CoH Live Journal: Answers to Common Questions

Thanks for the help. I'll try contacting support now. :3

ive been out of COH for awhile and now that ive came back i dont know where everyone is playing,can anyone help?

The busiest servers tend to be Freedom and Virtue. You don't see a lot of people outside nowadays due to it being mostly instanced content (along with the myriad amounts of teleportation tools making it seem like "no one's around"). It would be best to find your server(s) Global channel (look around or ask at the particular server's board) for better contact information for teaming, etc.

EDIT: If you're still around, anyway. I didn't notice the question was a month old.

LEGION OF VALOR - Be a part of the Legend!

Ahh, I'm new to this COH thing but I'd really like to know, is there gonna be like a combination pack where I can get COH/V and GR in one big purchase? Or am I better off just buying the COH/V arch ed and then GR?

All the editions kind of confuse me.

Created a new toon in GR last night. I'm a 72 mo vet and none of my vet rewards are available to me. Is this a change or a bug?

ElectroBlaster, did you go into the Badges window and claim your Veteran rewards?

I made a Praetorian character last week, and as expected, I got over 25+ badges at the screen load, including Veteran badges. Of course, those don't do much until you go in the Badges tab and claim them for the temp powers, etc.

Since this is my first post for COH, I am obligates to say "thanks Devs for making a great game."

I was happy to recently find out about the new Incarnate alpha slot -- Yes, I realize that it has been out for a while but I missed it -- and, as my first character approaches 50, was glad to hear there was a provision for expanding characters abilities at the current max level.

So, I went nuts seaching forums for information related to "alpha slots" and "incarnate alpha" and so on. Finally, I found a link to the wiki site
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Alpha_Slot_Abilities which answered many of my questions regarding it.

This immediately raised additional questions regarding why it was set up the way it is. Can anyone point me to any discussions or announcements from devs explaining this? Since, I am not yet 50, I haven't run the game content so if it self-explanatory once you see it in action, I guess I will get it at that time. It just seems to be to be a bit complex and I am uncertain as to why the benefits in question were grouped together and am curious if any explanation was given.

My (naive) viewpoint is that it might have been simpler to allow character to construct something similar to enhancements and slot them into the character (instead of a power) and then allow you to select your own combination of effects. Of course, I understand that there may be some game balance reasons for excluding certain combinations (such as recharge and endurance reduction or even accuracy) but am less clear why combinations such as recharge and hold or sleep duration are not appropriate.

In fact, I was disappointed when I saw what the possibilities were since, as a Mind/RAD controller, my main interest was to get recharge reduction, with some combination of hold or sleep or confuse but these don't seem to be available. It seems as if I will end up choosing recharge reduction and then going all the way to the paragon level to get the 2/3 ED bypass without getting additional benefit from the other bonsuses.

This is actually not a complaint (since, as I said, I have yet to use the content), just a request for [a pointer to] more information if it exists.

Thanks

Thanks for the quick response. I figured that the reason they had four separate categories was to keep damage, acc, endurance, and recharge separate. I am still interested in finding any information as to how it was determined what other enhancements to pair with each -- i.e. why not pair holds with recharge rather than immobilize or whatever was selected?

Hope this is the correct place to ask...

Ok, sounds lame, but cant find it (i already ask google)



Where u could "cook" recipes in SharkIsland?

There are also Abandoned Labs in Port Oakes and St Martial which works virtually the same as the University

Greetings

I am an old city of heroes player and i havent played the game for the past 2-3 years. My heroes (one lvl 50 and others lower lvls...) where in the defiant and union servers. Today i downloaded city of heroes freedom and tried to log into the defiant server. Although i succeded i coudnt find my heroes there!!!! The slots where empty and kinda "locked". Whats is going on? Where are my heroes? Do i have to "transfer" them to a new server somehow?

i have a quick one, i havnt played coh in a good min when it became free i jumped back in and started trying to play with my lvl 50 ice/ice tank. I got defeated pretty quickly when i dont recall it being that easy to defeat him by pve enemies. When i looked into my set bonuses i noticed that they were not all there, meaning it used to be a good amount of regeneration bonuses and recovery bonuses when now it's one of each. Also i recalled my hp being at 2400hp and when i would use hoarfrost it jumping up to 3200hp. I asked the in game support and they wouldnt answer my question of "what happened to all the set bonuses that i had" and reffered me to the forums. Now i have looked am i just not finding it? can someone just point me in the right direction?

I'm guessing you don't have IOs "on" since you aren't a subscription player and probably haven't played enough before to have them permanently unlocked. They are there, just greyed out and non functional.

I suggest you check out the following topics at ParagonWiki.

Account - as a former subscriber you are a premium player

Paragon Rewards Program - Lifetime unlock of the Invention System is a Tier 7 benefit (27 or more Reward Tokens)

Reward Token

Also you can choose to spend 160 Paragon Points to buy a monthly unlock of the Invention System. The Auction House is also off limits but in unlocked at Tier 4 (8 reward tokens) or by spending another 160 Paragon Points for a monthly unlock.

Another thing you could, assuming you hadn't used it already, is to switch to your secondary build at a trainer and build a SO only version of your character. This way if you resubscribe or activate the Invention System in other ways you still have your IO build.

Of course resubscribing reactivates everything.

Can anyone tell me where the Rocket packs have gone? I have had one everyday since I bought them every 30 days. But now it simply has disappeared from all of my toons! I have looked and looked to try and buy them again but with no luck.

Hi guys i have small question, im lvl 22 hero, server Liberty.
My problem is that i dont have a quest from Admissions Officer Lenk, and I dont have him in my contacts so i dont know how to salvage and craft...
When im talking to him, he telling me that he dont have nothing for me now.
Can you help me? Im not a VIP player, maybe crafting is only for people who pay for the game.

Sorry about my english im from Czech Rep.

Hi there,

I haven't played in quite some time and decided to come back and check out the changes to see if I want to subscribe again.

I've come across two different missions now where I can't defeat the elite bosses due to them putting me in a status effect that reads "Only Affecting Self", where I can move around and use Inspirations but can't attack. This is on a Stalker with the Integration and Resilience powers active. Break-Free doesn't work, either. The effect lasts a very long time and makes it impossible to survive despite numerous self-healing powers, even on the lowest difficulty setting. Dull Pain and Reconstruction wear off and then I'm toast.

My questions are: What the heck causes this status effect? Is there a way to avoid it? Is it now impossible to play solo outside of broker missions?

Thanks for your help!

It's always been possible to play solo outside of broker missions.