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Heh I forgot about the STF - I got sick of it because my Brazilian coalition always wanted my mind/emp to go for Mo attempts - I was called the 'best healer' there but I barely healed, it's just that controllers are superior to defenders in almost every way and the other empaths were all defs

IIRC the STF can be run from 45-50, you may want to check paragon wiki. Although Nucleolus are much cheaper than a lot of stuff you have planned, you may get lucky with a Microfilament or Enzyme which are very expensive.

Well I'd say they are more fragile than trollers because trollers aren't causing as much aggro and most have a self heal and debuffs. But they're far safer than most blasters.

As I said, some secondaries (Stone, energy) have plenty of mitigation with stuns, holds, knockdown. And if you're leveling an elec control/elec assault, you'll be draining mobs way faster than an elec/elec blaster, which is another form of mitigation, even elec controllers live in melee because the elec control primary, no matter what secondary, is the best end drainer in the game, or at least the only one that are able to drain on DOs (some combos like elec/therm corrs are good drainers but they need IO sets and expensive builds).

In some cases i like to pick aid self (plant/thorns for example, since she plays a lot like a spines scrapper with a control primary), in others I don't feel the need for it )elec/fire, pure ranged dom I have, and my purpled ice/psi who has drian psyche so I didn't even need stamina to go to 50 when it wasn't inherent).

Isn't that a lovely username!

TW/Sr is a good combo and the 1st attack boosts your melee defense. The reason you see so many ELAs and WPs (as I see too) is because people are scared of TW's endurance costs. But they're not that bad from what I've seen with friends using other armors and can work perfectly with Sr.

There are a lot of odd slotting there that may cause endurance issues.

Lightning Field has very bad slotting, you want acc, damage and endred there, and you only have 39% damage, little more than a SO's worth. My usual slotting for damage auras when I'm short on slots is 2 multi strikes (acc/dam/end and dam/end) and the same from Sciroccos, which give 42% acc and 91% dam/endred. You have to think about how to slot your powers efficiently before chasing certain bonuses - in some cases you won't be able to have a desired bonus in a few slots because it just isn't good for the power to have low damage, low endred, etc.

Power Sink only has 21% recharge - you can almost cap endmod and recharge (91%) with two endmod/rech and two endmod/acc/rech from the two sets that go to 50.

Energize really benefits from maximum recharge.

Your toggles have little to no endreduction (including lighting field), that's not good even on a /ELA. Tactics and Maneuvers are heavy on the blue bar - and the BU proc in Tactics is almost worthless.

Since you have plenty of accuracy, I'd trade the tohit IO in BU (Combat Readiness) for the Rech one so you'l have 88% rech instead of 47%.

The global recharge is up to you, I find it good enough, permahasten is not like permadom which is night and day - a good Alpha for this build would be Agility imo (just got it on my Stalker) because it raises your defense, your recharge and the endmod powers, allowing lighting field to drain a bit and power sink to be more efficient.

Oh and the microfilament is not needed on L. Reflexes since LR costs no end, itll help your jump speed a bit but a straigh Run IO will be more effective overall. Micros were very expensive last I checked because pvp people slot 2-3 of them in travel powers.

But if you want to have the optimum attack chain for StJ you'll probably need more recharge both global and in the powers - since I don't know about these because I don't solo pylons and stuff, you'd have to ask Werner or some other scrapper math guru

Thanks, that's a very nice build!

But I don't have the billions for that the max I'll do eventually is add a Purple set to one of my attacks (I can also use 3 nucleolus/3 procs on AS since nucleolus are chepish - 30 mil - but idk if the procs are worth in a pve build in AS). Plus I'm done with the PvPs, I liked it better on my squishies and they were obsolete in i13 (because of their powersets - holds, slows, etc, made useless).

Plus I want to fit in fireball for some AoE and because it's broken and crits 100% from hide (who knows when it will get fixed but even then it's the best epic AoE for Stalkers right?)

Hmm I don't use Placate that often so if I'm able to get more AoE def and keep the recharge I'll leave it with the base slot.

