Best MMO after CoV
- Travel powers are fast, efficients and include full vertical movement. The metro is amazing in completing the between the zones travels.
- Easy to understand and get started, hard to master. I never found any game which is easier to get started and harder to master, so I am not saying it is the best on this topic, I say no game beat it on both fronts. It is easier then WoW or EQ to get started, but it is harder to master it completely (not merely succeed).
- You characters become stronger as you advance in levels, unlike in other MMOs where you become deficient as you level up. At level 1, you can solo 3 minions level 1 and it take everything in you. At level 50, you can solo a score of minion 52, 2 lieutnants 52, 1 boss 52 and 1 elite boss...so there is a becoming.
- 50 levels, 24 powers, 67 enhancements (+the 24 first free + sprint/brawl/rest)...you have to pick a primary power in a list of 4-7 related to your archtype (so in a list 20-25), you will get the first or second power as you start and you can select any of the 8 other as you level up...many players will make different choices. Repeat for the secondary...then you have to pick up to 4 alternate power sets (among 10 choices) where you can put up to 16 powers (you will obviously pick a lot less there), finally you pick an epic power set (among 3) and put again up to 4 powers in there. The customisation is plainly amazing, you won't see anyone like you, and even maybe you will see nobody remotedly similar. The worst cookie cutter player will find about 1 player on 18 with his "class" (same primary and secondary), then maybe 1/3 of these players will be similar to you...maybe...let's resume. You have 1 chance on 4-7 that someone of your Archtype (5 choices + 2 epic) pick the same primary, 1 chance on 4-7 that someone pick the same secondary (if you only have 4 in either, you have at least 6 on the other)...so 1 character on 24 will be the same primary/secondary as you in pure theoricall abstraction, and we didn't even start considering alternate power pools, epic...and which power are left out. Let's make an example, Ymne my scrapper is a Broadsword/Regen. Even if the scrapper is only 1 of 7 AT, let's suppose 1 hero on 4 is a scrapper (not even considering villains). Let's suppose that half the scrapper are regen because it is sooo ubah. Broadsword is not particuliarly popular despite been the best single target damage in the game, so let's suppose it is 1/6...so you have 1/4 X 1/2 X 1/6...so 1 player on 48 would have the same primary and secondary as me...I love^parry, most peoples doesn't pick it in the primary. I hate reconstruction, almost everyone pick it. I fly, most don't...so it is hard to find someone like you. If you pick a less popular setting, you may very well be the only player on the server past level 30 with this combo.
- Customisations, all the look you can get...it is amazing. I know designers who spent hours creating characters for the fun of it...so it is likely to anyone's GF could spent hours there...if not the guy to!
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- On the downside...they temporarily enforce raiding. They learn, and now you can earn the same rewards by doing a group! So instead of been a flaw, it is a strongpoint, they make amend for it.
- Nerfs where bad, VERY bad...I still ache from these. But they didn't nerfs for sometimes, officially at least (who know about ninja nerfs?). ED was bad, but the change to some powers as well...IH comes to mind.