New Player HELP - A few questions (COH rocks!)

Hello everyone! I just subbed for COH after wanting to play for a long, long time. Took me a few days to get used to the COH style, especially after playing CO first, but I am LOVING it!

I have a few questions that hopefully some of you can answer to help me on my way!

1- How do I choose / change my Global friend chat name? I was given one that is the same as my first alt toon, which I wasnt warned about.

2- Where can I go, closest to Atlas, Galaxy and Mercy Island - to buy a Raptor Pack? Also, any tips on making 10,000 inf as fast as possible to buy one?

3- Is there any way to go back to missions you out level or will I never be able to until I get to use the flashback thing i heard about?

4- If I get hover at level 6, do I have to get the flight-punch thingie before I can get flight, or can I just get flight at level 8? If not, when do I have to wait.

5- I have my first HERO on Freedom and my Vill on Virtue, anyone know of a good light/medium RP supergroup that is also into pve and all the other content


I appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you so much and I'll see you soon on XAOS 2.0 - Freedom, and Psikon - Virtue.


p.s. - I watched the youtube video of the hero con showing "going rogue" features/gameplay, and it looks like they FINALLY fixed the run animation for our characters. Take a look and let me know if i'm seeing things, cuz in the video its a lot less like gumby running. thx

Welcome to the game. I'll see if I can answer some of these questions for you.

1 - You can change the Global Chat Handle easily, but only once. So be very sure you get it right. I believe the command is /changehandle NameYouWant.

2 - You can get the Raptor Packs in Shadow Shard (Hero) or Grandville (Villain). However, if you wait until lvl 5 (which will come very quickly) you can get one free by doing the Safeguard/Mayhem missions. These need a little extra explanation.

3 - You can do a mission at any time simply by joining somebody who is lower level than you. You will still earn xp, although you may lose some powers, depending how far down in level you drop (you keep everything up to 5 levels above the one you are playing at). At 25 you can gain access to Ouroboros, and do that flashback thing.

4 - You only need to take one of the first 2 powers in a Pool to get the third (in this case, Flight). However, the earliest you can take that 3rd tier power is 14 (and 20 for the last of the four).

5 - I can't help you with, as I play on the EU servers.


For information on the Safeguard missions to get free Raptor Pack, check out the ParagonWiki. In fact, check it out for all sorts of helpful stuff

Welcome to the game!

I'm gonna echo join the global channels they are a godsend. Freedom Elite is actually private or some crap so your gonna need an invite to it but just send me a tell @Lucky666 or @Lucky667 in game I'll get ya an invite to it.

Rather than play the market like that, wouldn't it be easier for a lower level toon to just play the game a bit and sell their salvage? Luck charms and the like sell pretty well.

Few notes :

Travel Powers - In addition to fly for running the Atlas Park Safeguard/Mayhem while TRAINED UP to level 5+, you can get a Super Jump temp power for being trained up to level 10+ and running the Kings Row mission. Note, the temp power awards based on your trained up (Security or Threat Level that gets you new powers and enhancement slots) level, not your combat (DING! More Hp/Damage/etc level - you have a green arrow pointing up in the HP/End/Menu bar).

Safeguards vs. Mayhems

Biggest difference is this : Safeguards, RUN TO THE BANK. Kill the mobs inside.

Mayhem, walk to the bank, defeat mobs on the way. In mayhems, longbow spawn ambushes when you pass certain points.

For Flashback, there are some mission in this game that are not part of a story arc, nor do they give a badge. However, they still might give a nice temp power. Unfortunately for those wanting to flashback the temp powers, no badge nor a story arc means no flashback.

Welcome to the game!

We don't really RP, but if you want to find a team on either of those servers, you can also try www.repeat-offenders.net - and we don't get jealous if you belong to other SGs as well. Although I've been told my PPD:A (paragon special forces cop) and his speech patterns (formerly brainwashed by rikti, basically) are Lethal:Very. Target:Teammates

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The market stuff I mentioned is annoying and stupid. But you can do it when you need to, it doesn't take long, it seems fairly simple to me (not that I'm a good judge any more) and there's no way to lose money at it unless you buy salvage for more than 250 inf or recipes at more than 100 inf per level.

You probably WILL make more money selling your own salvage. Oh, I'm going to suggest that, your first time through the game, you use store-bought enhancements- TOs, DOs and SOs to use jargon - instead of playing with the invention system. Unless you get bored; inventions work a bit better than store-bought enhancements and are WAY more complex, but storeboughts work well enough.

Welcome to the Game, OP.

I'm going to toss out a few thoughts on bootstrapping a character with 0 influence.
I do this with every new character I make and it's quick and reliable.


1> Do the tutorial - it's insipid after the first couple times, but worth it.
1a> Get the two large inspirations and the 2 training enhancements.


2> Sell the training enhancements to a Trainer or Quartermaster. Inf now > 0.
2a> At the Black Market (Mercy Island or Port Oakes) or WentWorth's
(Atlas Park or King's Row), sell your two inspirations... List them for 1 each.
This, by itself, probably gets you your 10K (maybe more, maybe less).

3> At the market, open up Crafted Enhancements -> Normal (TO's, DO's and
SO's). Look at SO's at L35+ (Enhancements listing only a Single Origin). If
you see any for sale, with 0 bidding, bid 100-500 for it. If you don't buy it
immediately, cancel the bid and move on...

