Zanthar

With "Going Rogue" to come out at some time chances are you can take your stalker and side switch him blueside, so that part of it would still pan out further down the road.

Quite honestly it wasent my first thought and i just spaced it.

As for the goto command, with everyone gang banging at the door there was no empty space to click >_< also not /traps. After playing it a bit after this I noticed that I CAn walk through them but for some reason sometimes it does work and sometimes it dosent.

Im not sure if this has or hasent happened. I havent noticed myself critting more on AE teams anymore than I have playing solo, prehaps Im just missing it?

So educate me. You havent given one reason why anyone would want a stalker over any other class in the game. Please. Tell me. Im actually intrested to know what it is that they bring to the table. Again not hating on them as I love the class, I put 2 to 50 and i play them often but seeing as you so handily told me Im wrong prehaps you can tell me what it is they bring and what is it they will bring after GR comes live?

The reason stalkers are invited to AE is because they are a warm body and fill out spawns. Given half a chance if the population redside was as big as the hero side the stalker would be replaced with another class that dps's better and has more survivability. Unlike games like WoW stalkers really have no group role and preform like a weaker version of a scrapper. When the slider and GR come online I expect it will be 100x harder for a stalker to get a group.

Im not hating on the stalker (I have one and love it) Im just calling it as I see it. Whenever I see one in an AE group they are short lived on the team and are quickly replaced with something that survives better and contributes more to the group. With GR coming out I expect to be passed over for a scrapper, a class that deals both better damage and has better survivability.

Again, not hating on them just pointing out. What can a stalker bring to the group that any other class cannot? for that mater what can they bring that no other class can but better?

Stealth: well this is kinda useless in a group, even the ability to 'scout out' the area is useless because it dosent mater in this game. people are just gonna wade in and kill everything.

AS: Well thats good..once. Then you placate. Do it again. But how often do you actually DO that? Normally the mobs dead before you get the second one off or the groups already blown it out of the water before you can even get the first one off. Lets not forget the fear! oh wait, thats seemingly random and most of the time dosent trigger. Also lets not forget that if the mob DOES live you probably got the aggro.

Crits: Woot crits! well they ARE helpful but scrappers also have this. Given the amount of scrappers hero side, when GR comes out we should have quite the flood of them villain side. So villains will get to choose between one class with 10% crit chance or another class with 10% crit but better survivability.

Stalkers are good DPS!: True but many other classes get better DPS than stalkers do, and many of them do it from a distance and bring a secondairy that can actually HELP the group. Stalkers sink so much of their being into that AS that its not even funny.


All in all after the slider and GR the only place I expect to see a stalker is on a pvp field. Unless the developers give stalkers something eles that no one eles has or some sort of group utility I see alot of stalkers getting dusty while this game becomes "City of Soloer's"

you sure? because my robots blocked me into a small room today and i had to use the mission teleport just to get out.

This is the case of me watching too many cartoons where they had it on the back, I figured they might be carried on the hip but wasent sure.

Either way given the limitations of the character models, animations, ect....they have had years to figure something out. Im not saying its *THAT* simple but after 5 years you would have thought they would have made SOME headway on the problem if that were the case. I'm guessing its just on the very bottom of the 'todo' list. Probably just below the 'Bork PVP' and just above 'Fix Pvp'

EDIT: also i noticed that the 5 buck jet pack from the store works and looks just fine on my huge character....

Had to cap that because it was kinda ironic.

Anyway had to say that most if not all brute second set of skills seemed some what balanced to me though some are better than others. EA is my least favorite of the sets but thats personal prefrence more than anything eles. As odd as it may seem surviving 5 even conned minions seems more than doable in all sets, even freaks. Should be fairly easy to boost how good your effectivness is with IO's and set bonuses. Also taking Pools is a must for any build, i mean after all unless you spend your entire life in AE your going to want a travel power and the extra defence/resists that some of the pool powers give are just too good to pass up (save on /WP which really dosent need them)

I hate to say it but Pling a character dosent give you any idea on how a skill set works (or really any in depth way on how it works) some players can figure it out some cant. You miss that leaning curve at low levels which basicly teaches you about what the set can and cant do. Best advice is slot up any holes you see and patch em up with Power pool picks if you think its required.

I really hate you right now >_< but yeah. Those type of subs are a big gamble for both sides.

Other sayings:

"Nuke em till they glow!"
"Nuke em from space"
"Impossible? naw, just need more nukes"

Honestly though, a blaster team is about the best team out there, throw in a healer just in case and BOOM! Mission Complete!