GavinRuneblade

A few options (not saying they're better, just brainstorming):

Change the toggles to auto powers. People already argue if they are good enough to be worth taking. Make 'em Auto powers, let it work in the forms. No suppression, no worries.

Another possibility: activation and recharge times on the toggles set to as close to instant as the game is capable of. Drastically reduce form shifting time. It's not as much of a problem if you can make a macro or just click-clikc-click all are back up in less than a second. The reason it is an issue is that it takes 4 to 45 seconds to retoggle depending on pool powers and lag. I know, I've been in the hospital in an iTrial toggling while watching the clock.

Your problem is like comparing /wp to /regen. /SR is a toggle and forget set. You just wade in and kill things. /Nin is like regen, player skill is vastly more important than the build. If you don't use your toys and if you don't use them intelligently, you will die. Horribly. Again and again and again. Even against wimpy enemies. It can be much more survivable than /sr but only if you put in the effort while you're playing it. By build alone it will always be vastly inferior.

This means, like /regen it is not the right choice for everyone.

/Nin does get some DDR, but not nearly as much as /SR. So it will always be more vulnerable to def debuffs than /sr.

That is why you have kujinretsu and caltrops and smoke grenade, etc. Used properly they give you the leeway to let your defense recover.

Drop caltrops and stand inside them. no one will melee you at all. They will run up, then run away with no attacks. Or drop them and run around a corner. Only a few enemies will come to you through them. Splits the spawn and lets you tear it up piecemeal.

Use smoke grenade and placate to keep part of a spawn from shooting you. Combined with caltrops this means you should be fighting only a few enemies at a time.

If you do get your defense crippled, pop your tier 9 and you have a huge buffer. People say don't slot it for defense becasue it takes you over the cap. You want to go over the cap because you have only limited debuff resistance and you need that extra. PPD have pushed me to -30 def. unslotted retsu would get me to 20, which is much better than -30 but not enough to survive the fight unless those debuffs stopped coming in. And Cims are much worse than PPD.

'Course Cims are helpless in the face of caltrops, muhahaha.

Use some powers proactively, some reactively, and know who to kill first. It is the most tactical set, which is what makes it such a great fit for stalkers.

Aaaaannd that's why I included the bit about arcana mentioning the devs are guilty of it too.

But the point remains that one way to get stalkers out of the current rut is to re-envision them. the game has changed, and there really isn't a place for what stalkers have been stuck as. Most attempts to fix them look at making them more of what they already are.

So why not look at doing what really needs to be done, and re-evaluate the AT?

Ok, so I am a bit confused on things as far as my account goes.

Created April 5, 2008 and never took a break.
For some reason the NCSoft Account Manager calls that 3 years 0 months. Customer service said this is correct for the account time but my veteran awards will show correctly. o.O

Aaaanyway... Tokens

2008 = 8m, 2009 = 12m, 2010 = 12m, 2011 = 10m (looks like 42months to me = 18 tokens)
Annuals = 3
+1 for one or more boxes
+1 for at least one purchase in the store
+8 for that purchase being the $100 batch

So I'm thinking I'm supposed to have 31 tokens total.

I have 27

Even if the years were off somehow and I only have 3 years 0 months, that would be 16 tokens from Vet awards and I should have 29 total right?

Am I off somewhere? Because customer service is telling me 27 is correct.

Elsewhere arcannaville made an interesting point: Stalkers are not supposed to be on the Tank-brute-scrapper scale at all, they are supposed to be melee blasters. So comparing stalkers to scrappers (and she mentions the devs being guilty of this as well) is not so helpful as far as getting the right sorts of changes.

So I was thinking... what about melee nukes, and reducing some survivability in secondaries in exchange for all of them working like elec/fire/shield to give damage boosts?

If we're supposed to be melee blasters, why not?

Man a legitimate generic question. I came here hoping to see some good violations. Screw getting generic'd for trademark violation, I'm talking the ones that get it for just plain bad taste. Ah well.

Best of luck with your character BC, I hope they say you can keep the name!






And I really wish I'd saved the comic with his other generic'd character. Even better.

Here is the fire dom that is the highest damage dealer I know of: