Comments on Blessing of Kings: Champions Online: Mechanics Overview

Good overview. It took me a while to wrap my mind ...

2009-09-14T13:36:42.941-07:00

Good overview. It took me a while to wrap my mind around the stats myself, like how Endurance AND Recovery increase the amount of energy you get from your main attack, but apart from that they also do slightly different things.

I can't agree more about getting a defensive passive + AoE early. I was dying all over the place around level 10 until I picked up an AoE, but even then I was still very weak against Super Villains until I picked up Regeneration later. Now I take them out without any problems.

I really wish the game explained Characteristic Focus better. If I hadn't been reading things about the game elsewhere, I would have thought it was just an extra stat boost, not picking the stat that would power all of my abilities. I would have been like "but which stat increases my DAMAGE?" and been horribly confused.

It's a big problem that this isn't explained well ...

2009-09-14T13:11:30.095-07:00

It's a big problem that this isn't explained well in the game. I spent a lot of time in the Champion's forums figuring this out, and I still didn't know that heals scaled with characteristic focii. If you don't do outside research, you'll have no clue what's going on in CO.

I cannot agree enough about taking a defensive passive at the end of the tutorial, and an aoe ability next. The difference is night and day.

Despite the lack of explanation, I kind of like the way characteristic focus works, and lets you customize a lot more than a traditional class system does.

This is good to know...I'm kind of a scrub when it...

2009-09-14T06:42:53.129-07:00

This is good to know...I'm kind of a scrub when it comes to figuring that stuff out for myself, at least, when I'm starting from scratch in a game.

Great article! I've been playing Champions for ov...

2009-09-13T18:09:20.720-07:00

Great article!

I've been playing Champions for over a week now and to be honest till I read your post I was still a little fuzz on a few things.

The game is very lacking in instructions. I bought my copy in the store and to be honest, it had very little to no information about the game other than how to install it.

I wish game companies would do a better job of explaining their MMO's rather than hoping the players, figure it out from past gaming experiences.

That said, thanks again for the post.