Your tip for the newbs!

Nelinaa · 08-30-2009, 07:50 PM

I was waiting for this thread to get started, but haven't seen one. If it's already been started, apologies, I'll take my trolling like a champion.

What was the the tip that you learned that made you go: "Dang, if only I had known that 10 levels ago!"

Here are a couple that weren't immediately obvious to me:

The vendors selling donations to charity are selling you stars that you lost from being defeated.
To change the color of your power(s), right click the power in your hotbar, click the power, and then click the little rounded box in the upper right corner.
You can invite and join teams in combat! No excuses for killstealing!

I know there are a bunch more out there. Let's hear them!

If you'd like to keep this thread from being buried, please PM a mod asking for a sticky!

bsmith239's Guide to those having trouble with their toons - linked by MrEkhof

Polarity's Beginners Guide to Champions Online - Super helpful guide to getting started in CO!

Ghost_Hound's Guide to Super Stats and You! - Valuable information on how stats affect gameplay.

The Best Defense is a Good Passive Defense - More knowledge from Ghost_Hound

Edvin76's Stat Guide for Newbies - Another great stat guide, resident in this here thread!

Welcome to Millenium City - now what? - a nice guide for when you first show up at MC by dtelad11

A nice collection of links to guides an other helpful infos - compiled by Edvin76

Completely awesome summary of build powers and their future benefits - MrEkhof

Compiling for readability/convenience. Apologies for misquoting/abbreviating/omitting. Some of the "common sense" and general strategy tips I've left off. Really looking for the quick, "holy crap I didn't know that" tips. Feel free to contact me if I've misrepresented your tip!

Crafting Info

The items to buy some crafting recipes (such as Slight Insights) are acquired by deconstructing equipment (maybe only 5 star items?) - Tagax
How do I deconstruct items? - Researching the items while at the crafting table. Click on the "research" tab and it will deconstruct the item. Can't do it to everything, but only things from your area. For example Science can only research science. - LotusOne
More crafting info (Link to Post) - noctis
Even more crafting info (Link to Post) - Barumpus
And more crafting info (Link to Post) - Pawn79
for researching it's sometimes good to look for rewards that, if you know you don't need any of them, are the same field your crafting, that way you can just break it down right away. - Rogman
Crafting Skill cap - once you reach cap at each 100 buy a lvl cap raise from the vendor - kllrjatt
Do the first crafting quest from any vendor, even if you don't plan to craft. You need the item to finish the first 'series'. While you are at it, make three extra small bags, you can hold 12 more items in your inventory for next to no cost. - Teksun

Questing/Exploring

When you´re out of quests or just want a tip where to go. Open your Journal (hotkey J) and press crime computer. It shows you available questgivers. - pye088j
Click the flashies! - Sarielle
The Police Station is north of City hall. - Aurgelmir
You can sell stuff to people that has a blue globe icon over their head, open the store and click the "Sell tab". Do not sell items that is in you crafting school, experiment on them! - Aurgelmir
Don't just tap your travel power. If you have time, charge it up. You then enter travel at full speed, instead of having to wait for the speed increases. (Only certain travel powers) - Jdoki
Save random citizens and they might offer you a timed mission. - Lushas
The bank and the market (auction house) are in the buildings around the Renaissance Center (on the west side). - noctis
You can transfer items to your alts by sending a mail to yourself, using a UNITY terminal. There's one at the dropship in the desert and Canada, and several at the Renessaince Center in Millennium City.
Remember to collect your reward after a public mission. Look for the 'public mission icon' in the actual world which you can click. - MrTomas
If you're flying slow, land and full charge your travel power to get to max speed quicker. - CtrlFrk
When Teleporting angle yourself slightly up so you can take in account of the slight drop you will take between TPs. - Harbringer
Pressing Space Bar and nothing else flies straight up. - Harbringer
Check your inventory frequently. You will sometimes get an item that opens a new quest or quest line. It's sad to see a quest available that you never saw and is now grey. - Teksun
Don't know if this was mentioned yet, but you can *really* use crafting to your advantage by simply picking up the various nodes around the world. Each one gives a specific buff. Science nodes give a heal over time, mystic nodes give energy over time, and arms nodes give a damage boost. - Terranum

