ClawsandEffect

Hide is the only stealth power that stacks with other stealth powers. It will stack with any stealth power a stalker can acquire. That includes: Stealth, Invisibility, and any temp stealth that can be acquired. It also stacks with Stealth IOs.

Note, that does not mean a stalker can stack Stealth and a temp stealth. Only Hide and one other stealth can be used simultaneously.

The only way a dominatior is going to get their perception that high is with Tactics and possibly a +Perception IO.

How does it not make sense for a stalker to need a pool power and an IO to counteract the pool power and IO another character took in order to see them?

It's called balance, and it is one of the few things about PvP that actually IS balanced, and should therefore not be messed with.

On the contrary, it makes perfect sense. The only things that can see a stalker in PvE are the things that ignore stealth altogether anyway. You're saying that a stalker shouldn't have to take extra powers for PvP effectiveness when every other AT does? That isn't exactly fair.

As it is, when stalkers hit the stealth cap they can only be seen from 10 feet away by someone at the perception cap, which is impossible to reach without outside help or a lot of yellow inspirations. I mean, are you really going to pop a whole tray of yellows because you think there might be a stalker nearby?

Also, most stalkers that are serious about PvPing are going to take the concealment pool anyway to get access to Phase Shift, so it's not that big of a deal.

In short, it's to keep it fair. An undetectable stalker is slightly overpowered.

When CoV first came out and zone PvP was introduced, stalkers were invisible and they could one shot any character they could hit. A character that cannot be seen and can kill you in one hit is not even close to fair, so they killed that as soon as they could, implementing the anti one-shot code.

The only thing I can say about this is to PM Jay directly with it. He's the guy who makes the final decision on what is and isn't done with costumes.

Pretty much this.

If you killed everything in a mission except a single Comm Officer and his portal you would get unlimited spawns coming at you as long as you wanted to.

Same deal with the behemoth portals in high level CoT missions, they never stop spawning and they were pretty easy to kill, so people farmed them until the killed the xp from them too.

There are a few fully automatic pistols, but I can't recall any of their names offhand. I do know the full auto-pistol the Joker used in The Dark Knight is a real gun.

I don't think they come much bigger than a .380 though.

I have never seen a handgun with a hammer but no side that was not a revolver.
And, actually, you HAVE seen a bolt mechanism on a handgun. That is technically what the slide on a semi-auto is.

The slide is dual purpose. If you look at the way the magazine sits inside the grip you will notice that the shells are sitting on a slightly upward angle. As the slide goes back it ejects the spent casing and continues back to ready the next shell to be fired by basically scooping it out of the clip and pushing it forward on it's return trip to the ready position. Which is basically the same thing a bolt-action does, only automated.

Close enough. Though I will mention that the hammer is only used when you manually load a shell into the firing port. The hammer only readies the firing pin, it does nothing to feed a shell into the firing port.

Semi-autos end with the slide in the rear position so you can load a clip and release the slide to feed a shell into the firing port. As the slide moves forward it pushes a shell from the magazine forward into position to be fired. It's a convenience feature, on the second clip you just press a switch to release the slide and it ***** it without you having to manually pull the slide back again.

Note: I'm not especially experienced with firearms myself, I'm replying out of basic mechanical knowledge of how they work.


Edit: Muon actually explained it pretty good.

Mine is fine on the ITF, the only real problem he has is when those defense debuffs start piling up, and he can usually survive on his resistance and Dark Regen until they go away.

Shadow Shard is a cakewalk for me. I did laps around the Storm Palace for an hour one night and only came close to dying once (and one Dark Regen got me back to full)

About the only thing I'll agree with (in my experience with the set) is that CLoak of Fear needs a buff. Either increase the accuracy and leave the end cost the way it is, or leave the accuracy alone and reduce the end cost significantly. Doing both would be the ideal, but that's probably too much to ask.

You only need 2 IOs TOTAL to counteract the inherent weaknesses of the set. One KB protection and the Theft of Essence +End proc. If you put the KB protection IO in Combat Jumping you just filled both the KB and immobilize holes. You stand a decent chace of getting a KB protection IO between level 10 and level 30 just playing. If you don't, run a few AE missions for tickets and make a few bronze rolls until you get one.

The Theft of Essence proc might be harder to come by, but it shouldn't be too awfully expensive.

Also, what makes you think I had 400 million all at once? I built the character over a span of about 4 months, after he had been level 50 for over a year. I've never had more than 200 million at once on ANY character, and that was only because I got a couple lucky drops, which I sold.

