GavinRuneblade

[QUOTE=AllYourBase;3908094]Ok. Stay and scrap. [quote]
Not quite. We're not exactly scrappers. Melee, but use your tricks. Scrapping it out is trading blows until one or the other dies. Stalking is cheating every chance you get.

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Will this work?

That confused me for a long time too. I wish I could say that I figured it out myself, but someone had to point it out to me too.

Good choices for your character. And welcome to stalking, I hope you stick around and enjoy the ride! A lot of people will recommend ninjitsu over SR for two reasons:

#1 it has toys and a self heal.
#2 only stalkers can play it so might as well give it a shot.

Electric melee is one of the best stalker sets so can't really improve on that choice. =)

My advice is don't worry about hide. Learn to use it, but don't depend on it. Don't run away to get it back, don't stand and wait for it to kick in. Stalkers have a lot of tools, hide is one and it is great, but it is not the be-all-end-all of stalking. Please, don't be a run and hide stalker.

when teamed, you do more crits if you are near your buddies. So keep 'em close. Your assassin strike is a key power. With build up you can 1-shot lieutenants, and matched with your other hard hitting powers you can drop bosses before buildup wears off or at least make them really hurt. Plus, it makes nearby enemies afraid for a decent chunk of time to protect you.

Learn to use placate. Don't often placate the person you're hitting. Placate somoene else. That person will stop attacking until you attack them. But you'll also go back into hide for an auto crit. Use that to help kill your real target faster while the one you placated is not hurting you at all.

When you hit high level, we get snipes in some of the patron sets. Please don't take them unless you are confident you understand how bad they suck as an attack and know what you are doing by taking it. There's almost always a better choice (and 9 times out of 10 that better choice is fireball anyway hehe).

I'm too braindead to think of anything better.

Fastest leveling I know of as stated is the farming. Specifically CEBR (Claws electric Brutes Rock), level 1 ambush map farming. Put spin on auto. Walk away. Come back 2 minutes later. click glowie to end mission. leave. repeat as needed. Mine is level locked so I can general low-level recipes in large quantities with little-to-no effort. But I've been told people are hitting level 50 in less than 15 hours just teaming up and sitting in the missions. And I know I did incarnate trials with people using beam and time the day after they came out.

If you actually want to play, then the fastest way I know of is to use the new sewer trial (death from below) until you hit level 15. Then do taskforces.

I got my Peacebringer to 45 this way in about 23 hours of actual played time. Plus he has a couple accolades and is working his way through 600+ merits that have already earned him over 600 million inf just converting to alignment merits, buying luck of the gambler, craft, sell for 150-190million, repeat every 2 days.

If you do the weekly strike force, you'll pull an average of 2 levels per run and double rewards. but only 1 run per week. So can't do 'em back to back, but they're awesome.

The things I mentioned here: Merits replaced random recipe rolls from completing taskforces. They give you far better rewards on average if you were casual, but far less if you were a speed runner before. Hero/villain/alingment merits are rewards you can get if you don't "switch sides" and become a viginante or rogue. They can be turned in for 5 times the reward of normal merits, or pick any recipe you want. Only three are worth selecting: Luck of hte gambler 7.5% recharge, Miracle + recovery, Numina Regen/recovery. Anything else you want, pick one of those three, craft it, sell it, then buy the one you wanted and keep the leftover money as profit.

The weekly strike force is a new thing where every tuesday the devs pick one taskforce and double the rewards. Exp kick at the end is well over half a level. I got 1.9million exp on a level 49 for completion, not countng what I got in the task force.

Best task force for experience is the newish ITF (Imperious Task Force). You have to do a short story arc that starts in the university to unlock access to the midnighter's guild and a time travel portal to ancient rome. The ITF itself is extremely fun and the devs did a great job with it. It is available coop so villains and heros can do it together and it is unbelievably popular on nearly all servers. only need to be level 35 to run it. Expect to gain 1 or 2 levels each time and it takes less than an hour. On the right team, and when it was the weakly strike force, I gained 5 levels in one run.

What is the range on the regen lichens for the LWW? I know we've had people trying to kill all of them, and others say when he's in the corner only the top two matter, and others who say it's line of sight. What is the reality?

Also, on the avatar's heal power, other than the yellow ring, is there any other sign? Because I've been on multiple teams and no one could figure out how he was healing. So some way to identify the person and tell them to get away would be a huge help.

Last, on the avatar's damage dealing and the spawns, several of my ranged characters flew over the battle and avoided a lot of the problems. He doesn't look up often and the DE and IDF have far more painful melee attacks than range. It's just rough if you're not getting the clarion love =)

Thanks for the feedback and tips. I know the big ones I have seen to higher ticks. Blizzard and rain of fire. But, like ice patch or caltrops SAY they have doubled the damage, but I still see the same ticks.

I'll have to experiment a bit.

@Zem, I also found slotting a bit of slow into caltrops is worth it. I have two slow/end/recharge, two damage procs, ragnarok, and posi damage/recharge on my stalker. The improved slow combined with knockdown is very effective.

On the other hand there is now a triple build that kicks in once you unlock your alpha slot as an incarnate.

I have always wondered if adding damage enhancements to caltrops and other rain powers actually does anything at all. I have gone up to 120%+ including Alpha musculature and it still ticks for 2 each time. And I don't see it last longer because of damage or tick faster.

Does damage do anything or is the only way to get more damage to put in a proc?

I have major problems with Dark Extraction, not just on trials. I think it fails for me at least half the time.

I was hoping the changes to a lot of powers recently that make effects like Stalker Despair and kinetics heals work even if the critter dies would have impacted dark extraction, but I guess death is too different from despawns and the code didn't have any impact.