Building a Champion (Character generation/design}

Pick a nice Block power. Look at all of them as many do different things(Such as adding energy, or giving a bonus to the next attack & returning damage to the mob) Don't forget you need to replace your old block as it doesn't always "auto place" it over your initial blocking power. - Rogman
Get a power that can help keep you alive, and get it early. (Full post) - Zeris00x
You can change the default look of the weapons you use (guns, swords, etc.) by going to a tailor (NPCs with the Mask icon over them). - Ghartan
if you're unsure what travel power to pick, go with flight. It's your safest bet. Try testing anything else in the powerhouse to see if it suits you. - Xiru
Pet Health - If only I knew how important presence was to my build 10 levels ago. - JohnnyV
Importance of Roles/Builds (Link to Post) - Issmir
When buying new powers etc in the Powerhouse, make sure you test them. That way if you don't like the new power you can Respec it for FREE and choose something else, as long as you don't leave the Powerhouse building. - Jdoki
Changing a power's emanation point - click on the Champions "C" on the mini-map, select Powers, and the powers that will allow you to change emanation points will have a drop-down menu to the right of the power's name, right under the color box. - Aidalyn
If a power seems useless on paper, try it out. They might have a surprising advantage like instant cast, no cooldown, or no energy cost. - MrTomas
Look at what upgrades travel powers can give you. IE Swinging has an upgrade called "Flippin'" That will increase your dodge if Swinging is enabled. Real good for those that also take Lightning Reflexes Passive. - AraneaeFatalis
Be aware of coupling the correct research (Mysticism, Arms, Science) for your specific powers. (specifically the stats the items increase) (Link to Post) - Harbringer
Be sure to save your costume when you are playing in the editor, as you might want to rebuild your powers, change names, etc and this saves you time on rebuilding. - DocSteel

Combat Tips

Even if you're in the middle of charging an attack, if you see your enemy's about to use a nuke or hold power, drop what you're doing and block. It can really mean the difference between life and death. - Xiru
Difficulty of mobs, from easy to hard: Henchman, Villain, Master Villain, Super Villain, Legendary, Cosmic - Neberu/Keevi
You can buy consumable heals next to the tailor in the desert. They cost just 9 resources each and go in stacks of 4. - MrTomas (Maybe taken out of game at launch? - Need confirmation)
Some items have an activated ability. The "Gunslinger's Legacy" reward you get from the cowboy ghost town is a 6-shooter that fires around 10 shots in a large AOE. - MrTomas
You can toggle your auto attack to always on by going to options>controls. I found it helpful for melee as when you are surrounded you don't have to worry about your auto attack stopping when you switch targets. - Pawn79
Melee auto-attacks come with a 'ranged aggro' I think its called "Marked" or "Marking". So basically you can target a mob from farther away and use your Melee Energy Builder to gain aggro from out of melee range. This was put in balance out the fact that ranged can start getting energy from, well.. Range.. - AraneaeFatalis
In PvP select a Teammate and press 'V'. Now you will shoot at his target and together you might kill someone. Also useful in hard fights. - Harbringer
Standard enemy Health Bars are segmented. Henchmen have 1 segment, Villains have 2 segments, etc. These segments are all the same. So if you do 20% of a Henchman's health in one attack, that same attack will do 20% of one of the Villain's segments, too. - Acrizer
Tips on Martial Arts Focus powers - linked by MrEkhof
Tips on Telekinesis Blade - linked by MrEkhof
Understanding Passive Defense - linked by MrEkhof
When you do purchase your Block power (as everyone suggests), do not assume that it replaces your current Block. You will have to move that power to your Shift key (or whatever you have to bound to). - Kulideous
Good tips on using Line of Sight and the terrain during combat are in this post. - Jure

General Tips & Outside the Game

You can email people in game from the CO website as long as you know their name! http://www.champions-online.com/mail - Nelinaa
Type /socialmedia in game at the console to access the ability to post in-game events to your Twitter and/or Facebook account. Beware of game spam and be mindful of your audience!
You can change your Forum avatar to be an actual shot of one of your in-game heroes. Change it here! - Nelinaa
I had a problem with the size of the words on my screen.....I found myself squinting to read the tiny letters. I found that u can click the UI size under Controls in options and enlarge the size of the UI items on the screen, including the tiny words. - garyst6
Tips on using the Auction House - MrTomas

Keep the tips coming!

