Volken

Originally Posted by Eric Nelson

Interesting little slice of Victory drama to spice up my afternoon.

Alt, I think your post came across extremely harsh, intended or not (and I have a hard time believing you really didn't think your post was going to be provocative). Volken is a newer player, and all he did was express worry that he chose an AT that many others did as well, and that it might negatively impact his ability to get teams. All that needed to be said was that a truly good group of players playing as a team would accept most any AT in CoX and be able to excel and enjoy themselves. And accusing him of being "part of the problem" isn't very nice -- he's a new player (which you acknowledged by welcoming him to the game), so he doesn't have that many alts yet to choose from. Give him time, I'm sure that will happen sooner rather than later.

Volken, hopefully you took some positives from this thread. 4.5 years ago when I started playing this game, I felt much the same as Alt seems to about Tankers. The first 2 or 3 I teamed with a significant amount DID consider themselves to be the de facto team leader, whether they had the star or not, and also seemed to think they were God's gift to AT build advice (and not just Tanker builds!). I remember feeling like I would NEVER want to roll a Tank because "all" Tankers were jerks -- but as I played more and made more friends I met many, MANY more people who played Tanks (some as their favorite or "main" AT, others as just one of their many alts), and I came to see that it truly is the PLAYER behind the toon that determines their behavior. A classy person playing any toon is classy; a crass jerkhole playing any toon remains a crass jerkhole.

That said, do keep in mind that now with I16's Super Side-Kicking (SSK) you don't have to be within any particular range to accompany a team anymore, so feel free to roll up some ATs you want to try out and get on a kick-a$$ Victory team! And as others have pointed out, play what you like and have fun -- it's a game.

Originally Posted by SuckerPunch

Welcome to Victory! You've already proven you have a thick enough skin to get on fine here

Originally Posted by SuckerPunch

I'd be remiss if I didn't link you to the Titan Network.

Originally Posted by PennyPA

Whoops, missed this thread. Welcome Volken to CoH and Victory.

Looks like you got a ton of advise so far.

Originally Posted by SuckerPunch

No problem. You'll come to learn and love the Paragon Wiki. It's a fantastic source of information.

Originally Posted by SuckerPunch

Originally Posted by Zamuel

I can respect that. One way around that is skipping the tutorial and only doing custom missions in the Architect Entertainment building. Still, it might be best just to wait until GR to see how sideswitching works out.

Originally Posted by SuckerPunch

Yep! Origins are fun, but knowing what your sets actually are lets us give you actual opinions on them.

However, and this is a big one - Take everyone's opinions about a powerset or combo with a chunk of salt. The most important thing is to play what you think is fun, and not what other people say is good or bad. Everything in this game is viable. It all depends on if you have fun playing it.

Originally Posted by SuckerPunch

Just a little FYI, the Origin of your characters, while nice flavor, largely plays no role in the rest of the game. Focus more on what your powersets are when describing them to people than what Origin it is.

There are some side-effects to what origin you select, but on the whole it's all very minor stuff.

Originally Posted by Vivace

You should totally be a blaster.

Originally Posted by SuckerPunch

A quick tip for sending Tells (they're they yellow messages people might send to you, and these are private) -

If you hit the Backspace key, your chat window will automatically be setup to reply to the last person that sent you a tell. It took me a few weeks of playing to learn that trick and it was immensely valuable once I figured it out!

Originally Posted by Zamuel

If you post the type of character you used over in WoW, I'm sure someone here will be able to give you suggestions for over here. However, it might be best to simply try one of each archetype to see what feels best for you.

As far as chat, you can generally just hit Enter and it'll put the cursor in the chat box or you can click it with your mouse. If you accidentally closed your chat box, just hit 'C'. There's some tiny squares in the bottom of your chatbox that allow you to switch between Team chat, Local chat, etc.

Originally Posted by Satanic_Hamster

In City of Heroes you can make pretty much an eight man team of any AT and still have it viable.

When you're just starting out, I really suggest using a Scrapper. It's the most soloable AT, is generally forgiving of mistakes due to having defense/resistances/mez protection, and had good damage output. This makes it a good platform for learning a lot of the game mechanics.

Since Tuesday, they revamped the way teams work, so generally any level character can team with any other without a huge hindrance.

On chat... In the guide section, there's a few good player made guides. If you right click on your chat tabs, you can add/remove the chat types that you have per tab or even create a new tab. Generally, for communicating, you're going to want Local, Team, Broadcast, Request, Private Messages, and later Supergroup and Coalition (if you join a supergroup).

Also, try looking into the Global Chat guides. There's several good Global Chat channels for game discussion / teaming, most notable Victory Forum.


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Originally Posted by DuceyKins

You can solo and team play just about any AT some are harder than others but for the most part it is possible.

As for what people are looking for depends on what they are doing, no one is in "need" of certain ATs.

Good luck and have fun playing!