My point was, Dark Armor is not nearly as gimped as you make it out to be. Even before I had ANY IOs on mine he was still a perfectly solid character. For me, IOs made an already good toon better.

What other set can CAP Psi resistance? A DA scrapper can with minimal IO slotting, and a tank can get damn close to the cap. You can go from .1 HP to full with ONE use of Dark Regen, that's why the end cost is so high, because no other heal in the game can even come CLOSE to doing that.

If they "fixed" all the things you claim is wrong with the set, to put it on par with Invuln or Willpower on SOs it would be overpowered with IOs. Maybe even brokenly so if built right.

The set is balanced around things it can do that no other set can:

A built in stealth power that does not suppress it's defense in combat. Only Energy Aura has anything similar.
The absolute best self heal in the game, no other heal can bring you back from the brink of death like Dark Regen.
Not one, but TWO control powers. Oppressive Gloom will completely incapacitate any minions in melee range with you, and it will stack with any stuns in your primary(secondary for tanks) to stun bosses. Also, if you run a PAIR of Dark Armors, bosses will be stunned just by enetering melee range of both of you.
One of the better damage auras, mostly because it is a not frequently resisted damage type.
It also has a self-rez that surpassses every other one but RotP. It has a MASSIVE stun effect that is auto-hit, just like Romulus's in the ITF.

Now with all that in the set, if they adjusted it he way people in this thread want to see it adjusted, it would be quite overpowered.

We were given IOs as a tool to make our characters better. Dark Armor is perfectly playable without them, but it becomes one of the better resistance sets with them.

Yer doin' it wrong. I have a BS/DA scrapper built for less than 400 million that is softcapped to all positions, and actually GAINS endurance half the time when I use Dark Regen. (Theft of Essence Chance for +End)

Also, DA has the cheapest end costs of any resist based set. Invuln, WP, Fire, and Electric all have .26/sec costs.

SR, Energy Aura, and Stone have .26/sec costs on their defense toggles as well (and EA has just as many as DA)

Only Shield is as inexpensive to run. Cloak of Fear, Oppressive Gloom, and even Cloak of Darkness are not strictly necessary to run to play the set. You can get Immobilize protection from Combat Jumping, which is MUCH cheaper than Cloak of Darkness. So the absolutely mandatory toggles are 3 at .21/sec each.

The only way you should have any problems with DA is if you flatly refuse to use ANY IOs at all. 2 IOs is all you really need to eliminate the 2 biggest complaints about the set, lack of KB protection and the massive endurance cost of Dark Regen. When properly outfitted with IOs Dark Armor is on par with (and occasionally surpasses) anything but Stone in Granite form. You don't even need to spend that much. Even before IOs my DA scrapper was solid, if not stellar.

You get Fear protection, and better Psi resistance than anything else in the game (yes, including Willpower). Oppressive Gloom has a very low end cost (less than Combat Jumping) and effectively removes minions from any fight you're in.

About the only thing I will agree with, without reservation, is that Cloak of Fear needs to be tweaked to even be worth taking.

Ummm. Wow.

Pair that with Rad Emission or Cold Domination on a defender/corruptor and you have a GM soloer out of the box. GM soloing requires overcoming the GM's regen, or nullifying it somehow. That set has -Regen in the 3 attacks that would be used the most. As well as -resist in several of them.

Paired with Cold it would be nasty in PvP as well, also if paired with Thermal on a corruptor.

It's an interesting set, which looks balanced if viewed in a vacuum, but in combination with a lot of Defender primaries/Corruptor secondaries it would get overpowered pretty quickly. Especially with Power Build Up available in a defender epic pool.

Paired with Energy on a blaster would get crazy too (Power Boost)

It looks absolutely AWESOME with claws out though. My main will be getting respecced again to drop Super Jump, because Ninja Run just looks THAT cool with his claws drawn.

"Closed" beta is kind of a misnomer. Anyone who's account was active between August 15th and November 15th of this year is elegible. And anyone with over 60 months worth of vet badges is elegible, whether their account was active during that time or not.

There will be 3 waves: Friends and family, 60+ month veterans, and accounts active during the aforementioned timespan. Then it will go into open beta.

Can't wait for the "OMG THE GAME IS DEAD!!!" threads to start up, posted by people who don't know how the beta works for Going Rogue and not realizing that everyone is on the test server.