JohnnyV_EU

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If stalkers were not here everyone would be on the "nerf controllers" bandwagon, it seems a lot of people just dont like getting beat

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I SO like it when people don't read stuff before they comment on it... I have no problem with being killed in PvP. it's the fact that stalkers need no skill whatsoever to stand out in PvP, that gets me.

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to be honest i havent checke but there is one other type on the heros side that is completly undetectable untill it attacks just like stalkers and it can unload a small army of pets of you butt as it dose its an illusion controler and i found the controler can be a hell offalot more devastating than a stalker as i played both and been attacked by both found i can counter a stalker rather nicely if i time it right but when a controler unloads his phantom army on my thats it im dead
now all the pets from the villains side can be killed phantom army cant and if used right can do alot more damage than a MM in the same time so why arent the villains complaining that this is unbalanced in the same way the heros are complaining just because one AT can whoop there [censored]

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PLEASE! Punctuation!

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1º You were alone vs 4 stalkers...
2º You survive 2 AS !!!!
3º A stalker loking afk and not using hide , is a very clear sign of a trap :P

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1: Well, I didn't know that, did I? Thought he had just AS'ed another poor soul.
2: I survived -one-. The second missed, the third killed me and the fourth hit a corpse.
3: Se nr 1

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you are wrong because you are judging a class at lev 30 .

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So players below lvl 40-45 don't count????? Every AT should be judged at EVERY level. Why the HELL does the lower lvl pvp zones EXIST, you... oh my.. 12345678910... I'm ok now... Was tempted to type "stupid stupid stupid" there, but I didn't.

The problem is that everyone that feels the same way I do are so afraid of getting flamed in this forum, yours is the only voice anyone ever hears... TRY letting other ppl utter their oppinion without giving them [censored] about it. try, you might like it... Jeeez.

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You were hiding and attacking a stalker. So you're allowed Stealth, but Stalkers aint. Doesnt seem fair? You were using it to get a snipe attack out, thereby do loads of damage.

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I don't say their not allowed to use Stealth, be my guest, and I HAVE to, don't I? to have even a slim chance of not being ganged up on by stalkers. anyway Stealth and Hide is to COMPLETELY different powers.

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And, if nothing else, put it this way - there's no debt. You dont lose bounty. And it's fun! Imagine you're Arnie in Predator ;-) We're crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside, trust me.

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No, there's no debt and no loss of bounty, but being 'ganked' by stalkers every time I set foot in a PvP zone is NOT my idea of fun. Whenever there is a decent mix of AT's on each side PvP is the most fun I've had in CoX for months. You kill some, and you get killed a lot, but that's the game. But the stalkers ARE overpowered in PvP, this is a fact, and you can argue against it all you want, but the fact remains.

Flame all you want.. I just want a better play experience for everyone. And that means balancing the game for all the archtypes, and not having one über-at that every villain will use for pvp.

Now, I am aware that I'm about to be flamed by about a million ppl. I have seen it in so many posts already, but as there are so many posts about the problem, I'm figuring it really IS a problem.

Stalkers ARE incredibly overpowered in PvP.

I know there are "ways to counter them", but it's a bit strange that there are -no other AT you need extra powers just to be able to spot-. And you can't "react" to counter AS since you can't actually see them untill you are ALREADY dead.
I know about IR Goggles, but haven't been able to try them because the guy selling them wouldn't sell them to me. Heroes was in control of the zone and all.

Another thing that proves Stalkers are overpowered in PvP, is that there are so dang many of them.
Example:
I was in Sirens Call with my en/en blaster, flying around (yes, I was stupid enough to grab fly this time, and I slap myself repeatedly for doing it) when I see a Villain on a rooftop near the Hero HQ. And low and behold, it was a stalker. I'm stealthed, so I get right up close to him without him noticing me, I hit BuildUp and let loose. *MISS*MISS* then on the last and least damaging attack I hit and take about 1/5 of his health. Then as I prepare to fire off another round, suddenly another stalker appears, and luckily he misses (I go "PHEW!" at this point), but then I have "ASSASSIN STRIKE" printed over my head as yet another stalker appears. I didn't get OneShotted by him, but when the third AND fourth stalker AS me one after the other I'm well and truely [cencored]. It goes without saying I was dead before the fourth appeared.

And this isn't a freak occurance, as almost the exact same thing happened in the Siren's Call instance I had JUST left.

The problem isnt Hide OR Assassin Strike. The problem is Hide AND Assassin Strike together. And the fact that you can't attack them when they are hidden (even if you can see them with IR Goggles) is just Stupid (yes, capital S, Stupid).

Even with my Inv Tank with tons of HP and as much resistances as ED will allow, AS takes a pretty decent chunk out of my HP bar. And on that build I have had to neglect damage to the point where I won't even inflict a fleshwound on the stalker before he is hidden again, to get that amount of resistance.

It is a tad strange (if not outright weird) that Stalkers are the only AT where you have to SPECIFICALLY trick out your Hero to be able to even SEE them, even though this does not mean you'll be able to kill them (or even be able to ATTACK them).

I have a Stalker myself, and their complaint about not being able to solo PvE strikes me as a bit odd. And in any case, has nothing to do with PvP.

I write this post even though I've seen ALL the other ppl posting this problem is instantly flamed as a whiner and a n00b. But as is the case in every other MMO with PvP option, the PvP'ers are the biggest "contributors" to "whiner-posts" on the forums, and there's (unfortunately) nothing to do about it.

Johnny Vega