Ok so tonight I decided to Incarnate my first villain, EM/Nin, and decided that she still plays like a boss (meaning, I still like to play her lol, even on iTrials I found myself doing well after I got to 50+1 despite some corpse blasting). Got her T3 Agility and stuff. Even after the nerf, Heroststats showed I did 50% more damage per minute with ET than with TF

Thing is, her build has stamina and other shenaningans like Acro, 3 KB IOs, Stealth, Stealth IO, ya know the PvP stuffs. But she'll be my main villain from now on so I wanna respec her into a PvE build and need suggestions because I haven't done a /nin build in a long time.

I kinda like this one, but this one I just did is not capped on AoE, in fact far from, AoE is kind of a big deal on iTrials compared to the rest of the game. So... Help please? I don't need that much recharge if I can get AoE to like, 40% before Hide. Thanks!

(the HOs in Maneuvers are what I have for her in Stealth right now so I kept them).

EDIT: I'd also like your opinion on what to get on the other incarnate stuff, my other incarnate is all damage (SS/Fire with Spiritual, Ageless, Reactive, Pyronic, carnie pets just for Forge, he's more of an agricultural tool) - I don't need ageless in the build, maybe Barrier if I can't get the defense much higher. And I like Vorpal for theme but I don't know hoe good it is as in, if I can hit the target cap like Ion or Void - I'm good with cones btw but I don't know Vorpal's range.

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Stalkat: Level 50 Magic Stalker
Primary Power Set: Energy Melee
Secondary Power Set: Ninjitsu
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Blaze Mastery

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Energy Punch -- T'Death-Acc/Dmg(A), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx(3), T'Death-Dmg/Rchg(3), T'Death-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(5), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(5), T'Death-Dam%(7)
Level 1: Hide -- Ksmt-ToHit+(A)
Level 2: Bone Smasher -- T'Death-Acc/Dmg(A), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx(7), T'Death-Dmg/Rchg(9), T'Death-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(9), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(11), T'Death-Dam%(11)
Level 4: Ninja Reflexes -- LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(A), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg(13), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(15), LkGmblr-Rchg+(15)
Level 6: Danger Sense -- LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(A), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg(17), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(17), LkGmblr-Rchg+(19)
Level 8: Assassin's Strike -- T'Death-Acc/Dmg(A), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx(19), T'Death-Dmg/Rchg(21), T'Death-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(21), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(43), T'Death-Dam%(43)
Level 10: Build Up -- AdjTgt-ToHit/Rchg(A), AdjTgt-ToHit/EndRdx/Rchg(23), AdjTgt-Rchg(23)
Level 12: Placate -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(42)
Level 14: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 16: Kuji-In Rin -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 18: Maneuvers -- HO:Cyto(A), HO:Cyto(25), LkGmblr-Rchg+(25)
Level 20: Kuji-In Sha -- Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx(A), Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(27), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(27), Dct'dW-Heal(29), Dct'dW-Rchg(29), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(31)
Level 22: Caltrops -- Slow-I(A)
Level 24: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(31), RechRdx-I(31)
Level 26: Energy Transfer -- Mako-Acc/Dmg(A), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx(34), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(37), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(39), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(39), Mako-Dam%(39)
Level 28: Super Jump -- Zephyr-ResKB(A)
Level 30: Tactics -- GSFC-ToHit(A), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg(33), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg/EndRdx(33), GSFC-Rchg/EndRdx(33), GSFC-ToHit/EndRdx(34), GSFC-Build%(34)
Level 32: Total Focus -- C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg(A), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx(40), C'ngImp-Dmg/Rchg(40), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(42), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(42)
Level 35: Blinding Powder -- CoPers-Conf(A), CoPers-Conf/Rchg(36), CoPers-Acc/Conf/Rchg(36), CoPers-Acc/Rchg(36), CoPers-Conf/EndRdx(37), CoPers-Conf%(37)
Level 38: Kuji-In Retsu -- Winter-ResSlow(A)
Level 41: Char -- BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(43), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(46), BasGaze-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(50)
Level 44: Fire Blast -- Thundr-Acc/Dmg(A), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx(45), Thundr-Dmg/Rchg(45), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(45), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(46), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(46)
Level 47: Fire Ball -- Posi-Acc/Dmg(A), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(48), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(48), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(48), Posi-Dam%(50), RechRdx-I(50)
Level 49: Vengeance -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
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Level 2: Swift -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Health -- Mrcl-Rcvry+(A)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(13)
Level 1: Assassination
Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run
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Set Bonus Totals:

