Stalk_obot_EU

lose mace blast, you just dont need it in your chain, I would say drop web envelope too but you may want the immob for pvp purposes.

I will say to try and fit in tough as your resistances then become superior to pretty much anything

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I guess you're advicing to take some slots from FA and BU and use them for more Acc. on my attacks?

I'll have a go at that anyway on test server or something because I'm essentially trying for incredible accuracy by hook or by crook.

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I would take some of the ToHits and put an extra acc in your attacks, my pvp toons have a minimum of 2 acc in all all attacks, the extra tohits in BU and TA dont augment the acc as much as the extra slots would imo

stalkers and scrappers are sustainable in the sc environment which is why we see more of them in there. Stalkers have a built in survivability with hide so are pretty much pick up and play and scrappers are quite hardy anyway. Its sad that blasters/trollers/defenders/corrs/doms get jumped on as soon as they are spotted as it helps people gravitate to the stalker/scrapper sets :/

MMs are pretty godly in bodyguard these days especially pre 30, there are much more ways around them in WB and RV for example. (and dark cant grab a heal from you in elude )

the numbers are fundamentally useless in real terms as it doesnt factor in the .5 acc modifer in pvp as opposed to .75 in pve. The upshot is my sr scrapper, without elude or parrys def buff, has def of 30% and is really, really hard to hit and it makes pvp a joy. Even with my scrappers insane accuracy I still miss SR stalkers who are fully slotted, sure the random number gods can be kind or cruel but its far better to maximise your def as that is all SR is, no heals, no ticks, just def.

All imo of course

dotn make the mistake of dropping any of the passives in the SR set, they are all needed, your defence is defence and you need as much of it as you can get. The AOE def isnt just aoes, it also includes cone attacks and there are much more of these in the game than you may be aware of.

you need all the SR secondaries, forget the patron powers, they are mediocre at best.

here are the powers I would ahve in a EM/SR (not in any particular order)

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Exported from Ver: 1.7.6.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder - (http://sherksilver.coldfront.net/index.php)
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Name:
Level: 50
Archetype: Stalker
Primary: Energy Melee
Secondary: Super Reflexes
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01) --> Energy Punch==> Empty(1)
01) --> Hide==> Empty(1)
02) --> Focused Fighting==> Empty(2)
04) --> Focused Senses==> Empty(4)
06) --> Assassin's Strike==> Empty(6)
08) --> Build Up==> Empty(8)
10) --> Agile==> Empty(10)
12) --> Placate==> Empty(12)
14) --> Hasten==> Empty(14)
16) --> Practiced Brawler==> Empty(16)
18) --> Super Speed==> Empty(18)
20) --> Dodge==> Empty(20)
22) --> Stealth==> Empty(22)
24) --> Invisibility==> Empty(24)
26) --> Energy Transfer==> Empty(26)
28) --> Quickness==> Empty(28)
30) --> Hurdle==> Empty(30)
32) --> Total Focus==> Empty(32)
35) --> Evasion==> Empty(35)
38) --> Elude==> Empty(38)
41) --> Health==> Empty(41)
44) --> Stamina==> Empty(44)
47) --> Stimulant==> Empty(47)
49) --> Aid Self==> Empty(49)

Just that I have 3 acc/dam HOs in my spines/regen scrappers quills and even with the much higher brawl index the damage is negliable. I personally wouldnt suggest to anyone to slot icicles/quills with damage, I just feel the slots can be used to greater effect elsewhere.

Not having played an ice tank I dont know how useful the end recovery power is but it does seem to have a fantastically short recharge time. As it stands with your slotting and not taking into account your attacks your end rec per second is about 1.096, when making my alts I tend to aim for 1.7 per second minimum just on toggles alone.

I still think the ToHits in BU are unnessesary, they raise the base acc of BU from 20% to 31% so thats 3 slots for 11% acc for 10 seconds. FAs base of 18% goes to 29% so thats 6 slots for essentially 15% acc (with BU tohits broken into pro rata acc of 11% for 10 seconds every 30 seconds so essentially 3.66% acc) to me they could be of better use elsewhere, would be far better throwing another acc (33%) into your attacks. I know ToHits are supposed to be better than acc but I run 3 tohits in bu and FA and dont notice any difference on my other alts to be honest.

JIMO of course

I dont think you need aid self at all, you have hoarfrost AND hibernate, aid self is just overkill and not needed. I would lose FA too as its just not needed in pve, 1 acc SO in attacks is enough to hit things in pve and FA is a huge endurance drain, tactics would be a more efficient way to see stalkers.

Icicles damage is so small its not worth slotting for, if an attack causes 2 pts of damage and you 3 slot it for damage you will have spent 3 slots to get an additional 2 pts of damage (thats just an example, Im not on my builder to pull up any real figures but its NOT worth slotting damage in) Icicles also need as many end reds as possible, its very end heavy

ToHits in BU is a waste if PVE is your main aim

I will have a look on the builder tomorrow and post what I would make.

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Doesn't using Rest give you protection from TP Foe?

