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WElcome to the world away from your current world.
scrappers i think are the easiest on heroes to start off with and MasterMinds are the same villain side.
be nice, dont act stuck up and urll do great with people.
dont blind invite people to teams.
i say dont farm at all as ur new, asked or start get to know the missions, the landmarks everything first.
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/438711/
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/438711/
as these two videos funnyly show.
get to know the channels of chatter here and events as well.
any questions..ask here or in game. im always happy to help fellow villains questions:@Dr HR...heroes...ill think about lol

enjoy

Welcome to the City!

I'll add my voice to those saying scrapper, if you prefer melee, or blaster if you prefer hanging back at range. On villain side, the brute and corrupter are somewhat analogous.

Welcome to what is, imo, a brilliant game and community.

I can't really build on what others have said, as I think they've said it all (or at least pointed you in all the right directions to do some research yourself). This game isn't 'hard' - sure, it has mechanics and systems that you will learn if you put your mind to it (or simply stick around long enough), but largely you can play it without much difficulty.

I'd strongly suggest you go to the places other forumites have mentioned. I have no problem helping someone new to the game, but when I'm expected to spoon-feed them I get annoyed. This is just a personal thing and may not be representative of the player-base. The reference sources you've been given will, quite honestly, answer most (if not all) of your questions (including, in some respects, spoon-feeding you as paragonwiki.com does in relation to where the badges are for accolades, with pictures!).

Anyway, I hope you have fun. Remember to try all the archetypes, join teams, join task/strike forces and generally experience what this game has to offer (both in terms of gameplay and community).

Welcome to the game and the forums. Not really any advice I can give above what everyone else said, except maybe just don't be afraid to start over. Try out the game as much as you can; this is the best alt-friendly game I've ever played. I've been playing for just shy of 6 years and there's still stuff I haven't done; still power combinations I haven't played.

Welcome to CoH!

It's been said many times already, but I'll say it again: Relax, and enjoy the journey. This is a game made for alts; start off with some Scrapper or Tanker sets, but try them all in the end. Really create a character you can love, it makes it all the sweeter.

So, you met all 8 people playing on Triumph from this thread.
Move to Virtue, we have cookies, cakes, pies, and hot pockets.

Hello! and welcome aboard. As for what the others have posted above, this is true. My first hero to 50 was a scrapper and my first villian was a master mind.

Make other AT's (Arch-Types) so you can get a general feel for them so when you play against or with one you would know what to expect from them.

Once again,Welcome and have fun...

Hello Syfy welcome to the game. I am sure you will enjoy it. It's like nothing else out there and you have joined up at a good time. You will have a chance to get your feet wet before Going Rogue comes out and revamps the game (for the better it is looking like more and more).

As far as the archetypes go all of them are good and suprisingly well balanced. Some powerset combinations tend to do certain things better then others, but all of them have good points to work with.

I am gonna list out the hero side AT's with some thoughts about each of them. My preferences definitely are not the be all end all. I am just offering some friendly observations.

Heroside AT's

Scrapper-(Melee DPS, Survivability), Probably the quickest leveler in the game. Really good damage and decent survivability. They are a bit squishy at first but can become excellent at survival late game.

Tankers-(Survivability, Melee DPS), Level nicely solo as well because of how tough they are. Their damage especially at low levels isn't that stellar. Their attacks come in later but once you get into the mid 30's they can do some respectable damage.

Blaster-(Ranged DPS, Melee DPS, Light Crowd Control), Lots of damage early, mostly ranged, lowest survivability in the game. This AT generally survives by the "killing stuff before it can kill you" form of mitigation. I find you have to play with a more strategic mindset when soloing a blaster. Though certain sets offer light crowd control to help you survive. This archtype is probably in the mid range for leveling. It can kill stuff real fast but is more prone to faceplant.

Controller- (Crowd Control, Support, Ranged DPS). Slow leveling AT at first but when they start getting into their mid 30's, they can really take off. This AT survives mainly by various crowd controls and does most of its damage through the same means. It is also one of the more varied AT's certain combinations of powerset choices can really change how you play one controller from another.

Defender- (Support, Ranged DPS) Slower leveling AT. If you are used to a game having a "healer class" this is the closest you will come to one in this game. Though thinking of Defenders as "healers" as a whole is erroneous. A number of Defender primary powersets don't even have a heal. But they all have ways to help themselves and their team survive, through either buffs, debuffs, controls or the aforementioned heals.

