Tired Angel

Issue 17 was announced on the 9th February and the prepurchase for GR started 2nd March. So nearly a month apart!

I remember reading somewhere on the boards that the Void in the Midnighters Club was a bug related to that the map is also used in a redside mission so has spawn points.

Not had an ambush track me down while I was shopping but I once saw someone elses Soldiers of Rularuu floating outside a store in Talos. I was "OMG what are those" as I was still relatively new and didn't have a clue. Interesting though that they are able to escape the Shadow Shard now, I think someone should let Portal Corps know!

I had someone in game over a week ago saying that DS is coming out on the 1st April so they've been going at it for a long time

* The Devil Divine (Dark/Rad Defender) - he was captured by the Circle of Thorns due to this innate magical abilities and was used as a portal for a demon summoning. However he was rescued at the last minute but it left him changed.

* Black Karhu (Tri Fire Tanker) - although the experiment that created him is non-cannon his back story as to why he became a hero is related to the Arachnos.

* Dark Polar Karhu (Dark/Ice Defender) - again his back story is non-cannon but he is from another dimension and made contact with the Portal Corp

* Karhu Junior (Fire/Thermal Controller) - as with the other two Karhu's his origin is non-cannon but he is from an alternative time line and came to be in our world due to Ourborous.

* Shining Darkness (Dark/DB Brute) - she was created by the Circle of Thorns as a magical assassain

* Greg Wise, Charlie Bright, Trick Illusion - they all work for the Hero Corps organisation

From a villain point of view the Villain Archtypes you may want to consider either a Brute, Corruptor or possibly Mastermind.
* Brute - these toons revel in being in the thick of combat, they gain a damage boost via their inherent power 'Fury' for each time they attack and are attacked. So although their main function is hit stuff they also have some tools (e.g. Taunt) to help manage agro for a group.
* Corruptors - these toons have a mixture of damage and support. The classic 'healer' isn't as present in CoX as it is in other MMOs. Some of the support powersets contain heals or varying strength but their main focus is either buffs or debuffs which can be very powerful.
* Masterminds - these toons are a self contain team in themselves. Their primary powers is summoning their pets which do their damage and their secondary powers are the same as a corruptors and are designed to buff/debuff.

If you and your friend venture hero side (or you are around for Going Rogue expansion) you may want to consider:
* Tanker - these toons main job is to manage agro for a team. They have an inherent power which agros the target of their attack and those around them. They have strong defences and some decent damage (although not as strong as Brutes, but Brutes don't have the survivability of the Tanker).
* Defender - these toons are the opposite to a corruptor. They get the same powers but their primary and secondary powersets are reversed. They get strong buffs/debuffs (and some heals) but do less damage.
* Scrapper - These toons are pure melee attackers, although not as naturally as good as managing agro as a Tanker or Brute particular combos are still good at it.

Hope that helps

Edit - but as Willowpaw says (very rightly!) give lots of different things a try. CoH encourages playing different alts (including allowing 12 character slots on each server and being able to buy/earn upto another 24 per server on top of that!). Also different powersets within an Archtype play very differently to each other.

My Defender Kin/Arch isn't suicidal - Stealth with Mass Hypnosis makes an easy Fulcrum/RoA combo

Having just seen that they are locking the DP open beta threads and closing them next Monday I reckon it won't be long! lol

See thats one of those headache multi dimensional questions your not meant to ask.

How I see it is that when Infernal was thrown into Paragon's Earth the circumstances could have gone in an infinite different ways creating infinite more dimensions. Only two of those possibilities is our infernal and the praetorian infernal.

There could be a primal earth exactly the same as ours where infernal didn't arrive, or arrived somewhere else or was found by someone else etc etc. So there could be other versions of the praetorian infernal where he fights for the reistance etc.

NOW with the Rikti, we only know one version of the praetorian earth. So there could be others where circumstances led to the rikti invading or coming and making peace etc.

Its the whole thing of infinite decisions/variables each leading to the creation of infinite number of earths some being nearly identicle some being completely different.

