SkyRocker

I've got a few 50's but for me, those character's "lives" ended at 50. I play for the fun of leveling, getting new powers, learning the character. The only time I really log into my 50's is when I need money for one of my alts or something like that.

A few times I've gotten tells asking me to join lvl 50 missions, I politely decline. Just me I guess.

See I never understood this either, glad the question was asked. But if you look at the combat attributes it will tell you how much defense you have, then you can figure out how to enhance? If you have 35% already, and an enhancement says it will give you 10% more, then that will take you to the soft cap?

Is this correct, or am I dead wrong?

http://www.cityofheroes.com/account/...of_heroes.html

download it, then log on using your account info

See that's the thing with me, I've been playing for 4 years, just got my 51 month vet reward this month, and I STILL don't know what "tiers" are. I don't know what normalized is or means. I mean I LOVE the game, I guess I'm not a real numbers guy. I mean I know what the dam, acc, end numbers mean when I look at the slots on my characters, I always try to max them out. All of my characters are IO'd out, but not purples, or the most expensive sets, but they do the trick.

I go more by how the character "feels", how fast the enemies drop, and how often I faceplant. I have a defender that has Rad blast, but as far as how the 2 compare, the blaster Rad blast, and the defender one, I haven't got a clue, but I know that my rad/fire blaster is damn fun to play, I hold me own on all of the teams I've been on and have only faceplanted 4-5 times in 20 levels.

But I DO take everyones advice, if someone gives me some tips to make my guys better, I take a look at it, see if it fits into my playstyle and if so, I'll give it a shot.

I made 3 new alts when I16 went live: rad/fire blaster, emp/ar defender, and an elec/elec scrapper. Dr Faux-ton (rad/fire blaster) is by far my favorite. He's level 13 now, but at level 8 I was on a team where the stone/stone tank kept dying and the Dr just kept going and going. Sure the tank was in melee but after he went down, me and the defender on the team managed to wipe out the mobs that he left.

Then around 11 or so in the hollows it was me, another blaster (psy I think) a PB and defender I think, same situation, blaster kept dying, me. the pb and the def were finishing off the mobs. I think that in 13 levels he's only faceplanted twice, once was a team wipe, the other I jumped into the middle of a mob to use combustion and the tank ran off and they all aggro'd on me

Yep, this was well worth waiting for...

I use this one:

v "targetenemynext$$ targetcustomnext enemy alive quantum$$ targetcustomnext enemy alive dwarf$$ targetcustomnext enemy alive void$$ targetcustomnext enemy alive cyst"

on my Khelds to target cysts, quantums, voids, etc. It's bound to my "v" key. I'm sure that if you change the target names from void/cyst/etc to whatever you're looking for it should work.

Play around with it and see what happens.

Good Luck!

Thanks for that, I can now understand the negative opinions a lot better. I always knew there was *somethng* about him that people didn't like, now I have the details.

I started playing right around issue 4, I remember the uproar about ED, but I hadn't been playing long enough, only about 16 months at that point, for it to really, REALLY upset me to the point that it did most of the other folks here. I understood WHY they were upset though.

I see now why he has such a negative rep with some of the folks here, and combining what I've just read with all the negative stuff he said about CoX while promoting CO, I'd have to say that I'm not a real big fan of his at this point either.

I played it, and would have considered giving up one of my CoX accounts if the game had been truely amazing, but it wasn't. NOT putting it down or anything, I don't think that CoX was the game it is today in the first year or so. I actually started playing a little after the first year, Jun '05 and it has really grown and changed since then.

I'll try CO again, 6mo-1 year down the line, if there's a free trial available, and I'll be interested to see if it captures my attention like CoH (then) did in it's first year.

As far as all the Jack-bashing, I don't really get into all that, when he was here and I was playing the game, I didn't know what he was planning, or what he was saying, or if he *kept* the game from being all it could be, it was what it was, I liked the game and if something new came along, I enjoyed it, if things were missing that I wanted I just kept hoping for them, I didn't really consider that there was someone, an "evil force" that kept things from happening.

