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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison

Ok, if you put the same budget into a scrapper with the same powersets, you could do the same thing even faster and be more survivable doing it.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison

Maybe he didn't slow you down, but a comparable scrapper in his place would have sped things up even more. In fact, almost any other AT would likely have led to a faster TF. A stalker is debatable.

Originally Posted by EvilRyu

Well with Khelds they have good reason to do this. They give absolutely nothing to the team unlike the VEATs. They do not do anything the other main ATs couldnt do better. To top it off you run the risk of team wipes from cysts if you dont spot them early. Call me a kheld hater if you want but that would be my last choice if putting a team together for anything. So at least stalker come before khelds.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

Oh, Electricity Melee is good in pvp?? How so?

Originally Posted by Yorukira

Want to take my first stalker into pvp. I want to get some opinion

So how good is a EM into PvP?
How good is Regen for surviving?
any insite or opinion on PvP?

I didn't ask in Pvp forum becauseI want to hear the opinion of the stalkers expert first.

Originally Posted by SinisterDirge

I guess jousting mobs with my defender back in the day was exploiting as well. I can live with that.

It is nice to be able to succeed using different methods rather than everyone stop in front of the AV and faceroll the keyboard.

Originally Posted by Mirage_Mage

Thanks for adding the pvp stuff back in!

Originally Posted by firespray

Were there any changes made to the STF recently? I ran one this morning for my notice of the well, and although the team was on finished it successfully, we ran into some unusual things that none of us had ever seen before that made it more difficult. I'm not sure if these changes were intentional, or if they were simply bugs, or just unusual happenings that you won't usually see. Here's a list of the ones I remember.

The first time the flyer spawned, it was hovering directly above Recluse's head on the tower platform. We tried several times and could not get it to move from there.

The flier seemed to be summoning some sort of bomb that I don't remember ever seeing before. They looked like the crab spider's omega maneuver bomb.

The tank was having serious trouble keeping recluse's aggro. I know he was using taunt, because I saw the animation go off around recluse, but there were a few times that recluse simply ignored it and ran over to attack us at the tower.

When we got the 4th tower down and started attacking recluse, about 3 spawns worth of random arachnos came running over to attack us. I'm not sure where they came from since we had cleared out all the spawns close to the platform. They weren't the bane spiders that recluse summons either, it was just normal mixed arachnos enemies.

That's all I can remember.

Like I said, they may have just been coincidences, but I've run the STF a couple dozen times and I've never seen any of those things happen before, so I was just wondering if there had been some small changes made to it.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

Epic aoe is lvl 44 or 47? Only fireball can critical of the 4 epic sets.

Yes, I know patron/epic have aoe but 1. it's not a very good aoe (long recharge, kinda low damage) 2. primary sets shouldn't be balanced with patron/epic.

Originally Posted by Sentry4

Burn hits what, 5 targets? SC and LR hit 16 each last time i checked. A fire brute has very easy survivability on a fire ambush map, but if you build your shield right and constantly organize your inspirations to oranges, it'll survive a +2x8 fire ambush mission too. So survivability is equal, this brings us to purely damage.

Let's say burn does as much as shield charge. But it only hits 5 instead of 16. But there's LR too. So you need to use burn a total of 6 times to get the same as LR/SC, but you also need to use it 6 times within -20- seconds. Meaning with it's moderate animation time, you need it to recharge in about 2 seconds and spam the thing. GL with that. Not to mention how much rage crash will cut your farming when you get into the high numbers, where you have to constantly do damage to get the high numbers we all want.

ST, definitely. AoE? Not a chance, because at %185+ recharge levels, you can use LR and SC enough to constantly kill 16 targets at once. LR and SC are only as powerful as they are because of the damage being split up into 2 radius' where one is smaller. But that doesn't matter when you're surrounded by 150 guys. And also because they have pet damagae caps of 400%.

SS/Fire is way easier to farm with, which is what most -need- while farming or else they'll get bored. But i stopped using my ss/fire to farm because i hated being slower than my ele/shield, and that sort of stuff bugs me, even if the shield is 100x harder to play with the repetitive inspiration management.

People praise burn too much, it's been nerfed to hell. Shield scrappers with their already high base damage get AAO, which means they're pumping out more damage than a brute with high fury and rage. Brutes do as much damage, sometimes more, than scrappers until you get to shield scrappers or dark melee scrappers with the +dmg. Shield scraps break the game, and are perfect to abuse for farming.

The only complaint about ele/shield is that it has to wait for it's big hitters. But all you need is as much recharge as you would on a fire/kin and it's golden.

And if you wanted some real answers, should visit the scrapper forums. They actually calculate all these things.

Originally Posted by JD_Gumby

Worthless for you, perhaps. On the other hand, my Blasters are loving it. Not every pool power needs to be suitable for every Archetype or combat style, after all, and Whirlwind is very definitely a "Don't wanna melee!" power and quite good at what it does, though it's very expensive.