Comments on: City of Heroes: The first few days. http://www.loonyblog.net/2005/05/27/city-of-heroes-the-first-few-days random thoughts on games, art, geek culture and living in maryland. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:28:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mike_ch http://www.loonyblog.net/2005/05/27/city-of-heroes-the-first-few-days/comment-page-1#comment-1240 mike_ch Sat, 28 May 2005 13:32:56 +0000 http://www.loonyblog.net/?p=777#comment-1240 I suck at powerlevelling and generally suck at predicting what the Next Big Skill Trait will be in an MMOG, so by blind luck I made a spines/regen scrapper at a time when that combination was considered to be one of the best in the game. I managed to level pretty well, but that's because I practically became a recluse for two months doing nothing but play this game. The result was rather hollow: I had all the powers that made me say "Ooh, I want" at the start of the game, but kind of wound up being a jack of all trades and master of none. It's kind of neat to have a fighter who can heal himself, heal others, boost the defense of others, and even revive them from the dead. It's a rather cool ability to use if you're with one other person adventuring or just impressing people around the Newbie zone (assuming this game still has newbies, back then there was a stead influx instead of just rerolls like every MMOG slowly becomes.) The only downside is that serious leveling (and skill gain) requires grouping, and every group has a person better specialized in each of those. Oh well, can't say it's the same PL Template Of The Week everyone uses, though. I suck at powerlevelling and generally suck at predicting what the Next Big Skill Trait will be in an MMOG, so by blind luck I made a spines/regen scrapper at a time when that combination was considered to be one of the best in the game.

I managed to level pretty well, but that’s because I practically became a recluse for two months doing nothing but play this game. The result was rather hollow: I had all the powers that made me say “Ooh, I want” at the start of the game, but kind of wound up being a jack of all trades and master of none.

It’s kind of neat to have a fighter who can heal himself, heal others, boost the defense of others, and even revive them from the dead. It’s a rather cool ability to use if you’re with one other person adventuring or just impressing people around the Newbie zone (assuming this game still has newbies, back then there was a stead influx instead of just rerolls like every MMOG slowly becomes.) The only downside is that serious leveling (and skill gain) requires grouping, and every group has a person better specialized in each of those.

Oh well, can’t say it’s the same PL Template Of The Week everyone uses, though.

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