Praetoria seems a bit harder to me. But I whiz through most of the CoV/CoH content anymore. I dont know if its cause I know it well....or its easier. Freaks can hit hard but they're not hard the way Praetoria and its 10 ambushes per mission are.
I haven't done any of the old missions yet, but the tip missions do seem ramped up in difficulty. Playing at just +1/x0 is giving me purple bosses.
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There's quite a few complaints around the forum about Praetoria being too difficult for low-level characters, yes. They seem to be adjusting them downward, though - the latest patch rebalanced the Syndicate to be less punishing, so presumably other Praetorian groups will get the rebalance treatment in due time as well.
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Purple bosses at +1 difficulty makes sense - they will be orange-to-red at +0 difficulty, so +1 will bump them into the red/purple range.
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I haven't done any of the old missions yet, but the tip missions do seem ramped up in difficulty. Playing at just +1/x0 is giving me purple bosses.
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I will say that I was surprised that they gave the PPD LTs (I think it was them) a reasonably commonly occurring stun effect.. at like level 1.. Sure it only lasts like 1-2 seconds, but that's all it takes sometimes, especially if your'e a defender or something depending on an anchored debuff.
They do seem to be a bit tougher, but a lot depends on your archtype. Status effects can be quite nasty if your not ready for them, also the groupings seem to be closer together, thus drawing aggro rom other mobs is easier.
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Regen's pretty much always had a problem with big hits and alpha strikes- well, maybe not in the old days of issue 2, but always after that. They did add a new boss type to Freaks, but I'm guessing what you're seeing is something like a 1200 hp shot to the head by a Freak Tank, followed by nearly anything else.
Maybe you used to be using Moment of Glory to soak up the alpha?
Also, tip missions, and Praetoria, are indeed harder as mentioned.
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It has been about 2 years that I've been gone. I think I12 recently came out around the time that I stopped.
Well it is nice to see that at least some other people are having some trouble in Pratoria. If I had known, I would have just made the character a hero or villain. Oh well, 8 levels to go then I can get out.
Hello I am coming back to City of Heroes after a couple years and I figured I would try out the expansion and some of the new sets. Also just so you know, I have probably around 20 characters that range all the way to max and are all kinds sets, so I am very familiar with the game.
The question that I have is if they have somehow or another ramped up the difficulty. I can never remember having so much trouble at the early levels as I have been now. I made a DP/Kin toon, who is lvl 12 now, and I have also grouped with a friend who is coming back to the game and we both agree it seems much rougher then we remember. I was running a solo mission just a bit ago, where I barely survived a single Lt. with draining him and heals. It seems they constantly land status effects on you and we are being 3 shotted.
I was wondering if it was maybe just the new starter area but then I tried a Freakshow mission with my High level Regen Scrapper and I died twice just because the boss kept killing me in 2 hits. I remember running missions all the time at +2 levels and not having any problems.
So I just wanted to see if over the last couple years there have been any changes in this regard. Thanks for your help and I apologize if it seems like I have been ranting, it has just been a little frustrating so far.