Tagax · 08-30-2009, 08:08 PM

The items to buy some crafting recipes (such as Slight Insights) are acquired by deconstructing equipment (maybe only 5 star items?)

Sifar · 08-30-2009, 08:24 PM

BLOCK

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wait did i say BLOCK

Nelinaa · 08-30-2009, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tagax

The items to buy some crafting recipes (such as Slight Insights) are acquired by deconstructing equipment (maybe only 5 star items?)

Whoa! You can deconstruct items?!? How is that done?

LotusOne · 08-30-2009, 08:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nelinaa

Whoa! You can deconstruct items?!? How is that done?

Researching the items while at the crafting table. Click on the "research" tab and it will deconstruct the item. Can't do it to everything, but only things from your area. For example Science can only research science.

Good luck!

pye088j · 08-30-2009, 08:32 PM

When you´re out of quests or just want a tip where to go. Open your Journal (hotkey J) and press crime computer. It shows you avalible questgivers.

Sarielle · 08-30-2009, 08:33 PM

Look around. There are a ton of flashing items that start quests/give perks hidden in out of the way places on the maps.

Master-Void · 08-30-2009, 08:43 PM

Best tip i can give is just have fun , dont let bugs or glitches get to you . Have fun explore , and yes i know if not carefull exploring can lead to a swift demise.

Halogen · 08-31-2009, 12:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tagax

The items to buy some crafting recipes (such as Slight Insights) are acquired by deconstructing equipment (maybe only 5 star items?)

Explain this more please. Every time I go to the crafting trainer, pretty much everything is red-texted out and says it requires insight thingies. I have no clue what this is about, and your post is the first that hints at it.

Wildsbane · 08-31-2009, 12:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Halogen

Explain this more please. Every time I go to the crafting trainer, pretty much everything is red-texted out and says it requires insight thingies. I have no clue what this is about, and your post is the first that hints at it.

I think this means that you don't get Slight Insight from deconstructing normal loot you find. It's gotta be green or blue, a bit rarer than average item.

