Ok, I'm a newbie. I've been playing for less than a week now, so these might look really really basic to all of you.
But, I wish I had known:
1. I can use duplicate enhancements on the same power. I'm not talking about combining, but actually filling two or more slots with Damage for example.
2. The abilities to fly/teleport/etc were available at level 6. I was at level 10 before I selected hover. I know this is in the manual, but I didn't read it well enough before I started playing.
3. You have to go see Ms. Liberty (or any other trainer) to actually level up. I was at level 3 or 4 before I realized this. So when I first got to her, I had a whole bunch of stuff queued up. I was just doing missions before that, and I kept wondering why I wasn't levelling, duh! 
Again, I know these seem stupid, but this is my first MMO game and I wasn't familiar with it at all.
Thanks for the post, this is great!!
The correct bind would be...
/bind p team I am now recalling $target. Prepare for teleport!$$powexec_name Recall Friend
if I'm not mistaken
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The correct bind would be...
/bind p team I am now recalling $target. Prepare for teleport!$$powexec_name Recall Friend
if I'm not mistaken
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That's if you want to combine the announcement with the power. I myself prefer to keep them separate, as I have other announcements I make as well. I often mean to tell someone he's going to be teleported when instead I announce to the entire team that I'm going to snipe the snot out of my teammate. Oops.
Granted, snipe and recall friend are powers that won't work when you target the wrong thing, but there are others.
It's a matter of taste, I know. Some people like to put the commands in there. I like to have the command separate from the text. I'm nutty that way. That's why I didn't put that line in there (and that opens up a new question about macros, which can be found in another thread).
Kevin
A few more...so I'm bored at work, sue me 
-if you need a safe place to rest or go afk, and there's no stores or trams handy, the ledges around the city-zone force fields are great...assuming you can get to them.
-Just because people tell you a task force only took them three hours, NEVER assume this will be true for you. I always allot 5-6 hours for a TF.
-Never assume that you're safe, even in a zone far below your level. One level 35 Rikti left over from an ambush in steel can ruin your whole day.
-On story arcs with certain villain groups (Fifth especially), always be careful exiting missions and calling your contacts, because it can trigger an ambush. And if you're in a low level zone and trigger one, try to clean it up. If you can't then call for help...unless you want a bunch of dead lowbies on your conscience.
Beware of the "R" key while waiting to rush in a group or just talking... if you press "R" this will make your character run ahead. I went into the options menu and changed this running key away from "R" to another since it is so near the keys we use the most playing, it's so easy to hit it and then watch your charcter run away into trouble. By the way hitting it again will stop it.... but by this time it may be too late . . . 
as I have found out the hard way. . . 
No matter how many of the Contaminated you may defeat, you will never be above 2nd level when you exit the Tutorial.
"Kevin, what are you doing?"
"I figure I'll take down more of these Contaminated."
"But you completed the mission."
"I wanna see if I can get up to Level 2 right now."
"You can't. You receive set XP."
"Aw, crap."
Kevin
How do scrappers and tankers /assist eachother? With ranged attacks it's easy, you just click on the person you are assisting and start blasting. With melee attacks, you have to find the next target and go to it. Is there a way to easily go to the target that your assist person is targetting?
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How do scrappers and tankers /assist eachother? With ranged attacks it's easy, you just click on the person you are assisting and start blasting. With melee attacks, you have to find the next target and go to it. Is there a way to easily go to the target that your assist person is targetting?
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Best way is to use the F key to follow your teammate, and then any assist melee attacks will go off if you are close enough to the tank/scrapper's target.
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A bad name can ruin a good character.
Not happy with your costume? You can change that. It'll cost you a fortune at low levels, but at least its fixable. But a bad name will haunt you.
You can create the perfect character with the perfect look and get them all leveled up just the way you want...but if you're not satisfied with the name it'll eat away at you until you eventually have to re-roll.
Take the extra 20-30 minute upfront and create something original that you love. Don't give up out of frustration. If it's already taken, that just means it's not original enough.
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Couldn't agree more, and by all means make sure you spell it correctly. There is nothing worse than being 20+ levels in and realizing you are stuck with Electic instead of Electric, Molton when it should be Molten, Tornadoe instead of Tornado, Granut instead of Granite (ok that last one was a stretch, but from what I've seen it could definitely happen).
Heres a big one for scrappers and Tankers. You can auto follow mobs! "So what" you say. If you set up a key bind to "target nearest" then "auto follow" it you will never have to worry about being out of range. Your toon will automatically run to the nearest mob. In a group as soon as you defeat the mob youre on hit your /bind and keep attacking.
Another thing, the jump attack. To kill a runner jump over it and attack. When you land you will spin around and attack it even if it if far away. It looks cool too!
that you can put more than one of the same enhancement on a skill......i have a lvl 27 blaster and i just figured that out and ive played since beta..... 
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Some notes about your entries:
4. Sprint uses end yes but not as much as others turn it off in combat if you must but as you get more end and ways to replenishg it you may leave it on for quick step to catch a retreating enemy
thats it for now
Ron Procopio
Main- Tria Ul Scar 18 scrapper pinnacle
Alts - too numerous to list ( at least 33)
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Not sure what cheat you're using here... but I started at level 1 with 100 endurance... am now level 21... and still have 100 endurance.... you never get more that im aware of.... only powers that use more of it...
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Hunting the CoT in Kings Row was almost enough to convince me to take Hover
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When hunting those 10 CoT in Kings Row, I /broadcast that I am killing 10 CoT, and ask if anyone else doing the same would like to group with me. Invariably I get a few nibbles, and the time goes much faster, since we never bother to meet up, just hopping up random buildings. Best of all, any CoT anyone in the group kills, counts towards *all of our* missions.
