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Soloing Possible?
jgrant44
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Hi,
I'm interested in purchasing CoH, but it's not always possible for me to sit down and spend a definite amount of time at the keyboard playing the game (RL commitments). I feel bad when I get groups together in other MMOGs and have to bail because I have to do something or other. Is it possible to solo at all in CoH? I want to be able to feel as if I've accomplished something even if I don't have loads of time to dedicate in one sitting.
Thanks in advance for your responses!
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It sure is... at least up to level 12
I play too many heroes to have gotten any of them to a very high level, but I know of plenty of others who have soloed pretty high. Certainly possible, but I would recommend not soloing a Controller, at least not at first. It's very frustrating, espeically if you're just starting to learn the game with that character.
Also, it's very easy to group up when you want to or when it's necessary, so even if you solo primarily, you shouldn't have a problem getting a group together.
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You can solo. Seems like the easiest to solo with is a Tanker. But, even if you don't have much time, you can still group up in no time and go do something real quick. If you just spent an hour a day, you could still do it by grouping.
Most classes and power combinations allow for soloing. However, as you progress in the game missions become increasingly difficult and so the solo experience for some shifts from being feasible in missions to non-mission hunting.
But Alient hit it on the head. Grouping in CoH is less time restrictive than in other games. Travel times are significantly less. There is no long wait for getting together the uber mix of classes/powers, they all work together well if you are willing to be flexible with your strategies. If you are in a group doing missions, they only rarely will last for more than about 40-45 minutes. Larger groups, which force missions to spawn more mobs can take longer at times. A 3-6 person team can easily rattle off missions in the 20-30 minute timeframe, depending on the mission.
CoH is definitely more suited to the casual gamer than many other MMOGs.
Thank you all for your responses...after reading your replies, and doing some more research on my own, I think I'll give CoH a whirl.
Thanks again, and I hope to see you in game!
Although you've already read some responses, I'd just like to throw in my two cents.
City of Heros is an amazing game. I'm a casual gamer. I'm lucky if I get two hours a day in. In two hours, I have played with two different teams, I have done 3 or 4 solo missions, and I have had fun. City of Heros is a great game for Casual gamers and Power gamers, and playing an hour a day will be fine.
If you're going to Solo though, play either a Tanker or a Scrapper. I play a Tanker, and Soloing is pretty easy. Although possible, it's much harder with the other Archtypes.
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there is great soloution for you. on the days you can only play short time, log on a tanker or scrapper and have a little fun. you can group with these guys as well
on days you have more time, log a controler or defender and have a little fun. you can not really solo with these guys at all.
Like FyreGoddess said "It sure is up to level 12." The reason he/she knows this as well as I do is because level 1-12 can be fast and fun. It isn't hard to level a character up to level 10, and this can give you a good idea of what kind of class you'd like to play. Not only that it is great fun making multiple combinations of hero's. It's one of the few games where you can play multiple characters with out having to focus on one toon. I do have to disagree on being completely solo-able. Once you get 20+ you do become very reliant on groups unless you want to be less efficient killing mobs lower than your level. Regaurdless the game is great fun, and will only get better with CoV.
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IMHO seems that a well played blaster can solo or team at his/her on will. The same can go for a tank, but forget soloing as a controller until you get a good area hold and later pets.
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CoH is great for solo. Scrapper is the best choice for solo. I also have Blaster which I'm able to solo a lot too. Tanker is pretty good to solo as well but it do so little damage compare to Scrapper and Blaster, that's why I don't really recommend it due to it's the most boring class of all, I think.
Thank you all for your responses...I thought I would update you all on my experiences in Paragon City so far...
The first toon I tried was a Scrapper with a Broadsword and Regen. I enjoyed him for a while but got somewhat bored with only being able to essentially run up to mobs and whack them. I then rolled up another toon, this time a Blaster with Assault Rifle and Electricity Manipulation. He was a lot more fun, being able to root some enemies and have long range attacks. I made a mistake with him, though, by taking Teleport Foe instead of Hover at L6. I was hoping that TF would be a no-aggro way to split groups of baddies, but that didn't work. Now it just takes them a little longer to get to me, so I think I should have grabbed Hover instead. Live and learn...
The other complaint I had with the combo I made up was that I always had a delay when switching between Electric Fence and my attacks using Assault Rifle. With another power, maybe one of the fire, ice or energy line, do you experience that delay when switching like that, or is it reduced/eliminated by using the innate power instead of a weapon?
