Arilou

One thing to keep in mind is that it can be useful to give your pets various procs. (Achilles Heel -res for mercs is a particularly "easy" choice)

Don't overdo it though: AH doesen't stack, but with just the three basic mercs keeping their shooting up they can keep a constant resistance debuff up relatively easily.

Other than that... I don't really know either. Honestly, I'm in the same bucket as you are with MM's. "What the hell should I build for?"

Beast Mastery. Duh.

"Granny, how many cousins you have!"

Okay, let me just say this: I love Arachnos.

First, they have a great look. From Wolf Spiders to crabs and banes, they just look cool. (especially the Huntsmen) and the Fortunatas have an interesting look too (although their helmets raise so many questions RE: logistics) sure, the Mu look kind of weird and not in a good way (I mean, floating straitjacket-people that shoot lightning? Not really "arcane might" to me) but otherwise they've all got a great look.

I love the patrons and their sidekicks. By and large these guys just have so much more personality than their heroside counterparts (and almost as much as the praetorians) they're just a great group of villains, and they all have their own little theme going, and they again, look great.

So yeah, props to Arachnos for being a really cool-looking bunch of guys.

I always envisioned Perez Park as the "first mystical zone", giving us our first real fight with the COT, and possibly Hellions. The arc could focus on the hellions being up to something and the COT being revealed as the masterminds behind it. We've had a lotof mystic stuff though, so might not fit.

I agree about Port Oakes and St. Martial, both of these needs revamps: Port Oakes mainly in content (the zone LOOKS fine) more mafia-style infighting, wedding-crashing, and well... that kind of stuff.

St. Martial needs to be prettied up. Move the docks away from the Arachnos Fort (and have ti be more away in the distance) and have you come up directly up main street with all the casions and glitter, with the Golden Giza dominating the frame, then have it move into the Carnival area on one side, and slowly into shanty town/swamp. Basically it needs to be a glitzy front with a seedy backside, and we need to see it that way.

What are your feelings about KM?

It feels a bit like EM or Elec, in that (especially if colored correctly) it can be interpreted as channeling energy, it also has a bunch of "melee ranged" attacks. (Burst, Focused Burst) seems like it would look pretty cool if you want a good to fight. It's also barehanded.

Time to say what we want for staffs:

-Spear (w/ tassel as a option, heck you could probably have an "option" with a bunch of variants like prongs, tassels, different spearheads, etc.)
-Halberd (although that could be used with the Titan's Weapon as well...)
-Glaive
(Okay, I'll stop there or it'll start sounding like 2nd. ed. D&D's weapons inventory)
-Runestaff (with glowing runes!)
-Ornate staff (gold, with gems and such)
-Both of the above should have the option of a knob in the end.
-Natural staff (rougher than the "polished wood" look we have)
-Energy Staff.
-Icicle (stalactite as alternate skin)

Ah, didn't know the second part. Useful.

Basically, I have concept for a kin melee. Scrapper or Stalker would work. I don't know what to pick.

Stalkers are nice now, and their losses seems to be Repulsing Torrent (KB cone? Eh... I can live without that) and Siphon Power, which I'm a bit more worried about.

So, how does a kin stalker look nowadays?

More weapons would be awesome.

I've been missing a cavalry sabre for a long time. (IE: Basket-hilted curved sword for BS/DB)

Also a slightly more realistic-looking two-hander for Titan Weapons, more polearms for Staff Fighting, etc.

It's really not the right shade of blue to be UN blue. (but then again, the contact in SC wears a red beret, so what the heck do I know?)

Hmmm, I'm pretty damn sure Marauder isn't resistant to Psi. (at least not if the orange numbers aren't lying, which is possible)