Tips For A New Player

1. Welcome to the madness.
2. Newby = new person, N00b = a person not willing to learn.
3. Never be afraid to ask questions no matter how dumb it sounds.
4. Have fun, no power combo totally sux.

5. Cake is a lie.

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Looks like the community already has you well covered. One of the best things about CoH/CoV is how helpful the community is in regards to new players. There's a load of information out there, and even ways to hook up with veterans for in-game help.

Anyways, welcome to the game, and if you have questions not covered in the thread, send me a PM or global tell @Fury Flechette.

If you have a full account (not trial) sign up for the Mentor Project.

I'll add something else (And shamelessly plug for myself at the same time ). Make good use of your friends list. If you team with a player you like or seems particularly helpful, add them to your friends list so you can find them again. You can also send a request that'll give you both the option of adding each other to your respective global friends lists. Players listed as global friends can find each other regardless of what server or character they happen to be playing on at the time.

Also, finding a good supergroup can provide with you a lot of excellent benefits. In addition to a good group of players to run with you'll have access to amenities like storage for your stuff and even teleporters to different zones if your group has the resources to afford 'em.

Here's the plug: I lead a supergroup on the Triumph server that focuses on new players. We like to teach and help new players out as much as possible. We're very small at the moment but our base is fully equipped and we'd love to have you with us. If it sounds good to you just send me a PM here and we can talk about it more.

Welcome to the game and the forums, Terrifying Terror

Timeshadow mentioned the Friends list. I'll have to mentioned Notes.

For each player there is a note you can assign and a 1 to 5 stars. You can set it so the starrs will always show over their head or only mouseover.

And this is key, it's on all their toons. So, I might give a guy three stars and say "Tries to tank his AR blaster. Won't listen." Then a week later I see a illusion/storm controller with stars and check the note, it's him. I might want to team with him for a laugh, but not if I'm really wanting to play the game right.

I five star people I work with often. It's weird when someone does the equivalent to you. I have over 30 alts and then when I'm on as some random toon of mine someone might say, "Hey, Posty." Actually, that's only happened once, when I had a fresh toon ready to go into the sewers.

Oh, but if you want the WoW experience, you could make a short shield/axe tank dressed like a dwarf, take no travel powers and run around The Hollows for hours. [I'm assuming WoW still has travel issues, otherwise, like, nevermind.]

If you are having trouble with Telling what enhancements do what after leaving Training Origins, check this post out: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=228044

A note about the Global Friends list - this allows you to see if that *Player* is online, on any of their characters. It can be incredibly useful for keeping track of players you like. However, since it does allow you to see if someone is online with any character on any server, some people are reluctant to accept Global Friends requests. (Personally, I have about three people on mine, and no real desire to add more.) Also, a Global Friend request has to be mutually accepted - both players have to agree to it. And if you delete a player off your global friend list, you disappear from their list as well. If someone declines a Global Friend request, don't be offended. Just realize that there are a lot a reasons some one might not be comfortable with giving you access that that information right now.

The alternative is the local Friends list, which works pretty much exactly like the one in WoW. If a character is on your friends list, you'll be able to tell if that character is online, but you won't be able to see if that player might be online with a different character. For a lot of players, the standard Friends list is fairly useless - this game is quite Alt friendly, so a given player could be online every day for months without loading the character you've got as a Friend. (Which is why some people jump straight to a Global Friends request.) *Edit* Also, the friend list is specific to your character as well. If your Blaster adds a scrapper as a friend, and then you make a second character, the second character will not have that scrapper as a friend. Which is an additional reason why very few people bother with the standard friends list. *End edit*

Something this game has, that WoW does not, is Notes and Rankings. If you meet another character that you like, right click on them and look for an option labeled Notes. This will allow you to attach a note to that player ("Nice person, good teammate." Or "Pompous Build Nazi.") You can also assign a rank to that player, from one to five stars. This information is only visible to you, and is only stored on your computer. The rank and note are attached to the player's Global name, so you'll be able to see that information on any of their other characters you might happen to meet. This can make it useful for keeping track of people you like, but who aren't Global Friends. Or for keeping track of people you don't like, but don't want to actually /Ignore just yet. I believe you can set the stars to be visible all the time, or just on targeted or mouse-over. It won't allow you to see if they're online or not, but if you happen to be in the same place you'll be able to tell if you've met someone before and really liked/disliked them. (Again, I barely use this feature, but it is something to be aware of.) The notes can be useful for keeping track of *why* you don't like someone. For example, one player might be an offensive jerk, but a good team player. So you could leave a note that you don't mind teaming with him, as long as he's safely /Ignored.

Report thread for sticky as theres so much useful info for beginners

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Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon You certainly want them if you ever go into The Hollows.

My blaster has a mission here but i cant find where it is

Gate entrance on the east side of Atlas, due east of City Hall.