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Originally Posted by Aggelakis

This quote needs tickle-lemur video, not screamy-lemur icon.

Originally Posted by Laevateinn

I accidentally wandered too close to a man in a green shirt, who aggroed on me...so I punched him in the face and made him pass out, then hid behind a pillar so my stealth would unsupress.

Then I woke up. and found my garbage-man standing outside my front door with a bloody nose and a very confused look on his face.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

There are Accuracy enhancements which increase the accuracy of the power they are slotted into. There are also powers which increase ToHit chance such as tactics. Yellow inspirations (insights) also increase tohit.

There are no enhancements that increase your tohit directly. There are enhancements that make *powers* that increase your tohit stronger.

Short answer: slot accuracy to make a power hit more often. Use yellow inspirations to temporarily make it easier to hit things. Pick powers that increase tohit if you want to have powers that make you hit more often.


The difference between tohit and accuracy can get a bit bogged down by math, so here's the simplified version. You as the player have a base chance to hit things that is 75% by default. Attacking things that are higher level than you will reduce that chance, as will attacking things with Defensive powers. At very low levels, you'll have a bonus that starts off strong and gets weaker as you get higher in level, specifically to make things easier on lower level characters that have limited ability.

Accuracy increases your chance to hit the target by a proportional amount. If you have +33% accuracy, that means you hit 33% more often. So if your chance to hit was 50 percent, a +33% accuracy power will hit 33 percent more often, or 50 * 1.33 = 66.5%.

On the other hand, boosting your tohit increases your chance to hit by a flat amount. If your chance to hit was 50% and you increased tohit by 33 percentage points, your net chance to hit would increase to 83% (50 + 33).

All other things being equal, more tohit is better than more accuracy. But all things aren't equal, because its relatively easy to get more accuracy, and usually harder to get consistently higher tohit.

If you have some of both, life gets a bit more complicated. See: Attack Mechanics.

Originally Posted by Schismatrix

NO U!

(Is that better?)

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

Right-click, close.

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

I stand by my correction which was to correct this statement...

If one of the level 27s leads, that does not mean they have to do missions in Steel or IP because the level 27 leader can chose the level 50's mission in PI. Additionally, the OP can also chose to retain leadership and do those Steel/IP radio missions anyway.

We all know what's the intent behind the advice, I was just clarifying that if the OP is willing to exemplar, there is that option now while retaining leadership since SSK goes by the level of mission owner, not team leader for instanced missions.

That last quoted sentence should have been: "But now, you can chose your mission or theirs and still get Influence and everyone is auto-sidekick to the mission's anchor and you don't have to give up leadership of the group. Although, it would be better loot for you to choose your own level 50 missions."

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

Basically Assault Rifle and Archery are the two primaries with the best AoEs (primarily because their T9 has a 60second recharge and no crash). Mental Manipulation adds Psychic Scream as an additional strong AoE as well as several other useful powers.

Archery tends to be favored over Assault Rifle for farming since it has Aim and RoA is a bit easier to line up than FA in outdoor maps. The only real advantage of AR over Archery is Flamethrower but the fact that it's a DoT tends to be offputting for farmers.

Originally Posted by ketch

Somebody else's idea, but it's a good one. A mez indicator in the team window. For example, when a teammate is mezzed his health bar turns purple. It would be a nice QoL addition.

Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms

Well, yes Walk actually puts a hard cap on movement speed, so that there's no way possible to increase it. However, while Walk is toggled on, all powers are grayed out, similar to being in Studio B of the AE buildings. Thus, the Run speed is shut off, but so is every other benefit from the power. (doesn't matter how good your recovery is, if you're not using any of it beyond whatever Walk costs)

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

"I hate speed boost!"
"Toggle walk on, then."

Originally Posted by Camper

Take a break. You can't play the same game forever, and it's not the game's fault you get bored. Most people will eventually get bored of even the best and most wonderful things.

Do something else for awhile and come back when it feels right.

Originally Posted by StarGeek

All I did to find it was to type "City of Heroes Myspace" into google.

http://www.myspace.com/official_cityofheroes

edit:
Board discussion page

Originally Posted by Red_Raccoon

Another thing you might want to do at level 30 is unlock the stores in Brickstown and/or Founders Falls (I believe these have level 35 & 40 enhancements). Unlike previous stores, these need to be unlocked by doing missions. You should at least unlock the one for your origin, but may want to do them all. I'm not sure if I remember correctly, but I think doing a store mission may get you an introduction to a new level 30+ contact too.

Originally Posted by momentary_grace

Be kind.

Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire

So after reviewing the news since I've been gone, I once again come to the conclusion that Americans are crazy.

Originally Posted by Kylazin

je_saist, thank you for your extremely helpful post. I'm not in any rush to get to 50, and I consider myself to be a casual gamer. My girlfriend and I are both full-time students and we don't play too often. I always focus on the journey and not the destination, it just worries me that after we reach that end-point that the only thing to do is make a new character and do it again. Every other MMO I've played, most players almost exclusively use their high-level characters to progress in content the developers have created and made available for them. They continue to earn things for their characters to make them better and further them in progression.

I really do like the character creation in this game, and the fact that I can be whatever I want to be. It is really a very cool concept, and the developers have really done a great job on making it a reality. I am going to continue with my "main" (since I've already made 14 characters, none of them getting past level 12, because I come up with a different hero concept and start all over) to 50 and just go from there.