BrokenPrey

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

*Make Assassin's Strike uninterruptible when not Hidden, or possibly uninterruptible period (in PvE only): Right now, Assassin's Strikes have a base damage of scale 2.5. This is just tangentially less than the 2.62 or Head Splitter. What this means is they're solid attacks which could help Stalkers out in a scrap, but they are useless in a scrap because they're so easy to interrupt. Make them uninterruptible and you give Stalkers an extra tool to make up for taking a power out of his Scrapper-ported attack set.

*Make Assassin's Strike animate faster: Let's face it - Snipes and Assassin's Strikes have never been good DPA because they animate so slow and even worse DPS since you can use them so very rarely. Assassin's Strike would not be a very good attack out of hide even if it didn't suppress, and it's only marginally worth the time and risk invested in using it from Hide because of its high damage. Making the power faster (not necessarily TOO much so) would help with that. I'm thinking somewhere between Head Splitter and Total Focus speed.

*Alternately, make Assassin's Strike hit harder: Right now Total Focus hits for a scale damage of 3.67, for a critical of around 7.32 scale damage, or actually higher than Assassin's Strike itself. Now, probably for this reason, Total Focus doesn't score a full Critical and Energy Transfer (base 4.5 scale damage) doesn't have critical hits at all, but instead just removes the self-damage on a successful critical. Now I hear that a Street Justice power has the potential to out-damage an Assassin's Strike on a critical hit. If we're this careful of having Assassin's Strike outshined, perhaps it's time to up its damage, and somewhat significantly. Not enough to one-shot AVs, obviously, but enough to do serious harm to an even level boss, and close to one-shot the thing if used with (a possibly stronger) Build Up.

*Make Assassin's Strike AoE when out of Hide, or possibly AoE with a critical hit occurring on just the selected target: One big complaint Stalker players always have is that they lack AoE of any kind, having given up an AoE from their ported set to accommodate Assassin's Strike. So make the thing uninterruptible and give it a lower-strength AoE component when used out of hide. Assassin's Blade/Sword/Blades/Claw could cause a Head-Splitter-like narrow cone where you shishkebap multiple foes with a single stab while Assassin's Shock/Blow/Squat/Whatever do an AoE around the target. This doesn't have to deliver full damage, but having SOME AoE to it would be nice, and would give Stalkers back some much-needed AoE, especially on sets like Martial Arts.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

*Make Stalker Hide an Inherent power like Dominator Domination and instead either give them back what their defence sets lack, or alternately give them a "Disappear" power which recovers Hidden status without placating anything and is on a fairly short recharge (30-60 seconds). Alternately, call that power "Escape" and turn it into a cheaper, faster version of Smoke Flash to be used for escaping from a confrontation gone wrong.

Originally Posted by Henri

This is really cool!