Not_Epsilon

I would pay billions of inf, if for one day in RV, stalkers could have their 6x Scalar back. I guarentee you, there would be a multitude of QQ posts within an hour.

People complaining about stalkers....Now? I have simple four letter l33t sp33k word for u


G T F O

I am rediculously tired of uninformed people downsizing the skill it takes to actively be a stalker in zones, in arenas anywhere. I will admit, surviving on a stalker, not a challenge, getting solo kills, a delightfully fun challenge. To quote someone i argued with today.

"I look forward to the day AS gets nerfed and Rad Blast gets its rightful buff"

P.S. Yes, I do love my stalker, unreasonably so.

<3 Epsilon

Farmers that used custom baddies are bad. Bad and inefficent. My farms in AE, barely affected by these changes. Sure, I'll have to run a few loopholes, change builds, but AE farming will be superior to any sort of "Instanced" farming, in terms of xp, except for a few, scarcely known maps, that I seriously hope I don't have to fall back on.

The only major change to the system that impacts AE XP farming for efficent and well versed farmers in any meaningful way is the elimination of "Bridging", these custom enemy nerfs are, for the most part, redundant and meaningless.

Then again, as long as the devs are busy being redundantly led in circles by the uniformed and mostly uneducated masses, farming will continue.

Commenting on the MA/SR AE farmer problem thing. Make Your OWN map, fill it with Zenith Mech Men, Reflections group, boss's i beleive. They have a weakness to SMASHING damage, which might help you out a little.

Throwing my 2 cents in the ring.

I run an EM/Nin, I think I do moderately decently with it.

I Had Sharks Once.

I Was Outblasting blasters with it.

Only to realize that the 3 second animation was wrecking me.

Then I Died.

SM is an absolutely essential part of my build, puts me at around 44%(55% with Retsu) positional defence, Combined with my Retsu, which is up quite a bit thanks to my recharge and FoN; allows me to persue an EXTREMELY offensive playstyle. Anyone who plays in RV on freedom has prolly seen me, for a stalker, I beleive i do well.

Only time i personally think sharks are good is for coordinating shark crits, and even then, if theres someone to coordinate with, I am generally of the opinion that theres a better more efficent method of cooperation. RV isn't running low on cocky regen scrappers, Or bad flying sniper blasters.

Heal numbers from Soothing Aura are not that big? I prefer my 98 point heal every few seconds, coupled with Nullify Pain, the difference is large.

Its a preference, Empathy is hero side, where ATs are mostly dependant on teaming. Pain dom is solo friendly for villains which are more solo oriented. Sides fit and some will take pain over empathy and likewise.


I prefer Pain, hands down, the sets awesum.

I need to come to this arena event thing of which you speek, might be as entertaining as argueing with an ice blaster that MA for stalkers is OP and that blasters need Hide and Crits.

Its true, logic and actual sense plays no part in this game, at least before I13 the bad players were halfway decent in PvE. I met a "Dueling" Earth/kin troller today that had Group Fly and the Med pool rez and said he was a team build, then declined team invites and finally refused to duel an EM/Elec brute becuase he said the brute was a sapper. . . .
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*facepalm*

Truthfully, Recharge for Regen stalkers, Recharge for regen in general. Get your HP accolades aswell, it helps deal with and manage large damage spikes.


I have to comment on ninjitsu.

I prefer recharge on ninjitsu, but then again, after almost 4 bil in my ninjitsu, in PvE hes soft-capped too .

You might be an AE baby if you start threads like "You might be an AE baby if..." and "WTF is a Dawun?" and "PvP Is Pizza vs Pasta?"

U just jelos cuz i no ingliz

-Epsilon

Bid 500k on rare salvage RITE NOAing for a mil, come back after work, its usually gone through. Sell for a mil and make a quick buck.

((I personally buy up about 25 mils worth of this salvage, go out of town, come back to it all filled relist and end up making 10-20ish mil.))

I have to say, hands down, my fire/kins are among my favorite toons. I have two seperate fire/kins, both completely IOed out, dual builds and all. In all ild say ive sunk well over a couple bil into the builds, and possibly another bil into previous builds and respecs etc.

What I love mostly about the combo is the absolute abundance of options for running them, almost all of the epics having their place in farming. This game is a hobby of mine, i have made probably a hundred or more different builds for my fire/kins from proposed AV soloing, to TFs, to teaming and farming. I am STILL making builds for them.

Thanks to AE farming, my main fire/kin is my fire/kin/fire, running the build below. I typically run hooligan LT spawns on him, thanks to the defence all i have to do is FC + FS + FB + FC and in a matter of prolly 2-4 seconds the spawn is gone. This toon can also solo blue mito maps etc.

The build itself isnt soft capped, but with smoke, it comes in roughly soft-capped to ranged and comes with a hefty S/L resistance.

Expense means nothing in terms of build performance, the build im running is cheap, yea, but highly effective.

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Is the AV a custom enemy? Is there someone in the surrounding group giving status protection?

Out of the box you should be 2 stacking char perma, and 3 stacking it for like a second and a half. The problem more then likely lies in possibly the fact that your boss has status protection from somewhere, my lowbie doms usually can usually trounce bosses. EBs are problems due to the lack of damage output before pets. Ill play ur arc sometime and see what i can say.

FITEKLUB POLICE!!!!!!

*throws conflict at the fiteklubberz*

Fire/TA can be some serious stalker hate, bonfire providing a perma auto damaging patch and TA giving you acid arrow for keeping a stalker out of hide for 21? seconds.

Earth/TAs are awefully annoying. A well played Fire/SS tank can cause some problems for some of the inexperienced stalkers. An honorable mention for the ever annoying flying-sniping blaster brigade.

Con, how dare you, my stalker has a flying build with nothing but the snipe for attacks, its unbettable.

I killed galactor with it . . . . . .

The devs are removing firi as a playable archetype. Logic and memory of correct dates is not allowed in ths supa srs game.

Could be in reference to the "critical" portion of the damage. I'll look into it when i'm in game next.

I play west coast, mite have to kill myself cuz az lives near me, that or go live in antartica to support my anti-social behavior... but i can't play futball if im in antartica, ILL GET A HEAT STROKE! gosh

Karl, with the legal dope, I expect triumph's arena chat to be twice as akward, unusual, stupid and rediculous at the same time. Talk on TW 2.0 when im on, maybe we can get snow globe to rage moar.

I griefed it and it distorted instinctively. I refuse to fix it as it looks kinda funny with me in the state that I'm in rite nao.


OMGADAWUN!

Clarification: Stalkers are less survivable due to the lower HP, damage mod and lower resistance cap. However, due to placate, when soloing it is very possible to consider the two even in those terms, however in groups, the survivability difference is noticable.

Hide will make u invis to all the enemies in the game, with the exception of rikti drones and snipers i beleive.

Compare Stalkers in PvE to Scrappers, except with less survivability.