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Originally posted by Tuco
What is the endgame like?
What are the roles in a group exp-getting setting?
If you are playing CoH for the next year, what will you be doing in one year in CoH? |
1) Unknown.. To like everyone. There are massive amounts of hints strewn throughout the game that lead me to believe that there is an endgame and it's ready to go. The team, imo, does not strike me as one that would launch with shit unfinished. Plus, they're going to be big on live updates
2) Damage, Crowd Control, Healer.
Sounds rudimentary, but... Damage is only a single part of the puzzle. There's mobs. Lots of 'em. Lots and lots. You need CC and you need knockback and stun and all sorts of good shit. A high damage group might do ok, but the most efficient groups are diverse.
3) Probably experiencing the endgame.. Elder zones, and what have you.
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Originally posted by Ham n Cheese
Same questions as Tuco. I'm also curious what the equipment/upgrading scene is like. Mostly vendor or drops or what? What are the advantage to killing hard bosses? Are there super-duper bad guys? What do you normally kill for exp? Is the game a large exp grind or do you level fast? If it's an exp grind are there camps like in eq of killing the same thing over and over? How large is the world? How is transportation around the world done?
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Equipment is a hybrid of vendor and looted. You'll use both equally. Hard bosses give more experience and generally drop enhancements.. Good ones. There's rumour that big encounters(endgame shit) will drop unique enhancements, which would be leet.
Levelling is ok for the first few levels but it slows down tremendously. It's not too bad though as you've really gotta be at the keyboard and active. Not just "nuke, afk till spawn, repeat". No camps, although certain mobs do spawn in certain areas.. Missions play a very large role, you end up going into an instance and fulfilling an objective(sometimes rescuing hostages, generally just killing a boss and the minions)
World is pretty large.. There's at least a dozen zones on the map and some of them are gargantuan. Travel is slow(but the zones are small) up until about level 14.. You can take a tram between the basic zones you'll need to access... At level 14 you'll be able to get your travel power(flight, teleportation, superspeed, or superjump) and you're able to cover a helluva lot more ground. I can climb skyscrapers in a few seconds flat with my superjump
One thing I want to mention is that the world feels much more 3d then EQ. Because you can fly and there's the movement powers, plus the urban setting, you really end up with ups and downs and lefts and rights. EQ feels very flat.. Rollign hills and shit. CoH is very much moving around and what have you.