JonnyDeadSide

They already addressed why it wasnt going into an auto/toggle power.

Hey B Witched. I have seen many folks do this in zones. I am still not absorbing why one would do this with their build? Why even bother with hyber if you take phase? Personally, I always prefer phase over hyber whenever possible....which is most of the time/always.
Would you or anyone help me understand why someone would pick "somewhat" redundant powers instead of broadening their build?

Antigonus, sorry I called you dumb. I don't like it when others do that to people and I was wrong for attacking you personally. My apologies, I was rude. I made it personal because I didn't agree with your opinion. Everyone is entitled to have an opinion and express it here. I'll work on it.

That being said, scrappers clearly dominate the bad player market in pvp, not stalkers. Hell 60% of all players are on scrappers whenever I'm in RV, sometimes more. I think scrappers provide players with more false securities and bad habits than any other AT out there. Someday I'll make one.
But.......I guess we will have to agree to disagree about whether a stalker provides the better opportunity for a new player to learn. My philosophy about learning is different than yours and that's ok I spose. Not everyone learns the same way eh?
Either way, I'm of the mindset that an easy experience is a better experience to keep new players coming back. However, if they "really" want to learn, they will learn regardless of their starting AT. I just find that whenever I bring a novice pvp'r into the zones, they are more willing to come back if they didn't die 10-15 times every hour. I'm sure you'll agree, you gotta work pretty hard at it if you want to die that often on a stalker.
While a stalker doesn't provide you with many of the high end pvp skills one will eventually want to acquire, I still think it presents the best opportunity for starter players to acclimate themselves to pvp, its speed, it's extreme spikes, and momentum shifts. I never said it creates great players or even good players. I just said it presents a good "training wheels" AT as their first experience to PvP.

At what point did i say "i do not use my AS"? Get back to me on that one....

Two hits and squishy's die eh? That's exactly why I wouldn't recommend a complete novice to play a squishy. Stalkers will farm them and leave a sour taste in their mouths, possibly preventing them from ever returning to learn and enjoy pvp.
ALL new players are bottom feeders, Antigonus.
Sharking injured players from afar when they are retreating back to base is PERFECT for newer pvp'ers to start participating with.
It's a great opportunity for them to get a kill and possibly a great drop. Its a great opportunity for them to feel like they accomplished something(although we both know its no big deal, i think we can at least agree on that?), opportunity they can be relatively safe in their efforts, and opportunity to learn to feel the momentum in pvp and get adjusted to the speed of pvp.....without being overwhelmed too often before they can get back to a safe place...IE: Hide.
Once their game speed is better adjusted and they likely feel even more confident from sharks, they will try to use their AS(hopefully). The best part is that they can do this, once again, in relative safety. They can run back and forth, side to side, jumping and hopping all over trying to target that happy footed blaster, all while they are hidden, and again, relatively safe during their futile struggle to fire off their first AS. Eventually they may pull one off. Eventually(hopefully) they will try to follow up with placate+sharks, thus learning to efficiently kill your average squishy's.
I can't think of a better AT to learn on than a stalker......
If you are there to learn, i mean really learn....the stalker is perfect to learn on. You wont find an easier transition from pve to pvp, imo. They are a simple AT to play. Not too much to worry about or focus on. They offer opportunity for easy kills, opportunity to only engage in fights when "you" want to about 90%+ of the time because....its more difficult to start fighting with something you cant see. They offer an easy sanction every 8 seconds or so, via Hide. They can navigate to the action more easily without being ganked otw back to his/her team.
The stalker simply offers the easiest way for a new player to become more acclimated to pvp.
Its a great teacher of mechanics as well. I know when I'm on my stalker I appreciate AT's with status control powers, thus showing me how important they are to a team and to a spike. The status powers make getting off an AS infinitely easier for a stalker....which often leads a PvP'er to thinking it might be fun to hold down some fools for some stalkers. Now that stalker might have a pretty good understanding of his/her role as a control AT when they do roll that squish toon. They will also know how fast one can die if they aren't paying attention. They should also have a better understanding of how to stay alive against a stalker because they (hopefully) paid attention to the squishy's who kept "getting away" from their stalker.....then try to duplicate what those folks did.

