Madmarcus

LOL! Good catch! I said what I meant in the first line but then I messed up the second one by saying stalker.

I agree that Brimstone fits perfectly but Ninjutsu will almost certainly be my pick with the weaponry ancillary pool to get a couple more thematic ranged attacks. I've been heavy on magic based alts with the sorcery pool so this might be a fairly decent change - KM/Nin/Wea. with stealth and flight powers. I wonder how goofy that will look?

As far as scrapper or stalker I'd say both just like I said in the first post. My thought is melee alt with a significant ranged ability. A quasi Sentinal if you will. I'm mostly interested in scrapper as I know that many of the stalker sets have lost a ranged attack for the assassin's strike but I wouldn't mind a stalker. The power pools are available to anyone so I was really looking for insight into specific primary power sets. HelenCarnate and Nemu gave exactly the types of answers I was looking for - claws and kinetic melee. Specifically HelenCarnate pointed out that Shockwave can act as a ranged attack. Normally I wouldn't figure a scrapper cone would act like a ranged attack since they tend to have 8-10ft ranges but Mids seems to agree the Shockwave is weird with a 30ft cone. I still don't like some of the claws animations but that does make for an interesting option. Nemu's suggestion of KM is also good. I'm not sold on it but having looked some more it seems solid. For that matter your suggestion of Arcane Bolt is good if it does have some sort of build up effect. However I can't see anything on the wiki or Mids that suggests if has that. It looks like it could be a good way to round out a ranged attack sequence

Sorry Nemu. I didn't actually skip your post or your link but I've been running a /SA tank and sort of dismissed your build due to not wanting to do stone again. Then I started looking into Spines which lead to Stalkers which ended up pushing your build even farther out of mind as Stalkers don't get two ranged attacks from KM. I'll noodle around with KM and a different secondary and so how it looks later today!

I've never liked the claws animations but I suppose that is the answer.

Actually I'm interested in scrappers, brutes, or stalkers but I figured scrapper was the most interesting to me as I've created more brute and stalker alts. Are there any useful non-PBAOE powers that stalkers can get? Something that is worth using to whittle down mobs when you have to run away (kiting or healing). A hold, sleep, or confuse with enough strength to actually work sometimes would be decent or simply enough damage to be worth spending one of your limited powers on.

I'm using (mostly) a Surface Pro 3 with Intel HD 4400 integrated graphics. I get the warning but it doesn't seem to matter. The game plays just fine although I haven't messed around with the graphics settings to see how far I can push it.

Interesting. I'm running on a Surface Pro 3 with integrated graphics and it runs just fine. I have most graphics settings on the low end and I'm using 1440x900 but the only issue I'm seeing is the aspect ratio ones between the Surface and my external monitor.

Thanks for reminding me that I should update this thread also not just the installation issues thread. After a reinstall it is working fine with one oddity. I now start from the CoH (similar to your start although I don't use a shortcut). After that I have to open the City of Heroes file / start the terminal app. If I don't start Terminal nothing happens. As soon as I start terminal it runs the game.

Since I still had the downloaded .zip file I reinstalled. Whether that changed anything is up in the air. However I have found that if I click on CoH it attempts to start but nothing happens even if left running for 10 minutes. However as soon as I open the City of Heroes file (and thus open Terminal) the game instantly starts and works fine.

@Silk Yes I installed xQuartz and rebooted. I loath Discord but I'll try it. Thanks anyway; I'm not normally a Mac user either (which might be part of the problem) but I have access to a Mac at some times when I will not have access to my main computer.

I'm still having problems. After downloading everything I went through the steps up to verifying the files and clicking to allow the app to run. However I stepped away from the computer after that and when I came back nothing was running. Further attempts to run CoH do nothing. The troubleshooting file reads... Last login: Thu May 16 07:26:05 on ttys000 BonarDavid:~ bonard$ /Applications/City\ of\ Heroes.app/Contents/MacOS/City\ of\ Heroes ; exit; dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/libwine.1.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/City of Heroes.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/wine-home/usr/bin/wine Reason: no suitable image found. Did find: /Applications/City of Heroes.app/Contents/Resources/wine-home/usr/bin/../lib/libwine.1.dylib: file too short /Applications/City of Heroes.app/Contents/Resources/wine-home/usr/bin/../lib/libwine.1.dylib: stat() failed with errno=1 dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/libwine.1.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/City of Heroes.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/wine-home/usr/bin/wine Reason: no suitable image found. Did find: /Applications/City of Heroes.app/Contents/Resources/wine-home/usr/bin/../lib/libwine.1.dylib: file too short /Applications/City of Heroes.app/Contents/Resources/wine-home/usr/bin/../lib/libwine.1.dylib: stat() failed with errno=1 /Applications/City of Heroes.app/Contents/MacOS/City of Heroes: line 33: 2146 Abort trap: 6 "$WINE" "$(basename "$APP")" logout Saving session... ...copying shared history... ...saving history...truncating history files... ...completed. MacOS 10.13.6

Thanks for giving the MacOS side some love.

Island Rum has run and downloaded everything. It re-scans on opening the program but doesn't find anything it wants to download. I have a blue "Play" arrow. Clicking the blue arrow gives me a green checkmark. After a minute the green checkmark goes away. Nothing else happens. Thoughts from other Mac users?

This might not be the perfect place for the question but I'm a stumped MacOS user. Island Rum seems to be pointed at the right path. It has downloaded everything and can re-scan without wanting to download anything else. I have the blue arrow to play but when I click the arrow I get a green check mark for a minute, no other signs of action, and then the check mark goes away and I'm back at the play arrow.