ultraok

I am just floored by all this

I was trying to keep up with all the posts since last night, experiencing the full spectrum of emotions...

Now, I must explain, I'm not much of a gamer (until I gave this game to my sons for Christmas in '05) and I haven't read comics since I was a kid

I am 46 and I build skyscrapers

I ski

I play hockey

I shoot, drink, spit, and curse

None of my RL friends know I play (love/ am obsessed with) this game

Well, I clicked a link at one point and it was Mad World on youtube and I had to just stop right there and log on

I dust off my fantastic fire/fire/fire blaster and when I log in he's in Atlas

I start going through his inventory and taking stock in general and I see I've got a holiday cheer, so I click it... and get a jingle jet

I start that baby up and as that music begins to play a lvl 2 comes up to me with some questions and we start talking all things CoX

He just started playing and this is his first toon

And I think to myself that he's only going to experience 'all of this' in the time it took me to get my first vet reward

All of this

The costume creator, always being added to

The wonder and awe of discovering all the new content and zones

The ingame community, the forums, the devs, the comedy, the drama, countless hours on Mid's

The TF's, special events, dbl xp, the incredibly difficult reactor, the incredibly boring reactor, Hamis, purples, getting branded with a title from a dev

New friends from all four corners

For six years this game has kept me entertained, out of trouble, saved me money I would've spent on who knows what, angered and pacified

I want to thank you all - all the players, devs, sg mates, those I met here and will still keep in touch with

I want to wish you all the best

It's been a class act all the way and it will stay with me until the day I die

Now, I need to get this out of my eye because it looks like I've been crying

When you enter combat the defense values Mid's gives for Mask suppresses

Turn Mask off and add the 3.3% you get from slotting to your totals and that's what you really have

Good idea with the laptop- I hope you get that resolved

You might want to copy this char to test before you start burning respecs, I know they're easy to come by... but still

This is an old build, I have Build Up instead of Follow Up

No purps, no pvp

Just a reference point, maybe give you some more ideas


http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/downl...19FF033AE1F32E


PS Teleport?!?

Yes

Moving the BU proc to FU means you get that 5% chance every 4 seconds instead of every 10 seconds,or whatever your attack chain allows, which has to be less than 10 seconds or just switch to Build Up because you're not stacking Follow Up

If you keep Tough, you can get Weave, which gets you closer to 59%

If You drop Kick and Tough, which both have negligible bonuses, you can get Maneuvers

I think the purples are holding you back

Sure they have great bonuses but, you don't need the accuracy with TTL, and the recovery means almost nothing compared to better end reduction slotting

Slash and Spin are end eaters and you use them every time they're up

If you're willing to give a little to get a lot, maybe go from 1 second from perma hasten to 9 seconds from perma hasten, drop a couple damage bonus percentage to 20%, and lose some regen, you could have better end use, 59% to melee and ranged, more hitpoints, and better slotting for Aid Self

My build has 1500 hitpoints, and when I think about the things that have defeated me, 80% more regen and 20% res to s/l were not going to make any difference

Do you mean Mid's won't let you pick Soul? Or you can't respec into it ingame?

I wouldn't even do the respec until I got the issue resolved

A nice (expensive) build, but IMO:

The patron cone makes you jump around too much

The patron pet is a waste of a power pick

Aid Self needs to be slotted better - I say it doesn't necessarily keep a widow alive anyway

Tough doesn't keep a widow alive either and I wouldn't take it unless it was on my way to weave

I would try to put the chance for BU in Follow Up

I would try for more hitpoints with your regen and aid self

Widows are actually easy to get to the new softcap and I find that more useful than some other bonuses

And lastly, I don't know how your attack chain feels but, I would take swipe over poison dart

Definitely varies according to enemy type

First there's the fear which makes them run out of it in the time it takes to cast

And some, like warwolves, treat it like a skating rink,... feels like it propels them towards me

If blasters ever get MA for a secondary... probably every non weapon set

There are certainly more than one AT that can fill that roll... if you build for it

VEATs are just designed so well you can really shoot for anything this game has to offer

All things considered, I am concentrating more on my nightwidow for all around everything

Mine, at this point, is 59% to melee and ranged for incarnate content, but I was able to keep spin, evicserate and dark oblit for everyday minion crunching

