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If you procced every dark debuff with a chance for -Recov you could maybe sap somebody down, if you use Short Circuit and Tesla Cage a lot. Both are really nice for -recov, and tesla's debuff is perma with minor IO investment.

You'll still be lackin dmg though with that build. It'd be death by papercut.

For Sapping HE is all you need but it hardly is all thermal has going for it.

Forge, +Res to everything cept psi and tox, +Res to Slows, Rez with KB and Immunity, -Def -Res AoE Debuff that can be procced out for more -res.

Yea HE is all thermal has going for it...horrible set.

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I went mako for KO blow. I love it. Decent shield, and you can pick up a Hold. But KO blow is awesome!!

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QFT

Fear from the power pools work.

Psi/EM/Cold Blasters
Mind/Psi/Leviathan
Grav/Elec/leviathan
Elec/WP/Leviathan stalkers
Elec/Therm/BS Corrs

I'm not saying anything else bout melee cause aside from above mentioned stalkers I doubt any other melee is really fotm.

I wouldn't take it for the sheer fact it's a power pool I don't have available to me.

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I have both a widow and a spider,
as others stated, once VEAT's were up there with stalkers and blasters in terms of pvp effectiveness( specifically forts), but now, I'd say their on the lower rung, of my builds, my huntsman perhaps performs the best between the debufs, and WAWG( which often i wish was a fast recharging ST web grenade).
Basically it was a combination of things,
-defense is worthless for the most part now, I understand defense is very difficult to balance with the way the game is set up, but for pvp purposes its worthless
-status effects are largely marginal( the main reason WAWG is useful is for anti-fly and anti-SJ reasons)
-Damage on veats were brought down a lot for the purposes of pvp( perhaps under the mistaken assumption the two former points were functional), they just don't have good burst damage in pvp anymore

In other words,
1 on 1 vs. a blaster, my VEAT will die, in fact 1 on 1 vs. a great many number of builds, my VEAT will die, with that said if your intent on pvping with a VEAT, your best bet is on a team working as fire support.

I think when they nerfed their damage was the exact same time they nerfed elusivity( sp), which unfortunately that and DR basically killed defense, if they hadn't adjusted damage at the same time, i'm pretty confident VEAT's would be where they should be, but as it is, I'm pretty sure their underperforming as an AT

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That's so accurate I would sig it if it would fit. Well said. QFT'd.

We beat GMW and rens in practice...but only cause I was there. And Nicor didn't even stalk for UJL...Vert are feeding Silit his 'facts?'

No can't be...you'd have made fun of barrier by now. Wonder where the spin doctoring is coming from.

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I was wondering what the travel power of choice in Zone PVP was. Is it still SJ + SS or did the PVP changes take that out?

I have an old Stalker who used TP (but not TP foe, I'm not that cheap) which is pretty much useless for PVP now. So I'm thinking of a respec. He's a Ninja Blade/Ninjutsu stalker.

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As a stalker? Flight/concealment.

If your a stalker that has to run then your doing something wrong That said i'ld go more for ss than sj these days.

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Flying stalkers are annoying but the gold standard is still SS/SJ, you may get one or two kills with flight here and there, but anybody wishing to evade you simply has to run away and you won't be able to catch them.

Without SJ, PvP zones are a pain. There's a lot of vertical movement required for each zone...warburg is your friendliest zone for horizontal movement, and even that isn't flat.

And for the quote above, if your running on a stalker it probably means you're going to die, that doesn't mean you did anything wrong. Stalkers can die in PvP all the time...even when stealth capped. There's a myriad of ways get wrecked as a stalker. Especially in zones that aren't RV where no Hiber or trowing sharks are there to save them.

Permadom is useful for PvP, just not the ultimate way to play anymore.

Since doms use more end now having dom up is actually quite useful and since getting mezzed is almost a deathwish having some form of mez protection is also very nice to have nowaydays. Not to mention the fact that domination boosts duration of holds and one would wonder why everyone thinks being in domination is useless.

I wouldn't attemp permadom but I would build for at least 40-50% recharge.

End drain and damage are not synonymous on these boards, but it sounds like you want an Elec/Kin or Elec/Therm. The only two real viable drain builds vills have.

