Stalker or Scrapper


ClawsandEffect

 

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What one is better in pvp mostly zones? If i make stalker it will probly be em/wp and scrap probly katana/wp.. or would a brute be better? maybe even a tank? Im useually a blaster so can someone help me out with this?


 

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If you go with a stalker your better bet would be EM/Nin. The self heal is just as good as WP's and it's a looser build (more powers you can skip to get PvP specific powers like Phase Shift)

They all have their upsides and downsides. A good player can play a bad build and still do well. On the flip side a bad player can play the best build in the world and get owned.

Try them all out and see which one's playstyle you like the best. No sense in PvPing with a character you don't enjoy playing.

EDIT: I'm not giving you specific advice because I'm not that good of a PvPer and I don't feel qualified to tell you what to roll.


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If you go with a stalker your better bet would be EM/Nin. The self heal is just as good as WP's and it's a looser build (more powers you can skip to get PvP specific powers like Phase Shift)

They all have their upsides and downsides. A good player can play a bad build and still do well. On the flip side a bad player can play the best build in the world and get owned.

Try them all out and see which one's playstyle you like the best. No sense in PvPing with a character you don't enjoy playing.

EDIT: I'm not giving you specific advice because I'm not that good of a PvPer and I don't feel qualified to tell you what to roll.

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I don't have much to add except that, according to Mid's, the Ninjitsu heal and the Willpower heal (Stalker, obviously) are exactly the same except for activation time. The WP heal is about .27 seconds faster. This doesn't actually contradict anything you said in a real sense, but it may be something to consider. Though the ability to skip more powers in Nin does help a lot.

As far as "the best", it won't matter if you're not good. Sorry to be so blunt, but you're far better off making a character you love to play and learning how to PvP on that character first before you try jumping into PvP with one of a handful of "uberpwnbuilds". You'll only frustrate yourself otherwise.


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The second paragraph in Laxx's post. Really.

Pick something you think you'll like, learn on it, then decide what would do the best against what you're running into. If you jump in and start walking all over everybody, then so much the better - you're doing well on something you enjoy.

For silliness, Electric Melee has some silly potential from hidden status with Thunder Strike; the guaranteed critical is harder than the critical from Total Focus or Energy Transfer plus it has a 50% critical for the energy portion.

To put it into numbers, an Assassin's Shock critical is 389.28 base damage at 50; Thunder Strike is a guaranteed 290.22 with a 50% chance for 386.96 and isn't interruptible.


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