Ah, such great memories come flooding back on the worst day of the year, Shutdown Day Anniversary.
My main joy in the game came from running my Empathy/Psi Defenders, buffing my teammates who needed it (and as noted in earlier conversations, some didn't). And their Offender counterparts were fun as well, choosing 90% attack powers and self buffs to determine just what I could solo when there were no active teams running around on the lower population servers. My third build was to act as an Infiltrator for the team, zipping invisibly thru the mission's instanced levels, and then Teleporting the team to a safe location near the
Boss's Mob, and the rest was history shortly thereafter.
My personal Golden Age time period in the game was when running my original Sugoi Emp/Psi Defender with Von Scythe's team on Liberty server from Oct 2004 thru Jan 2005. We met during the original Halloween event, raising hell (and levels) while running amuck thru Founder's Falls and beyond. We quickly gathered a group of regulars who met each evening at the same time, and team spots filled as soon as everyone logged in. The group stayed together thru that Fall and early Winter, and we made sure that all the regular team members
all hit 50 within a week of each other. Unfortunately, Von got dragged off to WoW by his son shortly after trying out a Warshade during the first month they came out (and boy were PBs and WSs crippled that first month... -40% to base Defense my butt!)
My Silver Age of COH was during Apr - May 2008, when I was part of the friendliest Supergroup I ever experienced during the entire run of the game, The Legion of Cosmic Heroes. It was a Homage / Ripoff SG based on DC's Legion of Superheroes, and it was so popular during that month that it was normal for the SG's chat channel to be simultaneously co-ordinating 3 or more team runs. Many of the players involved created many great looking direct homage characters of their favorite Legionnaires, while I took a different approach, in creating my take on the classic SF series Lensman, building a descendent of the Unit, Krystal
Kinnison as an Illusion / Kinetics Controller and had a blast with her. Unfortunately, the group broke up between internal fracturing among the SG's leadership and the to be expected Genericized Heroes.
Anyone else have any favorite memories of the greatest MMORPG to ever exist?
Next Year in Paragon City!