Stalkers are an awesome AT to learn PVP on. They are like having training wheels on. They are a great starter AT for the novice player. I cannot speak about any disadvantages that may go along with said player while they are a stalker, but the AT in general is one of the best to start with. It's easy mode and feels like you are "taking a break" most of the time you are playing. Its one of my favorite toons to introduce pvp with. You can relax most of the time and still end up with a ton of kills. Pure win for the newer player.

LOL. Your dumb. "oh please don't do x until you're ready", hahaha.
Stalkers are FINE learning toons for newer players to learn with, regardless of their experience, IF they "want" to learn. There's no other AT that allows you to sit in as much comfort and "learn" by watching others without much risk of dieing/being farmed. If a new player chooses not to watch and learn, no amount of time/experience will fix that, most cases.
Lemme guess...you think they should roll a scrapper? Like we don't already have enough true-warriors running around now. Or how about a squishy instead.....so they can be farmed mercilessly and no longer want to pvp because of it? Good advice.
You're dumb again. Sharks are nothing to laugh at.....who doesn't want an 80 foot Assassin Strike to learn with? And if using an 80 foot AS gets me laughed at, so be it. I will impale and shark your *** to death and laugh all the way to the market....like I always do on my blasting stalker. You don't NEED to use AS. Wtf do you think blasters do? They blast from range, genius. Stalkers can too if built right. What are some of your toons, I'll log in and show you? Of course I'm sure you'll bring your regen if you do, or some giant bag of HP's, lol.
Your still dumb. I like bad stalkers. They make drops easier to get. 99% of people who say stuff like you did......are dumb, so I've heard.
According to pretty much anyone you ask nowadays, 99% of the pvp player base is bad, dumb, newb, sucks, loser, blah blah blah. Shaddap!
Stop telling people when to play an AT......and being dumb.
God these type of posts are getting old.

To the original poster:
Spines/ or Elec/ are both fine choices. If money is no object for you, /Nin can be very, very good to you. If you are on more of a budget, /WP is a better option, but a very good option regardless of budget....but you will still need "some" sort of a budget. Proc'd attacks are your friend. GL with your new stalker and learning the art of the AS.

I run a /nin and hardly ever use retsu, & do fine. Using it twice in one night is a busy night for that power for me. Just sayin'.
ymmv

That's not what has been said. What "has" been said is that the Devs have already weighed in on the issue and have stated this is completely acceptable behavior in PvP.
To clarify:
Using tp foe in this manner is NOT an exploit, that's per our Devs(no matter how much want it to be an exploit or disagree with the philosophy behind allowing this. See below for possibile reasons devs are standing behind such a philosophy).

Hmm...you don't seem too willing to accept this mechanic of the game without having a set of circumstances that display this philosophy as having merit.....so here is something you might lose by not having the drones there 2 tp foe into. "Breathing Room" Thats what you'll lose. Without drones in place, the opposition can infiltrate your spawn point/base/hospital.........and camp the living daylights out of you. You would hardly get spawned in and have anywhere from 1-20 foe on top of you instantly. That would not be fun or fair. Just stay 300+ feet away and you wont be able to get tp'd by them. Don't rush there base and maintain better awareness while sparring. They can't tp you unless you let them. Ultimately there is only one person to blame for being droned....and its not the droner.
GLHF, let us know how it goes for you and dont let it get to you. Work around it.

Actually, its not. It's people like you. The ones that feel the self entitled need to point out when "they think" others are being useless and verbally attack them for "trying" to contribute something that's at least constructive, thereby making there own drivel useless and troll. While this idea was not a partial and/or complete game fix/improvement in any way, it was at least using energy in a positive way, whereas your energy is pure troll...and a waste of all our time. What did you contribute here? You score 0 cool kid E-points. Back to the bridge with you....
Attacking people to simply make them feel bad for "trying" to help is about as D-bag as you get. At least -Hot told him "why" his idea was fail. He also did this without calling the "person" fail. Just the "idea" the op posted was shot down by -Hot, and done so without telling the person they are useless.
The only useless contribution was yours. Hell even my less than miniscule contribution is at least an effort to get rid of trolls such as yourself.
I should have gotten a coffee first this morning instead of reading......