

Primary powers are normally your main abilities that fit in with your archetype, while the secondary powers compliment them with additional skills and powers. Power sets for heroes are divided into two categories: primary and secondary. The real meat of this system comes in with your power sets. The brute itself falls into this category, combining the high melee damage of the scrapper along with the sustainability of a tanker. Some archetypes also blend together, creating a sort of ‘hybrid’ playstyle for players as well. Love pets and supporting them? The unique mastermind archetype is the way to go. Looking for long range damage? The blaster is your best bet. The addition of City of Villains and Going Rogue would see that total balloon up to fifteen different archetypes, all of which are unlockable now in the rogue servers.Įach archetype attempts to offer a specific playstyle. When originally launched, there were only five primary archetypes in City of Heroes, with two “prestige class” archetypes unlockable. The Brute archetype, originally a villain archetype, fits the choice best with the concept. For Tech Raptor, the idea was to make a hero who can be fast but powerful, dishing out damage while taking it in return. We get a ton of choices, from swift scrappers to stealthy stalkers, to even the hero/villain prestige archetypes.


The game was shut down in November of 2012. They could also use the Mission Architect to create and share adventures. Players could also ally themselves with other heroes and villains and build their own super Base of operations.

They could meet and fight alongside many signature heroes and villains, including Statesman, Lord Recluse, Sister Psyche, Scirocco, and others. Players could enter Paragon City or the Rogue Isles and create a hero or villain from 10 archetypes, add Powers from a list of over 40 primary and sub classes, then set about questing to rise to the top of the hero or villain hierarchy. City of Heroes was a premier free-to-play MMORPG from the vaulted game companies NCSoft, Paragon Studios, and Cryptic Studios, and holds the distinction of being the first super-hero MMORPG.
