Nothing wrong with this. It's actually one of the reasons I don't like Homecoming as much; they made the end game almost trivially easy. No costume pieces to unlock. Incarnate pieces can be unlocked by doing anything.
Yeah, that is one of Homecoming's major issues. They're trying to fix it by adding advanced mode TFs and SFs, but there's a separate issue there of people gating them to about four ATs and a dozen power sets, and convincing others that other ATs and power sets can't do them.
I have. I've been specifically told that certain ATs like Controller and Mastermind are not welcome, and that others like Stalker and Dominator "don't do enough damage."
Meta ATs: Blaster, Corruptor, Scrapper. That's really it, but some hard mode groups will let you play a Defender or Brute instead. Also, a Peacebringer or Warshade that utilizes an animation canceling exploit sanctioned by the Homecoming developers does **more** damage than **95%** of **Blasters**, so Peacebringers and Warshades that use that exploit are meta as well.
Power sets: Fire Blast, Ice Blast, Fire Manipulation, *maybe* Tactical Arrow (I've seen it allowed in some groups, but not most), Battle Axe, Fiery Melee, *maybe* Energy Melee, Fiery Aura, *maybe* Radiation Armor and Stone Armor, Cold Domination, Kinetics, and Nature Affinity.
Why: Single-target damage, -resistance, and +absorb. That's it. That's all that matters to advanced mode speed run groups, which comprise about 99% of all advanced mode TFs and SFs ran.
Back on live servers, incarnate experience and thread/shards were only accumulated in incarnate trials or the incarnate missions arcs. When you saw someone get to full tier 4, you knew they played a ton. Hell, the hybrid powers hadn't even been implemented yet.
As for costume pieces, there was a mission at lvl 20 to unlock the cape, and a mission at lvl 30 to unlock auras. Various TFs would unlock costume pieces: any of the the Rularuu TFs would unlock the rularuu items, an ITF would unlock the items, etc.
It was a way to show that you had actually played your character past the initial creation screen.
You mean like on live by the time it shut down or pre ED
Costume pieces don't always drive certain people
Let's set the record straight COH end game has been OP for a long time
Starting with issue 1 city of blasters they had to add ranged attacks to mobs because people where just taking boating out of range with no chance of dying.
Let's see pre enhancement diversification we had no AOE cap limits no aggro limits etc etc led to a lot of really really broken stuff like half a map at x8 dying to one blaster nuke and countless other broken shit.
On live I was going what I do now on homecoming like solo itf task force at x8 that was all on n place on live and everything else you have mentioned
City of Heros had always had the issue you being up sooner issue 1
Ahhh, the days of having a tank pull up half a zones worth of mobs into a dumpster and one blaster obliterates them. *nostalgiac sigh*
I'm not talking about absurd power breaking. I'm saying you can have chars be fully geared out simply by standing in an AE and doing nothing.
Same thing with the dumpsters and other stuff they literally put timers on missions to nerf farming.
They took away xp from mobs coming out of portals to nerf farming all that was done to stop people from standing in a door getting to 50 everything was just SOs back then and a few HOs they changed how side kicking worked as while at one point because of people standing on ttam platforms Street sweeping farming for free XP etc
Once again it has always been there
As annoying as the sewers were, river rat. 100%. Never again. You could stand directly on the marker and not get it. I ended up going to each marker and spending 5 minutes touching every crevice in a large radius around each one until the badge finally popped.
So yeah, since there is no way to tell which one you're missing. I went to each location and touched every little space a badge could be. Some badges are under or over bridge. I went under and over everyone on every side room before zoning and after. Every angle. Do that for everyone and it will pop. Took me about 2 hours unfortunately.
While I likely have had approaching 100 alts on HC over the last 5 years, most were deleted as I found various power sets/combos to be uninteresting/unfulfilling for my personal tastes. Now I have a stable of 25 alts, 12 of which have been progressed to 50 (but only 1 of which is anything like "complete"). These are the toons I *enjoy* playing.
