Brugdor is back in town

Here's what you do Doomsie. Install CoV in the CoH directory (it is setup to automatically).Go to cityofheroes.com and hit the Account button and then Manage. Login with your old info. Upgrade your account and enter the CD key from CoV. You are all set. The interesting thing is that if you load up CoV, you still can access your CoH characters. So you can play either side from loading it.

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Brugdor Invuln/Axe Tanker - 41
Bouldershoulder Earth/Empathy Controller - 12
Heavy Mettle SS/Invuln Brute - 5
Festimus the Septile Zombie/DM Mastermind - 3

There are no Tanker's per se in CoV. They split the traditional MMORPG roles amongst the various ATs. Everyone can "tank" a bit of a spawn so it doesn't all fall to one or 2 players. And I mean "tank" in that they can handle enough of the spawn so that everyone adds up to a Tanker.in the CoH sense. Healing is another thing that got spread amount the various ATs and power sets. It makes for vary interesting and dynamic combat.

Masterminds are good for getting initial aggro and absorbing the alpha strikes. But if they're henchman keep the aggro, they are mostly likely dogfood and you have a neutered Mastermind for a few minutes.

Brutes are most like Scrappers. Except the power of Fury compells the Brute to SMASH!! and keep going until... You'll know that I mean when you roll up a Brute. With enough outside buff'ing Brutes are combat gods: Capped Tanker level defenses and capped Scrapper level damage.

Corrupters are Blastfenders or Offenders from CoH. With Scourge (possible crits when target Health falls below 40%), they deal very nice damage. But with the buff/debuffs of Defenders. Ouch!

Stalkers are kings of Burst Damage. Basically melee Snipe Blaster. They signature attack Assassin Strike does 600% damage when it goes off. And they can crit with most every other attack when they are hidden (i.e. Invisible). Nothing short of a Boss (if that) is safe from being 1 or 2 shotted by a Stalker.

And the various level of the mission difficult slider goes like this. Heroic (i.e. base level) is that you are familiar with from before. Except is you are solo, bosses will be downgraded to Lieutenants except for named bosses, Elite Bosses, etc.)

2nd level is extra numbers in spawns. +0/+1 levels.

3rd Level is +1 level. Normal numbers +1/+2 levels

4th level both 2 and 3. Extra numbers with +1/+2 levels

5th Level is +2 level spawns. +2/+3 levels in spawns.

And welcome back.

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Fuzun, Mutation/Tanker/Invulnerability/Energy Melee
Atomic Annie, Science Defender/Rad/Rad/Stealth/Speed
SilverCenturion, Techology/Blaster/Energy/Energy Control
Nyte Shade, Magic/Scrapper/Dark Melee
Lustrious, Natural Peacebringer

Yes, just make sure you apply the CoV code to your current CoH account. It will also net you a free month. You'll get 4 extra character slots too per server.
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Circeus, Friendly/Neighborhood/Site/Admin
Starmaster, Mutant/Blaster/Energy/Fire
Mighty Quinn, Magic/Tanker/Ice/Stone

I seem to remember a special of some sort.

If I buy City of Villians then I just need to sign up/pay once right? Paying $14.95 will allow me to play both games as long as I've purchased the games?

I don't remember.

The Terrific Wired Tech Know - 36.6 Electrical Blaster / Devices
R Tech 27.9 Empathy / Ice Controller
Aztech Warrior 27.6 Spines / Super Reflexes

Hehe, I just logged out after getting Mettle to 6. I'll be on quite a bit tomorrow afternoon so I'll do the /gfriend thing to catch you.

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Brugdor Invuln/Axe Tanker - 41
Bouldershoulder Earth/Empathy Controller - 12
Heavy Mettle SS/Invuln Brute - 5
Festimus the Septile Zombie/DM Mastermind - 3

Post a time when you can get in and I'll get you hooked into the SG and VG. Most of us are playing CoV more than CoH right now.

