Any point coming back

[Moo]

Got the game at release, played for like 2 weeks and got bored at around level 16 because of the repetativeness

im really bored atm considering reactivating for a laff - any new stuff happened etc?

I had a fire / fire blaster

[Ivan]

Well, nothing new really ... but hey, we are about to get capes ... so we will rock !!!

[Kokelimonkelmedisin]

yep its too repetative and the fact that supportclasses
are allmost (at least at higher levels) worthless makes this game suck arse.

[Moona]

well im pretty bored atm ^^

all my mmorpg account are canceled ...
wanna reactivate CoH though

just havin fun with some costume creating /making alts ^^ still have a lv 33 Illu/kin controller though , and woooohoooo capes ^^

[Danya]

Originally Posted by Kokelimonkelmedisin

yep its too repetative and the fact that supportclasses
are allmost (at least at higher levels) worthless makes this game suck arse.

It's not so much that support sucks, as that no one groups above like level 25. Which sucks. I went back to DAoC.

[Turamber]

I know it's bad Danny, but blimey ... back to DAoC? *looks horrified* Scandalous! I had a few 50's in the States but ToA pretty much killed my enjoyment of the game, then NF came along and really did kill it.

Enjoyed CoH as an artifact/ML free environment for a good few months, but there are some serious imbalances in the game that need addressing. One to keep an eye on and see how it develops in the future.

[meerclar]

to address the lack of grouping at higher levels, my SG has made a policy of going out of our way to group together and to invite at least one non-SG person into our groups.
this means that support classes get played and we keep our friendly atmosphere.
i am sure other SGs are doing similar and if they are not then what is the point of those SGs?

[Danya]

Originally Posted by Turamber

I know it's bad Danny, but blimey ... back to DAoC? *looks horrified* Scandalous! I had a few 50's in the States but ToA pretty much killed my enjoyment of the game, then NF came along and really did kill it.

Enjoyed CoH as an artifact/ML free environment for a good few months, but there are some serious imbalances in the game that need addressing. One to keep an eye on and see how it develops in the future.

I dunno, I kinda like TOA - but I always quite liked PvE anyway. Only annoyance is that artifact mobs are overcamped.

[Kokelimonkelmedisin]

heh,
Iv been thinking a bit about daoc allso, but then I remember that
I dont want to play the animist that I have on my acc. And how mutch
it must suck to play support in keep sieges, how it would suck to level,
do MLs and artifacts for 2 months straight just to get to rvr, how
I can't play a stealther cause of the buffbots etc.

^^ Lost of cool mmorpgs coming up tho,
and after I gave FFXI a 2nd chanse the only problems is sticking with a class.

[Abel]

no one groups above like level 25

This is simply untrue, and having a lvl 33 ice tanker myself I can know (CoH tankers kinda fall into the support category too). I suspect it had more to do with a server being dead on euro hours, where you one of the people on Virtue ? In any case on Victory (unofficial euro server btw) I never noticed any difference regarding grouping between low 20s or high 20s ...

HOWEVER the grouping issues do start to show up in the +30 range, it's not that grouping doesn't happen regurally anymore, but especially random groups happen less often and in smaller groups that often don't require a support char. That being said, if you get into a good supergroup and/or get a good set of friends you can still get to 50 at a decent pace, I've seen enough support chars deep into their 40s or even at 50. And they wouldn't have got their by soloing ...

If anyone is interested in returning :
- Issue 2 is coming soon and it's about the biggest MMORPG update I have ever seen (and I have seen many of 'em). It put Mythics efforts to shame. Capes is just one of the dozens new cool things.
- Chose a server with a big euro population (for example Victory and I think Pinnacle too).

[Danya]

Why bother getting to 50? My character (controller) is useless in all the big fights anyway

[Abel]

Eh wtf are you smoking Danya ? It sure shows that many of you early quitters have a seriously broken game knowledge ...

It depends a lot on what kind of controller you were playing, if you were playing Mind, then yes that build has issues (that are being looked at btw). If you were playing Fire/Ill then once you hit lvl 32 you have one of the fastest leveling chars out of the entire game, about as fast as the best blaster builds. Gravity is fine for soloing too.

Fire Controller has in fact become one of the favorite builds for FOTM powerlevelers who want to hit lvl 50 in the shortest time possible.

That being said, Illusion and especially Fire are taking a knock in issue #2 (together with /dev blasters) but they still will be fine, also Gravity pets are getting a speed boost. Ice and Earth pets aren't that hot though ...

PS about the "big fights", controllers certainly have their uses. Unless you mean fights against AVs (which are pretty rare untill the 40s, and even that high not that common) a controller is AWESOME to have in a group, to such an extent Tankers and Defenders are complaining about it ...

[Abel]

'Cause double posts aren't that smart ...

[Danya]

I played earth controller. No, we don't get uber pets or any other wtfpwn stuff. Shows how many randomly wrong assumptions you make about people's game knowledge.
And yes I meant AVs and monsters. Fighting normal "bosses" and such isn't anything special.

[Turamber]

Originally Posted by Abel

Eh wtf are you smoking Danya ? It sure shows that many of you early quitters have a seriously broken game knowledge

Sorry bud, but all you are doing is repeating fan bois views of the game. Many blaster and scrapper builds are so strong that they don't need "support" - they can do just as well without a defender or a controller.

Moreover controller pets have now been heavily nerfed ... a 50% damage reduction to Phantom Army and Fire Imps, 5-6 months into the game's life.

My illusion controller was level 41 when I quit at the start of August and yes I did group, but only with friends. They would have grouped me whatever class I played, and generally levelling involved our fire/device blaster friend killing everything whilst we watched. Pickup groups were hard to come by at that level and generally consisted of all the gimps (controllers, tanks and defenders) together whilst the damage dealers (or at least the well built ones) soloed.

Glad you are still enjoying the game but it doesn't change the fact that it's broken and getting more broken.