Person34

Yeah, what Gameboy said. Widow's begin with zero resists, but gain resists as their hit points dissapear similiar to SR. What I was referring to is that if you can get some base resistance it will stack with the sliding resists and you can hit the cap for S/L, but you'll be almost dead when it happens.

Not sure how much it would affect survival, but if someone was interested in experimenting you could get the pvp unique, slotted tough and five sets of Gladiator's Strike and get @ 34% base S/L resists. With Cardiac Core Paragon slotted you could push this to 37% S/L maybe. My widow has 1622 hitpoints, so at 405 hit points she would have roughly 77% resists to S/L, 60% to psi (foresight + mind link) and 40% to all else but toxic.

Hmmm... might need to xfer to test and do some experimenting.

Even without the Alpha ML is not too tough to perma on a night widow. As for melee AEs, widow's have spin and eviscerate (which is a 90 degree cone), once you are able to get hasten and some recharge in the build it's easy to spam BU/spin/eviscerate/repeat.

Widow's are solid choices, but I'd suggest something a little more robust if you are hellbent on making an AE toon... esp if running x8 maps with bosses. Widows are a low hitpoint AT with mostly positional defenses to keep them kicking, the more mobs you are engaging the more likely you are going to get hit (even if at the magical "softcap"). Widows have scaling resists but they don't kick in until lower than 50% health, so you can be at 60% health (which on a widow that is slotting for hp bonuses + accolades will leave you at @ 900 hps) and a KoA boss can get in a lucky shot with headsplitter and send you to the hospital...

Personally, I'd go with a brute or scrapper in as some of the above posters have suggested. Again, widows are great at AEing but aren't as sturdy as some of the other choices available.

Listed as "PvP only" though.

This solved it for me too, had 10 open arcs between active and inactive contacts. Just finnished up one of them the now Ramiel is offering missions.

Nice job figuring that one out =)

I know it's unique because it's stalker-only, hence why I used the term:

u·nique (y-nk) KEY

ADJECTIVE:

Being the only one of its kind.

Twisting words around in no way changes this.

I never said it should be stalker only, I just said it is a set specific to stalkers (which it is) and hinted at the idea that other melee ATs probably should get instead an APP due to the work involved tweaking the set for proliferation.

Except, ya know, ninjitsu is -unique- to stalkers (see above definition if you have forgotten what this means). At the time these sets or powers were put into the game proliferation was not even on the map, so hard to say what they had in mind. Controllers got seeds of confusion and plant control because the powers were a -direct- port during proliferation, as with tanks/scrappers getting elec armor and elec melee from brutes.

But ninjitsu CAN NOT be directly ported to scrappers, or tanks, or brutes in its current state. Hide would have to be removed and caltrops would have to be addressed, so a lot of changes and testing would be involved to make sure that the already top stalker defensive performer doesn't go over-the-top if ported... esp when folks (you being one) are suggesting power replacements such as "quickness", arguably the best melee passive in the game. And with a few short keystokes ninjitsu turns into the "uberset"...

And will tankers (who 'tank' and draw aggro), brutes (who want aggro for fury) and scrappers (who live for fighting) ever even use smoke flash or blinding powder? Thematically they are cool and all but of what use are they really for these ATs? With all the suggested changes to ninjitsu's powers it ceases to be ninjitsu. Which is another reason why to suggest an APP instead.

I'll agree with the original poster that it would be cool to have for scrappers (give brutes katana and I'll agree there as well), but as is it will require a lot of work. I don't think it will ever happen personally, but blindly arguing for the sake of arguing does nothing to help make this a reality. And that's what you seem to be doing.

Oh really? Being that only stalkers have it I'd say yeah, it's both unique to them and designed with them in mind. It has both a confuse and sleep component on top of -to hit and -perception... hardly a clone of seeds or smoke grenade as you seem to suggest.

Yeah redside there was a farm on infinity that some guy was running a few years ago (liberate TV?) and he would charge a million or two a run to join. I would -always- join these because 75% of the time I'd walk away with enough recipes to cover the costs. I ended up getting banned from his group tho when he informed me that my not handing over the respec recipe that dropped was a "respect" thing (funny how that incompases the word too). What I got for opening my big mouth I guess, but was a pretty sweet deal overall because on a fully spawned map the chances of a purple drop weren't too bad after 3-4 runs.

But yeah, paying for MA runs when the mission in question is available to everyone and so many other will run it for free is nuts. I'm surprised to see some of these exploits are still around, I thought the imp map was killed right after MA's launch... but it's still out there somewhere.