What I *didn't* liek about Jack was that when CO was announced every interview was a comparison to CoX and putting it down, like he'd fathered a mentally challenged child, and he was going to have another one but this one would be a super-genius. That Jack I didn't like. I can understand there would be SOME comparisons, they're both the same genre, but the constant putting down of his first "creation" just to make the newest creation seem "shinier" left a bad taste in my mouth.

Neverless I gave the game a shot, honest opinion, it wasn't bad, but I'm going to give it some time to see if it grows into some serious competition for CoX.

^^^ This. Exactly.

I agree with this. Some people that are unhappy with CoX will leave, some folks will try both, some will leave and come back, but I really don't think that CO will KILL CoX or even have a dramatic impact.

I've been playing CoX for 4 years now, have 2 accounts and I thought that if CO was AMAZING I might have given up 1 of my CoX accounts but that hasn't been my experience. I've tried it over the last few days and what I've seen isn't enough to draw me away.

I'm not going to bash the game, I think it's a great effort for a beta and new release. CoX has had 5 years to grow and change into the game that I love, and I repsect that. I'd like to see CO after about a year and see what it becomes.

My prediction is that if CoX doesn't keep up the pace, maybe in a year or two, CO *might* have more of an impact as far as taking subscribers, but competition is good, I hope it stimulates more growth on this side and keep the devs from resting on their laurels.

But as far as I'm concerned the devs here have done an AMAZING job at putting out new content. Not all of the issues, I think I started around issue 4, have been earth shattering but they always (except for ED) change the game for the better.

And who knows, CO may draw some folks in that haven't heard of the superhero MMO and they may find that CO isn't their cup of tea and take a look at CoX. May generate some new blood for us!

That's why I don't go for the maximum this or minimum that. When I get a new power, I look at what's available, and in the case of my WS, if one set gave 2.2% sleep resistance, and the other gave 2.2 runspeed, I'd go for the sleep resistance.

As far as the recharge, same deal, I'd go for accuracy first, recharge second, then the others in order of importance. I admire the people who can talk about soft-capped this and hard capped that, but I have no idea what any of that means.

I do/did use Mids to kind of flesh out a character, mostly when I was going for a respec, but as far as the slotting, I'd kind of throw the sets I'd LIKE to have in there, but when it came time to actually buy the IO's I'd make a choice on what was available based on price of recipie (sp) and salvage. IF the one that I originally wanted was going for 1,000,000, well I'd pick the next best thing.

Never had any problems with any of my characters making it to 50, or having fun while I played, or getting (and staying) on teams. But I would like to learn more about these soft- and hard-caps so I guess I'll head over to the player guide section to see if I can find any guides on the subjects.

My all human WS hit 50 a few months ago. My build wasn't anything special. I just took the powers as they came, can't think of anything that was totally useless. There were some powers that I didn't use a LOT, but they all came in handy at one point or another. Just take what seems of the most benefit at the time it's available.

I used a lot of IO sets and I tried to focus on the ones that were mez reducers. I tried to get the ones that gave the benefits in 2 IO's although I had some that had to be 4 or 5 slotted to give the most benefit. On other powers I went for damage resistance and defense, in fact, I think I prioritized defense/damage resistance over actual damage doing powers. Most of the WS "blasts" are kind of weak if you think about it, so the real key for me was survivability so that I could plink away and finally defeat the villians.

I didn't tank for teams, but I did stay in the front lines as much as possible for the mire, eclipse and the stygian (forgot the name) recharge because I needed bodies for that and my pet. I did take hasten and stamina was a given.

Sorry to be so non-specific, I don't really play my 50's so I'm going from memory, I could post the build/slotting if it would help out.

Good luck! My human WS was a VERY fun character for me to play, and at times, mostly 30-40's felt very powerful, and I enjoyed him a lot!

