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It's already unresisted in PvP (kind of like all criticals from Stalkers and Scrappers, all debuffs from Defenders, and a portion of all damage from Blasters should be).

I am also a fan of my new one

By level 27 you can slot level 30 generic IOs, which offer roughly the same benefit as a +3 SO and never expire (so you spend the inf on them once and never have to worry about that slot again unless you decide you want something else there). Level 25 generic IOs offer roughly the same benefit as an even-level SO, and are sometimes cheaper than their level 30 counterparts, so it's a good idea to check for price differences (for example I'll sometimes use level 45 generics instead of level 50 for those powers which require them, because I'm paying a fraction of the price for an almost negligible decrease in effectiveness).

In short, keep doing what you're doing, but maybe step up your marketing a bit. It may seem tedious, but the thing to remember is that the more money you have, the easier it is to make more. 3.5 million inf at level 27 might have seemed difficult to get, but it becomes pretty easy to turn that 3.5 into 10, and then 10 into 25, and then 25 into 100, and so on.

Re: power replacements... Gravity Control had Fold Space replaced by Singularity very soon after launch, and Telekinesis was changed to its current toggle hold/repel shortly thereafter. Until the Energize change there weren't really any power "replacements" of that sort, though I suppose one could argue that changing IH into a click from a toggle, or changing Black Dwarf Mire from a long-recharge long-duration click into a Follow Up-like click are also power replacements.

Yeah, the animation is still too long, but that's a power that plagues just about every power in the set except Bone Smasher and Energy Punch.

The issue with Stalkers is pretty straightforward: they're single-target specialists in a game that by and large favors AoE damage. Spines and Elec Melee help with that somewhat, as they've got decent AoE (and now Kinetic Melee as well, which I think is a good thing), but there's not much that can be done in that respect without really changing the powersets around and that's not something that is going to happen at this stage in the game. It's the same reason certain blast sets are preferred over others. That doesn't mean the sets that are less-preferred are bad (well, there are exceptions), just that they excel at things other than AoE output.

Here are a few potential changes that would help out Stalkers:

* Raise the HP cap to scale 1.2 (cap would raise from 1606 to 1928).
* Raise the damage modifier to 1.125 (same as Scrappers).
* Increase the allowed radius for team-size-based criticals from 30 to 60 feet.
* Increase the damage buff modifier from 0.8 to 1.0 (same as Scrappers).
* Flag the critical portion of Assassin's Strike as unresisted, to aid Stalkers in their primary goal of quickly eliminating single hard targets.

The above changes would mean Stalkers get more survivability through hit points than other "squishy" ATs and would ensure that they are consistently the best single-target damage dealers while not significantly stepping on the toes of Scrappers in the AoE department.

Hurdle 2-slotted with jump enhancements. Slotted-up Hurdle + CJ really is the best in-combat movement you can get in this game save teaming with a Kin.

This was mentioned in another thread, but it bears mention: having to do calculus to figure out how much damage a given power should do is not making things any more accessible or easy to understand, even for the people that know the system.

No, but you can't be an idiot and try to stand in melee range all the time. Kite, use ranged attacks, taunt people off your teammates. As a Brute you're there more for disruption than damage, so play like a disruption character.

In terms of power placement, Barrage is still tier 1, but it's actually a better power than Energy Punch now. The problem with EM is that it takes a while to mature, and once you get up in levels most of your damage is locked into long-activating powers. It used to be a top-tier single-target set, but had very poor AoE, which was an acceptable tradeoff to most players. After the ET nerf, the set is now... a mediocre single-target set with very poor AoE.

(Also, there's no "standard" when it comes to how fast powers from a given tier recharge. Most Blaster tier 1/2 attacks are at 4/8 seconds, for example, but there are several sets with follow different times (Arch 2/6, Pistols 4/6, Fire 2.18/4, Sonic 3/6). You can't say "this power has this recharge time, so it should be in this tier.")

Energy Melee needs two things:

1. A buff to Whirling Hands
2. A buff to Energy Transfer (and no, adding knockback is not a buff in any way, shape, or form).

So here's what you do:

1. Increase the radius of Whirling Hands from 8 feet to 10 feet, increase the damage slightly
2. Give ET the Stun animation, and give Stun the old ET animation.

Problem solved!

People reporting that Snow Storm makes it hard to see need to stop playing the game in first-person view and zoom out a bit.

Regarding the OP:

Pain Dom has been out the same time for Corruptors as it has been for Masterminds (since I13). It's actually a better set on Masterminds, despite their crappy heal modifier and higher endurance costs, because Soothing Aura (small ticking heal toggle) is replaced with Suppress Pain (toggle +regen), meaning you can power right through Share Pain's -regen effect. In terms of power picks on an MM I'd grab everything except the rez, since the effects it gives you are largely worthless. Share Pain would be my next power on the "skip" list, but even then it's a great power.

Yes, actually.

(lol fireminded being wrong again)

AR is the worst blast set in PvP, hands down, so that should answer your question right there.

Rad can slot one in Accelerate Metabolism (BotZ) and Kin can slot one in Increase Density (Steadfast) and Speed Boost (BotZ). Interestingly, TA is the only buff/debuff set that does not have a power which can take a -KB IO, probably because it is also the only buff/debuff set without any buffs.

I would do a second build on the Fire/SS.