Siolfir

Brute numbers, level 50:

Notes

• Standard secondary effect is -6.375% to smashing/lethal/energy/negative/fire/cold damage types on the target, exceptions exist and will be noted.
• All powers with the standard secondary grant +25% damage while Power Siphon is active.
  • The buff is capped to 5 active at any time.
  • Each buff lasts for 7(?) seconds, and they remain until the end of their duration, even if Power Siphon's effect wears off.
• If an AoE size or range isn't mentioned, it's a single target attack with a 7' range.
• Animation times are as listed in game, not accounting for server ticks.

Quick Strike
Activation Time: 0.83s
Endurance Cost: 4.37
Recharge: 3.00s
Accuracy: 1.00x
Effects:

• 26.28 smashing damage
• 8.67 energy damage
  • 35.03 total
• 25% chance for 0.70 KB.

Body Blow
Activation Time: 1.07s
Endurance Cost: 5.82
Recharge: 5.00s
Accuracy: 1.00x
Effects:

• 36.29 smashing damage
• 12.10 energy damage
  • 48.38 total
• 20% chance for mag 3, 7.15s stun

Smashing Blow
Activation Time: 1.20s
Endurance Cost: 7.70
Recharge: 7.00s
Accuracy: 1.00x
Effects:

• 41.71 smashing damage
• 20.02 energy damage
  • 61.73 total
• 33% chance for mag 3, 7.15s stun

Power Siphon
Activation Time: 1.93s
Endurance Cost: 5.20
Recharge: 120.00s
Effects:

• +7.50% to-hit for 20.00s
• for 20.00s, enables siphon effect (see notes above).

Repulsing Torrent
Activation Time: 2.00s
Endurance Cost: 11.86
Recharge: 12.00s
Accuracy: 1.00x
AoE: 40' radius cone, 45.00 degree arc, 10 targets max
Effects:

• 25.02 smashing damage
• 8.34 energy damage
  • 33.37 total
• 80% chance for 7.79 KB
• does not have standard secondary effect (no -dam, no +dam with active Siphon)

Taunt
... it's taunt. C'mon.

Burst
Activation Time: 2.67s
Endurance Cost: 14.35
Recharge: 15.00s
Accuracy: 1.00x
AoE: 8' radius PBAoE, 10 targets max
Effects:

• 31.28 smashing damage
• 20.85 energy damage
  • 52.13 total
• 50% chance for 0.67 KB
• -dam secondary effect is double strength: -12.75%, Siphon effect only applies once if it hits any targets

Focused Burst
Activation Time: 2.00s
Endurance Cost: 8.53
Recharge: 8.00s
Accuracy: 1.00x
Range: 40', single-target
Effects:

• 51.30 smashing damage
• 17.10 energy damage
  • 68.40 total
• 50% chance for 0.67 KB

Concentrated Strike
Activation Time: 2.83s
Endurance Cost: 18.51
Recharge: 20.00s
Accuracy: 1.20x
Effects:

• 41.71 smashing damage
• 106.77 energy damage
  • 148.48 total
• 60% chance for 11.92s mag 3 stun

There you go, there's the set.

Oh noez, the NDA has fallen! MA gets buffed, indicating the end of the world is nigh! DOOOOOOOM!

Since today's announcement that we're allowed to discuss beta things here, I sent a PM asking for this thread to be moved to a non-beta section of the boards.

Sure, it's probably run through most of the course anyway, but more eyes couldn't hurt.

As many have said, the Corruptor is likely to be the most useful to the largest number of teams, then the Crab (because -resistance is fun), and then the Brute.

Or you could make an Ill/Rad Praetorian Controller in about a week and take them redside.

True - like I said in the post, it'd probably end up just being a random crit after someone has too many attacks queued and realizes after the fact that they messed up. It has frustration potential, which is generally considered a bad thing. But it does have the benefit of rewarding better play (or at least, rewarding not random attack-button-mashing, which is the standard approach for most ATs).

