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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

It's only available for use with Half Helmets, and is a Detail 2 piece called "Oni Guard."

Originally Posted by Moderator 08

To throw a complete sidetrack in the thread, while Ill/Rad and Fire/Rad are both amazingly good, Plant/Rad is also a strong contender that doesn't get as much play. Plant is a strong set with it's own bevy of tricks, and rad complements it nicely with additional control options and of course the phenomenal de-buffs. Plant/Rad's nicest bonus however is it's speed of maturity. Plant/Rad is good to go at something like level 8, and only gets better. Ill/Rad and Fire/Rad both take a while to hit their stride.

Making a bad controller with ill, fire, or plant as the primary, or rad or storm as the secondary is pretty hard though.

My thoughts on the Ill vs. Fire debate.

Well built illusion/radiation is arguably the strongest contender in the game vs. hard targets in that it will almost always win over time. I have yet to run into an AV on my Ill/Rad that has been a significant challenge (as long as I remember to keep clicking, some of them drag on for a while) and generally the only time I die on the character is when I get too aggressive.

Fire/Rad is the meaner, faster, not quite as safe sister to Ill/Rad. But for normal play, Fire/Rad doesn't disappoint in that it does everything well. Also everyone loves having a Fire/Rad on the team, something that Illusion occasionally (rightly or not) gets some knocks for. For those of a more horticultural mindset, Fire/Rad is a much better choice (of the two).

Hope that helps, after reading this discussion I'm all excited to play my fire/rad again. I might have to return to that project after I finish up the characters that I am working on.

Originally Posted by macskull

I know, I know. You're the animation guy. But you make it seem like you're the only guy working on this game anymore.

Originally Posted by RottenLuck

Also you might want to consider the AT type.

Stalkers I found Dark/Dark did not work as well as a stalker then as my brute. The main reason is the Dark Armor auras are made to stun foes. The Stalker however is made to have a powerful AS strike. So your attack would be... Hide sneak up, AS, Turn on auras for other foes. Fight like mad. Between your AS and the aura activation your open to attack and stuck in the animation.

Tankers I found given Dark Armor end drain issue and lack of Knock back protection. It's a challenge to play as a tanker but can be done. If you use this be very skilled with enhancements.

I'm having a blast with my Dark/Dark Brute. Level 32 I still juggle my toggles picking and choosing on what targets I'm going to hit and turning off my aura's when I'm done to save end.

I went to level 50 with a Dark/Dark Scrapper. With the DPS End wasn't much of a problem with small groups. I often soloed with my scrapper.

Edit to add.... Of course as I was typing this you chose brute.... it's a blast.

If you like to change Dark armor with Willpower it makes an unstoppable tanker! Thought one more focused on one foe at a time. Might make a good Stalker or Scrapper a Dark Melee/Willpower.

Originally Posted by ZephyrStarr

This was ages ago, pre-ED even. I was on the Numina TF, playing my Claws/Invuln Scrapper. Now, he would often tank for the group if there wasn't one available, and I loved every minute of it. But this particular moment is one of my favorites of his career.

One of the missions in the TF sent us to Eden. I had to afk, and when I came back, most of the team was dead due to a hot door. If I remember correctly, there were about 4-5 yellow/orange Devoured bosses slapping people around. The tank was dead, as well as the blasters, and I think our storm defender was trying to keep them at bay with hurricane. I dropped from the sky into the middle of the group as the defender went down.

My scrapper took them all down while everyone watched. I could have just entered the mission while everyone else went to the hospital, but I wanted to see if he could do it. And he did. And it was glorious. The tank complained about it, which just made it better. Rawr Scrappers! I have four at level 50. Definitely my favorite AT.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

Why does that call for rebalancing the game? It's not like soloing AVs is actually useful. It's just neat to be able to do. Your MM is good at it because you have massive -regen debuffs, which are one of the most powerful tools available for soloing a large hard target.

Balance does not suggest that every build, AT or character be as good at every task as every other.

I won't claim that Stalkers have an outstanding place in the key set of roles people look for a character to fill in this game, but that's not a problem unique to Stalkers. They're essentially what was originally a PvP-centric AT tweaked to be viable in PvE. They're intended to be played because they're functional and different than the alternatives. If they don't do what you want to achieve in the game, it's OK if you don't play them.

Originally Posted by Muon_Neutrino

I believe it's been decided that the abilities he uses at the beginning are build up, conserve power, power boost, and the ammo change power - basically meaning that he's a pistols/EM blaster. We saw no sign of aim, and build up is always in the secondary.

Originally Posted by Rush_Bolt

Yeah. I pointed that out in the Hero-Con thread.

So if somebody's got information that DP does have Aim, it'd be new news. For now though, I'm currently going on the assumption that Change Ammo is replacing Aim in the set.

Originally Posted by Eiko-chan

Dominators are the "Blappers" redside, with their Assault sets.

Originally Posted by Ethric

Fire/Cold. I remember having one at 33-34 for months, I was at the brink of deleting him for his suckage and complete helplessness against anything that had a mez.

What happened when I finally got him that one darned level? The coin of power flipped, the unslotted Sleet, the blazing revenge. There were only bodies. Me on top of them, laughing like a maniac.

Not only you can solo very efficiently, you are one of the better teammates around with the strong buffs and potent debuffs. Also, insane damage you can achieve with just Sleet + RoF alone gets just better with Fire Ball, Heat Loss and Inferno.

Originally Posted by Heartbreaker

Duhh, They don't drop Magic Enhancements because they've slotted them.

Originally Posted by Siolfir

I'm just calling it how I see it - someone forgot to hand me blinders. Stalkers -can- be great on teams. They can also suck horribly. Just like every other AT, that's more dependant on the player than the character. But numerically, Stalkers can do better single-target DPS than Scrappers with a mid-large sized team while ignoring the guaranteed criticals and assuming the same attack chain (ie, no Assassin's Strike to get a huge boost out of the gate). As for AoE, now you're looking into powerset-by-powerset comparisons and specific builds, but generally speaking a Scrapper will do more AoE than a Stalker, and a Blaster will do more AoE than either (and often more than both put together).


I'm not disputing that Stalkers are a lot more fun; they are for me as well (I have 2 MMs currently, 7 Stalkers; any one of the Stalkers sees more playtime than both of the MMs combined). But for those who find it extremely fun to sit back and watch as their enemies melt before them, MMs will be more their style.