Abyys

Yeah i like that, good choices.
One thing tho - id still definetly swap stealth and super jump around

Having got a stalker to 26 and done alot of PvP in booty bay i can assure you that getting seen is not a problem.
Getting away after an AS however IS.

This is in the new patch notes for today:
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* Police Bots and Arbiter Drones will no longer apply XP Debt if they defeat a player.

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Yeah! they do listen to us..........sometimes

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wanted SJ not SS simply for the PvP application

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That's funny i picked SS because i thought it was better for PVP .

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Get Placate at 12, it's one of the best powers!
You might need Focused Senses earlier.
I would put your level 5 slots in Bonesmasher. It will be your non-hidden bread and butter for a long time.
For few levels after AS put all slots into AS. You will want at least 5 slots in it, 2xACC and 3xDAM. The last slot could be used for recharge but probably isn't essential after Single Origin enhancements.
You haven't taken Build Up. It really helps for taking out Bosses, your primary role.


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I totally agree with all of that! Well said Unthing.

I think your 2 mistakes are taking barage and stealth. skip both of them til later and take build up and placate instead. Youve built a good Scrapper - not a stalker.
If your a stalker youre going to be running more and spending less time in combat so 3 attack powers arent needed.

Personally i wouldnt take SJ id take SS instead because of Hasten, but i can understand as a SR you might find CJ useful.

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I'm guessing 12 is Placate, 14 is SJ, 16 is Practised Brawler and then 18-22 the fitness pool.
Which doesn't leave much more space for secondaries.


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What youve written sounds pretty good to me. The only secondary you might want now is hasten but as youve gone for SJ i shouldnt worry about it til later. The only thing you could do is postpone Stamina til lvl 24 but youll probably want focus ASAP.

Personally i wouldnt have taken your earlier choices. Id have taken Swipe, strike and focus fighting and not the other attack or focused senses. But your choices are still good and your build strong.

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Is placate something I can leave til later?

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No i dont think so it really is a must. Ive slotted 3 recharge solos and run hasten as much as possible and it still doesnt recharge fast enough for my liking. Its tricky to use tho and takes a bit of practice. For instance you can AS a foe even if your not "hidden" as long as he cant see you and you dont get hit.

Heres my NB/NJ build so far if your interested:
0: Sting of the wasp , Hide
2: Gamblers cut ( unconventional i know but it suits the stalkers "1 on 1" feel and it has higher accuracy than the others. )
4: Danger sense ( I prefer ranged and AOE defence as this keeps my hide on and allows me to run away safely )
6: Assasin's blade
8: Build up ( this is awesome, its a must pick )
10: Hasten
12: Placate
14: Super speed
16: Kuji-in Rin (mez protection like PB)
18: Swift
20: Health
22: Stamina
24: Ninja Reflexes (better late than never - if i got attacked in combat i just ran anyway til now )
26: Soaring Dragonfly

Im very happy with my char at the moment, especially in PVP. My very high AOE defence means i can get close to blasters/controllers/defenders easily.
Then Build up + soaring dragonfly + placate (whilst there still in the air from the knockup!) + AS will kill any of them no problem. Then i use SS to get away fast!

Hope this helped

Thnx for your help, looking on the US forums they agree totally with what you said.
Looking back at my post it is a little severe , just tryin to make punchy reading.

Perhaps i can respec and become not too bad again, but itll never be the same.
It just seems to me like a very unnecessary change to the game. After all you can never change your core powersets once you have started in them.
I choose Fire/fire based upon the old system, now after getting to 50 they nerf my class.
It does seem a little unfair dont you think?

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I think 3 ACC SOs should make you capped up to +4s ( purples ). 2 ACCs will give you about a 90% chance of hitting +4s and cap on +3s.

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Yeah that sounds right, perhaps i was just on an unlucky streak?
I think ill do some testing and get back to you. I certainly dont seem to be getting those sorts of results in game; but the figures from US forums would agree with you.

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I fight with my lvl 16 dark/dark brute

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Thinking about it that says alot.
Am i right in guessing you dont have mez protection yet?

My stalker was much weaker before he got mez protection. try reaching lvl 22+ first, and then see what u think.

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I'd appreciate if you would desist from flaming me

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Sorry if you think im flaming you i dont mean any offence by it, im just trying to make my posts punchy amd interesting.

I cant see the logic behind this:
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Not everyone has the time or the inclination to spend lots of time playing. But everyone PAID for a base.

