Any regrets?

Yea... My only regret in life is coming to this forum.

I used to love the game alot more than I do now. In the back of my mind when I log in I wonder if the people I will be teaming with are the same people on this forum, that alone pretty much doesnt make me want to log on.

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I suppose if I had a regret, it would be deleting my very first Tanker. She was at level 38 when I fried her, and I did so because I wasn't very good at tanking. But if I'd just been patient and learned the right way to play a tanker I could have had a really cool level 50 toon by now.

I regret deleting my launch characters. I grew unhappy with them so ended up re-making them many times over. Several of them I ended up re-making again with the sets they had originally, but I can't get the badges or say they were created during the early launch. Dag-nabbit!

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I quit playing my blueside mains after i6, and mostly abandoned the game shortly after the issue. I never let my subscription lapse, and must have played a little bit in i7, if only because my villain main was 41 when I started getting interested in this game again.

I probably did need to let my old mains sit for a while, and should have rerolled new ones; my original characters were unbearable to try to play during this period. Instead, I wasted a year and a half on some other game. Issue 9 brought me part of the way back, but really I wasn't here regularly until Issue 11. Cimerora really piqued my interest.

Still, those other games proved to be a disappointment in the end.

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I don't think I have any major regrets, but early on my first character Organica, a katana/dark scrapper, was deleted at 17 because of endurance issues. People told me stamina would fix my problems but I just couldn't imagine it making that much of a difference. I remade her as katana/regen, which I didn't regret, but it was a silly reason to remake the character. And I still haven't played a dark armor character higher than that.

By the same token I deleted and rebuilt the first Mouse Police at level 20 because an invulnerability/energy melee tanker just seemed far too week to me, I despaired of ever being able to do any real damage. I made her into a dark/invul scrapper. This was pretty silly too. In point of fact, one of my favorite characters to play these days is my level 50 invul/EM tanker Sailor Shinobu. EM still isn't overpowering damage but the final attacks in the set at least aren't so bad.

I sort of regret how I left my first SG. When I came to the game, I joined up with a bunch of people that I sort of knew from a message board for another game. These were not close friends that I'd actually played with, my close friends from that other game never made the move to CoH. But I kind of knew these people from this message board, so I picked up the game and joined their group.

They were nice enough people but there were a lot of things where we didn't see eye to eye or share the same interests, or understand each other that well. But in any case I stayed with them for about a year. By that time, I had met other friends in the game that I played with most of the time, and I'd also joined a catgirl supergroup that had me playing on other servers. One day I realized that I hadn't actually played with the members of my own SG in several months, and I didn't anticipate doing so in the future either. They'd never really felt like real friends, just people I happened to be in a SG with. It seemed to me pointless to remain in the group, so I removed my characters.

Later that night I was on an 8-man team in the middle of a big fight when one of my old SG mates sent me a /tell asking why I'd left the SG. I really didn't have time to explain properly, so I tried to explain as best I could in a couple of short sentences. We had a website for our SG and I tried to log on later that night before going to bed to give a better explanation for why I was leaving... and the SG leader had already revoked my password, so I couldn't use the message board.

Anyway to me that only highlighted how we weren't really good friends and one of the reasons why I didn't like him that much. But it always bugged me that I really didn't get a chance to properly say goodbye or why I was leaving. I never talked to any of them again, and I'm pretty sure none of them still play the game.

And I suppose my one other regret is that none of my actual friends have ever stuck with the game, although quite a lot of them have tried it. My old EQ guildmates all got bored, except for one who I don't actually play with (but at least we have each other as global friends); my local friends are all either addicted to WoW or (in one case) addicted to EQII; my friends from Second Life, including the one who convinced me to renew my CoH subscription after I'd been out of the game for a year, all have tried the game and then left within a month or so.

Probably making my first Blueside 50 MA/Regen instead of MA/SR, oh, and missing out on getting a copy of the original boxed CoH.

What's the big problem with the Ghost Slaying Axe? I've never taken it, but almost everyone says it's way worse than Sands of Mu.

The only things I regret are my arguments with the PvPers.

I make my points, and they make theirs. The last time I argued with a batch of them, they made it clear that they're not playing the same game I am. Sure, the engine is the same, but the mentality they're employing is twisted and alien to me (that's not an insult, PvPers, just a declaration of how divergent our points of view are).

So the Ghost Slaying Axe isn't actually worse power wise, it's just not suitable for so many concepts?

Ghost Slaying Axe only does moderate damage to one target.

Sands of Mu does high damage to multiple targets.

That's enough for me, right there.

Although I will take it if it's "in character". It's not like it's useless.

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My regret is never having enough time to get back to all my altitis casualties and getting them to 50. If a toons' made it to say 20 or so, then chances are I love it, but so many of them sit there lost in the low 30s because a new toon came along and turned my head...

On the other hand, this gives me a chance to work on IOing them out cheaply as the months roll by. Still, these days I try to restrain myself from making a toon from every idea that pops into my head.

Not joining earlier, I'm just at 18 months or so now. Was with someone who wouldn't have understood the fixation with the game so didn't join till we broke up.

Also, not teaming when I first started. As someone said above, I was worried I'd be useless and people wouldn't like me. Turns out I was half right, I'm still useless but in a fun, debt fullfilled way.

Single biggest regret in game...spending about 600k in the tailors trying to get rid of the SG emblem before I realised only editing SG options would do this. I even /bugged it haha!

600k was a LOT back then..!