ToySoldierZolgar

Kusari Gama would actually be the Assault set.
Manriki Gusari are too short for much reach, they don't even match a staff for reach.

But, trying to use Jason as an example to support a stalker with an awkward weapon, VEEERY bad example.
Jason 1: used a machete, not an awkward weapon. 2: SO a brute. >.>
There are unfortunately very few examples (that I am familiar with) of stealthy killers (which regardless of anything else, IS what a Stalker is), with awkward and unwieldy weapons.

As for an example that supports scythes for brutes/scrappers: What's his name from Soul Calibur III. (If you can use movies, I can use video games!)

Anyways. I think this is something we won't really agree on. though I think we DO both agree that stalkers could use some love.

Here's an option for you for an initially stalker exclusive (though I do not warrant them sucking for other archtypes.) Two-bladed sword. Has speed and gains a lot of its power from the finesse of the user, not the brute strength, a lot of interesting potential, including it has defensive capabilities. And would allow for a wicked AS maneuver:
Bring the blade around one handed, slashing with the foremost blade, than step in, gripping the weapon with both hands and stabbing with the rear blade.

So.. you're wanting a set to get designed for stalkers, not proliferated to any of the other ATs at first, when it does you want it to suck for the two ATs that it makes the most sense for..
When your AT already has a set that was designed exclusively for them that no other AT has?
And when the weapon style that you are posing, does not lend itself well to swift, stealthy combat?

Do you know anything about fighting with a scythe? It's a very bulky weapon that while, yes, it moves fluidly in the hands of a skilled weilder, is not ideal for the assassination style that stalkers use. Worse even than Broadswords.
the style would actually lend itself best to Brutes and Scrappers, as would most polearms. Polearm combat is one of two things:
Long reach to keep your foes at bay. This style would be hard to replicate in CoH without probably making the class unplayable. (it would require the set to have long range melee (about twice the current melee range, if not more), andhave a mechanic that if the foe got within a certain distance (their melee range prolly) the were too close for you to attack. Unless a power was given to this set much like the /kins repel, which would probably overpower the set.) If it could be done without major breakage, this style could lend itself well to tanks and maybe stalkers. Generally it would focus on spears, pikes, bardiches, etc.
Or:
Very quick moving strikes from all around the body, often decent for crowd control. This style lends itself more to the oriental polearm styles, such as the Naginata, however a scythe would work for it as well. It would also lend itself QUITE well to brute/scrapper combat.

If you're going to request a set specially made for your archtype, consider what your archtype does, and what actually suits them.

Now, the weapon that I could see being unique to stalkers (at first), would be the Manriki Gusari, or perhaps a Kusari Gama.
Kusari Gama I doubt I need to even explain.
Manriki Gusari (as I've been told) directly translates to 'chain vise' (I am not sure, given who told me this, but it makes sense), and it a chain, usually 3-4 feet in length, with weighted ends.

The use of either of these, would be a quick moving, moderate damage attack set, with several defensive maneuvers as well. Some of their attacks would be chance for knockdown. All the attacks would have a slightly better range than most melee.
With the Manriki, the AS move would be basically using it as a garrote.
Witht he Kusari Gama it would be a strike with the sickle end.

Because it's not PvP, and they've said they won't release more one-sided zones.

What could be kinda cool is making a zone which both sides accessed, and for *insert reason* could not directly fight eachother, however missions for one side or the other would buff/debuff, much like how.. Bloody Bay(?) works.

So, heroes and villains are competing in the zone, which make it an interesting challenge because what the other side is doing effects you, but you don't have to be super uber built with one of 10 power sets in order to be actually competitive.

And for any who say it should be PvP, I will just counter:
The PvP population of this game is much smaller, the PvP is poorly balanced, and there's already more PvP zones than Co-Op PvE. And there are no Competitive PvE.

And let's see of those:
Illusion only has one other archtype that could get it (two, if they did what I want and tweaked it for MMs.)
Poison is, as far as actual powers goes, like a weak version of /rad, and rarely seen on MMs these days.
Ice Melee/Armor we've been calling for proliferation on for a while.
Ninjitsu, removes your claim to getting a unique set, sorry. Stalker only.

They have also been going through and proliferating most of the sets that they can see fit to. So I highly doubt they would add a new exclusive set.

Can you name one powerset that is EXCLUSIVE to any single archtype (with exception of the dominators "Assault" pools, which are thematically identical to one or more sets, just given melee and ranged attacks)

I know i sure can't.

The set being 'designed for' stalkers, I'd be fine with. But it it was a stalker exclusive set, I would be pissed. (I cannot play stalkers, I hate how the game treats them. They are an AWESOME concept, which the game mechanics are entirely built against.)