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Well surely everyone PAID for epic powersets, surely everyone PAID for Warshades and surely everyone PAID to fight hamidon.
Bottom line is casual gamers (as you call them) arent ever going to achieve these things.
However i dont think that means they get anything less out of the game than anyone else.

I really really like the way PvP is shaping up.

Its just like the comic books!
The heroes have much more specific roles and work very well together as a group of 5.
The villains play alot more like a rabble with everyone doing there own thing.

Heres some obvious examples:

Tanker: VERY good at staying alive and can be very annoying (taunt/Tp foe etc...), cant do enough dmg by itself tho, need to be paired with a dmg dealer.
Brute: Is tough but also can deal lots of damage, more balanced.

Contoller: Awesome at holds and debuffing, making the enemy useless - doesnt do much dmg tho.
Dominator: Good at holds, secondary power pool allows them to do major amounts of dmg also.

Blaster: Pure Damage nuff said.
Corruptor: Less damage and more buff/debuff.

I think there could be a problem tho. Namely 1 on 1 the villains seems to have an advatage because they can do everything.
Stalkers in particular are very good 1 on 1. Ive yet to find someone who can beat me 1 on 1 (although usually they dont stick around long enough to find out!)

Watcha think?

I have put messages in broadcast in low lvls areas to try to get low lvl members to join my SG, is there anything wrong with that?

Due to the way bases work its in your interest to invite as many people to your SG as possible.
I dont see that as a bad thing thb, at the end of the day if the low lvl player doesnt want to join the SG he doesnt have to.

How exactly can u farm a robbery mission? By not completing it and resseting? that surely cant be very efficient cos you wouldnt be getting the massive bonus you get for completing a mission.

However, if this guy is kicking lots of members of his SG for no reason that is going to annoy people pretty quick and hopefully he'll get what he deserves when everyone leaves.

Id say 3 DMG 3 ACC.
I personally think 1 ACC is far too low.
I discovered today that i miss an orange leut ( it was a dockworker of some kind ) about 25% of the time with 2 ACC solos in AS and im katana as well(supposed to be more accurate).
Thats simply not good enough when AS is your livelyhood. Im gonna slot 3 ACCs and 3 DMGs in it for sure and then use hasten to make it recharge faster but you know, each to there own

I used to love my blaster do much - it was awesome fun.
Id fly about with 6 slot hover unleashing devastating attacks such as fireball and blaze whilst moving.
Every now and again id zoom in low for an inferno and hit Aim + Build up and own everything around me.
However, i had some bad points: i was for example extremely weak as i ran NO defensive powers at all, except hover but i kicked [censored] and thats all that mattered.

Now those days are over and my blaster sucks compared to how he used to be.
6 slot hover is now WALKING pace for gods sake ( as opposed to as fast as 0 slot fly ) cos the last 3 solos do nothing.
Stamina barely has an affect anymore and whats the point in hasten if theres a 30 second gap before you can activate it again?
Now all my powes are nerfed too. I can no longer slot 5 DMG + 1 ACC and watch as the enemies are obliterated by my attacks.
I also find it amusing how the DEVs managed to disguise such a huge nerf under such a harmless title as enhancement diversification and not even elude slightly to the impact it was going to have to the game.

Everything i had come to love is over and it sucks, its a good job CoV came out cos otherwise this would be one subscription that wouldnt be paid anymore.

This must be your 4th or 5th post now shimmer and its getting very boring. The games only been out 2 weeks or so and youve already found lots of time away from your busy university life to post on the forums!
You say:
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I'm not asking to have ANY secure items, I'm not asking to have an item of power, I'm not asking for base raids - all I'm asking for is the smallest plot, with basic, functional (ie control/power/workbench) base which I paid for.

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My SG had these items after about 1 week and a half. Its grown in size but lets say the average over that first week was 20 members.
That means if your SG has only 5 members, itll only take you 6 weeks to get the base you want. Why dont you think of it as something to work towards?? After all once you get it im sure youll be very bored very fast of just a bunch of rooms that do nothing. ( all the workbench does is allow you to make items from salvage that cost even more prestige to place in the base ).

Dont tell me you paid 150 dollars just to make a base? You shouldve just bought the sims!
Bases are for hard-core gamers who want something to do once they reach max lvl, if they reduced the prices they would simply devalue all bases and reduce the longevity of CoV for all of us. I for one dont want that to happen.

So your a scrapper and your getting killed in 2 hits by a stalker??
That is just not true, unless you dont use or slot any of your defence powers!

