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February 23, 2005
City of Heroes - Linky Goodness
Various CoH articles I've bookmarked. Note that some articles may be found at multiple sites.
General sites
- City of Heroes Boards
- City of Heroes Vault
- City of Heroes WarCry
- City of Heroes Stratics
- Guide to Guides - Great list of guides and FAQs and other info out ther.e Excellent place to start reading.
- RandomWiki CoH Home Page
Specific pages
- Little Things I Wish I'd Known (MikesMind) - Great collection of tidbits and trivia and bits of info. 100+ pages, printed, and worth a read.
- Influence and Low Security Heroes (Thericia) - Good advice (echoed by Doyce on how to (not) spend Influence as a low-level character. But it's so haaaaarrrddd ....
- Guide to Power Sets (HellsEmbrace) - Useful guide to "what to get, what to skip," though it lacks some changes in Issue 3. As with all such power guides, treat it as One Person's Hopefully Informed Opinion; I find powerset debates akin, sometimes, to Mac-vs-Windows and IE-vs-Firefox types of thangs.
- The Complete Idiot's Survival Guide (SunderX, Powervolt) - Lots of great info on "How To Manage Aggro, Knock-back and Grouping," so as not to end up dead, dead, dead.
- Pulling Singles (SomeLameDude) - Similarly good summary of how to gain aggro, and how to use it.
- New Player's Guide to a Post-Winter Lord World (Amberyl) - Good general play info, with valuable links inside.
- Villains and Zones Master Chart (Mapmaster255) - Excellent (but, alas, unprintable) list of zones, neighborhoods, and what sort of beasties can be found (of what level) in each.
- Stark's Leveling Guide (.Stark.) - Good, concise list of places to hunt at different levels.
- Guide to Understanding Enhancements (GD) - Includes good store location maps.
I have several others I need to add to the above list, but I didn't bookmark them, just printed them out. Later ...
Posted by Dave at February 23, 2005 8:21 AM
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Posted on February 23, 2005 9:12 AM
Doyce said:
Also, I've found this one a mix of fun anecdotes and useful links. (Plus, at least one Dev posts here): http://www.livejournal.com/community/city_of_heroes/ Comes with RSS feed.
Also note that WarCry has a newsfeed.
Posted on February 23, 2005 9:16 AM
*** Dave said:
The Villain/Zone guide up there is from the Vidiotmaps page.
Posted on February 23, 2005 9:45 AM
Doyce said:
Vidiot maps also has a nifty download that you can drop in a specific directory under the CoH install that makes all that stuff (villain zones, shop locations, badge locations, etc) show up on your in-game map.
I swear by it. For the store locations alone, it's absolutely invaluable.
Posted on February 23, 2005 12:00 PM
Posted on February 23, 2005 1:16 PM
Solonor said:
Incredible. Thanks!
Posted on February 23, 2005 1:39 PM
Boulder Dude said:
The map download worked great!
Posted on February 23, 2005 9:04 PM
*** Dave said:
Same here, once I figured out which link to download. Looks faboo.
Posted on February 23, 2005 9:54 PM
*** Dave said:
Best all-around tip sheet I've run across: City of Heroes Tips and Tricks. It has:
- A short link list
- List of best places to hunt, by level.
- List of best places to hunt, by type of enemy.
- Notes on Hazards and Trial Zones
- Basic keybinding info, standard binds, macros, emotes
- Pool Powers
- Story Arcs
- Accolade Badges
It's worth it just for the two hunt lists, along with the emote list.
Posted on February 24, 2005 8:03 AM
*** Dave said:
A good "group tactics" guide that's centered on Perez Park, but has some fine general rules of thumb.
Posted on March 7, 2005 2:57 PM
*** Dave said:
For modifying CoH options outside of the game (critical for making resolution changes if you switch to a less-capable monitor), TweakCOH is the way to go.
Posted on March 9, 2005 6:36 AM
Avocet said:
Take a look at Coldfront's CoH page.
Posted on March 9, 2005 10:56 PM
*** Dave said:
Margie recommends:
The Nofuture COH pages
The COH Online pages
Lots of resource material, nicely and tightly laid out.
Posted on March 25, 2005 9:39 AM
Avocet said:
Phed-X told me about HeroStats and Hero Logger, programs that track your stats in-game, for review later (HeroStats apparently has a small in-game window that will show stats, including time until buffs expire). HeroStats is freeware, Hero Logger is shareware. Has anyone here tried them? If so, what do you think of them?
http://herostats.sourceforge.net/
http://www.benziegler.com/HeroLog/
Posted on March 29, 2005 11:24 PM
*** Dave said:
I've heard of people using them, but haven't tried them myself. I'm a little bit leery of stuff that would try to connect too closely to running CoH software, but I'd be interested in your impressions. :-)
Posted on March 30, 2005 6:12 AM
Avocet said:
I played for about an hour today with HeroStats running. I like it.
I like seeing the "xp needed to level" on the screen, but I'm afraid that it may take some of the focus away from having fun. I may turn it off.
Looking over the stats from my session, I see that Chillblain and Power Bolt miss way more often than my other powers. I may have to rethink my Enhancements on those powers.
There are a couple of things about the setup of the statistics screen I don't care for. It doesn't recognize my mouse wheel; I have to use the scroll bar. You can't sort the statistics by clicking on the columns; they are presented in alphabetical order only.
Still, I learned a lot from just one session. I knew that Sniper Blast was my big gun; I didn't realize that even though I use it relatively infrequently, I dish out more damage with it than with any other power. And I knew that Aim took a long time to recharge; I didn't realize it was well over a minute!
All in all, a very nice little freeware program. I suggest everybody give it a try.
My friend is testing the trial version of Hero Logger. I'll see what he thinks of that and let you know. (I don't feel like going through all the hassle of setting it up until I hear what he thinks of it.)
Posted on March 30, 2005 10:41 AM
*** Dave said:
You talked me into it. I'll give it a try.
Posted on March 30, 2005 11:46 AM
*** Dave said:
A nice Enhancements listing -- percentages, what they are called (as Training, different DOs, SOs), etc.
Posted on April 3, 2005 10:32 PM
Avocet said:
I've been using HeroStats for a few days now. I noticed that after each session, the Totals were the same as the stats for the session. I figured that I needed to load the previous stats, so I tried that. My framerate dropped from 60 fps to about 10! So, I now have a separate stats file for each session. Not as convenient as I would like, but better than nothing.
Posted on April 4, 2005 12:17 AM
*** Dave said:
Post coming soon on HeroStats.
Posted on April 4, 2005 6:11 AM
*** Dave said:
On the Enhancements theme, here's a great guide to Enhancements and Stores.
Posted on April 4, 2005 8:23 AM