08-30-2009, 07:50 PM	#1
Nelinaa Hero Join Date: Apr 2009	Your tip for the newbs! I was waiting for this thread to get started, but haven't seen one. If it's already been started, apologies, I'll take my trolling like a champion. What was the the tip that you learned that made you go: "Dang, if only I had known that 10 levels ago!" Here are a couple that weren't immediately obvious to me: The vendors selling donations to charity are selling you stars that you lost from being defeated. To change the color of your power(s), right click the power in your hotbar, click the power, and then click the little rounded box in the upper right corner. You can invite and join teams in combat! No excuses for killstealing! I know there are a bunch more out there. Let's hear them! If you'd like to keep this thread from being buried, please PM a mod asking for a sticky! bsmith239's Guide to those having trouble with their toons - linked by MrEkhof Polarity's Beginners Guide to Champions Online - Super helpful guide to getting started in CO! Ghost_Hound's Guide to Super Stats and You! - Valuable information on how stats affect gameplay. The Best Defense is a Good Passive Defense - More knowledge from Ghost_Hound Edvin76's Stat Guide for Newbies - Another great stat guide, resident in this here thread! Welcome to Millenium City - now what? - a nice guide for when you first show up at MC by dtelad11 A nice collection of links to guides an other helpful infos - compiled by Edvin76 Completely awesome summary of build powers and their future benefits - MrEkhof Compiling for readability/convenience. Apologies for misquoting/abbreviating/omitting. Some of the "common sense" and general strategy tips I've left off. Really looking for the quick, "holy crap I didn't know that" tips. Feel free to contact me if I've misrepresented your tip! Crafting Info The items to buy some crafting recipes (such as Slight Insights) are acquired by deconstructing equipment (maybe only 5 star items?) - Tagax How do I deconstruct items? - Researching the items while at the crafting table. Click on the "research" tab and it will deconstruct the item. Can't do it to everything, but only things from your area. For example Science can only research science. - LotusOne More crafting info (Link to Post) - noctis Even more crafting info (Link to Post) - Barumpus And more crafting info (Link to Post) - Pawn79 for researching it's sometimes good to look for rewards that, if you know you don't need any of them, are the same field your crafting, that way you can just break it down right away. - Rogman Crafting Skill cap - once you reach cap at each 100 buy a lvl cap raise from the vendor - kllrjatt Do the first crafting quest from any vendor, even if you don't plan to craft. You need the item to finish the first 'series'. While you are at it, make three extra small bags, you can hold 12 more items in your inventory for next to no cost. - Teksun Questing/Exploring When you´re out of quests or just want a tip where to go. Open your Journal (hotkey J) and press crime computer. It shows you available questgivers. - pye088j Click the flashies! - Sarielle The Police Station is north of City hall. - Aurgelmir You can sell stuff to people that has a blue globe icon over their head, open the store and click the "Sell tab". Do not sell items that is in you crafting school, experiment on them! - Aurgelmir Don't just tap your travel power. If you have time, charge it up. You then enter travel at full speed, instead of having to wait for the speed increases. (Only certain travel powers) - Jdoki Save random citizens and they might offer you a timed mission. - Lushas The bank and the market (auction house) are in the buildings around the Renaissance Center (on the west side). - noctis You can transfer items to your alts by sending a mail to yourself, using a UNITY terminal. There's one at the dropship in the desert and Canada, and several at the Renessaince Center in Millennium City. Remember to collect your reward after a public mission. Look for the 'public mission icon' in the actual world which you can click. - MrTomas If you're flying slow, land and full charge your travel power to get to max speed quicker. - CtrlFrk When Teleporting angle yourself slightly up so you can take in account of the slight drop you will take between TPs. - Harbringer Pressing Space Bar and nothing else flies straight up. - Harbringer Check your inventory frequently. You will sometimes get an item that opens a new quest or quest line. It's sad to see a quest available that you never saw and is now grey. - Teksun Don't know if this was mentioned yet, but you can really use crafting to your advantage by simply picking up the various nodes around the world. Each one gives a specific buff. Science nodes give a heal over time, mystic nodes give energy over time, and arms nodes give a damage boost. - Terranum Building a Champion (Character generation/design} Pick a nice Block power. Look at all of them as many do different things(Such as adding energy, or giving a bonus to the next attack & returning damage to the mob) Don't forget you need to replace your old block as it doesn't always "auto place" it over your initial blocking power. - Rogman Get a power that can help keep you alive, and get it early. (Full post) - Zeris00x You can change the default look of the weapons you use (guns, swords, etc.) by going to a tailor (NPCs with the Mask icon over them). - Ghartan if you're unsure what travel power to pick, go with flight. It's your safest bet. Try testing anything else in the powerhouse to see if it suits you. - Xiru Pet Health - If only I knew how important presence was to my build 10 levels ago. - JohnnyV Importance of Roles/Builds (Link to Post) - Issmir When buying new powers etc in the Powerhouse, make sure you test them. That way if you don't like the new power you can Respec it for FREE and choose something else, as long as you don't leave the Powerhouse building. - Jdoki Changing a power's emanation point - click on the Champions "C" on the mini-map, select Powers, and the powers that will allow you to change emanation points will have a drop-down menu to the right of the power's name, right under the color box. - Aidalyn If a power seems useless on paper, try it out. They might have a surprising advantage like instant cast, no cooldown, or no energy cost. - MrTomas Look at what upgrades travel powers can give you. IE Swinging has an upgrade called "Flippin'" That will increase your dodge if Swinging is enabled. Real good for those that also take Lightning Reflexes Passive. - AraneaeFatalis Be aware of coupling the correct research (Mysticism, Arms, Science) for your specific powers. (specifically the stats the items increase) (Link to Post) - Harbringer Be sure to save your costume when you are playing in the editor, as you might want to rebuild your powers, change names, etc and this saves you time on rebuilding. - DocSteel Combat Tips Even if you're in the middle of charging an attack, if you see your enemy's about to use a nuke or hold power, drop what you're doing and block. It can really mean the difference between life and death. - Xiru Difficulty of mobs, from easy to hard: Henchman, Villain, Master Villain, Super Villain, Legendary, Cosmic - Neberu/Keevi You can buy consumable heals next to the tailor in the desert. They cost just 9 resources each and go in stacks of 4. - MrTomas (Maybe taken out of game at launch? - Need confirmation) Some items have an activated ability. The "Gunslinger's Legacy" reward you get from the cowboy ghost town is a 6-shooter that fires around 10 shots in a large AOE. - MrTomas You can toggle your auto attack to always on by going to options>controls. I found it helpful for melee as when you are surrounded you don't have to worry about your auto attack stopping when you switch targets. - Pawn79 Melee auto-attacks come with a 'ranged aggro' I think its called "Marked" or "Marking". So basically you can target a mob from farther away and use your Melee Energy Builder to gain aggro from out of melee range. This was put in balance out the fact that ranged can start getting energy from, well.. Range.. - AraneaeFatalis In PvP select a Teammate and press 'V'. Now you will shoot at his target and together you might kill someone. Also useful in hard fights. - Harbringer Standard enemy Health Bars are segmented. Henchmen have 1 segment, Villains have 2 segments, etc. These segments are all the same. So if you do 20% of a Henchman's health in one attack, that same attack will do 20% of one of the Villain's segments, too. - Acrizer Tips on Martial Arts Focus powers - linked by MrEkhof Tips on Telekinesis Blade - linked by MrEkhof Understanding Passive Defense - linked by MrEkhof When you do purchase your Block power (as everyone suggests), do not assume that it replaces your current Block. You will have to move that power to your Shift key (or whatever you have to bound to). - Kulideous Good tips on using Line of Sight and the terrain during combat are in this post. - Jure General Tips & Outside the Game You can email people in game from the CO website as long as you know their name! http://www.champions-online.com/mail - Nelinaa Type /socialmedia in game at the console to access the ability to post in-game events to your Twitter and/or Facebook account. Beware of game spam and be mindful of your audience! You can change your Forum avatar to be an actual shot of one of your in-game heroes. Change it here! - Nelinaa I had a problem with the size of the words on my screen.....I found myself squinting to read the tiny letters. I found that u can click the UI size under Controls in options and enlarge the size of the UI items on the screen, including the tiny words. - garyst6 Tips on using the Auction House - MrTomas Keep the tips coming! __________________ Pacific Blue@Nelinaa --Click this for tips for CO Newbies Last edited by Nelinaa : 09-14-2009 at 12:27 PM. Reason: ONOS! Char max hit!