I find scrapper v stalker to be a great (and fair) battle.
I hit them with an AS, they use their insta heal or a green and hit me back with one of their huge damage attacks.
I then placate and use the stealth to make my next hit a crit, they again hit me for alot of my health.

At this point im winning, but im in a bad state - ive used up my build-up for the initial AS and ive just used placate.

Its then a case of whether my low dmg attacks can finish him off before he gets into his stride. Or whether i can last long enough to get my placate back.

Plz dont complain about PvP after one fight!
If your getting picked on there is probably a reason.
I find it very hard to stop myself from killing someone over and over again when they just refuse to think about what they are doing and keep giving me the perfect oppurtunity.
However, after killing someone a few times you no longer gain reputation by killing them(a brilliant idea tbh), so the stalker will most likely give up you after a while.

Heres a few tips to staying alive in bloody bay.
1. If you can fly stay in the air 24/7, stalkers have great problems picking all there powers at low lvl and are very unlikely to have fly or hover - meaning they cant AS you.
2. If your on the floor keep moving at all times!
3. Stay in a team as much as possible.
4. Even better stay close to someone with perception.
5. Use AOE to knock the stealth off the stalker - A stalker without stealth doesnt last very long!

Hope this helps

Name: Knights of the Apocalypse
"Wars come and go but my soldier stays eternal" - Tupac

KofA has over 55 members ranging from lvl 6 to lvl 33.
KofA is currently recruiting all Archetypes so if you want to join an SG and your a fun loving/easy going player then plz contact me(Katy Krystal) or one of the other leaders ASAP.

Thnx

Lol when i posted that i hadnt played on my blaster since ED and you are right it is MUCH slower than it used to be.
I have 5 solos in it and that used to make me as fast as no-slot fly; now its not very fast at all.
Its about walking pace, which makes it much less useful; plz ignore what i said above :S

Is it just me or does it take forever to load into a base? And then when you leave the base again its at the load screen for ages and the game is really laggy when you get back into it?

Also the game crashed 3 times today whilst i was in the base, moving things around or changing the colour. Its not like my PC crashes often either, in fact the only crashes ive had have been whilst inside my Base.

I was just wondering:
Is anyone else finding this?
Did it only happen recently after the new patch?

Do you guys actually use TS for missions and stuff?
Ive got TS because of WoW and it was only ever really used for molten core (the big bad end game thing for those at max lvl).
I myself think its awesome and would love to use it more.

Im co-leader of an SG called Knights of the Apocolypse btw (roughly 55 members). When you say anyone can use that server, does that mean you dont mind other SGs?

The prices are rather expensive arent they. I co-lead a 55 strong SG and we have only recently got a working workbench!

However, having said that bases are only a small part of the game and if you got everything now thered be nothing to work for later. People were saying not long ago how no-one would ever get a workbench and a week later most SGs do.
I think maybe Nsoft but too much emphasis on CoV being about bases. I now just see it as a nice extra that adds to an already good game - and might become important in a couple of months time, when hopefully my stalker has reached 50

yeah thats effective, but at high lvls when youve got slots to spare its even more effective to slot hover with 4-6 flight speed solos.
It becomes very fast, costs very little endurance, gives a defence buff and better still allows you to fire and move at the same time.
It really is awesome and id suggest it to anyone :P

Yeah i totally agree it must be a text error.

I think what it should say is that the power itself is more accurate; incidently its exactly the same with ninja blade. Slash (or the equivalent in the other stalker power pools) definetly seems to hit more than the other 2 dmg powers you get at low lvl.

BANG!

ill miss you cup of squirrles *sob

If you can move and use it, maybe its the same as all other powers like that - it activates when u first click it.

Its like when you do the scrapper spin around attack whilst jumping, if you click it whilst jumping into a group of mobs and the animation ends as you land in the middle of them, itll still hit the mobs around you when you first pressed it.

Are you activating the smoke flash - then running into a group of mobs?

I hope this power doesnt suck cos i picked ninjitsu almost purely on the back of it being good :S
I had visions of running into a group of heroes, standing behind someone and going
AS + placate + soaring dragonfly(crit) + Smoke flash then running away grinning

I like the idea of expensive SG bases, my SG was created on the second day of pre release and its got quite a bit of prestige, we can afford 3-4 rooms with stuff in, sure we cant get anything like controll and power running yet, but the games only been out for like a week maybe two, plus this ncourages bigger sg which in my opinion is better, it means more actve members, bigger raids, bigger battles. And at the end of the day you need a big sg if ur gonna raid hammi.