New to CoH

I'm knew to the game i started playing back when the game first came out but quit was just wonder what a good server and starter class would be?

Freedom has the biggest population and Virtue is the RP server. Blue side, scrappers are a good beginning class and red side, try a brute.

thanks alot i really appreciate the help

Welcome! Like StarGeek said Freedom and Virtue are the two most populated servers right now.

I'd recommend making and effort to team up with other people, since it'd be more fun that way and you can learn faster that way!

Thanks SPine also another question is i m only on the trial version right now what full game should i buy the architect version or just the good vs evil one?

Welcome back!

Welcome back, Freedom is a good choice to start as well as a Scrapper or Blaster. I'd go with the Good vs. Evil because the Pocket D teleport is really, really handy.

Enjoy the game, ask any other questions you may have.

Ok i know this game isn't WoW but does it have end game stuff like raiding or what i m just trying to grasp everything and figure out if its going to be just a game where i solo a lot or i can actually find a group to do stuff with. Also is that game get better as you progress in lvl or does it stay about the same thru out the whole game?

Just a note, when a window pops up blindly inviting you to an SG, that's probably not one you want to join. Most of the "good" SGs don't blind invite and in fact more than a few make you fill out a website application first. Go to the forum dedicated to your server and ask for "local" recommendations on which to join.

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I'll also add that the game's upcoming 19th free major content update ("Issue 19" in the local nomenclature) is supposed to be adding a new end-game system for level 50 characters; this system may be raid-oriented. Issue 19 should either be coming toward the end of the year or early next year. We'll probably learn more about it once Going Rogue, the first paid expansion since City of Villains, launches on August 17th.

As far as finding people to team with: it's a lot harder when you're on the trial version, because every communication feature we have got abused by goldsellers on trial accounts.

However, if you decide to join the game, there are two or three avenues for finding good teams:

1) The N P C project (see here ) is a mentoring thing. I'm not involved in it but I've heard good things.

2) Global channels for your server- things like Victory Badges- are full of very experienced players. We don't generally bite newbs.

3) Sieving teams. Join a bunch of teams. Use /friend or /gfriend to keep a list of players that were good and you got along with. (/friend lets your character keep track of that character. /gfriend lets your account keep track of that account and lets them keep track of you. /gfriend is a lot more powerful , requires people to accept your invitation, and there is a limit to how big your global friend list. So people may not accept your global friend invitation; don't take it personally.

Eventually, from joining enough bad groups with one or two good players, you'll log on and there will be people playing from your friend list. See what they're doing and if they've got any room for you. Since they're good, their teams will probably have more good players... which you may be able to /friend.

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Everything you know about other MMOs... forget. CoH is a whole other animal. Being on a Trial you are limited to getting only to level 14. That said some of the being content is a bit outdated however things do get quite fun and Mission arcs a joy to read and run.

The Hollows would be a good place to run missions it got a small revamp a few issues back. Story arcs start there starts at level 5.

When you go full game remember this....

DON'T RUSH TO 50!

Yeah having a level 50 is fun and all but the thrill of CoH is the stories you get involved in. Both Hero and Villains (thought not as much) can choose multiple paths to level 50. New content is added for free every so often (Give or take 3 free issues a year) Issue 18 shades of gray is the free content that goes hand in hand with Going Rogue. Issue 19 is said to be the New end game content.

Issue 17 added new missions for level 20+ so unlike other games we get things across the board. You can even turn off XP gain in order to stay in level range of a story line your following.

For anything you might want to look up Paragonwiki.com is your friend!

P.S. Ask any thing you like here on the Forums I think we can now call ourselves the Friendliest Game Forum on the net! Thought that just my view. We do have Trolls but even they are tame compare to some other Forums. We are Newbie Friendly!

Note Newbie is someone who amits they are new and accepts advice from vets.
Noobie is just a fool that thinks they know the game and won't listen to anyone's advice.

Welcome to the game Khaoz!

Thanks a lot everyone i really appreciate the help you guys have given me. Hope to see you guys in game if your on Freedom message me or help me out sometime @Gutterkhaoz Good Side

One more thing after i buy the good vs. evil how do i claim the in-game items? I don't see any new costumes in the game once i try and create my new character!

When you are in the Costume Creator, you will see two new "pre-made" costumes for Justice and Sinister. Plus, all the specific items are available under each category -- you'll find Justice boots and Sinister gloves, etc.

The Teleport power will show up in your Powers list, and you can drag that to one of your power bars. (When you set up your character, you can have three power bars by hitting your right ALT key three times. Then you can add more that you can reposition by clicking on the little "+" spot on the top of the power bars.)

Also note that the Pocket D teleporter doesn't actually become active until, IIRC, Level 3.

And I think you made a good choice. The Architect Edition has some nice swag in it, but the Pocket D VIP Pass has given me FAR more utility and mobility (especially at low levels).

Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

The thing with this right now is you're probably reading over all these posts going "Daaaayuum. There's a lot of stuff to take in and it all sounds too overly complicated..." With this game, it's all about how YOU want to play it. If you want to be a casual player and never touch a Task Force or an IO in your entire stay in CoX, then that's your choice. You can do nothing but do some story arcs and solo your way through the levels, maybe with a couple of friends, and you'll see 50 after 3-4 months and be perfectly happy with it. A lot of the things some of these guys are talking about are the difficult pieces of the game. Task Forces can be daunting, especially on a team of people you don't know because they've usually done them all a million times and expect you to know what YOU'RE doing. Same thing with Rikti Mothership and Hamidon raids. The easiest thing to do is just simply enjoy your first 50. Level it up slowly and surely, experimenting with the powers, enjoying all of the time you have with the character, and probably just stay away from some of the harder aspects of the game. Once you've got a 50 under your belt, you'll feel like you know the game a little better, you'll probably have your 3 month vet reward badge, and THEN you can use that 50 to complete Task Forces and Trials and Raids and the difficult parts of the game with the groups of friends that you've built up over the life of the character. I believe it makes it a lot easier to meld with the game rather than emersing yourself in every little detail of the game at once.

Also, this game is INSANELY Alt-Friendly. Positron has said it himself before. You may go months without EVER having a level 50... *looks at 3 month veteran reward badge and over 40 characters rolled, the highest of which being 44* For people like me, that's the true fun of the game, getting into the character creator and coming up with something new and exciting to play. Don't get me wrong, I usually run ITFs and Manticore TFs all the time because they are some of the most fun TFs to do. However, I've still logged onto one character, only to switch to another within a few minutes because I didn't feel like playing that character at the time.

Like I said at the beginning of this wall of text, the game is what YOU make it. There's something for everyone. You can be Good, you can be Evil, you can design your own stories and then play them to your heart's content, you can farm, you can hit up the market and make billions of influence/infamy, you can team with 7 other people, you can solo, you just have to play the game to decide what YOU truly believe makes this game fun for YOU, and that's something very few other MMOs have EVER been able to offer, and that's why I plan on continuing to feed NCSoft my money.