Hopeling

Much like the other two recent threads on this topic, I don't disagree that this would be a significant complaint if it were actually true. However, it isn't.

Have you played a stalker since the changes? I haven't encountered even a single vaguely negative comment about the AT in-game since i22. My stalker doesn't feel at all underpowered even on large teams, either.

Of course we can talk about it. It's posted on the front page.

In fact, we have four entire subforums dedicated to talking about the features on beta.

Nothing's been changed AFAIK. There are some AVs. Black Scorpion as you've found, as well as Diabolique and Tub Ci will spawn as AVs, if you have that setting on. The hullaballoo was about other characters (Blue Steel, Mot himself, etc) that really seemed (to some of us, at least) like they should have been AVs, but always spawn as EBs.

You should avoid building a Very Rare from threads, if at all possible, because yeah, it's an insane number of threads (and 200m inf is not to a cost to sneeze at, either). Getting them randomly from reward tables, or guaranteed from empyrean merits, is far preferable.

Ooh, nifty.

Those salvage pieces cost a lot because they're in high demand, not just because some ebil marketeer decided to start flipping. If you cap the price, that demand won't go away (in fact, if you artificially lower the price, MORE people will want to buy), and the available supply of salvage will at best stay the same, and possibly diminish (someone willing to spend tickets on common salvage at 100k each might not be willing at 50k each). So, capping the price will not make the salvage easier to obtain, and could make it more difficult.

Also, new players benefit from those high prices too, because they can sell the salvage they find. In fact, a new player selling a few Luck Charms and filling their build with DOs is probably more beneficial to them than being able to craft a few more acc IOs would be.

It's 1-2 hours into the workday here on the west coast. There's plenty of today left. I'm as eager to see more as anyone, but let's be patient a little longer

According to Mids, it does not get an accuracy bonus, no.

Chain Induction definitely benefits from damage buffs normally, and has for quite some time. The wiki must be very, very out of date on that.

Edit: The in-game info also has that sentence changed, it now says "Enhancements and Fury will boost the effectiveness of the initial attack as well as the jumping charge."

Rare and Very Rare components, as well as Empyrean Merits, are much easier to get via trials than via Dark Astoria, in my experience. Even with that, yes, T4 powers generally provide very little benefit over T3 powers, and are considerably more difficult to get.

I've got only three characters that have T4 alpha powers. One character got it because I had nothing better to do with a VR from an Underground run, the other two obtained it over a long period via Notices and Shards.

If they can cross-breed with humans and produce fertile young, yes

IMO, your abilities are only Natural if you're born with them AND they're within normal abilities for your species. If you're born with the abilities (or at least, the genetics that later develop into abilities), that's Mutant.

Interesting. Extremis was a good story, but it seems like it would have to change a lot to fit as a sequel to IM2.

I meant the Dark Watcher's Despair proc. It only goes off one time in five, and even when it does go off, the effect is negligible. Some extra damage slotting would be better, or at least a more useful proc.

I just noticed that the accuracy in Quick Strike and Smashing Blow is kind of alarmingly bad; you won't have a capped hit chance even against +1s outside of Power Siphon. You could trade the knockdown proc and the Hecatomb: Dam/Rech for, say, a generic acc and the acc/dam/rech?

The Steadfast: KB in High Pain Tolerance is unnecessary, Indomitable Will covers that. You could replace it with the Steadfast: Res/End, a generic resist IO, or just move it somewhere else.
I'd trade the slotting on RttC and Fast Healing.
The slow proc in Dark Blast is minimally useful at best, IMO.
Overall, looks pretty solid, though.

This must be a very recent and/or inconsistent bug, because I too observed no problems just a couple weeks ago. Did anyone on the team have a very new powerset, like Beast Mastery? Possibly the game doesn't know how to spawn such a doppelganger, and got hung up on that, which prevented it from spawning the rest?