Beginner skills appropriate for me!

One unusual thing they've done with the Going Rogue Edition is that all new players have to make their first character in Praetoria instead of choosing a straight hero or villain.

They did this so they can showcase all the new content to new customers. Once you reach level 20 you can pick hero or villain. But on a trial you will get to choose between any of the three factions.


Personally don't know of any torrents or work arounds to speed up downloading.

Anyone else?

Do you play on Virtue? I'd like to talk to you whilst playing (unless it's too much of a hassle for you)

In your EU install, rename cohupdater.eu.exe to cohupdater.exe

After you do that, running it will connect you to the NA servers instead of the EU, but it shouldn't need to redownload all your data.

Thanks for the tip, but when I try it, this happens;

http://data.fuskbugg.se/skogsturken/aCohupdate.jpg

Thank you!

Can you go into your original (EU) City of Heroes directory and tell me the size of the "piggs" folder please?

Also, do you have a City of Heroes directory inside your City of Heroes directory?

The piggs folder is 3,62GB and yes I seem to have 2 additional City of Hereos folders inside the main folder.

OK, whats happened is the installer is annoying and nobody's ever fixed a peculiar wrinkle it has. This has happened to me too.


If you tell it to install in C:\, it will install in C:\City of Heroes\

If you tell it to install in C:\City of Heroes, it will install in C:\City of Heroes\City of Heroes\


the solution should be to copy everything inside your \City of Heroes\piggs, and copy it into \City of Heroes\City of Heroes\piggs

If I remember correctly, the next time you run the NA updater it should find those piggs in the "right" place and successfully verify them.

if you don't plan to play in the EU, you can delete the original EU piggs folder in the future and claim back 3.6GB.

Hope it works for you, and that you enjoy the game!

Hmm. Before I knew I could just change the name of the updater I tried to install the NA client manually through the slow launcher and so I created a folder called "City of Heroes NA", when I after tried to change the name of the updater in the EU folder I got the piggs error. Now I deleted the NA folder and tried again and now it tries to install the game again even though I choose my current CoH folder. It just says that I'm out of space or need permission.

EDIT: Oh wait! I thinks it's working! It's checksumming the folder (like 50mb per second), let's see if it works.

EDIT: Now it's fixing some files (24mb)

EDIT: It's working! See you guys on virtue!

I do play on Virtue a lot, however the times I'm on are irregular and at various hours. I've got a back disability and sometimes I'm on for a couple hours and others just a few minutes depending on how my back feels.

My global is @bio hazard and I'd be happy to answer questions but I'm far from the most knowledgeable player. Theres a lot I haven't picked up. The Repeat Offenders that Fleeting Whisper mentioned is a great group of players, some of whom are on Virtue. Another great group is the gang at Cape Radio

Cape Radio

They are also on Virtue and their DJ's run a online station that plays music for players to listen to while playing City of Heroes.

The only downside to this is that to join either group you'll need to get an active account. Pesky trial restrictions again.


Once your up and ready to run your NA trial account why don't you send me a PM here on the forums and we can set up a time and place to meet in game and chat. I'm sure others would be willing to do the same thing.


To send a private message on the forums just move your mouse over to the persons name on the left and left click, that will open a drop down menu and the second option is to send a private message to that person.

Thank you! It's just one last decision to be made now, I'm making a dualblade scrapper but I don't know what the secondary powerset should be. Any tips?

Willpower is very newbie friendly, being both durable and easy to manage - just turn on your toggles and go! Regeneration is also very good.

The other sets are also good, but WP and Regen have the benefit of additional Endurance recharge. Dual Blades can be a little heavy on the endurance. If you want the additional END sooner rather than later, Regen is the way to go.

Thank you! Probably going WP then. But is dual-swords any good? Is there any superior choice?

They're pretty much all good, but at different things. Broadsword has your high burst damage. Claws, cheap attacks. Spines, AOE and ranged attacks. Katana, good all-rounder. Martial Arts, awesome animations. (awesomeness is more important than some people think! ) So on and so forth.

Not played DB much, but IIRC Dual Blades is pretty good, but a little more advanced than the others because of its Combo system, where using attacks in specific orders gets special effects. It can be a bit of a weak starter because you need to earn the right attacks before you can use any combos, and it's a bit heavy on the Endurance IMO.

Best bet, try lots of things and see what meets your expectations. None of my first few characters were my main.

Seems like I'm going a Katana/WP Scrapper, thanks!