{"id":1900,"date":"2011-06-21T13:09:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T20:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2011-06-21T13:09:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T20:09:28","slug":"coh-issue-21-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2011\/06\/coh-issue-21-preview.html","title":{"rendered":"CoH: Issue 21 preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1726\" title=\"City of Heroes\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/coh-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofheroes.com\/news\/game_updates\/issue_21\/issue_21_overview.html\">Overview for I21 &#8220;Convergence&#8221; is up<\/a>. Key take-aways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First Ward <\/strong>is a new zone, Praetorian (open to F2Pers to visit, but no missions), a city area that was supposedly abandoned to Devouring Earth, but now used by Emperor Cole for testing things that go boom. It&#8217;s also full of Hamidon magic and a new Giant Monster.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Incarnate Trial <\/strong>in Praetoria, fighting Devouring Earth under the city.\u00a0 (Does that mean we have some sort of content for Praetoria between 20 and 50? Is that what First Ward is for?)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time Manipulation <\/strong>is a new Defender Primary and Controller\/Corrupter\/Mastermind Secondary.\u00a0 No details. &#8220;Channel potent temporal energies to alter the very forces of time to help your allies or devastate your foes.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Some new <strong>Costume <\/strong>sets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, the biggest change, I suspect:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>New Starting Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Galaxy City is under attack, and you are thrown immediately into the  middle the fray! A new co-op tutorial orients you in the world of <em>City of Heroes,<\/em> testing you with the moral choices that will determine your future as a  Hero or a Villain. In this new starting experience, you can play using  any of the Archetypes from the start with no alignment restriction. You  will then take part in ongoing training missions in Atlas Park and Mercy  Island that will let you further your growth, learn more about the game  world and the game&#8217;s features, and test you to master your skills as a  Hero or Villain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it sounds like that replaces (?) Outbreak and Breakout (awwwww &#8230;) (optionally?) (If not, then how does that fit into the whole CoV Chosen One mythos?).<\/p>\n<p>Also interesting in that it gets rid of villain-only and hero-only archetypes, it seems. No need to start your heroic Mastermind in Praetoria any more.<\/p>\n<p>So, plenty of reason, it seems, to build some new alts once I21 hits &#8212; assuming you&#8217;re VIP and can have more than two slots &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview for I21 &#8220;Convergence&#8221; is up. Key take-aways: First Ward is a new zone, Praetorian (open to F2Pers to visit, but no missions), a city area that was supposedly abandoned to Devouring Earth, but now used by Emperor Cole for testing things that go boom. It&#8217;s also full of Hamidon magic and a new Giant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2011\/06\/coh-issue-21-preview.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CoH: Issue 21 preview&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-heroes","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}