Gruumch

Sounds like just poor base layout.

My bases have the Teleporter rooms located close to the base entrance. It makes it so much easier to run to quickly when I use the base to get between zones.

I was like you also for a long time. I play Brutes a lot and really enjoy being in the middle of a huge mob. So, I always had a hard time making Stalker. Not to long ago I finally made one that I liked playing, an Elec/EA Stalker. He has a lot of AoE to through around and is pretty survivable. You could probably go with any defense based secondary, but the Elec Melee is what mad ethe difference for me. I do run him different than a Brute though. Instead of facing big mobs I face higher level ones instead. On a Brute I run at +1/x8 most of the time, but I have been running the Stalker at +3/x2 instead. Once I get him up to 50 I am sure he will be able to go at x8 though since he has so much AoE and I plan to softcap his defenses .

Only 240 here, but I don't post a whole lot anyway.

On my brutes I only slot end reducers when I reach level 12 and can slot DO's. You really don't need acc enhancers if you are fighting -1's and the biggest issue with every pre-stamina brute is endurance. Slot them in all your attacks and toggles and your endurance problems go away.

I am 44 so not the oldest. I have run into someone that was in their 50's.

There seems to be quite a few of us older players and that is a good thing I think.

I just refuse to pay these stupid prices. I go spend the 540 AE tickets and get the piece of salvage I need. It really doesn't take very long to get that many tickets.

If a lot more did that the price wouldn't be so high, but then a bunch of people have so much Inf that they just don't care what the price is.

I will be moving my WM/EA brute to blue side just because there isn't enough STRONG and PRETTY there

I also plan on at least taking my redside badger just to get more badges and I have a stalker that was created with side switching in mind. He will go all the way hero.

(Yes I have a WM/EA and I wasn't kidding!)

You really don't need a lot of recharge to make War Mace good. I have a WM/EA that I ended up with about 40% global recharge and my attack chain consists of Crowd Control, Shatter, Whirling Mace, and Clobber. I don't have Hasten either. I got that recharge just by going after +def sets to softcap him, so it is possible to get both.

I just refuse to pay this for salvage. I keep AE tickets so I can get salvage of any type when I need it. This just seems to be a case of impatience on players parts. I play red side mostly and patience is definitely something you learn there.

I always forget to give you the name...lol

Gruumble

I would like to bring a different Tanker this week. I have a level 36 WP/Stone I would like to run. He may only be 36 but he can handle most anything and won't be a squishy as the fire/ice. If you prefer me to run the IO'ed out 50 I will though.

I have a scrapper from back a couple years ago that has never had a travel power. He uses swift and hurdle to get around. I only added one slot to each and when I toggle on sprint he is very fast. Another benefit is that he is that fast in missions also.

Also, since Ninja Run has been available I have started completely skipping travel powers. I find it plenty fast enough with either hurdle or swift.

Last nights was a lot of fun even though it was just the 2 of us. The first mission was paticularly nasty for my Fire Tank since I kept running afoul of Nullifier grenades. On several occasions I had 4-5 of them stacked on me and I died before I could move out of their area. Longbow can be very hard on Fire for this reason. I used to keep Rise of the Phoenix, but I had respecced out of it at some point. The second mission was much easier since Arachnos seem to catch fire very easily

I look forward to doing another one of these and hopefully we will have more Tankers so up.

Thanks for the advice. This is my first stalker after playing brutes for years and the play style is definitely different. I had no idea the snipes were that bad, so I will pick up dark blast as you suggested.

I'll look at the other slotting more closely. I picked some of those IO's to avoid having to spend a fortune on the market for expensive sets and the few rare sets I have I am farming merits for those. Our defense numbers are close though I have a little higher Psi defense, but thanks for looking. You have given me some good ideas with that build.

I could join with my 50 Fire/Ice Tank. This sounds like fun and I haven't run my tank in a long time.

As far as soloing, EA is probably the better route. It is a wonderful set when solo and still a pretty good one teamed, but SA can be a challenge to solo at high levels due to all the penalties from Granite. Lets face it, the only reason to take SA is for Granite and the uber survivability. Without it SA is pretty mediocre.

I have played both to 50 and really enjoy both sets. Luckily my first brute was stone or I don't know if I could gotten through it. I do solo with my SA brute and he does pretty well, but my EA is much much faster and solo just as survivable.