Each character chooses a Primary and Secondary Powerset, and as they gain experience and level up, they choose new powers in each, or they could draw from Power Pools, smaller sets available to all Archetypes that were usually for utility or travel powers such as Leadership or Flight.

Depending on their Archetype, players had access to different Powersets for their character. Archetypes and PowersetsĬlasses in City Of Heroes are known as Archetypes, and fill the traditional roles seen in MMOs such as Tank, Healer, and DPS. Then go to work with hundreds of costume pieces to mix and match to make a character that was truly your own. For it's time, it was one of the deepest MMORPG character creators, you start out by choosing your character's Origin (Magic, Natural, Mutant, Technology, and Science), and pick from one of three body types, Male, Female, or Huge. Getting Started Character CreationĪrguably the best known feature of City of Heroes was it's character creator.

On November 30th 2012, the City of Heroes servers were shut off. On August 31st 2012, NCSoft announced the immediate closure of developer Paragon Studios, and began preparations to 'sunset' the game by not allowing any new accounts to be made, and discontinuing subscriptions and the Paragon Market in game shop. It also had 23 free content updates (aka 'Issues'), and eventually switched to the popular Free to Play model as City of Heroes: Freedom. Since it's release, it saw two boxed expansions, City of Villains on October 28th 2005, and City of Heroes: Going Rogue on August 10th 2010.

City of Heroes (often referred to as CoH or CoX) launched as a subscription based MMORPG on April 27th 2004.

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