RagManX

In hide, I have a LotG +7.5% on any stalker with the funds to get one, a kismet +tohit on every stalker, and +def as needed to soft-cap on my def-based stalkers.

RagManX

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Can't give specifics, but combat jumping, Blessing of the Zephyrs, Red Fortune, Mako's, and Touch of Death are on the list of things I use to get there. I'm over 50% on ranged, at 43.99% on melee, and 42.74% on AoE in my early 40s on my DM/SR. I could get higher with some re-arranging of powers or IOs, but that's close enough that I rarely am in danger. Of course, the extra -tohit that I get from my attacks may be the difference.

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It's an accident of the build that I haven't burned a respec to fix. Got lots of sets slotted that give +rng def, and not so many that give +melee. When I was buying recipes in bulk, there just weren't as many Touch of Death recipes and IOs available as I would have liked to get my def up. On the other hand, Mako's and Red Fortune were rather available. So I ended up with more +rng than I really need, and haven't rebuilt since getting enough ToD and a full Obliteration set.

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Another flawless victory

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What _does_ the Goat do in his professional life? I'm curious.

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I think garbage engineer.



RagManX

Air Burst

Haxx0r!

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Don't forget the steadfast res/def +3% to all defenses.

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My /nin has it, but I don't have a resistance based power on my /SR to add this one in.

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Darlest night will never be enough alone - you need to stack it with fearsome stare.

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I have both. Fearsome stare doesn't help me pull enough spawns to cap AoE. With just DN and SF, enemies still have a pretty good chance to hit me. I usually solo my fire/dark, which means to make the AoE capabilities really work, I have to pull 2-4 spawns (running on difficulty one above default). When she's running on a team, it's actually easier to take advantage of her pulling and AoE abilities since I usually only have to hit one or two spawns and can usually get behind a corner before the toggle affects enemies and they aggro.

For soloing, which is about 90% of the time I play her, I find a good corner to pull to, run past however many spawns I need to get a dozen or more enemies grouped, dropped DN on a Lt or Boss in the last spawn, run back towards my corner (dragging the toggle target through extra spawns but staying within toggle range), and finally drop tar patch. Once all the yummy enemies hit the edge, I can build up, drop rain of fire, then jump around the corner to either FS+FB+BoF or FB+BoF, depending on how tough a group of enemies I'm up against. But really, on a soloist pulling multiple spawns this way, by the time RoF and FB combine damage BoF take almost everything else out unless there is a boss, so I hardly ever need FS. The time spent effectively in the open and subject to enemy fire to make the pull work is why she usually has to use inspirations as part of the pull.

But even though I don't use it too much in the situations I find my fire/dark in, I picked up FS at 22 (stamina at 20). She just hit 24, and adding CJ to her build has helped some, too. The biggest problem I've had for her has been immobs. Now that weakness is gone, and I'm at the point I can start getting some decent IO slotting going for bonuses. She's always been quick clearing missions solo. It's just getting easier.

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Used to do it that way, but found I needed 1-2 purples to do the toggle pull anyway

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Wuh?

I'm not trying to be a meanie here, but... wuh?

I've got four level 50 Dark Miasmas, and I never ran into this. How do you position yourself to apply the debuff, and what do you do next?

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I'm still in the 20s, and don't have a travel power yet. The toggle isn't enough, even stacked with shadowfall, to keep me mostly untouched. Until I picked up CJ at last level, immobs were an issue, too. I don't have full invis, and don't move around too quickly yet, plus lack sufficient +def set bonuses and slotting to get high enough -tohit or +def to run without a little extra def from eating insp.

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I'm slightly biased, but I'd advise a scrapper for this project. Probably a claws/regen.

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Was thinking about the same, although I would personally go MA/Rgn or DM/Rgn I think, but that's purely because I prefer those two to claws (I like claws, just not as much). I don't know which would be better from a strictly numerical standpoint.

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guess it's time to check in on my guy who got stuck with a tray full of Essence stacks when MA crashed the market!

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Thinking the same thing. I had a character with 8 of them listed for something like 5 times typical pricing, which were there from before the last crash. I'll have to check how much I got for them.

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I really doubt they were trying to lowball down to 24 million, but they could have started there getting ready to bid-creep when typo disaster struck. At any rate, congrats on your good luck.

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Having purchased many high-end IOs for less than 1/3 typical pricing, I can believe someone was trying to lowball 24M and wait for a fill. I have about 20 outstanding bids blue- and red-side for LotG +7.5% crafted IOs in the 21-34M range. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

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Was spelling your name wrong when I tried to contact you last night. Got it right tonight, but you weren't on. I was mistaken about having the IO on virtue. Sorry and good luck.

