Nivek55555

Hello I was thinking about trying a /Ninjitsu character and I think I remember hearing something awhile back that the Placate from the Smoke Flash power was bugged and not working right. Since that would be kind of the main unique reason to try the set over Super Reflexes, I just wanted to ask if anyone knew if it was working.

Thanks for your help on this and Merry Christmas to everyone.

Hello I am trying to create a Macro for Speed Boost, to target my friend that I duo with. I have never created a macro before in City of Heroes, so I am kind of new to this aspect.

What I would like for the macro to do is to target nearest Ally and then cast speed boost and then maybe go back to nearest enemy. Is there a command for someone you are grouping with and not just the generic friend?? He will have pets eventually and I would like for it to avoid them.

I tried messing with it in game and can kind of get part of it to work. So I currently have a Macro Power on the tray and if someone can tell me how to type it on that line when I go to edit that would be great.

Thanks for the help

Hello, I have been playing City of Heroes on and off since it first launched, and I have decided to finally give Stalkers a try. It has been about 2 years since I played last and when I came back I was messing around with my lvl 33 Crab Arachnos Soldier who now with dual build I was able to give mace a try. I enjoyed the whole stealth big hit aspect of it, but hated little to no defenses and no status protection. So with that in mind, I figured it is a good time to try out a Stalker. Also I will be mainly playing solo PvE.

So here is my problem... I just can not decided between MA or DM for my Primary and SR or Regen for my Secondary. Combining those I would most likely go with DM/SR for the -hit/def combo and MA/Regen but I'm not really too sure. At first I wanted to go MA and from what I heard and looking at the builder it seems they improved it. Then I was thinking you don't get much of a secondary benefit and have the most resisted damage type can suck.

As for the Secondary choices I have never really gone the DEF route. I have +resist and Regen/WP scrappers and brutes so I feel familiar with that play style, but I have no clue really how well +DEF works. As you are leveling and don't have everything maxed out, how much does it really feel like it helps? With not having a heal, do you have a lot of down time? Or by being a stalker and taking out the tough enemies from stealth, is it not really much of an issue?

The question that I am looking for help on is what powers can you skip entirely or at least put way off? It seems from quickly messing with the builder that what ever way I go seems extremely difficult to even fit a travel power in before 30. I do have Ninja Run so if I had to I could try to get by with that.

Well thanks for any help you can give on this. I am having a real rough time deciding, and I have feeling since I am not familiar with Stalkers that I am probably missing something.

It has been about 2 years that I've been gone. I think I12 recently came out around the time that I stopped.

Well it is nice to see that at least some other people are having some trouble in Pratoria. If I had known, I would have just made the character a hero or villain. Oh well, 8 levels to go then I can get out.

Hello I am coming back to City of Heroes after a couple years and I figured I would try out the expansion and some of the new sets. Also just so you know, I have probably around 20 characters that range all the way to max and are all kinds sets, so I am very familiar with the game.

The question that I have is if they have somehow or another ramped up the difficulty. I can never remember having so much trouble at the early levels as I have been now. I made a DP/Kin toon, who is lvl 12 now, and I have also grouped with a friend who is coming back to the game and we both agree it seems much rougher then we remember. I was running a solo mission just a bit ago, where I barely survived a single Lt. with draining him and heals. It seems they constantly land status effects on you and we are being 3 shotted.

I was wondering if it was maybe just the new starter area but then I tried a Freakshow mission with my High level Regen Scrapper and I died twice just because the boss kept killing me in 2 hits. I remember running missions all the time at +2 levels and not having any problems.

So I just wanted to see if over the last couple years there have been any changes in this regard. Thanks for your help and I apologize if it seems like I have been ranting, it has just been a little frustrating so far.

Hello I am returning to City of Heroes after a couple of years and figured I would give the Mission Architect a try. I am messing around with my first mission and I can not seem to get Allies to work right. I wanted to have 3 different Allies throughout the mission to help out and one issue comes up.

When I give them powers at least one of the three will just stand there and do nothing. I have tried moving the order that they appear in the editor and where they show up in the mission but it always seems to keep happening and it varies as to what character wont do anything. I have triple checked and all their settings are the same. The only difference is what powers they have.

Hello I am returning after a couple of years and was looking for some advice on what AT to pick for a new character concept. I wanted to try out Dual Pistols, and since I will be mainly soloing I was planning on going Corrupter. That way with the Secondary I will have more survivability then a Blaster and I was going to take Kinetics so eventually the damage will be on par once I get to Fulcrum Shift.

So as I was catching up on patch notes from the Updates I've missed, I noticed that they buffed the damage for solo Defenders. Now I just can't decide what the best route to go is. DP/Kin Corrupter or Kin/DP Defender. I figured since I have been gone awhile it would be nice to get some opinions on this.

Who do you think would be the higher damage dealer? It seems The Defender would be as long as he is soloing. Although that is not taking Scourge into consideration, which for me at least is always hard to figure how much overall dps that adds for you since it doesn't hit all the time and sometimes when it does you would have killed them anyways.

Also what would be better, getting to Fulcrum Shift at 32 or getting those last couple DP attacks at 28 and 32 instead of 35 and 38?


Thanks for any help you can give. I have been wracking my brain all night on this.