I noticed that to and thought I woud love that holster thing to! If players could get it it also suggests (please note speculation begins here) there may an introduction of asymetrical leg pieces.

Apart from the Spines/Regen brute I would love these.

Some sort of Psychic Support set would be cool - maybe based around drain psyche debuffs, telekinetic shields etc - and I would love to reroll my Sonic/MM as a Psychic/Sonic defender.

And I love the idea of Battle Strategy set - maybe something with variation on leadership pools mixed with moral support powers (kind of anti-pain).

And Dark Control is definitely a must

I would also like to see Dark Miasma for 'trollers so I can roll a Illusion/Dark and Mind/Dark controller

On top of that an Ice/Spines tank for the ultimate agro aura combi and Ive got a concept for Invulnerable/Katana tank which I would like

I would also like to see some sort of tech or munitions APP for controllers and defenders

Edit - another idea Ive had is a Katana/Kinetic or Dual Blade/Kinetic.

As you say we don't have the numbers so I can't agree or disagree with you there but there are also NCSoft and CoX presence at US events such as PAX and HeroCon to take into account. I know you are in the same position as the rest of EU as you are based in Poland but presence of such events may affect the population of the NA servers which you play on.

You may be right, but as you say in your own responces we don't have any numbers to prove either of us right/wrong.

Don't mean to be rude but it was you who asked: "Only the title of the thread is 'EU shafted AGAIN', so i wondered what there was before." so we have given you this.

I'm lucky in that I do have a good internet connection and a decent spec'd machine. But not everyone has and not everyone can afford to upgrade, doesn't mean you get to dismiss them.

And there is a whole thread dedicated to those who use dial up here http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=203234.

And I am still considering importing a copy of the GR box from America (even though the serial codes won't) for the fact it will still be quicker for me to install the game from that and manually change the cohupdater file than it would be for me to spend ages downloading the whole game again.

Well I think we will just have to agree to disagree here. From the discussion that has happened in this thread and another I have been reading it is more than childish rant about just not being able to buy it.

Im glad Im not the only one who does this....

And welcome Curry and Oates!

Now that sounds like a good name for a cop show!

I think the majority has been discussed in this thread but there is a general feeling among the EU community that NCSoft don't seem to care what happens to the EU servers.

Although some have said they would like to own a boxed copy of the game for collection purposes it also represents a lack of shelf or online shop presence (e.g. amazon, play.com). There is a concern that the fact that NCSoft aren't willing to invest resources into advertising the EU side of the game that they don't care about the servers and are willing to let them just die, unlike the NA servers which they are trying to attract more customers to.

I know have read arguments about Steam(?) the online store but I hadn't even heard of that until the threads about this mentioned it, so there are probably others out there to!

There are also others historical things such as the closing of the Brighton offices, the loss of EU side specific maintenance times, the EU website/old forums/updater not being updated at the same time as the US ones, EU not getting access to closed betas, the belief after the EU didn't get the MA boxset we would get the next big box release (ie GR) not happening to name just a few.

And honestly I think having to wait overnight to download a game in which I could play in 15mins from a disc installation is rediculous. Some broadband providers actually limit the amount of data you can download, some people have to share an internet connection (I know I have to negotiate with my other half when I want to play and when they want to download stuff) and some people still play on a dial up connection.

I kind of imagine what the second ice age would look like!

You are very right there. I used freetranslation.com and a couple of other free translation sites to get a Finnish name for one of my toons. I settled on Karhu Varjo but then was told by a Finnish in game friend of mine it should have been Varjo Karhu!

Hey its free! I will admit the translations are rarely perfect but I've always found it good enough to get the understanding of whats being written.

And for someone who struggles with English as their first language its better than nothing! lol

I was reading in one of the threads about I17 and someone did speculate that the whole 'Dark Mirror' thing revolved around Mirror Spirit or her praetorian counterpart in someway.

Particularly due to the idea of the, mirror, the 'blow for blow' thing and the new Positron TF ends in Faultline.

Sorry I can't directly the person who came up with the idea but I can't find it