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Welcome

Welcome to the Unofficial Homecoming Wiki, a central repository of all things related to Homecoming: City of Heroes, a superhero-themed MMORPG.

City of Heroes is home to an entire multiverse of superpowered beings in a stunning, 3D graphical world. Players take on the roles of heroes, villains, vigilantes, and rogues, while both saving and destroying worlds. City of Heroes was known for its groundbreaking level of customization, its highly community-focused features, and its abundant developer-player interaction and feedback. Homecoming: City of Heroes has been in operation since April 2019 with a wide variety of quality-of-life features such as custom XP rates, alignment switching at will, all costume parts available on character creation, all vestiges of the Paragon Store removed, and a new player archetype, Sentinels. On January 2024, Homecoming was licensed as a private server for City of Heroes. Homecoming has five player shards, four testing shards, and the largest community of players today.

This wiki is a fork of the Paragon Wiki, a community effort created and maintained by more than two thousand volunteers since 2005.

Selected Information Portal

Articles About the Game

• The Players' Guide to the Cities
• The Guide to Guides
• Auction House
• Battle Terminal
• Combat
• Canon Timeline
• Contacts
• Enemies
• Giant Monsters
• Incarnate Trial
• Issues
• Lore
• Mayhem Mission
• Mission Architect
• Missions
• Paragon City
• Paragon Times
• Patch Notes
• Player vs Player
• Praetoria
• Rogue Isles
• Safeguard Mission
• Sidekick
• Signature Heroes
• Signature Villains
• Special Events
• Stores
• Story Arc
• Strike Force
• Task Force
• Trial
• Zone Overview

Articles About Your Character

• Alignment
• Animation Customization
• Archetypes
• Badges
• Common Invention Recipes
• Costumes
• Day Jobs
• Emotes
• Enhancements
• Enhancement Sets
• Experience
• Incarnate System
• Inf
• Inspirations
• Invention System
• Leveling Chart
• Notoriety
• Power Customization
• Power Icons Legend
• Power Respecification
• Powers
• Souvenirs
• Supergroup
• Titles
• Weapon Customization

Other Popular Articles

• Collectible Card Game
• Comic Books
• Contests
• Demo Editing
• Developer Diaries
• Disc Releases
• The Intrepid Informer
• Lore AMA
• Music
• News Archive
• Official Merchandise
• Paragon Studios
• Player Guides
• Servers
• Slash Commands
• State of the Game
• Story Bible
• Timeline
• VidiotMaps
• Wallpaper Images
• Weekly Strike Target

Donating

Launchers

• Homecoming Launcher (Win/Linux)
• LaunchCat for Mac

Forum-based support is available as well as a Discord Server. Everyone starts over at level 1.

More information about the Game Client is available here. You do not need any prior NCSoft installers, apps or game files to play.

Resources

Homecoming Team

• Game Account Center - Set login name & password for the client.*
• Beta Account Center - Instructions to access the beta manifest, and a tool to copy live toons to beta.*
• Support Center - Allows users to send support tickets.*
• Server Status - Shows user counts, server load, and RAM/GPU use.
• Weekly Strike Targets - Calendar of WST Task Forces.

Victory Team Owned

• FBSA Wiki - Character bios, stories and RP content.
• City Mod Installer - A web site to download and manage mods.
• Icon Catalogue - A web site to display and share costumes.
• Live Forum Archive - A snapshot of the former CoX boards.
• City Suggests - An alt toon randomizer. (From RubyRed)

Independent

• Mids Reborn - a new character creator tool forked from Mids Hero Builder.
• City of Data v2.0 - Power information database

Items with an asterisk (*) require a forum account to be logged in first.

Contributing to the Wiki

We welcome any content you're able to add, fill in, or revise, especially to reflect changes from the original game.

Getting familiar with the Article Guidelines and the Help pages prior to contributing makes a big difference in helping a new editor get settled. A lot of wiki syntax assistance can be found in the Help pages.

Don't know where to start? A good place to begin is by editing articles that are designated as stubs, incomplete, or works in progress. These articles need anything from minor tweaks to major overhauls, and anything you have to add would be appreciated! Once you're comfortable, you can take a look at the Wanted Pages, a list of linked-to articles that don't yet exist.