OneWhoBinds

Gee... Late Blooming Primary, Late Blooming Secondary, and still level 10... I think I may see your problem...

Seriously, the only real complaint I have with /EA any more is the lack of a 'No Fade or Pulse' option for Energy Cloak. Otherwise, the Dev's have finally tweaked this set into working.

...any other suggestions? Like maybe removing Corruptors from the game entirly? 'cause let me assure you, Scourge will not make up for the Defenders having a higher base damage AND more hit points...

Seriously, what Defenders and Corruptors need the most is an identity seperate from each other. If you can work out a way to fix that issue, the overlap with Masterminds and Controllers will be easier to handle.

This argument was rendered invalid by the overhaul to Fury.

Once upon a long time ago, Fury could only be built by the Brute actually being hit. Enemy attacks that missed didn't count. Ice Armor, between being a Defense based set, and its Slow effects... did not work well with that concept of Fury.

These days, Fury is much easier to build. The Brute's own attacks build fury, enemy attacks, even if they don't hit, build fury... the reasons that Ice Armor was incompatable with Fury are no longer valid. Oh, it would still have an impact on Fury generation, true... but no worse than the Mez toggles in Dark Armor do.

That said, sooner or later, everything that can be proliferated, will be proliferated. Just... don't expect it any time soon. I'm suspecting we won't see any new proliferation until come up short on content for an issue, for some reason. Powerset Proliferation being something of the Low-Hanging Fruit, as it were...

Same here.

The original image 'dress' is pretty much impossible for PCs... but the uneven kind of dress in this picture is, at the least, feasible. Now, I have no idea if it would be other issues with it, but this one at least has a chance...

I think it's called 'Parry.'

Okay, it could also be the better lay-out of powers, with Broad Sword getting some AoE early, and the other major part at level 18; Battle Axe, on the other hand, only starts getting AoE at 18.

On top of that, Battle Axe relies exclusivly on 'Chance for Knockdown' for its additional mitigation. While that's not bad, it's also not exceptional.

For me, the worst part is that they (and War Mace) all use 90% of the same animations... and I know that the weapons don't work that way! You don't wield an axe like a sword! Or even like a club!

Well, yes, in general, Resist-based sets will serve Brutes better than Scrappers.

But as for these specific combos...

Personally, I think that Electric Armor is still the better designed of the two sets, especially on an AT that can reach the 90% resist cap. Between Power Sink and a Lightning Field slotted for Endurance Modification over damage, and you'll be keeping most anything close to you at low-to-none Endurace. (I know it isn't particulalry 'Heroic,' but there's something enjoyable about beating up a Boss or Elite Boss class enemy that has been reduced to standing around and only occasionally lashing out with one of their weaker attacks.)

Energy Aura is no longer armor-plated tissue paper, but some of the odd design features are still there from its origin as a kludge replacement for Ice Armor. Still, it's not a bad choice anymore, especially if you want some form of built-in stealth feature.

Overall, I think the real question here is 'Scrapper or Brute' for Staffs, and on that, I can't really say. I didn't play around with Staff Fighting much on Beta. On paper, it looks like Scrappers won't get as much benefit from Perfection as Brutes will... but that could be far off base.

Good luck!

To be honest, Ninja Blade/Ninjitsu would be my second choice. But it's the one that's in the game, so...

When I think the classic Stalker, I think of a gentleman in a suit, and armed only with a switchblade, and yet can enter enemy territory undetected and take everyone out before most of them realize there is an intruder. (If this sounds familiar to a character from an on-line shooting game... you may be onto something.)

But there isn't a powerset for a single small blade, so I went with the next best option.

Honestly? No.

MoG is working just as intended now. It does exactly what it needs to do, to make Regeneration able to work in the situation it is weakest - Taking a Heavy Alpha.

Now, this new 'Absorb' Mechanic would have worked wonders for either Dark Armor or Energy Aura, but I doubt either of them are going to get retrofit for this mechanic, either. No, I'm sure this is going to be the gimmick in either a new defense set (Psychic Armor? Some form of Kinetic Armor?) or it will be used in a new Buff/Debuff set (...Okay, I'm drawing a blank as to what it could be, but that may just be me...)

That's what I'm asking for.

This is purely for curiosity's sake, here. It was just something I wanted to know, when it occured to me how odd it was that the first thing I come up with when I think of a Defender was Empathy/Archery.

Ahem.

Here's a link to the Medieval Bestiary.

You will notice a distinct lack of 'Wings' mentioned. Near as I can figure, Wings didn't come into play until modern Pen and Paper Role Playing Games.

Yeah... I think if the devs were willing to go that route, they'd just make a new melee set, rather than tack it onto EM.

Personally, I'm going to go with the whole 'EM doesn't need more AoE' crowd. AoE would be nice, but personally, I doubt the devs would go for it.

No, my concept of a 'fixed' EM would be:

• Rather than some AoE damage, let's get EM better AoE mitigation; Make the Stun in Whirling Hand a Mag 3 with a 60% chance of firing.
  
• Either make the Stun in Total Focus a Mag 4 again, or give it a longer duration.
  
• Cut down the animation time of ET some. I'm not advocating a lot, but bring it in line with other big hitters - 2.33 seconds or less, thank you. (Yes, I do think lossing .34 seconds would make a big difference.)
  
• Finally, something must be done with Stun. I'm actually liking Eldagore's idea of making it a ranged attack...

Of course, I admit, I'm coming at this from the Brute/Tank perspective, so I'm not really sure if these would have any real impact on Stalker EM.

Based on the 'Everything we can proliferate will be prolierated... eventually' idea, we can expect EM to come under Dev scrutiny when it's time comes up for getting ported to Scrappers.

Personally, I'm not sure what EM needs to really feel like something more than a novelty. Reducing ET animation to 2.33 seconds or less would help. Giving Stun the Clobber treatment would probably also make that power slightly less redundant... but that's all I can think of, and I'm not sure how that would impact the set as a whole.