Do not feed the troll. Gr33n has a pretty high feeding rate. If you ignore the trolls they die of starvation.

I liked your post till this nugget...

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MAN THE HELL UP OR FIND A NEW GAME

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Manning up in a superhero MMORPG...the irony of this post will stump your grandchildren someday.

GMW lost to UJL right before the ladder ended in a forfeit, after they brought a joke lineup of like 6 stalkers or some [censored].

And before GMW reformed and assumed the #2 position, UJL held it steadfastly.

That's the only cosigning I have.

More than likely was.

This

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That's a pretty good Idea Jin...I'll do that it should work.

And my elec brute is an aid self build, but he's got about 65-70% res to psi if I remember correctly. and capped energy res with almost capped s/l as well. Pretty sturdy brute.

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Outside of power surge you don't have almost capped s/l resists. And you son't have all this resist to psi either.

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With the Psi res IO's slotted plus my toggle plus set bonuses, I do indeed have around that much res to psi, I built specifically for it, cause i wanted to PvP with it in arena. And as far as being near capped on s/l I didn't realize cap was 90% I remember it being somewhere high 70's.

That account is inactive atm or I'd check it out and sketch out the details of my build here.

That's a pretty good Idea Jin...I'll do that it should work.

And my elec brute is an aid self build, but he's got about 65-70% res to psi if I remember correctly. and capped energy res with almost capped s/l as well. Pretty sturdy brute.

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But honestly, I'm glad there are so many skilless bottom feeders like you playing Stalkers. I really am. If more people played Stalkers with actual skill the devs would nerf them into complete uselessness the way they did Widows. So you just keep going out there fighting the bad fight and being bad, baddo.

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It's funny you call me skilless seeing as you have no idea of who I am, but that's beside the point. I team with people I know an I'm acutely aware of how effective teaming is. I've started for both sides of the ladder, (Therming, Stalking, Widow, Rad/Psi) so yea I guess I have no clue about teamwork or anything.

Keep crying about getting KS'd; I'll be PvPing.

Yea we got it the first time, callate ya.

Slows have been gutted in PvP. I wouldn't pick for that reason. Earth/Sonic could be annoying, but I don't see where the survival is any better than a Grav/FF. Grav/FF is beast for the reasons stated above.

Grav/Sonic maybe? You get KB with Grav ala lift and -res + a cage with sonic.

If you can afford it try slotting 3 GW Embrace + the Proc, Plus the Neuronic Shutdown Proc, and the Purple Hold set proc...for a chance to hit them 3 procs + the dmg from Dominate.

I used to use it on my fort and without using aim I killed a hp capped stalker in 6 shots. So...that means 1600/6 ~ 266.6dmg per shot. This is i12 before fort damage was wrecked, but now doms have fort dmg so I think it warrants comparison. So a dominate that averages that much damage seems pretty nice to me.

I used the GW's cause they give me an HP bonus I believe with four slotted. If you want more acc in it or what not, you could always go old school and slot hamios.

YMMV.

I wonder if you can get confused an light yuor own oil slick and then it'll hurt you...that's be [censored]-ing hilarious.

I've got several toons available. Just let me know when this is going down...or even if it still is.

Why don't they work? K correction, why doesn't mine work...with just SO's slotted.

I'd post a build but Mids got corrupted once on my comp and has never been able to be reinstalled.

I've got the essentials for a typical PvP build, SS/SJ/Leadership/Phase

I'm lvl 39 so I've got my 9 plus all the other essential ela powers minus whichever one grants the +Rech.

I'm really feeling six kinds of squishy. Rescuing a scientist from 4 arachnoids is a chore, and that's in my 9.

I've got whatever the t1 attack is, looks like Jab. Focus, Eviscerate, AS, and BU from Clawls. My attack chain is constant, there is no real down time.

So now there's the background on the toon I've built. My dilemma is getting wrecked by Psi/ Blasters in about....4-5 shots that arrive in 1-2 seconds since they have a delay. I'm running at about 42% or so more res to Psi with DR, is the set really this squishy on stalkers. I've run an elec brute and it seems way more sturdier, granted yes he's a brute so he should be able to bear the brunt of the damage without getting wrecked. But my stalker is just dying inordinately fast. Any ideas?