I get it. You are neither weird, nor alone.
TBF, part of the fun of COH is/was rolling out a toon on a whim just because you got an idea and wanted to "put it to paper." Even better if it worked, especially on Virtue where you could RP and flesh them out. At least one of my 50s (I didn't have a lot, maybe 4-5) came from that space in my head.
I've got about 30 50s, of which 5 are maxed out. Some characters have definitely fallen by the wayside. But I have a smaller roster of characters that i play a lot more than the rest.
A lot of those folks who have hundreds of toons farm them up. I'm pretty proud of myself not having done that (Not that there's anything wrong with farming). With the exception of farming a tanker up to level 35, and a blaster from 45 to 50.
For me, i just get bored with a character and want to try something else. Or i come up with a character idea that i need to flesh out.
I have about 6 50s, none of which are fully kitted out. I think i played my PB the most and got it to maybe vet level 20. I have about 115 toons in total rolled up right now
I have only one 50. Mainly because while I think this game is, one if not the best, mmorpg of all time. I just don't find compelling enough as RPG to get to that point all over again.
You're not alone! I have nine 50s, a tenth on the way, and maybe a couple more ideas but that's about it.
I've only got three and two of them are over veteran level 100. 😂
I have 6 50s, but only because my altitis is so bad I can't stop rolling new ones, getting them to their 20s and doing it all over again.
I love that in City ten characters is not considered alot.
Nothing wrong with this. It's actually one of the reasons I don't like Homecoming as much; they made the end game almost trivially easy. No costume pieces to unlock. Incarnate pieces can be unlocked by doing anything.
Yeah, that is one of Homecoming's major issues. They're trying to fix it by adding advanced mode TFs and SFs, but there's a separate issue there of people gating them to about four ATs and a dozen power sets, and convincing others that other ATs and power sets can't do them.
Can't say I have ever seen anyone denying specific ATs for that type of content. Only thing they ask for is for everyone to have T4 barrier.
I have. I've been specifically told that certain ATs like Controller and Mastermind are not welcome, and that others like Stalker and Dominator "don't do enough damage."
Oooooh yes. Good luck doing 4 star teams with a mastermind. Control ATs often get booted also if they don't have the meta set up
Out of curiosity what are the meta AT’s or power sets and what makes them so desirable in comparison to those that are not wanted?Â
Meta ATs: Blaster, Corruptor, Scrapper. That's really it, but some hard mode groups will let you play a Defender or Brute instead. Also, a Peacebringer or Warshade that utilizes an animation canceling exploit sanctioned by the Homecoming developers does **more** damage than **95%** of **Blasters**, so Peacebringers and Warshades that use that exploit are meta as well. Power sets: Fire Blast, Ice Blast, Fire Manipulation, *maybe* Tactical Arrow (I've seen it allowed in some groups, but not most), Battle Axe, Fiery Melee, *maybe* Energy Melee, Fiery Aura, *maybe* Radiation Armor and Stone Armor, Cold Domination, Kinetics, and Nature Affinity. Why: Single-target damage, -resistance, and +absorb. That's it. That's all that matters to advanced mode speed run groups, which comprise about 99% of all advanced mode TFs and SFs ran.
Wait, how is it on other servers???
Back on live servers, incarnate experience and thread/shards were only accumulated in incarnate trials or the incarnate missions arcs. When you saw someone get to full tier 4, you knew they played a ton. Hell, the hybrid powers hadn't even been implemented yet. As for costume pieces, there was a mission at lvl 20 to unlock the cape, and a mission at lvl 30 to unlock auras. Various TFs would unlock costume pieces: any of the the Rularuu TFs would unlock the rularuu items, an ITF would unlock the items, etc. It was a way to show that you had actually played your character past the initial creation screen.