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yes, you cannot be TPd if you are in rest

He dinged while stuffing the Vindicators, nice mission to do it on, gratz

really sloppy coding once again, like when the nullifiers sonic grenades were something stupid like mag 100 and broke granite and rooted with a sideways glance. Looks like gw is about to become popular with pvp villains

TA rules, the slows rock

Ice arrow is a very good secondary single person hold which means in practice you can chain hold a boss quicker than cryptic says nerfs mean more fun

Jums sonic/nrg does very well in pvp, its good to see someone doing so well outside of the obvious sets.

I am enjoying my elec/elec but wished for ices much faster activation times on many occasions but draining people is a joy in its own right. Its the speed that is what makes ice so favoured as a primary as far as I can see.

/elec has much more powerful attacks lower down the chain and can have your best melee hit at 28 as opposed to 38 for EM but EM has other tricks up its sleeve. All in all i think the balance on these sets are quite good.

Just looking over the other sets and I can see bonuses and balance in pretty much all of them but /fire which seems designed purely to allow blasters to commit suicide in the fastest manner possible. Fire sword seems crazy powerful for a lvl 2 attack but blazing aura and burn seem so out of place imo.

If i was doing another blapper i think I would go ice/elec

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Lol, tell Gatling(think it's him with X-treme?) with his two shotting fire/energy tank

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Energy Melee does silly damage. Ice Melee doesn't even come close.

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Greater ice sword with FE+BU gives a BI of 20.5 (slotted) energy transfer with FE+BU gives 47.8 and total focus is 37.3. Nothing comes close to energy melee.

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Nice lil turn out for some Warburg PvPage tonight, thanks guys, t'was fun ^^

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Yeah it was, couple of MMs and corrs were making life very difficult but we had a few very good empaths rotate on the hero side which meant that neither side was whitewashing the other. I must confess to enjoying end draining the MMs

we did the brute on relentless and to say we had acc issues was an understatement and walking back to change the lvl kinda grated so we abandoned and made the corrs and 2/3 shotted entire mobs. The mayhem mission was fun, ran to bank and battered the huge amount of longbow who came in after us in seconds

we had 1 sonic, 3 colds, 1 dark, 2 kins

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i should be there [img]/uk/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] which arena?

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left most of our toons at talos so may as well do it there [img]/uk/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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I will appear with my blaster for all your ganky goodness.

Must admit, was fun PvPing till 2AM in the morning.

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Pfft your damn blasters one of the studiest I have come across even when I played you on my BS/SR, only time you went down with any frequency was when we caged your partner and drained you [img]/uk/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

last couple of nights have been getting some people together and doing arena battles, yesterday we had 6 and tonight(this morning) we had 10/11.

All different alts, all people, some hardened pvp players, some not but we all had a blast and will hopefully be doing so again tonight (17th) at 10pm BST

Will be a lvl 50 battle and if anyone fancies it just come along, I will be mixing and trying to equalise the teams out for everyone to have fun (so no ideas about coming down with your pvp sg gank squad [img]/uk/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img])

Hope to see you there [img]/uk/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

I crashed and then my dom was perma logged in so got annoyed and pvpd. I was on as Psi-ko.

But im in for the all brute team, should lvl faster than the doms too due to the inherant survivability, either a ss/inv or a ss/fire i think

I not had a ninjitsu stalker so cant comment on a lot of their powers but i can say from playing a squishy on the hero side that blinding powder is awesome in pvp due to the sleep aspect, very annoying [img]/uk/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

number are 3 slotted with recharge 61 seconds. with hasten 45 seconds

my villains are zone based atm, not lvld one for lvl 50 pvp, guess I could bring my lvl 42 granite brute tho if you need it, would prbably be best use with 6 slotted taunt and full defensive slotting

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Yes Electric Brutes do indeed have high resistance to Energy. [img]/uk/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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Shockingly high, you might say [img]/uk/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

But is it as high as that of a PB?

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That and more, with tier 9 the numbers you get for res to energy is 275%, of course thats well past the cap.

In warburg tonightI was called a "lamer" by a rad defender because I ran off the debuffs on me through the safe zone, a fair tactic I felt as with each hit she would run into the blue and heal. Due to the fact that I dont take random tells of abuse well a prompt ignoring took place and I swapped alts as I normally do for a bit of variety and proceeded to carry on PVPing with copious amounts of killing the aforementioned defender. Of course this rad defender seemed to take exception to the fact that I dont like abusive tells and/or the fact that I ignored her and then proceeded to follow me around latching debuffs on me the moment i left the boat. So i notified the rest of my team to her behaviour and logged on my stalker, cue many more defender deaths.

Of course I didnt get around to ignoring the person on all of my alts and i proceeded to get another insulting tell with a threat that she was going to get her dominator on me lol [img]/uk/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] That just cracked me up [img]/uk/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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elec brutes have protection against slows, sorry to dissapoint you.

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its easy to stack over the slow resistance of elec or sr, at least with my fire/ta, have took down elec brutes in sc where I have 0 damage [img]/uk/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]