Vel_Overload

I agree, and thats why I didn't make a seperate thread waayy back in the day when I thought of the idea of the global endurance reduction. Too many problems. Yeah, I'd still take stamina, yeah it would take awhile to code and nobody would notice this reduction unless a giant sign was thrown at their face.

I dislike Endurance honestly. It's a very simplistic stat that is already very easy to navigate around (for the majority of powerset combinations.. poor Stone/Dark Brutes). It's not a bad stat, infact it's kinda necessary to stop people from spamming the high-end moves, because we All know that -recharge is rediculously easy to get now-a-days. Or atleast too easy to stack.

With both the -recharge and endurance system in place, the game was quite balanced around keeping high powered moved from being used too often. That has naturally changed with IOsets now fixing 1 or even both problems rather easily.

I could write a report about how IOsets have caused a power creep in the sense that now High-powered situational moves are now the normal moves of choice (see Perma-Phantom Army and speed Foot Stomping).

TL: DR

Yes.

yes.

what do you think MMO's strive to be?

WoW got the formula down pat, and as long as there are 2-3 people who say it's ok for someone to grind that long, game developers will do it because the rest of the population can be calmed down by explaining things like 'random drop' and 'l2play more' and 'time=reward' and all that stuff.

An easier way to get these sets is to do TFs really quickly gathering Merits at an optimum rate then using those merits instead. OR use merits to buy LotG IOs to sell for cash to use for purchasing PvP IO Sets.

Using Hero Merits alone just seems uninteresting and, from what you've shown: quite an undertaking for such an underwhelming reward.

Yes. This is the only way I'll play Broad Sword.

Sonic Cage.

(points in direction of the over 500 threads where this has been brought up)

Edit: This is to be taken light heartedly.. even though I still hate Sonic Cage

Massively? How so? a -res debuff? The only way this debuff would 'massively' boost a Stalker's personal damage is by applying it before using your attacks. After you AS means the AS didn't get the boost in damage from the -res power. Tankers got similar treatment, remember? A Tanker's brawl reduces the enemy's resistance by 20%. Did this boost the Tanker's DPS by a large margin? no. Did it boost the team's damage by a large margin? No.

What if it was AoE? 20% is still very low. Tar Patch reduces res by 30%. Infact, most powers that reduce resistance reduce it by atleast 20-30%, and even they don't make or break a class. sorry, but my Dark corruptor isn't brought along -just- for Tar Patch alone

Small? Your putting words in my mouth. Don't assume things in your arguement, makes you look foolish. I gave no exact number, if anything you should have warned me that a global damage buff that is too high could overpower the Stalker and cause Overkill damage, which makes the damage buff moot.

I once again point to the Tanker. He got an easy 20% res debuff and that didn't do much. Seems like your turning a blind eye to a debuff that didn't change much at all. Wasting time using Debuffs is something I doubt Stalkers want to do. I ask all the stalkers readint this thread to answer this question:

Why do you play a Stalker?

Most would answer: to use AS, high burst damage, etc. Not play a Quasi-Rad Defender who's first attack isn't an attack at all but a support ability. Not very stalkerish to me.

If Stalkers get a -res Debuff, can Defenders get a quick-recharging Pet to absorb Alpha so they can HEAlz0r easier?

Your assuming once again. Skyrocket? No. No it won't. If anything your numbers will still be subpar in comaprison to the Scrapper who is also benefitting from your debuff.

Sorry, but your debuff idea is buffing other damage classes beyond the Stalker. You really didn't think this through did you?

I'd say it's a stretch just assuming a debuff would solve all of the Stalker problems we see today. Your not solving the Stalker's damage problem, your taking a 90 degree turn and boosting everyone else's damage to compensate for Stalkers? Makes no sense.

We aren't claiming there are other Debuffing classes.. we're TELLING you there are other Debuffing classes. If your team is being slaughtered by a single enemy, then theres something else wrong with your team, not the Stalker. Horrible scenario that either A) never happens on an average team. Average teams get killed by silly mistakes like pulling too many mobs, ambushes, patrols, forgetting someone is afk etc. or B) only happens because the team is fighting lvl54 EB farms or something.

Stalker doesn't rely on a Debuffer to dish out damage. Debuffers boost EVERYONE'S capabilities against the targets, thus I could say that every damage archetype relies on debuffers to dish out damage. We're here to discuss the Stalker's capabilities in general. Give the Stalker a debuff and everyone benefits from it, thus you didn't help the Stalker, you worsened it by putting the Stalker's weaknesses under a microscope.

Yeah, your assuing a lot too buddy. Stalker is NOT a debuffer. Get this idiotic idea out of your head. Your probably one of those people who say that Blasters should get +20% resistance to all damage types so they can tank better. People picked Stalker to deal damage, not to debuff.

It doesn't fit the concept of the Stalker. It fits the concept of a Widow more closely. A Class who has poisonous darts and smoke bombs. Stalkers are assassins, not sabotuers, and if you play your Stalker like a sabotuer then your missing the point of AS, placate and critical strike entirely.

Stalkers would be more attractive to team setting if they did their job with less down time: I.E. took out high priority targets faster, and without having to hide every 5 seconds, not play a game of pretend-to-be-a-support-archetype.


Sorry but refine your arguement. Your crossing a fine line trying to make an archetype with a specific purpose in mind tread on the toes of not 1, but FOUR other archetypes' jobs: debuff.

A single debuff causes a multitude of problems:

1. It's another ability that is forces upon Stalkers. Stalkers already have to take Hide, Assassin Strike, Placate and Build Up. And even if this ability was inheritant, it would be another power Stalkers are forced to use. So the new Stalker attack chain would be: Debuff -> Build Up -> AS -> Placate -> Debuff -> AS. Thats rediculously long and once again has nothing to do with critical strike.

2. This debuff would boost the power of other archetypes. So now you have a debuff that puts the Stalker's attacks in a nice, comfy position of damage! But now Scrappers use your debuff, thus are still doing more damage than you! oh, and Brutes! and Blasters! etc. Doesn't solve the problem.

3. Confuse the newbies. When newbies read the Stalker's tag line, they think of assassins and serial killers etc. When you play a Stalker, you want to go. hunt and kill skuls, not throw dirt in their face to buff your team. if you wanted to do that, you would play a Defender or Corruptor instead. Infact, why play a Stalker for the debuff when you could just play a Sonic/Rad Corruptor and get the same effect?

4. The debuff does not solve the Stalker's out-of-hide damage, which is where Stalkers are lacking (along with being interrupted while hiding). This debuff wouldn't help that scenario. If anything it would discourage Stalkers from ever attacking out of hide. Why attack out of hide when your debuff boosts everyone else's damage to a point where they can kill the enemies at an optimum pace anyway? Just throw out the debuff, AS the boss then let your allies clean up. Sounds about the same as Stalkers are doing now.. only with their team catching up to them faster..

sounds more like you got trolled lol.