GavinRuneblade

/em happydance

/em givecookiestoeveryone(andtwotoUlli)

Sister Airlia bought one from Arachnos and had Daedalus create a generator for it powered by slaves with rowing machines as part of a plot to gain political influence.

She gave one to Marcus Valerius too.

The solution is obvious, since hibernate is already in the patron pools for scrappers, put superior conditioning into the Ice set in its place.

=)

Nothing interrupts placate, it is not an interruptable power. On the other hand any source of damage breaks the pseudo-hidden state placate grants.

You still want reactive. Just attack fast.

I'll argue the "great for aoe". Yes it has several. But they all unequivocally suck balls except for throw spines which is mediocre. Even on a crit with 99% enhanced damage it won't kill even con minions in my experience.

Fire sword circle will without a crit (either from brute or scrapper). Lightning Rod will. Thunderstrike can with a crit or buildup. Hell, even shadow maul has done it from time to time. I've hit buildup, throw spines and the burst power and still had 3/4 of a spawn alive and above 50% HP. Eviscerate is at best going to drop 2 of them at that point, but probably not.

And that burst power whose name I always forget is really terrible solo. the root plus slow activation have gotten me killed so often I have shelved the character. Enemies aggro at teh beginning of the power even if you're hidden, and don't take damage until, what 1.7 seconds or is it over 2? I know on a tip mission I've had mangle hit me twice and be part-way through a third attack before the damage from my power hit him, and I was hidden when I triggered it.

"great for aoe" is more along the lines of buildup-aoe-aoe and only looking at bosses and on or two lucky guys. No build I have ever seen is capable of making the stalker version of spines into that. But if anyone has one, please share.

Quantity does not substitute for quality.

The trick is to use terrain. Put the burn patch near but not in a corner, keep the enemy closer to the corner than the center of the patch. They're go flying to the wall, not out of hte fire.

The extra salvage and recipe slots are very handy. I have a level-locked 15 scrapper for AE farming that has all the recipe slots unlocked for faster ticket rolling. Keep meaning to level her to 20 but never getting around to it. heh.

the salvage slots are nice as well.

I've never been impressed with the damage of any spines stalker. Mine is completely pathetic, and the others I've seen are not gimpy, but solidly "meh".

I've found that my DP/Traps corr really doesn't like being more than +1. The damage is so crappy even with debuffs that I get frustrated. I swear, sometimes it feels like bosses and lieuts regen faster than Dual Pistols causes damage. I know it's not, but sometimes it feels that way.

Hmm, my plant storm runs all three leadership toggles without too much difficulty. But then I am very sparing on hurricane and tornado, using them not even every mission. And I only recently picked up a cardiac slot for this character.

Maneuvers has 5xSerendipity (mostly under level 30 as holdovers from levelling), tactics has 6xGaussians, assault has 1x end reduction. And I put a lot of end reduction into my main powers. Don't have inherent fitness, I chose fitness and never respecced, 2 slots in stamina perf shifter proc and end mod, and two in health numina's unique and health (thank you Alignment merits hehe). That's all I've needed. I don't have unlimited endurance, but I get done everything I want to get done while playing.

It's amazing how endurance efficient flytrap + confuse + creepers + thunderstorm are. Just recast now and again and otherwise stand there watching the bad guys die while doing rude emotes at them.

=)

This mirrors my own experience as well.

and I want to see how much experience Doc Q gives. =)

This is a known issue, and there are at least two threads about it in the tech support section. In my case the work around was sending to "@gavin runeblade" which is absolutely NOT my actual name. All other people have to send to @gavinruneblade, but to send email to myself I have to use @gavin runeblade. It's annoying and I suspect going to lead to a real mess if anyone makes "Gavin Runeblade" as an account.

But good luck getting a response from tech support, I was never able to.

/nitpick, I never said it was the only way, just the short version. =)

They are also immune to immobilize.

CoT spectrals resist but are not immune to immobilize.

I also found that darkest night helps a lot on tougher enemies. But everyone underestimates the effect of sapping endurance. Powersink + lightning field really shuts down minions and lieuts (or at least the ones that didn't die from lightning rod hehe), and so you're only taking damage from the bosses and they won't be attacking near as often as usual.

It's not as good as say softcapped defenses, but it makes a noticable difference.

Except he wants to do it in melee. =)