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Even if they did do that it would still require new FX's to be made, wehich would have still required art time that wasn't available.

Stalkers have always had Out of Hide crits.

When CoV launched Stalkers had 2 ways to get critical damage
the first using Hide/Placate, and the second was a 20%to crit on held/slept enemies.

So from creation Stalkers had a means to do Crit damage outside of Hidden.

Then everyone realized Stalkers were under performing in team content, and that the 20% crit was pointless in PvE and we got the Stalker buffs of Demoralize, innate 10% Crit and Scaling team Crit

Now we're getting Assassins focus.
Which isn't being borrowed from Scrapper Crits since those are just a flat %. Seeing how focus doesn't seem to have any kind of decay mentioned it's another way to control our crits, now granted it's a controlled AS crit which may not always be desired but it is a controlled crit.

We all nerd raged about it because it's denying us power options for no good reason as anyone can come up with a thematic reason for anything.

I don't see Assassin's Focus as breaking theme,here's why....
Back in D&D(2E,3E) the Assassin Class had a special ability called Death Attack. If the Assassin spent 3 rounds studying a target, they're next attack on it would deal Sneak Attack damage and could instantly kill the target. Now the studying had to be done out of combat, and while undetected by the target.

Because COX only has combat and doesn't really support out of combat activities Assassins Focus as proposed seems a natural way to integrate such a mechanic into the game.


Also Stalkers being a specialized fighter can quickly discern an enemies combat style, and set them up for an opening with 3 attacks on that enemy.

Focus is certainly thematic to Stalkers with these 2 views.I'm sure plenty of people can come up with other ways that Focus is thematic to Stalkers.

I also fail to see how Focus is being pasted from the other melee AT's.
Scrapper Crits are all about that lucky shot
Tanker Bruising/Gauntlet is nothing at all like Focus
The closest would be Brute Fury but I think Focus is different enough.
Yes they both boost damage, but the means and the control are entirely different

Stalker's might have a slightly better debuff modifier than Tankers. I'm not sure they do but it would make sense if Stalker had the highest debuff modifier amongst the Melee ATs

And here is the thing exactly.

I'm pretty sure Longbows presence in the Isles, actually grants a lot of leeway regarding Arachnos presence in Paragon.

IIRC Siren's Call is a similar situation to Nerva, where it's part of the place but not directly connected.

Faultline might be similar as well in that the area behind the Dam doesn't count.

Honestly though I don't think Recluse and Arachnos ever really got the chance to be involved in the Blueside storyline.

As for Galaxy City,I assume a state of emergency was declared there, UN had to call in some help to deal with the mess as Vanguard is stretched too thin dealing with the Rikti. So the Isles having some experience with Shivans answered the call. We now have a perfectly legit reason for Recluse to be there with Diplomatic protections applying.

As for Twinshot's Arc I've only run the first arc and from a story perspective Arachnos has no bearing on the plot.

So we have the STF, the Silos TF and Faultline as heroes dealing with an Arachnos threat from a story perspective(not counting paper missions).

Didn't realize Shatter Armor had -res on it. The reason i suggested Shatter Armor though is because that's a non momentum,non AoE attack. So swapping Shatter Armor for As would result in no loss of AoE.

If it's got -res though I'll have to think this over again.

I actually learned the correct pronunciation of azure from a video game.

I don't see why Shatter Armor couldn't become AS.

Didn't mean to start that argument up again sorry.


So yeah Titan Weapons Pack now available for 0 Paragon Points.

Whatever your opinion on the pack it's silly not to take advantage of this deal.(unless of course you have no plans to get TW ever)

Long standing Vendetta has nothing to do with it.

If you read the rest of my post you'd see that I support Hero Patron Pools that are different from the Villain ones.

I'm against Heros getting the Villain pools without putting in the effort. It took years to get Patron Pools to be balanced against the APPs, for Heroes to simply get them by doing a singular arc feels wrong to me.

Probably because I'm too vested in what it took to get the changes,
however I fail to see how having Hero Pools isn't a fair compromise.

Well look at it this way one AS dealt 9% of the AV's total health.
2 would be 18, 3 brings it up to 27 etc.

now lets look at 8

8 AS is 72% of the Av's health

not even a team focused on buffs/debuff's and getting the Av's res and regen to the debuff cap, while damage capping themselves could take AV's down that fast.

Out of curiosity how big is the -def debuff from weaken?

Because if it's close to the -def from 3 Katana/Broadsword attacks then that would be fairly balanced as the combos are considered the secondary effect of the set.

No problems then, don't care about the color but my forum title is way more important to me than it should be.

I fail to see how the Rikti content lasted forever. You have the pre i10 stuff, then you have Issue 10. At that point no new Rikti related content was added to the game but two Rikti related events stayed in the game(Mothership Raid and Zone invasions).

Compare to Praetoria we have the Portal Corp Arcs

then I18 and Going Rogue,
Then Issue 19 with Apex and Tin Mage,
then Issue 20 with BAF and Lambda,
then 20.5 with Keyes,and the Sutter TF
then 21 and Freedom with Underground,First Ward and an appearance in the Twinshot Arc


So how is it that the Rikti content lasted forever if it was contained to 1 update?