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I'm having my seasonal want to jump back into an mmo feelings, but none of my usual games are calling to me. I also happened to get back in contact with a college friend recently who was excited to gush about how fun the Homecoming server for this is. I'd heard about the whole 'people secretly kept this game alive' thing but had never actually looked into that seriously. But at their recommendation I downloaded it last night and gave it a shot. I'm sure I'll wander back in here with some obnoxious newbie questions eventually, but I enjoy the flailing cluelessly and trying to figure systems out part of playing old rpgs. So for now I'm just poking my head in to say I'd forgotten how extremely good of a fit for an mmo the superhero genre is, and how much fun this game is to just run around hopping on rooftops. I'm getting way more nostalgic joy out of it than I ever thought I would.
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deep dish peat moss posted:I rolled an ice/time controller yesterday named Samurai Slowdown and felt the same way Oh my god. You've become on of my all time favorite arcade games as a kid, congratulations. Devon Aire is also a great name and I gotta say, a wonderful color scheme. I just got into this and settled on making a defender, and she's quickly becoming one of my favorite mmo characters in a very, very long time. You guys are inspiring me to take some screenshots later. Actually, while I'm in here. I'm about level 18, and I've finally got a question about build making. Besides the travel powers I want, what powers should I be considering out of all the basic pools? I noticed when looking at the wiki that defender seems to get stronger versions of the leadership toggle buffs than anyone else, so that seems like a good bet. The defensive ones in the fighting pool also seem cool, but those two combined seem like an awful lot of toggles to be throwing on top of a build. Phase shift in stealth also seems like it could be a cool emergency button for a healer to have. I feel like there's too much stuff I potentially want and it's locking me up when deciding what basic sets to focus on. Very specifically from the point of view of wanting my nature defender to be a cool support and healer for group content down the line, what would you all consider the more must have or hard pass general powers? I don't want you guys to build this character for me or anything, but a nudge in the right direction would definitely be appreciated.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Pretty much every other power that Nature has is great in one way or another. Also who doesn't love planting little forests everywhere you go It's funny you say that. I've noticed that a lot of the obviously nature themed heroes I've seen hopping around look like kind of samey satyr and elves with the leaves growing off yourself costume set used a whole lot. My hero doesn't have a quality pun name like Flesh Forge or yours, but I'm really proud of my science based, gun toting trash-plant lady.   I really appreciate the writeups from both you and Abroham. It's good to know what you mentioned about some powers being used more for enhancement sets. I've just started finding my first enhancements with set bonuses as recipes and remembering that those even existed. I'm not going to worry too hard about minmaxing that stuff until I'm higher level, because right now that stuff is beyond me. Also good to hear that endurance problems become less pronounced at higher levels, because I'm definitely feeling crunched by it right now, and that's a big part of where my concerns were coming from in the first place. Abroham Lincoln posted:Also a general word of advice is that healing in CoH is kind of the least important support related thing you can possibly do, and calling yourself a "healer" in LFG is something people tend to make fun of. Generally speaking you want to prioritize your big buffs, debuffs, and absorb powers to mitigate damage before it ever happens, which is kind of a big departure from other MMOs that have a lot of reactive healing. I'm extremely on board for this. The whole reason I chose to build my defender around the nature set was that it seemed to have a bunch of cool aoe buffs and debuffs, instead of multiple targeted heals I couldn't even use on myself. Buffing and debuffing characters have always been a thing I've been a fan of, and that's precisely what I was hoping to sign up for. So I'm happy to hear that'll in fact be the case at end game.
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As someone who likes to minmax in rpgs and pursue a combination of fun build I enjoy, then making it as powerful as I possibly can, this conversation about the endgame of CoH is relevant to my interests. I think the most important consideration I have to add to the discussion so far is that I came up with an even better name for my machine / nature fusion character and it wasn't taken on my server yet - Root Directory
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Tommy 2.0 posted:You should definitely be in the discord then. If I was going to to make a new nerd with the guiding principle of 'I want to go all in on being a debuffer / force multiplier for my team', what are some cool archetypes and primaries to consider building around? This 8 word post has immediately got me eyeballing the controller / corrupter / dominator sets, so thanks for that. edit for vvvv: yeah, I know. But I don't want to come up with a new name, I'm still patting myself on the back for the current one. And since I get how dumb that is, I'll see if I can come up with a better name that works on both servers instead of being a prima donna about this. I do still like the idea of making a 2nd character, though. Okay, just transferred over to indomitable and changed my character's name to Seed Phrase  The op link to Kuhullan’s Clown Basket is saying it's an invalid invite when I click it. is that one defunct? brainSnakes fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Jan 30, 2024 |
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I appreciate the link!
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I had the "oh gently caress it's my day off but servers are down for a patch during the free time I had to play fuuuuuuuuuujck" feelings yesterday. ...Which hasn't happened to me in ages. This truly is the ultimate nostalgic mmo experience.  And another thing: I'm not mad. Please don't tell Twinshot I got mad.
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dexefiend posted:Constant ... Incessant ... Screaming Defender / corruptor and controller / dominator are my favorite class layouts in this game, generally. I've kind of gotten stuck on trying out ten billion variations of those things to find the character I want to take to max level. My current favorite is my mind control / savage Dominator who's about to hit level 20. But this description is absolutely tempting me to spend tonight rolling yet another new dom instead of working on them. 
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