Being an alt-o-holic, I have done that mission way too many times...
I was flying around the rooftops of kings row searching for cot with only hover, so It had been like 45 minutes, and someone broadcast from the ground "there are cot everywhere! I can't move without hitting one". I practically fell out of the sky, but explained that I was looking for them, where was he. He teamed me, killed one (i only needed one more) then quit the team. It was nice, so I knowwhat you're saying there!
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How do scrappers and tankers /assist eachother? With ranged attacks it's easy, you just click on the person you are assisting and start blasting. With melee attacks, you have to find the next target and go to it. Is there a way to easily go to the target that your assist person is targetting?
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Best way is to use the F key to follow your teammate, and then any assist melee attacks will go off if you are close enough to the tank/scrapper's target.
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I usually have a melee attack in my first powerslot, so I press "1" at the top of the keyboard which queues the attack and targets a villian, then hit "F" to run to him. Both are default binds programmed into the game.
Also, taunt and provoke can bring the enemie to you. Taunt is excellent for pulling stragglers away from groups.
Great thread!!!
Still new here (level 13), not sure what the map patch is I have heard a few people mention...anyone care to explain?
Being in REST can keep you from being teleported.
Irritating when you WANT to be teleported.
Handy when you know you might be griefed teleported.
never ever be really tall, anything much over standard height and on cave mission especially your head will be in the rock and you will find yourself getting stuck on things often. Also to see some of the mobs .. the short ones..you need to go to a higher angle than is other wise nessescary that down ward angle makes it hard to see second and 3rd level critters hidding... I do so wish that i could be normal size.
COT in kings row also live under several bridges.
the B key for 1st person toggle can be your friend, not great for combat but helpful for negotiating obstacles.
... that you must do the mission for Serge (the Icon tailor) before your second costume slot is opened? If you just waltz in at 20 when you're notified that you earned a new costume, you'll be making alterations on your MAIN, original costume!
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That some fifth turn into werewolves. I encountered this on the sister psyche tf..My group had a good laugh at my reaction for about 10 minutes.
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I disagree on this. You should NOT know! It is more fun that way, it keeps the edge to the game. The first time it happened to me was in IP. We beat down the LT, my health was about gone and POOF there he was Roaring and all. I had a momentary "Scream like a little, girl run like hell, what the hell is that? Reaction before recovering and going after him with the rest of the team. Because we sometime use Ventrilo voice server I had to listen to all the laughing but it made that one of my most memorable and fun fights.
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Beware of the "R" key while waiting to rush in a group or just talking... if you press "R" this will make your character run ahead. I went into the options menu and changed this running key away from "R" to another since it is so near the keys we use the most playing, it's so easy to hit it and then watch your charcter run away into trouble. By the way hitting it again will stop it.... but by this time it may be too late . . . as I have found out the hard way. . .
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I fixed the hit r and run into combat problem by rebinding the key to P, since I never hit P to bring up the power menu. This has kept me alive and out of trouble.
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A bad name can ruin a good character.
Not happy with your costume? You can change that. It'll cost you a fortune at low levels, but at least its fixable. But a bad name will haunt you.
You can create the perfect character with the perfect look and get them all leveled up just the way you want...but if you're not satisfied with the name it'll eat away at you until you eventually have to re-roll.
Take the extra 20-30 minute upfront and create something original that you love. Don't give up out of frustration. If it's already taken, that just means it's not original enough.
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Couldn't agree more, and by all means make sure you spell it correctly. There is nothing worse than being 20+ levels in and realizing you are stuck with Electic instead of Electric, Molton when it should be Molten, Tornadoe instead of Tornado, Granut instead of Granite (ok that last one was a stretch, but from what I've seen it could definitely happen).
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Bleh, I just realized the other day that I switched two letters in my name, Phoenix Down is spelled O before E, but I switched them. Thankfully, it's an error that few will catch :-)
-The Train drops you off and lets you on in different spots of the station. For the longest time I thought I actually had to go and touch the ground on the zone and go back in, you've just got to go to a different room in the station.
-It is worth it to go through the default keybindings (controls) and verify you like the way they are. R was one of them and the 'reply target' (, I think) were bad ones for me.
-The boards are important you can save much time on ideas for builds but don't be afraid to experiment either, especially now that respec is near.
-Other fansites/forums can be helpful too, coh.warcry.com and coh.stratics.com are two.
-There are good and bad players out there. I found a nice group of patient people to do the Synapse TF, they were willing to wait the 30 minutes it took to make sure we got our AT numbers right to do the mission in a decent amount of time.
- Pinnacle only - The tougher zones of Boomtown are overlooked as nice solo leveling zones in your mid to late teens. Faultline is good into your low 20's and even then you may want to bring a friend just because the mobs congregate in larger numbers.
-Since you're reading the boards you most likely know this but STORES FOR ENHANCEMENTS EXIST. For the first 6 levels of my first char I deleted any enhancements I didn't use.
-Jumping is faster than running with superjump but it's quicker still if you don't reach the apex of the jump. !=Short leaps are quicker than bounding ones.
-Being sidekicked will not get you into 'unprotected' zones that require you to be a certain level. You have to actually be the level that the zone requires.
If you save a citizen from a gang (unless it's for a mission), wait for them to come back and thank you, they give you the same per-enemy number of influence points, and even that little extra bit can help out in the long run.
That you can keep the camera from spinning around into inopportune objects (trees, potted plants etc) simply by holding down the right mouse button while attacking...
Assisted targeting. Click on a team member and you target the opponent which that member targets.