Thanks again!
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I would completely disagree with this. Scrappers are excellent solo. My main character is a Martial arts/Regen scrapper and I can solo non stop since I do tons of damage, can self heal and regen both health and stamina faster then most other character types.
I prefer to group but can actually make exp faster on my own much of the time.
Edit: Oop I guess I shouldnt say I completely disagree. Blasters do solo well also but I disagree about scrappers not being some of the best.
All the classes, even defenders, can be soloed if done properly. It all depends on what you are fighting and how you fight.
Personally other then Burn tanks (level 18 fire tanker power) I found tanks to be the second worst soloers.
I didnt have much luck soloing with my invicibility/super str tank and much prefer regen scrapper or a blaster. Tanks have more hp but are slow to recover those hp and at low levels their damage output and resistance isnt that impressive.
With a regen scrapper you can wade into a large group, kill it very fast, use reconstruction to heal back up while your running into the next group.
However you do it though pretty much any class CAN solo in CoH its just more difficult with some. If you stick to blues even an empathy defender can solo but it takes forever to kill a group of villians.
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I would completely disagree with this. Scrappers are excellent solo. My main character is a Martial arts/Regen scrapper and I can solo non stop since I do tons of damage, can self heal and regen both health and stamina faster then most other character types.
I prefer to group but can actually make exp faster on my own much of the time.
Edit: Oop I guess I shouldnt say I completely disagree. Blasters do solo well also but I disagree about scrappers not being some of the best.
The problem I have soloing my blaster is how fragile she is. She can't take the damage and, without others to pull the baddies off of her, she either has to be able to run at a moment's notice (read: no hover blasting) or she'll die fairly often. I vastly prefer to play her with at least one other person to help pull the aggro. Even in a duo situation, my blaster dies MUCH less often than solo.
My scrapper on the other hand, dies very seldom and usually mops the floor with Yellow and Orange mobs, sometimes Red Minions, rarely dies, rarely has to run and I always have a blast. On the rare occassions that my scrapper DOES die, I can work off my debt and usually level before I even come close to dying again.
I tried to solo my controller, but with how long it takes to kill anyone, it wasn't worth it. She's a support character and without the support, died constantly. I'm just about ready to reroll her and try a defender again. I do not recommend soloing a controller... at least not as your first character (*blush*)
I made a tanker, leveled her up to about 4, got bored and never went back. I refuse to speak on soloing tanks as it is simply not my thing.
I think that if you're going to solo a blaster, your tactics have to be incredibly sound. Blasters don't have a heck of a lot of HP and can be taken down quickly. At level 10 my scrapper can solo in the Boneyard in Perez Park, get to any indoor missions deep in the heart of the woods and comes out 95% of the time without having died. At level 10, my blaster dies trying to solo mobs leveled 7/8, can't get to indoor missions without turning stealth on and usually dies from one or two shots when trying to leave the mission.
The damage that a Fire/Fire blaster can do is impressive, but without a way to shake some of the aggro, damage just isn't enough.
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That delay is unique to Assault rifle balster, it is both a blessing and a curse. it lowers your responce time when using secondary abilities BUT as a bonus the first shot after you draw your rifle has a big accuracy boost to compensate. I'll often deliberatly put away the rifle just to get that acc boost on bosses when I'm unloading a very high damage attack like Snipe or Flame Thrower.
Advise, Get hover at level 8, Keep teleport Foe, when you are huntign in the city perch on top of a medium height building, teleport single foes up and kill them in safety then move to thenext one. as long as they can't jump up to you you get nice safe single pulls. Once you get more AE effects (Buckshot, M30, Flamethrower) you'll be able to pop a couple Enrages then just waste whole groups of blues/whites at once as long as they are all minions.
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I would completely disagree with this. Scrappers are excellent solo. My main character is a Martial arts/Regen scrapper and I can solo non stop since I do tons of damage, can self heal and regen both health and stamina faster then most other character types.
I prefer to group but can actually make exp faster on my own much of the time.
Edit: Oop I guess I shouldnt say I completely disagree. Blasters do solo well also but I disagree about scrappers not being some of the best.
I never said Scrappers were not good solo artists, I said that Blasters solo better than Scrappers.
Sure, you have regen which is prolly the second best line up for a scrapper next to invulnerability, but you can not solo as fast as a Blaster that knows what they are doing. I have a Blaster also while my roommate has 2 different types of scrappers. Even at low levels my blaster mops the floors faster than my roommates scrapper ever thought of doing at comparable levels (takeing what he did at my blasters level).