2 here. I originally got the 2nd account so I could play with my (then) 8 year old who stays with my ex-wife. Naturally she nixed it (because I wanted it?) so we just play together every saturday night when he comes over.

It is definitely a convienence inf/recipie/salvage xfrs. My home server is Virtue and all of the slots are filled, although I have 5 slots from vet rewards on my older account and 3 (I think) on the newer account.

I played for my first 2 years on Freedom, got my first 50 there and I teamed a lot, never made any regular friends there so I teamed with whomever, whenever so I'd like to think that I teamed with him, and that he was a real cool guy.

Condolences, sorry for our loss...

I'm wondering the same thing myself. I've been playing for a little over 4 years, have 2 accounts, play pretty regularly, so I wonder about that too. I agree with most of what the others have said, if not the way some of them said it.

No one probably does know EXACTLY what gets you into the closed beta. You'd *think* that being a loyal customer and spending (in my case) over $1300 might do the trick, but I'm sure that some that made it into the open beta have spent less, played less, and have only 1 account.

I'd guess it's more or less a crap shoot with a small percentage getting in because they "know" somebody, and the overwhelming majority getting in through some sort of "lottery" type random selection thing.

Nothing to get bitter over, although I feel that little sting every time it's announced and I don't make it...and I'm sure I'm not alone...

I think the colors will be awesome. This will be my first "colorized" character. I'm sure I'll go back and "retconn" the others, but he'll be the first one from scratch. I've already got the costume done, black with light green highlights. It was actually suggested by my son, we designed it together. The green "glows" against the black costume, he suggested it because it's the color he thinks of when he thinks of radiation. Works for me, it looks AWESOME.

I imagine we can customize ALL of the colors in a set at creation? Wouldn't make sense to do it once you actually get the power, that would require a LOT of trips to the tailor, or whatever. Then again, that "might" be the way to go, get the power, see it in action, then color it.

I guess we'll see when it gets here.

Dunno how you got that build, I couldn't get it to load into Mid's, couldn't find any radiation builds on SuckerPunch's site either. I did see some threads where some folks were talking about adding rad to the mid's database, was that you?

*shrug*

Looks awesome though, pretty much exactly what I want, except my hero's gotta fly, to fit my concept. No big deal. But yeah, melee is cool. Just got done doing an ITF on my 49.5 grav/kin, and I was practically glued to the brute's butt throughout the whole thing to make sure everyone was getting sb, density, and all the other buffs. the way we were steamrolling through it, it wasn't like they really needed it. But yeah I'm no stranger to "in yer face" gameplay.

I'm going to save this chunk until I have something that can read it, and I'll definitely use it as a template. The IO's look good too, shouldn't have any problem hooking up any of my guys, sold a respec recipie last week for 90 mil on one character, sold another one tonight for another 90 mil.

If you start your rad/? blaster around I16 launch, it'd be interesting to compare notes, maybe post builds as they progress?

Thanks again for the advice and the template.

Kitteh: I would definitely like to see that, if you remember.

Genesis/Strato: Thanks for the tips! Since both of you seem to agree that /Fire is best used in melee, I can work with that. My grav/kin troller (lvl 44), my humanform WS (lvl 50), and my elec/elec blaster are all heavy melee'ers. I like being up there where the action is. My eng/eng blaster kind of holds back mostly because of the kb. I try to hover above everything so it's mostly knockdown.

Having never done anything with /fire, I wasn't quite sure, but I can dig being a "blapper".

Thanks again for the tips, I'm saving these to a txt file for when the time comes to use the info.

Absolutely correct Sir! I was using a defender and a blaster window to put this together and used the wrong one! What I usually do is to take the one that gives me the most protection, unless it ABSOLUTELY has to be a certain one for concept.

I guess you can tell that I'm REALLY excited about this, I've even made the costume and saved it. I've been wanting to do this character for a long time, and with the power customization he's going to ROCK.

Thanks for the heads up...