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I didn't do them or check their numbers (I'm way too lazy for that), but I thought someone had some spreadsheets that showed an across-the-board look at resistances and they had Lethal as the most-resisted, then Psionic (because of how much it is resisted when it happens to be), then Toxic (same reason as Psi), then Smashing (it has a wider variety of mobs vulnerable to it).

The range that the powers fall into isn't extremely wide, though, which is why keeping a permanent AH proc going can make the lethal sets catch up and with a PvP -res proc they can pass them. Taking your final damage including criticals and multiplying by 1.4 is a nice little boost.

I'm just curious when I get a bill that allows me to forcibly remove and indefinitely detain politicians whom I feel are violating my civil rights without due process of law.

Activate it while moving.

BrandX said all that needs to be said. I skipped Havoc Punch and don't miss it at all.

It's one of the few sets I'd recommend taking the shorter-recharge power of the first two tiers (Energy Melee is another with Energy Punch over Barrage), and for the same reason: the faster one is a better attack chain filler in every imaginable way.

The offensive auras will break Placate because it removes you from the aggro list and then the next time the aura ticks, it affects the mob and you're added back to the list again. Note that some persistent secondary effects will also cause this, like the -recovery that exists in most of the Electric Melee attacks and the -damage from Kinetic Melee: I've had several cases where I Placate a mob, watch the animation complete, and then get attacked a second or two later by the mob I just Placated with both ElM and KM as a primary. Since I'm expecting it now, it's usually with KM and I queue either CS or Burst.

Chain Induction only criticals on the first target, but is still one of the best attacks you have due to the fast animation; following up Lightning Rod is usually Thunder Strike (100% chance for critical on the smashing - single target - half of the damage, 50% chance critical on the AoE energy half) or Assassin's Shock since the knockdown in Lightning Rod gives you a good chance of getting it off from hidden status without being interrupted. You can also use a fast-animating Patron AoE like Fireball or Ball Lightning, both of which will have a 50% chance to critical in i22 (currently Fireball has a 100% chance from hidden status).

I haven't played Stalker Dark Armor to any respectable level - my ElM/DA was deleted at around level 21 because it just didn't look right (prior to being able to color customize) and I only made it to look like a storm cloud.

1. I'd personally take Oppressive Gloom. I like the version that my Warshade has, and the little ticks of damage are tiny compared to what Dark Regeneration provides you.

2. I haven't bothered with the chance to Placate proc on a Stalker, but your auras will break Placate when they tick unless you're in Hidden status, when they'll suppress.

3. Lightning Rod does not critical. It also doesn't break you out of Hidden status, which means you can follow up with a critical <whatever> from hidden status.

4. Soul Mastery is a good general-purpose patron pool, and Fire can work if you're just going to set mule the first couple of powers and slot Fireball. One thing to note is that in i22 the criticals in the APPs are going to be fixed, and that includes getting rid of the 100% chance for critical from hidden on Fireball. I personally took Mu Mastery (Mu Bolts/Ball Lightning) on my Elec/Nin just for theme.

5. Charged Brawl is a better DPA (damage per activation time in seconds) power than Havoc Punch, and so you'll end up doing more single target damage with it than with Havoc Punch. I consider Havoc Punch to be the skippable power in Electric Melee, since Jacob's Ladder has better DPA than Havoc Punch and also can hit more than one thing.

Hrm. I posted elsewhere, the issue is that they based the Corruptor version on the Blaster version, and does (0.75 / 1.125) 2/3 of the damage.

The Blaster version (along with every other Blaster rain power) never was adjusted when Defiance 2.0 buffed their ranged damage modifier, so is based on a scale 1.0. So the Corruptor Rain of Arrows has a "damage scale" of 0.667.

Rain of Arrows summons a pseudopet, so uses the pet damage modifier instead of Corruptor modifier. The pet created was based on the damage of the Blaster version, and they reduced the damage by taking the Blaster modifier (1.125) and converting it to the Corruptor modifier (0.75), so it does 2/3 (66.7%) of the damage of the Blaster version.

When Archery was originally created for Blasters and Defenders, they got a separate pseudopet so that it would do different damage based on their damage modifiers - for Blasters at the time it was scale 1.0, for Defenders it was 0.65.

When Blasters got a ranged damage modifier buff to 1.125 as part of Defiance 2.0, Rain of Arrows was never changed and retained the same damage (none of the Blaster rain powers were changed, so Ice Storm, Rain of Fire, Ignite, and Blizzard are similarly "nerfed by negligence"). Thus, the Corruptor version is an effective 0.667 modifier instead of 0.75 - explaining why it barely does any more damage than the 0.65 modifier Defender version.

Yes, it's pre-nerfed for Corruptors because the Blaster version was the base used instead of taking the Defender version and making it do 15.4% (0.75 / 0.65) more damage.