One weakness is less than blaster hitpoints, but I have 1400+, so not too bad

I've seen some builds here that are built for st/AV that are pretty impressive so I know it's possible

And when you look at what other ATs have to offer damagewise, and what you have to give up for survivability, and what you can bring to a team, I think well built nightwidows are up with some of the best

I had it on mine

Looks great, matched my theme, ok damage, and tentacles and -tohit works well with

ranged def

But the cones are narrow, and the hold has a long animation time

Went back to fire for the quick hold, the rez which allows a more insane playstyle, the fire

shield so I can run the demon map, and I could fit inferno again

Some good advice here

Stay with /fire if you want or roll an /nrg and compare the two

/nrg if you like hoverblasting and /fire if you might enjoy seat of the pants mass destruction

The biggest dilema is finding room for everything

Ring of Fire is worth slotting for damage

Fire Sword is great damage, fast activation

Combustion, for me, is too long activation time and roots too long in melee for the damage

FSC- nuff said

Blazing Aura is rather end heavy and I just couldn't fit it

Consume for the nuke afterparty

Burn I have respecced in and out of and I just can't fit it now

Another must have imo is hot feet, without it I wouldn't even play mine

It comes with fear and slow which works so well with ranged def

With Invis on hot feet supresses so you can position, aim- bu, and let loose as they try to

run away

For me, it was a race to Hot Feet, and then I could start soloing in earnest

/nrg is also nice and Boost Range for Fire Breath is maybe the number one reason

Aside from that there isn't much in fire/ to stack with the stuns and it's very st

To the OP:

For solo pve any stalker is worthwhile

I personally only roll defensive secondaries as I enjoy middle of the group fighting and uninterrupted AS in the middle of a fight

I also neglect the secondary until the 20s

It is a certain playstyle but that can be said of a lot of ATs/ power combos although maybe the curve is a little steeper

As far as the stalker vs all other ATs debate:

Everything is relative and you can't just make broad statements with all the variables in this game

The new build up refresh mechanic has made me start playing my km/sr again

He languished at 47 for a bit but now I'll be on him a lot more

He hits hard, is survivable, and to softcap I have maneuvers, tactics, and by extension, vengeance, so he brings that to a team

And I'll put him up against my nrg/nrg blaster, or my claws/da scrapper

But how do you compare to a ss/sd brute? Or a fire/sd scrapper?

There's a reason why scrappers are the most created AT

The same reason why Family Guy is a hit and Arrested Developement got cancelled

I'm glad people have these misconceptions about stalkers, it adds to the coolness factor

Get up c'mon get down with the clickness!

9 trays
all 4 chat tabs
every window open
lots of binds and macros but I don't bind powers
And I monitor a bunch of stuff (defense, damage bonus, stealth)

I use a Fang and mouse to move and fight and the keyboard is for chatting

Might seem cluttered but works out ok after messing with the window and font scales

Play around with colors and maybe it's not ice- crystals for example

or go dark and it's nano technology or insects (or other very small bio weapon)

or one is your ability and the other is provided by a device or talisman, like a glove or suit

or you're just naturally that way and so is everyone where you come from

Definitely not on my km/sr stalker and I would know as I didn't take anything from the secondary until 28

Nor on my fire/kin troller or kin/ice def or kin/dark def or kin/elec def/corr

Definitely agreeing with Leo on this

I also don't understand how people can feel like the redheaded stepchild to scrappers and brutes

Stalkers, the way I see/play them are the mirror to blasters and brutes to scrappers

Yes, there are some problems, but I think first and foremost the placate mechanic needs to be looked at

Next, I would want something done about how resistance sets don't perform like defense- sure the new fix suppressing toggles is nice but you should be able to get another AS off mid battle... open with AS and then scrap (or flee)? c'mon stalkers aren't supposed to play like scrappers

Even caltrops just ruins it for me-I can't placate and execute something running from me in fear?

Other than those two, any suggestion slightly above marginal is going straight into the wastebin that sits under the suggestion box

It's difficult to answer what is wrong with your build if no one knows anything about it, and generally people don't really post builds or guides anymore- it's more of a critique thing these days

Post what you have and you will get more attention