1 thing Blasters have over Scrappers is range. Mobs ranged combat is no where as effect as their melee. You dont need to have hover to be a effective Blaster, you dont have to solo red mobs as a blaster to be a better soloer. I can kill mobs 2-3x faster than a scrapper ever thought of doing due to the simple fact is Blasters have Range (which negates mobs melee power) and more AoE's (which means they can kill more mobs in the time it takes you to kill one).
Your regen of health and stamina are negated by the simple fact you can take that as a power pool also. So anyone that wants to invest in it can have the same effect if they want it, even Blasters.
So now, please tell me again how a Scrapper is a better soloer than a Blaster. Blasters do more damage, have lower endurance cost, stay out of mobs melee range, can kill 2x as fast. Dont believe me? Watch a Blaster snipe a mob for over 400 points of damage then tell me that your scrapper can put out that much damage that fast. Oh wait, you cant.
-"I think that if you're going to solo a blaster, your tactics have to be incredibly sound. Blasters don't have a heck of a lot of HP and can be taken down quickly. At level 10 my scrapper can solo in the Boneyard in Perez Park, get to any indoor missions deep in the heart of the woods and comes out 95% of the time without having died. At level 10, my blaster dies trying to solo mobs leveled 7/8, can't get to indoor missions without turning stealth on and usually dies from one or two shots when trying to leave the mission."
Not like Scrappers have a whole lot more HPs than a Blaster does. I soloed easily full groups at lvl 8/9 with little downtime. I had no problem running anywhere in Perez Park either at that lvl. If you know what your doing it is not hard at all.
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I have a level 25 Energy/Devices Blaster that I've played almost all solo. Soloing went from easy at low levels, to absolutely trivial once I reached level 22 and was able to use SOs. I walk through indoor missions, hardly ever losing more than 10% of my health, even on the bosses, unless I'm being extremely careless. In fact, the larger team I'm on, the harder the missions get because of the way the number of mobs scales up. I pretty much only die when I'm on a team.
Hunting on the street, I usually look for groups of 3 or so orange to reds. I'm not good at the large hazard-zone style groups, so I usually stay in the normal city zones.
As for running away while Hover-attacking, it's very easy to do-- just switch to Fly. I wouldn't bother trying to use Hover much before you have Fly; it's too much of a pain.
My character feels pretty overpowered now. I actually wish I could tell the game to generate missions a level or two higher than my level so it would be a little more challenging.
The key factor that makes this character powerful is that I've slotted out all my attacks with damage enhancers. I played an Elec/Elec Blaster up to level 13 in the beta, without understanding the necessity of slotting multiple copies of the same enhancement, and the game was much more difficult. In fact, I don't think they've really balanced it properly for the case where you have 5+ SO damages in each attack.
I agree, though, that you don't want to play a Controller if you want to solo. I have one as an alt, and soloing is pretty painful. It is funny, though, to have a character that actually relies on the Brawl skill.
I'm only lvl 9. I can solo though. Best thing about this is you can sign on for 2 hours and accomplish a lot. This game makes EQ look pathetic. Cancelled my account right away, and haven't regretted it.
I would not want to solo any other class besides a scrapper. My dark/regen scrapper has 2 self heals fully slotted end recover and soon to get instant healing and stamina. He can wade in to 5-6 whites/yellow and within a short amount of time have them all killed, and move on to the next group with out stopping cause end recovers so fast. Also solos red/orange bosses no problem (well reds sometimes when he wiffs alot on reds), also he does very quick heavy damage. Can take a white con mob down in just two very fast hits. Yes i played a blaster they are glass jawed and i didnt like the idea of running to win a battle, great damage but pusses when it comes to taking any sort of hit, and they eat end like crazy. Played a tanker and felt like i was watching paint dry waiting for a white con mob to die, and they still eat end like crazy. Defender dont really solo much and neither do controllers but they have great group benefits. I love my scrapper in groups too he is self sufficent and when everyone else needs to rest for end he has a full bar and ready for round 2. I play alot in small groups with other scrappers/defenders/controllers, and in all honesty a tank or blaster just cause more downtime. Tanks takes all the agro and needs heals. Blaster gets agro and i have to run after mob as the blaster runs in terror. 3 scrappers and a healer = almost no downtime tanking orange and reds. any other combo has a bigger down time.