Hello I'm new!

I can't find it right now, but there is "Level by Level Guide to Understanding CoH" or something like that - which shows the general "landmarks" on your journey to 50 and through the CoH game.

Scrapper primaries:

Dual Blades: Uses the combo system, doesn't hit hard but hits fast, each successful hit does a minor debuff which increased your chance to hit your foe..

Katana: Hits harder and slower than dual blades but not as hard or as slow as the other sword based powerset, same secondary effect as Dual Blades.

Broadsword: Hits very slowly (powers take a while to recharge), is quite an endurance hog but hits VERY hard, has the same secondary effect as Dual Blades.

Dark Melee: The 'utility' primary, hits reasonable well but has powers like fear and a heal, secondary effect decreases the chance for enemies to hit you.

Spines: an Area of Effect/Ranged focused set, all but two of it's attacks effect more than one foe, endurance heavy and slow recharge but has a great deal of secondary effects.

Martial Arts: low on damage but quick on attacks and medium on endurance usage.

Fire melee: Pure damage focused, secondary effect is a chance for damage over time, good mix of single target and Area of effect powers.

Electric melee: Much like spines and Fire is highly Area of effect focused, secondary effect drains endurance from your enemies.

Claws: the lightest hitting set of all the scrapper choices however it is also lightning quick with attacks, same secondary effect as the sword based ones.

Hope this gives you some helpful pointers !

Thanks for all the replys!

So far i really do like my scrapper!

Now I would just really like to meet some friendly people to play with!

If you would like help in-game, or have any question then head over to The Mentor Project.

These fine folks can also be found by typing /join_chan "N P C" in-game to join the "New Player Council" global channel. (Note: Global channels are not available to temp accounts.)

Welcome to the game.

Welcome to the game and the forums, Derrick1390

I'm going to give two of my Basic Bits Of Advice For The New Kid.

#1: Endurance and Stamina. MOST characters want to get Stamina fairly soon. The most common advice is "Stamina by 20" (the earliest you can get it) but I usually aim for 20, 22, or 24. There are two prereq powers (Stamina is the last power in the Fitness pool) so that's a considerable investment in a hurry, getting Stamina.

If you are playing Regen, you do NOT need Stamina particularly soon, or at all. You have a power in Regeneration called Quick Recovery which does everything Stamina does, and more, with no prereqs and you can take it from level 4 on , or something like that.

... what doe Quick Recovery, or Stamina, do for you? It refills your Endurance bar a lot faster. One of the main advantages of Regen is that it doesn't take a lot of Endurance to use your secondary powers, and it gives you a huge amount of endurance back. People with a Regen for their first character, whenever they play anything else in the game, feel like "It's really hard on the Endurance bar" because they've never even had to pay attention to the endurance bar. It's an advantage of Regen, it's a legitimate benefit, but you should be aware that it's a benefit not all players share. If you have teammates, or alts, they may play slower as a result.

#2: Buffs, Debuffs and Force Multipliers. In most games you play tank/healer/everyone else, where the healer keeps the tank alive and the tank keeps the rest of the team alive. In most games you take on one or two enemies at a time, with your whole team. This is not most games. Buffs and debuffs that, in most games, would be "massively overpowered" are "kinda weak" in this game. One character ( a Force Field defender with Maneuvers) can make every character on the team up to ten times harder to hit. Ten times harder to hit means that they don't "need a tank", they don't need to worry about aggro control, they can steamroller almost everything they see. Ten times harder to hit means that the normal regen rate (one full bar about every 2.5 minutes) will pretty much keep up with incoming damage.

That's not the BEST support character to play, but it's a very dramatic example. A tank with NO buffs, in this game, can stand around under eight, ten, fifteen enemies and live for several minutes. Depending on the tank, depending on the enemies.

I had a Blaster who (at high level) dropped something like 22 enemies in under twelve seconds once.

I had a character who kicked up outgoing damage by an average of around 50%, while stopping around 80% of incoming damage.


The point here is superpowers. This is not a game for slow, timid, play. Once you hit about level 22, a team with two or three experienced players and almost ANY combination of characters should be able to hit most missions and only slow down for elevators.

Welcome to Paragon! Have fun!

A well known Scrapper others forgot to mention... Spines/Regen. Is a kinda Ranged/Mele type toon. It's very easy for New people.

Welcome to the Game! And what server did you pick?