Team leader would actually be the instigator of the merge..

Basically Team Leader A would click Team Leader B and instead of 'invite to team' would get a 'merge team' button.
Team leader B would get a pop up like the team window saying "Would you like to merge with Team Leader A's team?"
He clicks "Yes" and all the members of his team get a pop up saying "You team is merging with Team Leader A's team, do you wish to join?"

I think it would be doable, and quite useful.

NO, this!

Let's see..
We'll just say that you run a mission with
100 minions
40 lts.
20 bosses.

That's going to equate to, under your proposal..
25*100= 2500
75*40= 3000
120*20= 2400
Or: 7900 tickets.
7900/540 for a piece of rare salvage= 14 pieces of rare salvage
We'll say you get pieces worth 1.5 million inf, which is a pretty standard rate for high end rare salvage, and since you can cherry pick it, of course you're going to get sought after pieces.
That is 21 million inf from one relatively easy mission, not counting the inf. drop rates of the baddies.

That's more reward for one easy mission than you are LIKELY to get out of a full level 50 ITF. Sure it takes a little effort on your part ot sell the salvage, but not much.

That isn't at ALL excessive?

Not dead.
They at least said they didn't touch ticket drop rates.
You can still pretty easily hit cap with moderate difficulty settings on a map populated by canon mobs.
I would like to see the end bonus tickets ignore the cap though.
You are posing that for every.. 24 minions you kill, you can get 1 piece of rare salvage of your choosing? For every 8 Lts and for every 5 bosses? ... So basically you want to be able to run ONE AE ticket farm, and get 5-10 pieces of rare salvage?

I could see perhaps MAYBE a slight increase in drop rate, or perhaps the end of mission bonus being better.
Still is.
Just isn't as insanely good as boss/lt farms.

The Zolgar agrees with this poster.

I think we just need to use the idea posed by Memphis Bill in your sig.

Flip side:
This hero who gets defeated all the time might earn more respect than those who never do.
The heroes who never get defeated are always playing it safe, not going after the REAL threats to the world. the ones who fall, are risking life and limb for the people.

The villain that constantly gets defeated? I dunno about you, but I'd sure as hell be scared of someone who had been gun down, beaten to a pulp, run over, flung off buildings, etc, and never.. frelling.. died!

(Remember, in CoH/V you don't die, you get KO'd and the medical teleport kicks in.)

Which we would have to have the option to turn off.. Preferably the option to turn off selectively (like the SSK level popup)

An option to "only accept buffs from *group*" would be neat, too.
Everyone, Friends, SG, Team >.>

Any GOOD buffer listens when people say "no buffs" >.> (I join a team as my /kin, first thing I ask is "Does anyone NOT want SB?")

That aside.. The 'default colors' option is TOTALLY /signed.

I probably wouldn't use it, at least not often.

What I would love to see is 4 options.
Custom colors:
Always off
Always on
Always on, except those I select
Always off, except self and those I select

Basically if you had either of the 'except those I select' options selected, you when you right-clicked a player, the context menu would have an option of "turn default colors on/off" which would allow us to still see Awesome Hero Bob's cool color scheme, but not be blinded by Greifer George's neon pink/neon green buffs.

Well, if you just have a .75% damage bonus, then.. well, that sucks.. But see, I come from the school of thought that says "you can never have too much damage", so the .75% is just something that would add in to the ever growing pool of +damage.

.75% is usually only on the very low level and low-grade sets anyways.

As for the debt reduction.. I'd be fine with it going, and am fine with it staying. I don't feel that every attribute of an IO has to have use to everyone.
Look at +lethal res? Most tanks don't really need that. -mez duration? Yeah, sure. -KB? Once again, most tanks don't need it, nor does anyone with Acrobatics. +heal? Lesse certain tanks, brutes, scrappers and stalkers will get limited use of this. "Most" MMs, Trollers, Defenders and corruptors will get use of this, however many won't, and of these there are really only about 3 sets (Emp, Pain and Therm) that really get REAL use of it.

If all IOs properties were useful to everyone we would get:
+damage
+recharge
+regen
+rec
+end
+psi res

in every single set. Boring. >.>

I doubt it. See, my point on this all along has been the same as the I16 badge changes, to help do away with 'aberrant player behavior', farming X baddy for Y costume item is pretty aberrant, and more so getting SK'd up to level 49, to have a friend help you killify enough just to get the unlockable.

I feel that that kind of farming actually kinda cheapens the badge.

The badge for Overseers redside, for example.. That's a freakin' hard badge to get, and it's kinda cheapened by the fact that people hold that mission and farm it to .. practically any level.