JD_Gumby

Powers -> Combat Attributes -> Defense

Then just go attack something and note the reduction as Hide supresses.

Or right-click on Hide and look at the numbers - you'll see that each defense type has two entries. The first entry of each type is how much you keep (dunno if it's the same across the board, but Ninjitsu only gives 1.88% supressed, losing 3.75%)

I was that level 14. Did not feel like I was contributing at all for the hour or so I was able to be there (annoying that player-run events always seem to start at 10pm my time :/).

Was fun while it lasted, though.

Well, so far I've found that a traditional Martial Arts/Ninjitsu has gotten me a Stalker that's gone up in level faster and easier than any other combo I tried. I'm only at L24 with him and in Sharkhead Isle, though, so the recommendation should be taken with a grain of salt.

For Corruptors, it's only -10% to the damage the target will do for 8s. (no idea what it is for Defs & Blasters since I'm too lazy to change away from my DP/Rad Corr

That's why you don't just sit back after you put on the Radiation Infection - you, or at least your aggro-drawing melee buddies, should head right into the anchor's radius (assuming you're not grouping with idiots, of course, who see the extra glow on the anchor as a big, neon, KILL ME sign even though there's tons of other stuff inside the radius to kill) so that everything tries to crowd around and you get as many Infected as possible.

If you're planning to just support, then you are doing it wrong and will just give Defenders a bad name by reinforcing the beliefs of many Controller fans that we don't contribute.

If you insist on going this route, then Dark Blast is probably best, given that it has an immobilize, has a self-heal. and all but its targeted AoE (which just disorients) stacks on some -hit on the targets.

Nah. As long as you avoid stuff that heavily resists Psi, you should be okay - and when you can't, make sure you have Telekinetic Blast for its Smashing component (and perhaps Telekinetic Thrust for the same reason, though its damage is very low).

Avoiding later (L20+, I guess) Council/5th Column, Arachnos and Sky Raider missions is a good idea, as is avoiding the Carnies (or so I hear - no machines, but heavy psi use and therefore probably good resistance) and Malta later on. Not sure how the Freakshow stand on their psy resistance, so might want to carefully test against them.

Dual Pistols might be, overall, bottom tier as far as pure numbers go. But it's fun, it looks good, and still is more than effective enough that you will be pulling your weight on any team you're on (except those very few composed of opinionated min/maxers who only want what they see as the absolute best) or be faceplanting more than you will with any other set.

EDIT: Had a stray "won't" instead of "will" due to rewriting the post 4 or 5 times. :P

Well, Repulsion Field and Personal Force Field have completely different uses and effects. PFF is there mostly so that you can have a chance to recover safely in the middle of a fight, especially if you're solo. Repulsion Field is there to actively affect the enemies to make them easier to attack.

Triage Beacon is best used solo to recover between fights.

On teams, forget about it unless you really need it because no one bothered to bring an AoE heal and use it around your pets (they want to run off to the next spawn while your pets are half dead? Screw 'em!). I hear it's also good on teams where there isn't really much movement, such as AV fights. But you probably need to invest a couple of slots to boost the heal (via a healing set that gives defense, I'd assume).

Not much to say on how to play. Solo it's mostly Hide -> Assassin's Strike -> scrap 'til they're all dead.

On teams it's pretty much the same, 'cept you re-hide between spawns and position yourself as close to as many of your teammates as possible when scrapping to get as much of a crit bonus (10% + 3% per teammate within 30ft) as you can, with the occasional Placate if you happen to draw more aggro from your teammates than you can handle (though they will probably get pissed if whatever you Placated heads right for one of the squishies). Do NOT under any circumstances Hide -> AS -> run and Hide -> AS -> repeat or "scout ahead" without explicitly being told to by the team leader. That just gives the rest of us Stalkers a bad name and is one of the main reasons you see so many complaint threads about us.

Might be a few other tactics, both solo and team, depending on your sets, but those tend to just be for variety. Stalkers are, really, quite simple to play.

Unfortunately, I (Corporal Canuck) was on one of the mission teams (which had lost a member before we even started, so were down to 4 players) and ended up having to leave after only 3 missions. . Did the first 3 portions of the Midnighter's arc and it was quite fun while it lasted... Hopefully, next time I participate on one of these sorts of things (betting the Fire/Rads on Monday), I'll be able to keep Real Life away long enough.

They should make them actual information terminals - news, announcements, patch notes the instant the system comes up (instead of forum posts maybe days later on the forum or the page at cityofheroes.com .

Copying the CoH install to where I want it, then copying cohupdater.exe to the desktop (not a shortcut!) and running that copy and specifying, when it asks, the directory the files are in has worked for me several times (including a few weeks back when I did a clean install of WinXP). Not that knowing this is helpful in any way, of course. :P

As I was told back when I started, City of Heroes is about the journey, not the destination. A good thing to keep in mind, especially now that you don't need to reach 50 to unlock the Kheldian and Arachnos Soldier "epic" archetypes.