And I'm not really pushing for that over anything else at the moment as much as trying to come up with a proposal that would fit a slightly different playstyle that revolves more around the "Hide gimmick", to show an alternative for someone like Samuel_Tow who would be adverse to a higher damage modifier which could create a more Scrapper-like feel. I think a simpler solution would work for the majority of Stalker players, which is why I asked what people thought about it.

Just some quick notes on the last few posts here:

First, I don't think there's as much room for trim on the Assassin's Strike animations as a whole as you'd originally think - just look at Kinetic Melee for an example of one that's fairly fluid and busy all the way up to the end, Broadsword doesn't have much stationary time if I'm remembering it right, and neither does Fist of Annihilation. Since they're supposed to be identical in all but damage type, you can only trim to the longest one, so there's still going to be dead time in the horse stances (DM, EM, MA's original), the other blades (Katana, Dual Blades), and the amateur proctology exam ones (Claws, Spines, Electric) - and those all have their own varying amounts of dead time that could be trimmed as well. It won't end up much shorter without entirely new animations for each set's Assassin's Strike so that they all have the same one - which I personally would find boring.

Second, regarding making Stalkers "more desirable for teams". While that's a possible side-product of a buff, the issue I'm bringing up in this thread is less about teams and more about individual performance, whether solo or teamed. A Stalker Placating and getting someone killed can happen, but honestly I've seen a lot more bad Masterminds kill people than bad Stalkers. With that said, I'd rather that the buffs not necessarily tie into Placate - although that's more of a performance concern than my worrying about it killing people.

Third, as for the random chance to Placate being tacked onto attacks - I agree that it would often simply end up being an extra way of saying "more criticals outside of hidden status". However, there are those chances where it'd save you a few seconds of waiting before you move on, and dropping back into hidden status has other features you could link it to. So if I were to support this I'd rather it just set the kMeter value for "hidden status" instead of Placating, and make a couple of tweaks to take advantage of that.

For example, Hide's extra defense (3.75% to all but AoE, 37.5% to AoE - this is on top of the 1.875% to all that's always up) suppresses for 8 seconds when attacking, when damaged, or when you click a glowie. If, instead of a suppression timer, it just checked the kMeter for stealth (so, "if Hidden" vs "oh, it hasn't been 8 seconds yet") you could have Placate and/or a "random hidden" effect apply additional defense. If you want to almost guarantee that you'll get at least one critical out of it, you can bump the decimal place over on the defense to all but AoE, effectively turning Placate - or a random "drop into Hidden" - into a better version of Shadow Meld (which is why I find this part unlikely).

So, if this is so silly numerically, why do I mention it? Because a decimal shift like that would help resistance and heal sets use the Hidden status more effectively by pushing them right to the soft cap - they're less likely to be hit, so more able to utilize that critical, hopefully with Assassin's Strike since it's a very good DPA attack from hidden status (as in, 2.21 damage scale/sec of arcanatime, which is higher than Blaze) - and the excess on defense sets is simply overkill in most situations anyway. Placate already actively sets the kMeter value to 1 (to drop into Hidden status), so having it as a random effect of an attack could simply be a percentage chance of it happening per single-target attack. Plus having a random "drop to hidden" would affect the next hit to provide a critical, and the defense boost would simulate Sam's "nobody can see me to hit me, so I can move freely to select the next target" desired style of play.

The problem with it is that it'll likely also just end up being a random critical on the next available attack (rather than the one you're using at the moment) if you're trying to maintain a solid DPS chain - you likely will have things queued already and won't notice that you dropped into hidden status until it already came and went. Being able to leverage it would provide a lot of survivability to Stalkers as a whole, as well - it would provide an incentive for careful power selection and watching what happens to your target rather than random button mashing.

If something like this - simply setting the kMeter to 1 - were to happen instead of the random criticals, but at the same rate, how would you feel about it?

from my first post on it:

Little Bunny Pew Pew (50 Mind/Energy, 1 LotG +rech away from permaDom) is on the wrong server.

You should bribe people to transfer characters. >.>

Love the site!

Here's what I (eventually) got: