Comments on Blessing of Kings: Champions Online: Dislikes

The primary reason your character doesn't change w...

2009-09-28T13:14:49.291-07:00

The primary reason your character doesn't change with gear is because it's a Supers game.

While over history some Super Heroes have changed their appearance, their main theme look remained the same.

As genre, Supers get better with skill, training, radiation accidents, not so much with gear.

Having gear be the same level as the quests/mobs s...

2009-09-22T13:09:36.748-07:00

Having gear be the same level as the quests/mobs started to mean that I was replacing gear before I had even equipped it. When I started doing quests that were higher level than I was, I held on to the best pieces to equip them once I leveled up, but then I would find better pieces of that same level, and found myself wishing I could have a tooltip to compare items I wasn't actually equipping.

I thought the crafting problems were just because I picked the wrong one for my powerset. 95% of what I learned was either power replacements for powers I don't use (there was like... one for electricity, all the way down on the list), or various equipment with stats that were almost completely useless for me. The only item I actually used from my crafting was only because it was a secondary item that was apparently itemized as a primary item, and had WAY too many stats for its level.

But then, I didn't really see much of a point to getting better gear, since I was already plowing through 2-person quests two levels higher than I was.

I would have liked if there were more group instances at lower levels, too. I kept checking the second panel of the PvP queue (the one that said it was for instances) but there was never anything there. The one time I ever had to group with anyone, it wasn't so much a "group" as a "run around and shoot at anything that moves."

A few comments: 1) Gear - I actually like their s...

2009-09-22T11:25:37.273-07:00

A few comments:

1) Gear - I actually like their system. The two big reasons is I never have to look like a hobo, and I get enough gear replacements that I won't start to feel underpowered. (Ex: In WoW, I've had melee characters stuck with an old weapon that really kills their performance. Not fun.) What I do is just play until I head back to a store or my bags are full and deal with upgrades then. (I agonize over gear too much, so handling it all at once suits me better.)

2) Crafting - The good thing about crafting is it is easy to keep it up to your level and you can create stuff you can actually use. When you hit mid-level crafting (200+) you start learning how to make custom items with primary / secondary stats of your choosing, and potency depending on how many resources you put into them.

My biggest gripes about CO so far:

1) Melee is highly disadvantaged. Their abilities fail when the target moves (or is knocked) out of range and endurance is still consumed. (This is really dumb when using charged melee attacks.) Not only that, but melee characters are subject to mobs' high damage melee and PBAoE attacks while having the same defenses as a ranged character.

2) Groups don't 'gel.' Teaming with friends feels more like 5 people soloing together rather than 5 people working together to accomplish something. (Btw, my friends have a lot of knockback, and my best abilities are melee... Yeah.)

3) I know their group quest sharing is standard fare for MMOs, but it's really hard to just group with friends and accomplish something outside of a Lair. (I'm spoiled by CoH/V in this regard.)

I dislike this game because I feel there is no gro...

2009-09-22T07:40:50.853-07:00

I dislike this game because I feel there is no group dynamic and PVP is very unbalanced.

But some gear does effect the way your character l...

2009-09-22T07:29:16.177-07:00

But some gear does effect the way your character looks. I picked up an item that once equiped, I was able to head to the tailor and turn on twin blades that had a fire effect on them. You do have to turn the effect on by going to the tailor, but it does effect your character.

This is also true of items you craft that have a spell effect on say a bow or gun. Not very different from the way enchanting works in WoW, except you have to turn the effect on.