Sigma7

I submit my 1st born to the one who makes new AS animations.

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Honestly, what's _Castle_ going to do. Best thing that will happen is people keep saying how poor they are compared to the APPs and maybe 2-3 months down the line, you might see a change. It's not like they are going to scrap this entire issue and the Patron sets. Reason why Lord Recluse quit was because he couldn't do the things he wanted to do with the epic pools (or so it is rumored).

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Gooooood news

I PMed _Castle_ about the ranged modifier issue for stalkers/burtes V.S. scrappers/tanks that Kerzak posted and he just responded. "You are correct! Thanks. Maybe we'll get the villain PPPs set up similarly." Thanks for Kerzak for bringing the issue to light and we all know _Castle_ is the man!

err.. Am I not supposed to quote a dev directly form a PM?

Did anyone pm castle about this?

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how does your snipe do 300? i thought the plaque said Zapp would do about 85 dmg at lvl 40 on a stalker (unenhanced)

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Not even. I took my damage enhancement out to see how it'd do and now it's doing a base of about 67 with 5 IoPs

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Well i wrote down doing 105.1 on a bane spider commando and 150 on a random blaster this is with 3 damage SOs in the power. Also i don't know what resistance that blaster may or may not have had. Now I think those numbers are without crits but i don't remember and I have respeced out of the power to try another pvp build(that's way more effective than my sniping stalker) any way i guess i cold respec back and check again but that'll be a pain. This is what i found but I'm not big on testing so don't take what i say as a "fact" feel free to test your self. On a side note, some one told me that lbe was equal in damage to shadow punch in the DM set again not a "fact" cause i didn't check but if that is the case then i don't think it would be unreasonable to ask mu bolts to be around energy punch/sting of the wasp lv damage.

oh I don't know if i had IOPs on but i probly did.

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how does your snipe do 300? i thought the plaque said Zapp would do about 85 dmg at lvl 40 on a stalker (unenhanced)

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snipe(Zap) did about 150 damg and with a crit thats another
150= 300 im talking about 3 slotted for damg.

BTW any one tested the MU bolts for stalkers?

Today a scrapper hit me with laser beam eyes for 186 and crit for another 186. That's more than my snipe. Now i know that scrappers don't crit all the time but stalker snipe hits for 300 form hide with a 7.5 activation time, lbe hits for damn near 200 with an instant activation time. how does MU bolts hit enhanced? it its any where near lbe? I'd take that over the snipe any day. If its under 100 then its worthless. Heres the deal i understand that stalkers do NOT need a ranged AS, i know that theres a system that says that stalker versions of powers need to be only so powerful. I'm fine with that but don't give me a power that according to your own rules is destined to be gimped, give me something useful that wont make me over powered then(self buff). Imo its a bad idea to even give stalkers snipe because if it was useful then it would automatically make them over powered and if its balanced its damn near useless and at the very least not slot worthy. at any rate I'd take scrapper LBE that crits form hide over a snipe any day. hell id even take it if it didn't crit. I didn't take MU bolts but if you want me to take it it better hit for over 100 and crit form hide...

BTW devs wheres our hibernate, FON, focused acc, PFF good powers?

I just hit 42 and put 3 damage slots in Zapp and i had high hopes for this power. Maybe I just don't get it but, to me this power is useless. I hit a even lv bane spider commando for 105.1 with another 105.1 critical. I hit a random blaster for 150 and 150 crit. The only way I was able to kill any thing with this is to play scavenger like and hunt ppl on the verge of death. basically kill stealing. I can fly to so why would I use this power when i can just fly up and use melee or use tp foe and hit harder in the end any way. Don't get me started on the end drain.... the end drain is small in pve and damn near nonexistent in pvp. the end drain in this snipe power will never be of any use to any one. it wont drop any toggles that weren't going to drop any..... if the devs or any one else wants to explain the use of a snipe that wont even kill a even lv minion, I'm all ears. Npcs, blasters, defenders and even controllers shrugged off my snipes like it was nothing, I didn't even bother sniping scrappers or tanks. If this goes live I'm just going to get fitness and TP pools and be a better stalker than Sirocco could ever make me. IMHO Zapp the patron power S U C K S.

fyi em/ea stalker

Question.
Do Mu powers have the same ability as other electric powers to "overload his synapses, leaving him writhing for a moment"? and if not then why?