and wiped and wiped again... she'd just run like crazy into each group and not give me a second to heal her up between groups and no interest in listening to any alternative suggestions on the fight. Eventually she quit on us (but in fairness to her, it was taking a looong time and she may very well have run out of time to try again)

Just anecdotes - I think you got lucky (or unlucky) to run into a twit this early in your experience with dungeons. The vast majority of normal run dungeons are very friendly fun events in my experience.

Ha!

The "difficulty" is entirely based on your gear QL. There are "very hard" missions that you'll waltz through and "easy" missions that'll kick your tail if you don't have the right powers / build yet. Pretty much, you can ignore the difficulty ranking. They don't mean much except whether or not you'll take an xp hit for doing stuff (and the hit comes on the higher difficulty - it is a power leveling inhibitor).

That's OK. I killed him for you.

Looks like this isn't in place yet... lots of folk who've completed halloween missions still haven't received their expees

Yes, the patch going in right now is going to add the xp to any character that has finished the mission but not gotten exp for it.

I've got one alt just starting in Egypt, one still running BM and a third who has just stepped into SC - always willing to team up with anybody on the channel.

Ouch.

JJames posted what I was thinking only nicer... "goodbye cruel world" posts are generally frowned on by mods in any game forum and mocked by the population until they get removed.

If you prefer to team - have you tried calling out "looking for a newbie team in Kingsmouth" in the looking for team channel? Or "forming a newbie team to run missions" in general/looking for team? Even here in City, you had to scream out lft to get picked up.

As another anecdote - I've not had any trouble finding a team when I wanted one and I've frequently been scooped up by other people in the wild who were doing the same missions as me without needing to ask. I formed a Cat God dungeon team in 3 minutes the other day by shouting out "got two need three more". Teaming is not hard (especially if you /chat #coh-refugees )

I think the only valid complaint about solo/team play is some of the missions are forced solo. The devs are aware that was a mistake and are limiting them in future development. But even when you are forced into an instance by yourself you still have your group intact for chatter or helpful hints on what to do.

That's community speculation - there has been nothing from TSW devs to say they're going F2P except that that functionality is available to them through their billing system. I don't think you'll see TSW go F2P for a while yet.

That's a brilliant take on it Heraclea.... Love it!

I bought TSW yesterday and tried out some of the first things... wow it is hilarious to be such a newb again Controls and game-play are similar but just a little off so I"m feeling a lot like I did 7 years ago here. I was laughing about the tab-target in game last night - so used to being able to target anything that was close enough to render on screen; in TSW you see stuff before you're close enough to tab target (although you can mouse-target earlier). I kept hitting F to try to move into range...

The puzzle missions are very well done (and I understand the later ones are even trickier) with some actual thinking needed and a fully functional in-game web browser for people who don't enjoy the thinking so much. Apparently FunCom have even created a bunch of real-life web pages as part of some of their puzzles.

The atmosphere is fantastic... really creepy; first time in a loooong time that I"ve played with sound on. The combat is fantastic with most focus on boss fights and not so much on "trash". From the get-go you're able to fight 6-8 trash mobs and come out on top; bosses (EB's / AV's) can certainly put the hurt on you though. Big experience comes from the quest line (mission completes) and not so much from the kills, but you do get xp for kills too.

Costume fans will be disappointed with the character customization I suspect. Their characters are no where near as customizable as ours. All males are exactly the same size/shape; all females are exactly the same size/shape. They're still working on more clothes but the options are currently quite limited. The good thing is that your clothes are purely cosmetic like our costumes are.... your gear is a ring, an amulet, a belt and ??? something else for your head but it does not show on your avatar - so not everybody runs around in a blue tunic because that's the best jacket for your level.

Anyway, it is great fun for me at this point.

There's a campaign of their players going on on their forums right now to get the free trial back asap - their primary argument: CoX folk need somewhere to land

I too was disappointed to see the 3 day trial gone when I tried to get in on it.

That looks really interesting tbh. I don't follow mmo news so didn't know it was out there. CoH for me but looks like there may be a parachute if the rescue attempts fail.

Used to be, but is no longer the case... take a look at the scrapper thread, you'll see most of them are with incarnate powers now.