Odds are very good you can get a full enhancement tray of 10 of them on
the cheap in just a few minutes. Sell these to the Trainer or Quartermaster...
One pass of this should get you to the 100K range, and you're off to the races.

Steps 1-3 can be done at Level 1-2 (You're at Level 2 if you finish the
tutorial normally), and should take about 1/2 hour in total...

From then, on, I rotate into the standard Recipe Vendoring (see my sig for
a guide) approach, along with playing normal content, to get to 10-20M.

This is enough to keep your toon in fresh DO's, SO's and common IO's for
their entire career... Sets, cost a bit more, but the Recipe Vendoring method
scales well to 100M or so, which is plenty... Beyond that, you'll want to
look at additional techniques if you want the inf to buy the super shinies.

Hope that helps, and again, welcome aboard...


Regards,
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Two things.

If it hasn't already been mentioned Virtue is the unofficial RP server.

There's nothing wrong with having your heroes and villains on separate servers, but it's not necessary, you may have your reasons for doing this and if so that's fine just wanted to let you know you don't have to as some think it's necessary.

Oh, Welcome!

Welcome to the only real superhero MMO

Re: making some quick cash as a lowbie...

I'm gonna suggest something I wouldn't suggest in ANY other MMO, based on the kindness and "heroic" qualities of the players here.

Consider asking one of the dozens of level 50s you're going to come across, for some gifted Inf "to get you started".

A polite Tell along the lines of "Sorry to bother you, wondering if you can spare 5 or maybe 10k Inf to get me started?"

They're gonna look at your Vet badges, or lack thereof, and open a Trade screen. Chances are they'll be happy to gift you QUITE a bit more than 5k-10k.

I wouldn't do this in Wentworth's. You could give it a shot under the Atlas statue, but you're probably going to have the best luck in a more random encounter at a train station, Trainer (level-up NPC), SG base portal, etc.

I don't endorse panhandling on a larger level, but for a truely new player such as yourself, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how many people (with multiple 50s and beaucoup Inf on their hands) will be more than willing to help you get the ball rolling.

The key is to ask for a small amount, and let the player feel magnanimous in giving you a LOT more than you ask for. Don't be a weenie and ask for 50k right off the bat, you won't have much luck, I guarantee.

If you ever see one of my high-level toons, I certainly will gift you. I'm @Cougarific on Freedom.

Welcome to CoX, xaosdark!

Feel free to global me as well @Imminent Violence and I'll gladly give you a bit of starter cash.

Hey there, and welcome to Paragon. Since it doesn't seem to have been mentioned, the game has a server-wide help channel, where players can ask about any sort of game-related stuff. You can talk in it with the /hc command - there should be a tab named "Help" in your chat window by default.

1} As it has already been mentioned, click "Menu", and select "Chat Handle". You can only do this once, theoretically. However, on a few occasions when global servers got borked, players received another global rename token.

2} Heroside, you can go to Peregrine via the Vanguard DPO {V icon on your map} - simply go through the portal, then turn around and go through it again. The direct route to the Firebase Zulu is a bit risky, but you can detour through the relative safety of the water and climb to Portal Court once you're close enough. As for the starter money, I would recommend Architect Entertainment. Finding a good arc to play is a bit of a hit and miss, but on the whole, you can redeem AE tickets for salvage at a pretty good rate, and cash that salvage in on the market - earnings from a few missions can easily set you up with enough influence to cover regular enhancement cost well into the Lv20-30 range.

3} Yes and no. All mission arcs and badge missions are available through Ouroboros, which you can access at Lv25. However, most contacts also have a fair share of "padding" missions, some of which grant temporary powers, which cannot be accessed once you've outleveled them. If you want, you can control your leveling progress via the "Earn XP/No XP" setting in Menu/Options.

4} & 5} have been answered better than I could.

Again, welcome to Paragon City. If you need some help in-game, you can contact me at @Quinch.

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There is a lot of good advice in this thread. Just a few more things. When running missions to level try to pick story arcs when you can. You can go to Paragonwiki to see which contacts have story arcs for you. You can amass a decent amount of merits just leveling up if you do, which will come in handy later. Also, if for some reason a contact isn't open to you just run a few radio missions in the zone the contact you want is in. After you do the bank robbery mission you go to the detectives for they introduce you to new contacts. Make sure to pick the ones with story arcs. Also, whenever you have the time and inclination try to run TF's and Trials. You will be wanting as many Merits as you can muster. Later on you will be wanting IO's and some of them are very, very expensive. Find out which IO's that you want are the most expensive and buy them with Merits. It can save you 100's of millions in influence.

Also, this is generally a very helpful community. If you need help with something just ask and have a little patience. As long as you aren't obnoxious about it someone will get around to helping you with your problem. Especially if you can find your way into an active supergroup. As an example, back around Christmas I had my new controller standing around in City Hall and a lvl 50 ran by me then stopped. They said they liked my toon's look and then said it was my lucky day and handed me one million influence. and a tray full of high lvl SO's to vendor. I am not saying that will happen to you, I am just putting it out there to illustrate what a friendly community this game has.

Welcome to the game and best wishes.