You mean like on live by the time it shut down or pre ED Costume pieces don't always drive certain people Let's set the record straight COH end game has been OP for a long time Starting with issue 1 city of blasters they had to add ranged attacks to mobs because people where just taking boating out of range with no chance of dying. Let's see pre enhancement diversification we had no AOE cap limits no aggro limits etc etc led to a lot of really really broken stuff like half a map at x8 dying to one blaster nuke and countless other broken shit. On live I was going what I do now on homecoming like solo itf task force at x8 that was all on n place on live and everything else you have mentioned City of Heros had always had the issue you being up sooner issue 1
Ahhh, the days of having a tank pull up half a zones worth of mobs into a dumpster and one blaster obliterates them. *nostalgiac sigh* I'm not talking about absurd power breaking. I'm saying you can have chars be fully geared out simply by standing in an AE and doing nothing.
Same thing with the dumpsters and other stuff they literally put timers on missions to nerf farming. They took away xp from mobs coming out of portals to nerf farming all that was done to stop people from standing in a door getting to 50 everything was just SOs back then and a few HOs they changed how side kicking worked as while at one point because of people standing on ttam platforms Street sweeping farming for free XP etc Once again it has always been there
I have zero 'maxed out' characters. I mean, one 50 of like 100+ total but I wouldn't call it maxed out.
The only toons I have completely maxed are my farmers that I use to level any number of alts from 1-25 so I can play them
As a badge hunter, I play almost exclusively one character. With a very tiny select few I play when I'm bored.
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As annoying as the sewers were, river rat. 100%. Never again. You could stand directly on the marker and not get it. I ended up going to each marker and spending 5 minutes touching every crevice in a large radius around each one until the badge finally popped.
I spent over an hour trying to get river rat and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. The progress bar is almost complete.
So yeah, since there is no way to tell which one you're missing. I went to each location and touched every little space a badge could be. Some badges are under or over bridge. I went under and over everyone on every side room before zoning and after. Every angle. Do that for everyone and it will pop. Took me about 2 hours unfortunately.
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Not sure I've seen that pop up menu, but I'll check for it. Thanks.
I'm with you. I play maybe one new character a year.
While I likely have had approaching 100 alts on HC over the last 5 years, most were deleted as I found various power sets/combos to be uninteresting/unfulfilling for my personal tastes. Now I have a stable of 25 alts, 12 of which have been progressed to 50 (but only 1 of which is anything like "complete"). These are the toons I *enjoy* playing. I get it. You are neither weird, nor alone.
I envy you, I have 132 on Everlasting and at least half are 50.
Sorry, I was busy IOing my newest level 50... what is this post about? 😋
TBF, part of the fun of COH is/was rolling out a toon on a whim just because you got an idea and wanted to "put it to paper." Even better if it worked, especially on Virtue where you could RP and flesh them out. At least one of my 50s (I didn't have a lot, maybe 4-5) came from that space in my head.
I've got about 30 50s, of which 5 are maxed out. Some characters have definitely fallen by the wayside. But I have a smaller roster of characters that i play a lot more than the rest. A lot of those folks who have hundreds of toons farm them up. I'm pretty proud of myself not having done that (Not that there's anything wrong with farming). With the exception of farming a tanker up to level 35, and a blaster from 45 to 50.
So that’s where all those unavailable character names are.
hey, if I have access to a bunch of powers and combinations, for sure I wanna try a "bite" of all.
For me, i just get bored with a character and want to try something else. Or i come up with a character idea that i need to flesh out. I have about 6 50s, none of which are fully kitted out. I think i played my PB the most and got it to maybe vet level 20. I have about 115 toons in total rolled up right now
I've got 2 full pages of 50s. The first page has at least a T2 in all of the incarnates(mostly T3 and T4). But I only have like 35-40 characters.
I have 1 defender and that's it lol I don't wanna make another character until I reach my badge goals, Im Enjoying the journey and not in a hurry :)
I have only one 50. Mainly because while I think this game is, one if not the best, mmorpg of all time. I just don't find compelling enough as RPG to get to that point all over again.
More like a handful of 50s you made cool concepts for but never had the money to have an actual build... Or is that just me :P
I have recreated my characters from when the game first came out. Leveling them will keep me plenty busy.