08-30-2009, 08:24 PM	#3
Sifar Champion Join Date: Dec 2008	BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK wait did i say BLOCK __________________ "Sifar - Containing nothing, it encircles everything.Without a beginning, without an end, it stretches from emptiness to infinity and back again".

08-30-2009, 08:33 PM	#7
Sarielle Champion Join Date: Aug 2009	Look around. There are a ton of flashing items that start quests/give perks hidden in out of the way places on the maps. __________________ >>Full Mission List -- by location or level<< >>Comprehensive Perk Guide -- with coordinates<< \|\| Sarielle: Guardian Angel (rate) \|\| Coyote: Trickster/Native American gunslinger (rate) \|\|

08-30-2009, 08:08 PM	#2
Tagax Hero Join Date: May 2009	The items to buy some crafting recipes (such as Slight Insights) are acquired by deconstructing equipment (maybe only 5 star items?)

08-30-2009, 08:32 PM	#6
pye088j Champion Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sweden	When you´re out of quests or just want a tip where to go. Open your Journal (hotkey J) and press crime computer. It shows you avalible questgivers.

08-30-2009, 08:43 PM	#8
Master-Void Champion Join Date: Feb 2008	Best tip i can give is just have fun , dont let bugs or glitches get to you . Have fun explore , and yes i know if not carefull exploring can lead to a swift demise.