In the end all of the archetypes can be leveled solo. Just some are quicker and/or easier then others. One final thing to note is that even within an archetype you will find very noticable differences depending on what power sets you choose. For example an empathy or force field defender is going to level a lot slower then a kinetics, storm or radiation defender.

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Welcome syfy !!
Along with the great info above,
Here are a couple of nice references:


First, pages and pages of posts titled "Little Things I Wish I Had Known" from the start.
Lots of tips and items that inform new players and old. . . . Mountains of stuff!


And second, as you start to get your feet under you,
Thunderforce has a list of things you might want to do at each level of your character's life.
Things to Do Guide at different levels.
It is good to look at if you are just bored and want reminders of things you might want to do at your level.
It is good to look at to plan if you want to achieve some of those things before you outlevel the ability to do some of the things.
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Welcome to the game. Listen to what the others have to say, as there is some pretty good advice out there.

For my part, I'll go the abstract way. One of City of Heroes greatest strengths by far is the ability to make the game your own. This game will look how you want it, play how you want it and feel how you want it. Don't be too concerned with finding a "good" way to play it. Instead, look for a way that YOU like.

For starters, don't feel constrained by the theme of the game. Yes, it's a somewhat four-colour comic book inspired universe, but that doesn't mean you have to follow suit. Want to play a cowboy? Go ahead. Want to play an angsty darkity brooding hero? Sure, why not? Want to play a robot from another world? The sky is the limit. Furthermore, look up the Hero Corps Field Analysts (hero-side) and Fortunata Fateweavers (villain-side) and tweak your difficulty setting. The baseline is decent, but you can go up from there or down from there. You can pick if you want to fight really tough enemies for the sense of challenge, or do like me and fight kind of weak enemies, but LOTS of them.

Basically, the city is your playground and you set the rules. Don't let the game control you. You control the game, and the more you make use of that control, the more the game can suit your every desire.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I would like to chime in with Samuel here.

The beauty of this game is its customization. Beginning with the character creator, to choosing missions & difficulty levels, to "tricking out" your powers with cool enhancements... YOU get to choose your path(s).

Unlike many other MMO's, CoH is not exactly "loot" based, at least not in the same way that you might be used to. The "loot" (salvage) you pick up is intended for use in crafting enhancements for your powers (or you can sell it). ANYONE can make nearly any kind of enhancement that they may need or want. You are not necessarily strapped to grinding for that one special piece of loot.

There are several ways to aquire any recipe or salvage that you may find yourself in need or want of. When you have the time and inclination, you will want to become familiar with the Auction House (Wentworth's), the merit system, and the AE ticket system... They each provide different methods for obtaining enhancement recipes and salvage.

A couple more tips:

-- Join the most active global chat channel for your server. You can usually find out what that channel is by asking in the server forums.

-- Pwiki is your friend. I have several pages bookmarked, and often have it up in the background while I'm playing.

-- Mid's Hero Planner is your friend. I wish someone had pointed me to this fabulous little program early on. Could have saved me some grief in planning my powers on some of my characters.

Welcome to the game and good hunting!

For first toons I'd definitely recommend Scrapper and the Regen primary.

It's the easiest to use of all the secondaries, it's a bit click heavy (since you focus on heals) but it has a power called 'quick recovery' available at level 4 which means that unlike most other secondaries you don't need to pick up swift/hurdle, health and finally stamina to make your endurance bar a little bit more manageable.

I would avoid Dark armor because it's a very complicated and endurance heavy set to play, been playing the game over three years now and still never got into it but that's a personal recommendation.

Any of the primaries are fine, some are AoE focused, some are single target focused.

CoH basically invented the 'scrapper' type DPS (we're a tropenamer in that regard over at TVtropes). Unlike almost all over MMOs where the melee DPS is usually a glass cannon, scrapper of all types are very survivable second only to tanks.

If you're coming from WoW Scrappers are like harder hitting Retribution specced Paladins or Fury specced Warriors, they can do easily enough DPS and have the surviability to tank everything except Archvillains (where a Tank, Brute or Mastermind with taunt comes into affect).

The community is MILES ahead of any MMO community I've come across, the vast majority of people ingame are willing to help answer questions about anything game related without any kind of sarcastic bite that usually comes with such response in games like WoW.

The forums can be a bit daunting and yes we do bicker but we're a lot friendlier place than most other game forums.