• 19% DamageBuff(Smashing)
• 19% DamageBuff(Lethal)
• 19% DamageBuff(Fire)
• 19% DamageBuff(Cold)
• 19% DamageBuff(Energy)
• 19% DamageBuff(Negative)
• 19% DamageBuff(Toxic)
• 19% DamageBuff(Psionic)
• 9.88% Defense(Smashing)
• 9.88% Defense(Lethal)
• 4.25% Defense(Fire)
• 4.25% Defense(Cold)
• 14.88% Defense(Energy)
• 14.88% Defense(Negative)
• 3% Defense(Psionic)
• 16.75% Defense(Melee)
• 19.25% Defense(Ranged)
• 5.5% Defense(AoE)
• 41% Enhancement(Accuracy)
• 4% Enhancement(Confused)
• 4% Enhancement(Heal)
• 71.25% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
• 9% FlySpeed
• 135.5 HP (11.26%) HitPoints
• 9% JumpHeight
• 9% JumpSpeed
• Knockback (Mag -4)
• Knockup (Mag -4)
• MezResist(Held) 11.55%
• MezResist(Immobilize) 13.75%
• MezResist(Terrorized) 2.2%
• 13% (0.22 End/sec) Recovery
• 20% (1 HP/sec) Regeneration
• 20% ResEffect(FlySpeed)
• 20% ResEffect(RechargeTime)
• 20% ResEffect(RunSpeed)
• 2.84% Resistance(Fire)
• 2.84% Resistance(Cold)
• 1.26% Resistance(Energy)
• 1.26% Resistance(Negative)
• 9% RunSpeed

Some of us prefer to look at the actual number, you know, the seconds you gain from the third slot in powers like Hasten or the damage difference in a power damage capped instead of just thinking 'green is good'.

If you wanna make some things perma you have to go 'red' sometimes.

Edit: why's this in the Tanker forums?

1. I find Ninja Run good enough, but that's personal. It's worth noting that /ELA and /SR toons get more benefit from it because of the passive recharge and speed power. I rarely pick travel powers on any toon but I can say that my SR and ELA toons are very fast with NR because of the passive.

2. No, just talk to Arbiter whatshisname (sorry forgot) in Grandville and then talk to the Patron (Ghost Widow) and do her story arc, after that you'll get a free respec and you can grab the powers, even at 35, you can just do the missions and get back to blue side, you just need to unlock the pool.

3. Tactics cost half as much as Focused Accuracy and provides a higher tohit bonus. Plus it's for the whole team. FA used to be awesome but now its base tohit is lower than a kismet IO. And this last build I posted has 70% global acc.

4. Tbh I don't know much about merits, I have some toons with 5-8 but they're not 50 so usually I just mail Miracles and Lotgs bought in the market by my market/farm toon, since I came back I haven't bothered with my old 50s.

5. Slotting for damage isn't very common outside of PvP because usually we prioritize recharge, defense, HP, maybe Regen, so it becomes hard to go after +dam. The PvP people like it because PvP is all about doing the most damage in the fastest possible time since the enemies run away being players and all.

6. PvP builds are very different, some of your best tools won't be very useful there, like the damage aura (my DM/DA scrapper is useless in PvP due to relying on mobs for dark regeneration, soul drain, etc). You can still max recharge and end mod on Power Sink with 4 slots to face bosses by mixing the two end mod sets. Stj is end heavy, I even saw willpower players complaining. You can also put the two uniques in health. Also, Regen is considered the best PvP set for melee, they're nigh unkillable and have quick recovery which doesn't depend on mobs like Power Sink. I'm not familiar with post i13 PvP but you can run fewer toggles there because with diminishing returns defense becomes kinda useless unless you turn it off on the arena.

