City of Heroes: A Guide to Archetypes – Pt. 4 - MMORPG.com

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City of Heroes: A Guide to Archetypes – Pt. 4 - MMORPG.com

Last week we covered the Kheldian Epic Archetypes added to City of Heroes in Issue 3. Today, we’ll be digging deep into Arachnos Soldiers, the Epic Archetypes added to City of Villains in Issue 12.

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Samhael

Hmmm, maybe I'll have to make a crab after all.

Hariken

Can you believe the home coming server passed 100k players NCsoft must being saying WTF.

DavodtheTutt

"A team full of Arachnos characters can blow through anything in the game." Yet more evidence that the game was largely spoiled by the Devs' development of greater love for villains than heroes. Well, could be due to their coming later, newer things generally get improvements, but still...

Arglebargle

A team of controllers can blow through the game.  A group of Rad defenders can blow through the game.   ETC.

kitarad

 I try to stick to one AT because if I try making characters on other ATs too I will be over 60 or 100 toons at that point.

GladDog

kitarad said:

 I try to stick to one AT because if I try making characters on other ATs too I will be over 60 or 100 toons at that point.

I made a Crab, it was alright...

One thing I found with CoH is that specific playstyles appeal to different people. For example, I like rad/ rad corruptors and defenders. They are a bit difficult to play, with all of the powers you need to balance and watch. But I liked them. I played several scrapper types, but yawned through all of them until I rolled a Dark/ Dark. I actually level capped two of them and was working on a third when the game closed. Even though Stone tanks were the best tanks, I preferred the 'squishier' Invuls. A lot of players liked controllers, and I did not like them at all.

So what I am saying is, if you like a specific playstyle, then there is no reason not to play two, three or even four of them. Remember, gaming is about having fun. Do whatever is fun for you.

kitarad

How about 12 of them?

walkerdog

Uhm....19 of them currently. ;-)

Grunt350

This kind of stuff pick up my interest to try out but I must ask, if it is safe to play the game ( I mean secure for my pc) (sorry I m little slow) ?

cheyane

Grunt350 said:

This kind of stuff pick up my interest to try out but I must ask, if it is safe to play the game ( I mean secure for my pc) (sorry I m little slow) ?

The launcher is open source. Try Homecoming with the tequila launcher. It's perfectly safe. Although some antivirus might throw up a caution it is false.

Grunt350

cheyane said:

Grunt350 said:

This kind of stuff pick up my interest to try out but I must ask, if it is safe to play the game ( I mean secure for my pc) (sorry I m little slow) ?

The launcher is open source. Try Homecoming with the tequila launcher. It's perfectly safe. Although some antivirus might throw up a caution it is false.

Thanks.

cheyane

Honestly it is perfectly safe I have been playing for weeks now and Homecoming just hit 100k players. They are also backing up a database and should heaven forbid anything happens they will be able to transfer everything to another server very fast. At this point NCSoft will be playing a losing game of trying to whac-a-mole.

DavodtheTutt

Arglebargle said:

A team of controllers can blow through the game.  A group of Rad defenders can blow through the game.   ETC.

Maybe all the missions, if you set the rep low enough, and if by "blow through" you mean laboriously work through. I remember being on a team that was merely short a bit on damage, trying to get through a TF, and we got totally stuck in one of the stages. 

Sounds like an interesting challenge, though -- make up a team of controllers, set the rep at what you usually play, and see how you like doing missions with them, let alone TFs and such.