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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

Okay there's two things that make IOs slightly better than HOs in some cases.

HOs have better raw aspect improvement than dual-aspect IOs (say an Acc/Dam HO vs a L50 Acc/Dam IO, the HO wins in terms of better stat boosting).

However, there are a couple other things.

Read up on IOs.

Then read up on Set Bonuses.

Also, you'll see this term now and again too, Frankenslotting.


Here's a few helpful links to get you started on "everything".

Paragonwiki: Basically if you want to know about something in CoH, it's on Paragonwiki. Don't dink around with the old Wikia site. It's throwing malware infested ads.

Mid's Hero Designer: This program allows you to play around with various builds and loadouts on a toon without having to spend any inf in-game to look at how it performs. If you're serious about getting the most out of your build for your inf, GET THIS PROGRAM. NO ARGUMENTS!

There's also Sucker Punch's online build planner there as well, but it's a little out of date.

Titan Sentinel: A program that ties into the Titan network's City Info Terminal project (so you can see your stats outside of the game on their CIT site). That in and of itself is cool, but the MUST HAVE feature is the ability to have it dump the live build of your character in-game and give you the ability to import it into Mid's.

This lets you see what you've got, the real numbers for it, and let's you progress from there.

Originally Posted by Garent

A full invention build with sets that ignores purple pieces will cost you about 400-800 million. That's a lot, but it's much easier to make money now than it used to be. The Weekly Strike Target is a great way to get merits that you can use to turn into expensive things that you can use or sell.

Originally Posted by Winterminal

Welcome back to the game! Don't let the amount of new stuff overwhelm you, just take it one day at a time. Though, my advice would be to roll a completely new toon, to experience the game from the bottom-up, rather than jumping on a lvl 50 character (if you have one or more) and attempting to reverse engineer everything.