7. In normal gameplay I have no end issues, but I'm no usual AV soloer to know if Power Sink slotted for endmod and rech will be enough. On EBs and soloing it's more than enough since you'll have mobs around and EBs go down quite fast. Global recharge saves you end because you'll have Energize and Power Sink more often besides not needing to use a heavy hitter on a minion because some other attack isn't up. My Stone/ELA Broot (stone is a massive end hog) was fine on end just with a rech IO on Power Sink but she's always diving into piles of mobs and teaming, my DB/ELA soloed EBs and some AVs, I used insps but I don't remember using many blues and she has power sink slotted for endmod and rech with 4 IOs for max endmod and rech.

I find Ninjitsu the best secondary being defense based and having the same heal as Regen (Recon) and toys, but it might not fit your concept very well. So in this case I'd go Energy Aura if you don't mind your toon glowing (you can always check the toon creator for the power effects). Haven't tried WP myself.

Primaries: the ones that were ported to Stalkers with no loss were KM and ELM. Some argue that they're even better for Stalkers because Burst has 100% crit from Hide, the only AoE that does that, and Lightning Rod doesn't unhinde you,letting you use Thunderstrike later for 50% crit or even AS if you have defenses. Also having AS makes up a bit for ELM's lack of good ST damage. StJ lost a ST attack, but the set still looks good on Stalkers compared to all the other proliferations except the ones I mentioned.

I'd never roll Energy Melee now... I loved playing my EM/Nin to 50 but the set is all ST and it's been overnerfed. As for your question, energy transfer doesn't drain your health when it crits (including when it crits and you're not hidden) but also doesn't do extra damage, like Concentrated Strike, no extra damage but refreshes BU. The -HP in ET never made a significant difference for me anyway.

Elec plays a lot like Fiery Aura except you have more resists, both to s/l and exotic (and capped energy on SOs iirc, my scrapper capped it with DOs because scrappers have lower caps - or close, like 70%, on DOs).

The difference is that you get a recharge bonus passive and you don't need to worry much about making end sustainable builds after 35. And of course you don't get FE and Burn but Lightning Reflexes helps with your offense.

So the slotting recommendation is a bit like FA's, defense and recharge - the heal recharges in 120 seconds instead of 40 tho, but my no-defense SM/elec Brute is plenty tough, a TW with all the mitigation should be able to tank early if you want, mine did on SOs before Energize existed (she also was my only toon that ran out of end with speed boost, and properly slotted with endred, but when I was on tanking duty - it was before GR - I had to spam Fault).

I like adding some Regen and +HP because Energize benefits a lot from it, I also love the god mode, I leave it with 1 rech and it's always ready when I need it, the bummer is retoggling later because the crash has a mini EMP Pulse so it's better than Invul's.

Lol don't hate on the ponies!

Funny you mention Discord, I had a pic saved to use (the caption is because in the episode he turns Ponyville into a chaotic mess)

Meh, these are tweaks and fixes (the HP cap was always a bug imo).

I'd like to see debuffs, like the one they added to AS. I'd like a higher chance for the AS Demoralize to go off, and, as much as this is only wishful thinking, having an assortment of debuffs like Rogue classes have in other games (poisoning weapons to give it different effects and the like).

Actually Bane spiders already do something like that - buffs the teams' defense, tohit and damage, debuff resistance, analyze enemy weakness with Surveillance...

AS damage scaling was tested sometime ago. Didn't work out, something about Stalkers ASing AVs and Hami and taking half their health, something along these lines that Castle couldn't work out a fix.

Yeah the Fluttershy cheering is one of the best scenes ever! http://m.youtube.com/?rdm=4otdcmkmi&...?v=JHy3ZhY9VKs

The other characters are interesting too (my fav is Pinkie Pie because she kinda breaks the fourth wall), it even reminds me of Friends which I think was so successful because it managed to make everyone have the same importance and be equally likeable, in other shows that tried to mimick Friends, there was always some characters that stood out and others you didn't care much.

And it's funny that guys like it so much, guess we're not used to actually find cutesy shows good, because from what I've seen in an article, the largest audience in YouTube episodes are:

1) male 25-34
2) female 13-17
3) male 18-24

I showed it to a female friend (we're both over 25) and while she recognized it's a very well made show, she didn't find anything different or special.

Due to the unexpected audience they even added stuff for adults later like some internet references and in one episode where they put ponies who are a homage to The Big Lebowski movie.