You can also /gfriend @Circeus or @Fuzun, and then look for when we're on, global friends is tremedously more useful than server based.
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Circeus, Friendly/Neighborhood/Site/Admin
Starmaster, Mutant/Blaster/Energy/Fire
Mighty Quinn, Magic/Tanker/Ice/Stone

Whoot! I'll keep my Mastermind shelved for you then. I just hit 41 with Brugdor tonight. I did a 7 person mission to ding. I had forgotten how hectic large scale combat was in this game. I also see the nerfage to Tankers now. I seemed to be limited to picking a small group to Taunt and by the time I got my target down, all the baddies were spread out all over the place hehe. I will say though that the only time I was ever in trouble is if my toggles were knocked down.

I really like the ambience in CoV.

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Brugdor Invuln/Axe Tanker - 41
Bouldershoulder Earth/Empathy Controller - 12
Heavy Mettle SS/Invuln Brute - 5
Festimus the Septile Zombie/DM Mastermind - 3

I'll be back in about two weeks. I'll pick up COV and play both COV and COH. =)

I had a great time in Disneyland with Circeus and Miss Dale. Both are very nice and easy to talk to.

Aloha!

The Terrific Wired Tech Know - 36.6 Electrical Blaster / Devices
R Tech 27.9 Empathy / Ice Controller
Aztech Warrior 27.6 Spines / Super Reflexes

I got CoV today. I made a Mastermind that's Zombie/DM and named him Festimus the Septile. Dirtnap was taken I just got him to level 3 and that's where I'll be leaving him until Dawn gets in. If you want to send him an invite, that would be cool with me.

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Brugdor Invuln/Axe Tanker - 36
Bouldershoulder Earth/Empathy Controller - 12
Dragon King Fire/Fire Tanker -12
Yerfired Fire/Devices Blaster - 14

She did indeed pass along your "hi!"

There are contacts you can go to for the slider. The three ones I remember best are (they are Hero Corps folks):

* Far side of the hospital in Brickstown
* On a small island in Indy Port halfway between the hospital and the Train station (direct line between the two)
* In the courtyard at Portal Corp in Peregrine Island

Brutes are not Tankers. Masterminds are Tankers (or rather their combined pets are). Brutes are closer to Scrappers, only they can be buffed to be as strong defensively as a Tanker (they have Tanker defense caps)
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Circeus, Friendly/Neighborhood/Site/Admin
Starmaster, Mutant/Blaster/Energy/Fire
Mighty Quinn, Magic/Tanker/Ice/Stone

Hrmm...where is the slider you speak of?

Aren't Brutes the CoV tanker? If so, why are they so popular?

Did Dawn tell you both I said hi? If she didn't then I'm sooo going to fire her.

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Brugdor Invuln/Axe Tanker - 36
Bouldershoulder Earth/Empathy Controller - 12
Dragon King Fire/Fire Tanker -12
Yerfired Fire/Devices Blaster - 14

Re: Tank Nerfs: Tanks were hit pretty hard, but its not a question of if they can function solo because any character can function solo - especially at Heroic (don't forget there's a slider now that went in since you quit). The real question is what, if anything of value do they bring to a team? Agro control is practically meaningless on a team these days to the point where its only of mild use vs an AV at best. Otherwise, on a team, all they end up doing is being a bigger box of health, but one that eats up more than their fair share of team resources (as in buffs/heals).

Re: CoV: MMs are the most popular AT followed by Brutes, Stalkers, and Corruptors, with Dominators being least popular. I'm playing everything but Stalkers at this point (can't work my groove into one just yet). Fuzun has played a MM to 40 already, they pick up about 400k prestige if they stay in SG mode the entire time like he did. This is good considering base prices are stupid-high from a PvE perspective, I get the concept of high prices for PvP, but they didn't draw a line and are being bone-headed about not making one. Realistically we don't have enough players to get or defend an Item of Power in a base raid anyway.

Re: Dawn: yeah, she said that might occur when we saw her.
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Circeus, Friendly/Neighborhood/Site/Admin
Starmaster, Mutant/Blaster/Energy/Fire
Mighty Quinn, Magic/Tanker/Ice/Stone