Yeah, it's pretty much a skippable power for a soft-capped SR stalker. You're nearly immune to defence debuffs, and being soft capped, you're about as high as you can go for nearly all critters in the game.
Doom.
Yep.
This is really doom.
I'm picking it up on my claws/Ninja stalker for the simple fact that its like a mini-God Mode without the crash. With 4 recharge/2 defense with Hasten, it's up every 32 secs and boost def by 30% to all.
Its a great power pick for Nin IMHO. With a good recharge hit build its under 30 secs ie. up every fight. I pop it, hit buildup and AS and since getting it I "rarely" get hit by the NPC's auto attack after using AS. I love the power personally.
The development team and this community deserved better than this from NC Soft. Best wishes on your search.
I skipped it on both of my /Nin Stalkers since they were going with softcap builds anyway. The plan for my /WP Stalker is to nab it and focus on getting its recharge down, though.
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About to pick up level 44, and I noticed that the GW epic has been changed since I last played stalkers (issue 8 
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What's Shadow Meld? It seems like a short elude sans endurance crash, but it lasts only for 15 seconds? 
I suppose this is something you can skip if you're soft capping. For a resistance based stalker, a nifty choice perhaps, but not for the claws/sr I'm refitting.
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Shadow Meld is one of the best patron powers in the game IMO. Yes, it only lasts 15s, but it's at least 20% defense against ALL. You may not need it if you are /sr with soft-cap defense but if I remember correctly, some of the mental attacks don't have "position" so you need psionic type defense against it.
You need a lot of +defense to soft cap /nin and you may only be able to soft cap either melee or range. This is when Shadow Meld becomes useful and /nin doesn't have resistance to defense debuff. If you get hit once by Longbow's rifle, your defense value is decreased a lot.
You basically have a god-mode for every fight (recharge is only 90s). I remember when I play my Ninja blade/SR (no sets) against 54 bosses in AE, I could take alpha much better than Brutes. 
He consistently died but I survived quite well. That 15s is so good against all those "throwing knives" that hurt like hell.
If you are resistance/based Stalker, Shadow Meld is a no brainer.
What's left is to normalize all Assassin Strikes and improve Stalker's old sets (Claw, MA and EM)! You don't need to bring back the missing PbAoE attack. You just need to make the existing ones better! For example, make Slice a WIDER and LONGER cone.
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You can soft cap all types on /Nin, its not too hard.
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Well 'hard' and 'expensive' are very different concepts. I have 2 /Nin Stalkers and the to slot them up to be fully soft-capped IS expensive. I didn't bother because I don't PVP and anything over 40% seems good enough for PVE.
Having said that, with my current Elec/Nin, if I simply took Stealth and Maneuvers, I would be soft-capped but I'd rather have sexier powers.
It is pretty expensive to soft-cap them, so for those that cannot afford to do that SM is an excellent power choice, IMHO.
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Expensive is a relative term. Apparently your threshold for what it means is higher than most of the people who have posted about it in the thread.
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Yeah gimmie some of your dough then mate. 
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Umm,it would also be softcapped...........??
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It sounds like a sandwich. "I'll have the Shadow Meld and a Coke!"
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Right now my Stalker is using Waterspout just for bleeps and giggles. I find it to be a pretty fun power that does decent damage to targets that don't run and actually provides a lot of damage mitigation.
But this thread is definitely persuading me to consider a more practical build.
About to pick up level 44, and I noticed that the GW epic has been changed since I last played stalkers (issue 8
).
I suppose this is something you can skip if you're soft capping. For a resistance based stalker, a nifty choice perhaps, but not for the claws/sr I'm refitting.
What's Shadow Meld? It seems like a short elude sans endurance crash, but it lasts only for 15 seconds?