More MMOs need to have a combat system like this game.

I want more combat systems like GW2, where you aren't always locked in place when using an ability and moving around actually does something. One thing I don't like is dodge rolling. That and blocking in other games doesn't really work with lag spikes.

I like how in CoH, I had the need for more than one power, but needed more than two.

In CO, I have a ST attack and an AOE attack, both maintains, and I don't need any other attacks.

Sure, I grabbed the one for concept/style, but due to how it works, it's not worth using :/ (Stat issue) and my other is a Lunge attack, that I only use to get in an enemy's face, and not for anything else.

TOR ont he other hand, I go "I don't need this many attacks!" Of course, I could likely just not train in them, but being new to TOR, I really don't know which ones I need/want, but damn, at level 29, more attacks than I need!

Have to agree with previous poster, I do like TERA's combat the best out of MMOs, and generally, I like the MMO. It's teaming however, and community for the most part, is terrible.

My main at CO (for now) is a level 40 dual pistols ranged DPS. She can put out DPS like nobody's business, and thanks to their screwed up threat design she tends to take boss aggro 95% of the time. The thing is, she's survivable. I have my own heals, a defensive boost power, quick get out of mez powers, a move away power, moderate HP, and the only reason she drops is if I forget to throw up a block or I take on too many tough mobs at once. She puts pretty much every blaster I've had here to shame and I'm pretty sure she'd clear a +0x8 spawn as well as my scrapper and tank.

Which is why as much as I adored the old girl, the CoX combat system really shows its age. Hit or miss is linear, heck there's a hit or miss system to begin with, resistance is linear, defense is toggle up and go with little activity needed, mez resistance is for melee mans only, snipes were still kludgy even with i24, and Hasten is the game's greatest superpower. It worked, just as long as you didn't look too closely at it. CO really fixed a lot of the issues Cryptic had with the CoX engine, which is a real shame given everything else they've done there.

At the end, though, I haven't found a substitute for the feel of Claws, Street Justice, Titan Weapons, Dark Armor, Elec Armor, Night Widows, Defenders, Corruptors, and most of all jumping in head first into a x8 spawn laughing my head off. There's a lot of things done right here, and I hope its a lesson future games can learn from.

I really liked the CoH combat system, when compared to most legacy (read: wow-styled) systems. Tab-targetting was fantastic, and it always amazes me how CoH has been the only game in eight years (including WoW) that has managed to actually make the tab button function correctly. Seriously, it took Blizzard how many years to get it to work almost right, and last I played it still wasn't quite right.

Anyway, I could go into loads of details for why I like the CoH system better than the universally accepted global cooldown system, but I get sad when I think about CoH too hard, so I'd rather not expend the effort of thinking up something too meaningful.

Suffice it to say, I liked combat in CoH. A lot (at least after the first 20 or so levels. )

It's always been about the very customizable UI we had and the ability to decrease n increase the chat box with the ability to having other tabs fro different types of chat channels.
Having everything in one or 2 boxes ... just doesn't cut it ever.

Everyone to their own I guess. For me combat and graphics were two things that keep me coming back to CoH (other than community) I tried other games actuallt I think I tried almost all big names except GW2, DCUO and Tera.

Closest thing I can even remotly stand for is TSW's combat style and that is thanks to 7 passive powers (at least it was 7 when I stopped playing but once CoH is closed for good I plan to move to TSW). along with tab-targetting. If I wanted to play an online FPS than I would play an online FPS not an MMORPG but like I said all to their own.

For graphics CoH was making me feel like playing a fun game with its graphics not a comic book or a lame 3D animation which tries to be 'realistic' so called advancement in graphics in other games IMO killed the graphics of games altogether so 'outdated' graphics of CoH was just right for me.

I like CoH's combat system, and would indeed like to see more of it. That said, I do think it could be improved. Travel suppression was a bummer, but honestly, I've long gotten over the PvE version of it. The PvP version of it needed to die in a fire and be resurrected so it could die in a fire again, repeatedly.

Rooting was more of an issue. Honestly, it doesn't bother me, but I recognize that the game would be more fluid and dynamic without it, and that would be a good thing.

Tab-to-target works fine for me. I came to CoH from a six-year stretch of FPS gaming, and I targeted foes with tab there. Granted, in most FPS games "targeting" doesn't mean the same thing it does here - it was for tracking a target, not automatically hitting them. But the transition was quite natural for me. (I too bind tab to "target nearest". I use alt-tab for "target next".)

I don't need MMOs to reward me for aiming, and I say that as a veteran FPS player. An MMO need not be an FPS, and frankly I'd prefer it not to be, though I could likely enjoy some blending of the two, as suggested could be done above. But I have zero problem with my attacks being "dice resolved", as long as it looks good. (Sometimes, CoH didn't look good doing this, as with homing boulders and the like. On the other hand, sometimes it looked awesome. Seeing Marauder leap away in a Lambda with a mass of ice, fire and darkness pursuing him was one of the coolest looking things I think I've seen in this game.)