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Totally forgot that. It's a given in every defense based character of mine.

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What level are the LoTGs?

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I'll offer 11 luck charms and 4 alchemical silvers.

Wish I could help. I'm not up to playing in the half-billion per move market at the moment, and don't need the IO for my own use.

Good luck,

RagManX

Can't give specifics, but combat jumping, Blessing of the Zephyrs, Red Fortune, Mako's, and Touch of Death are on the list of things I use to get there. I'm over 50% on ranged, at 43.99% on melee, and 42.74% on AoE in my early 40s on my DM/SR. I could get higher with some re-arranging of powers or IOs, but that's close enough that I rarely am in danger. Of course, the extra -tohit that I get from my attacks may be the difference.

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If you haven't done this yet, I think I can help. I have a handful of spare steadfast KB prot. IOs on almost every server and side. I'll check when I can get game time (after the kids go to bed in 2 hours).

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Helped a friend buy such a SG on Freedom not too long ago. She got a moderately built base with enough prestige to build I believe a 4-porter transportation room, control, energy, and a couple enh. storage tables. Cost less than 30M influence, if I recall. I paid for it, because she didn't have much inf on the server and she had funded me on Champion when I was so poor I was about to quit CoH out of frustration.

No, I don't think you'll be so fortunate as to get such a SG and base for that kind of price. I'm kind of surprised she was able to.

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Once you toggle pull then throw tar patch + fearsome stare + build up + rain of fire + fireball + taco-bell breath, you can wipe out lots.

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There, fixed!

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Used to do it that way, but found I needed 1-2 purples to do the toggle pull anyway, and fearsome stare just slowed down the damage attack portion of my chain with no obvious benefit in survivability. I don't use fearsome stare now on anything less than at least a couple of orange Lts that survive the alpha or when there is a boss and I need the extra debuff on the boss.

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Have a fire/dark I was a bit "meh" about until she hit the teens. Once you toggle pull then throw tar patch + build up + rain of fire + fireball + taco-bell breath, you can wipe out lots. I've started eating 2 +def inspirations, pulling 12-15 enemies, and wiping them all out at once. 3 or 4 pulls of that, and you clear a solo mission.

Also had fun wiping out scrapyarders near Ghost of Scrapyard with my fire/dark, thanks to aggro limits - just Darkest Night something on the edge, run a distance away to limit time between large scrapyarder enemies attacking, and use the above attack on them. Taking out a dozen at a time really makes those sharkshead badges easy to pick up, and helps plenty with leveling speeds.

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90% of what people say here is true , the market is a tool and it should be "usable" by all. the one thing I cannot stand and makes my extremely irritated with is gougers. They buy the entire market of lets say Spell Scrolls ( A common low level salvage ) for 5000 then put all of it back up for 100,000. Now all low level players cannot make any Endurance related IO unless they find there own salvage.

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In the spirit of earlier replies to this thread:

"You're wrong."

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I don't have a spine/SR, but do have a low-level spine/Nin. It is slower at low levels than my other (single-target focused) stalkers have been, but I think at higher levels it will be nice. The option to just stand around a few seconds until fading to hide again so you can unleash another AoE with the chance to crit that goes with it seems worth looking forward to. But I've been playing my DM/SR, one of my VEATs, and my fire/dark corr so much that my spine/Nin has kinda stalled in the low teens. I could be wrong on how worthwhile it is.

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Another weird question I have, which is just a curious one... has anyone out there NOT taken Placate? I mean, I do know it's useful to get an enemy off your back but wondering if a Stalker can work without it... or hell, how it even works in PVP. I mean not only do I dislike it's "Jedi" animation.. but if I could free up a power...

But ya.. just curious if a Stalker can work without it... is it really that important.

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Without placate, you could not pull this move off unless you were defense based and just waited to rehide. But that wouldn't be as cool nor as funny.

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I have done something like this. I typically determine what set bonuses I'm going to need the most for a character, and start looking for deals on the recipes. Of course, since I work the market in addition to normal play, I can't help with determining whether or not you'll have enough in drops to do it. I would suspect you won't have enough without either marketeering, turning off XP to earn extra inf, getting a lucky drop, or using a sugar-daddy character to fund it.

When I plan ahead, I put in super lowball bids across a couple of levels and try to get some lucky buys. When I get within 10-20 hours of hitting 30th, I start putting in some more legitimate buys. Typically, I don't actually get everything I want until I'm well into my 30s, and I use common IOs or cheap multi-aspect set pieces to fill in the slots I'm leaving for later set pieces.

I also tend to over-buy what I need, so I can sell excess to recoup some inf.

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