New to game (its still downloading)

For levels 5-15 you have Kings Row, 10-20 is Skyway City and Steel Canyon.

Can anyone point me towards a new player friendly blaster build that I can look at and get some good ideas. On a side note, talking about slotting has got me really confused...Im not sure how many to put where, and what to put in them. I'm kinda winging it right now, and having a blast (which is whats important) but I do want to look at a different build for something other than a scrapper.

If you like build tweaking (and are on a Windows machine), install Mids' Hero Designer:
http://www.cohplanner.com


!!!!!WARNING!!!!!

INSTALLING MIDS' MAY MAKE YOU SPEND ALL OF YOUR TIME PLAYING WITH POTENTIAL BUILDS INSTEAD OF PLAYING THE GAME!!!

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

You can read all the forums, right? Just not post in all of them?

Go to the forum index, look for Archetypes & Powers. It's just below Player Help, where this forum is located.

In Archetypes & Powers, there's a forum for each Archetype. Blasters are near the top. Each archetype forum has stickied near the top a post with many player guides. These are old, but are still relevent, espcially if you're F2P and playing without IOs.

Take a gander at those and let us know if you have any questions. Nrg/Nrg is a popular blaster choice, there's quite a bit to look at.

Here's a direct link for blasters.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=112229

General advice while leveling:

Three slots in each attack as soon as you can. Start with 2 Accuracy and 1 Damage.

In defensive powers, you want 1 Endredux for toggles, and 2 Defense Buff or 2 Resistance Buff. A defensive power that takes Health should be slotted with 1 heal to start, plus the above. Unless the defensive power doesn't take Def, Heal or Res, then don't slot it, just use the default one slot (typically Endredux).

Take 1 travel power, but don't slot it, or anything from the travel power pool. One slot (the default one) is enough.

If you're playing a tank, brute or scrapper, consider (strongly) taking Kick, Tough and Weave if Def based, all from the Fighting pool. Do not slot Kick at all, but slot Tough with 1 EndRedux and 2 Res quickly, and Weave with 1 end redux.

That'll get you up through level 20 - 30. After that you start getting more slots and can think about putting up to 6 slots in some powers. There are always exceptions: a high damage AoE will merit more damage slots, endredux and recharge when you can spare the slots. But before level 30 it's not a big deal, and the Accuracy is really important.

That's my 30 second guide to everything. Hope it helps.

Been doing some reading and I'm wondering KAT/Will or Kat/Regen?

Willpower takes less effort to use and has less alpha vulnerability than regen does, but is a bit more constrained tactically. Mainly its healing ability is heavily reduced while away from enemies, so temporarily breaking off a fight to heal up doesn't work so well.

Regen is a heavily click based defense set, so you have to pay attention to it, and is infamously vulnerable to alphas (the first strike of a mob). Moment of Glory helps with that later on, though. Regen tends to be either loved or hated.

And Dano - Arcanaville will always have good advice, in my experience.

Not saying you have to do what she says (but then, she rarely tells people they "HAVE" to do something), but she gives excellent advice.

I would go for a Super Strength/Willpower Tank/Brute honestly. If you want 'sneaky', then take the Stealth powers. Try something like this. Note: I'm giving this as a 'general' template using strictly the two primary powers plus the stealth and the final EPP. I intentionally left the slotting out because I'm sure someone has a more appropriate build. Additionally, I meant to put Invisibility where Stealth is listed, but looks like mids isn't up to date with being able to do that yet. Atleast I 'think' you can take Invisibility at that level...brain hurts right now so use your own judgement and the test server. :-p

Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.953
http://www.cohplanner.com/
Click this DataLink to open the build!
Super Stealth: Level 49 Natural Brute
Primary Power Set: Super Strength
Secondary Power Set: Willpower
Power Pool: Concealment
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Flight
Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery
Villain Profile:
Level 1: Jab -- Empty(A)
Level 1: High Pain Tolerance -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Punch -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Fast Healing -- Empty(A)
Level 6: Stealth -- Empty(A)
Level 8: Haymaker -- Empty(A)
Level 10: Hasten -- Empty(A)
Level 12: Mind Over Body -- Empty(A)
Level 14: Fly -- Empty(A)
Level 16: Taunt -- Empty(A)
Level 18: Indomitable Will -- Empty(A)
Level 20: Hand Clap -- Empty(A)
Level 22: Quick Recovery -- Empty(A)
Level 24: Knockout Blow -- Empty(A)
Level 26: Rise to the Challenge -- Empty(A)
Level 28: Rage -- Empty(A)
Level 30: Heightened Senses -- Empty(A)
Level 32: Hurl -- Empty(A)
Level 35: Resurgence -- Empty(A)
Level 38: Foot Stomp -- Empty(A)
Level 41: Strength of Will -- Empty(A)
Level 44: Superior Conditioning -- Empty(A)
Level 47: Focused Accuracy -- Empty(A)
Level 49: Physical Perfection -- Empty(A)
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Level 2: Swift -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Health -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Fury 
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run

No, Mids is right. The travel-related Power Pools were changed to let you take the third power at level 4 (so there's no need to wait until level 14 to take Fly), but you still have to get to level 14 and take one of the first two powers in the Concealment pool to get Invisibility.