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I'm rerolling my EM/Nin Stalker atm and I was wondering how Water Spout did for damage. I of course, am getting it for it's looks, as I just want the hold in the set. After that, my left over choices are Caltrops, Spirit Shark (or Water Spout), Smoke Flash, and Hibernate. What do you guys think of those?
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Barring Water Spout, each of your remaining powers has its own draw.
Caltrops is a very nice bit of mitigation. Its DoT is far from impressive but the slow is great. It allows you to exercise a degree of control over the battlefield and can save your life if placed correctly.
Spirit Shark is a fine attack. It's got the standard 80ft. range and does quite a bit of DoT. The downside being that its entirely Lethal damage and the animation time is rather long.
Smoke Flash is kinda meh. It'll eliminate aggro but won't return you to Hidden status. I had it for a while on my Elec/Nin but respecced out of it in favor of Caltrops. If nothing else it looks cool.
Hibernate can save your life in a pinch but Nin offers you a good number of survival tools. That said, its a nice power to have if you intend to PvP or just want a guaranteed "OH SH*T" button to rely on. Kujin-in Retsu's a great power but, as we all know, Defense ain't bullet proof.
Water spout is like tornado. If you have a way of eliminating the knock back it can do good damage. Otherwise it will mostly just knock enemies around and chase them down.
Personally I liked it. I used it kind of like another placate on bosses. Used waterspout, let them get tossed around until I was rehidden and the AS'ed them again. If you don't wanna do that tho then you'll just find it to be a very aggravating power.
Of those choices I would go with caltrops. If you slot for procs and damage/slow set enhancements it actually becomes some pretty nice damage on teams with big groups of enemies when you are in the middle of things. The only way I would get water spout it would be for av battles only because with avs you dont have to worry about the scatter. Holds I dont even bother with because of the recharge to duration penalty non-support ATs get. It just makes them so not worth it. As for hibernate, I wouldnt bother with it either, you could have just used retsu and you could still be fighting.
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i love hibernating stalkers in pvp.
i mean who doesn't love a power that allows a stormie to set up camp on top of you while you can't move.
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fortunately for you rerolling only takes one hard day of xp thanks to AE.
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I love tornado, but thats with my Earth troller. I use it on AV's with procs and damage, its great. But I guess if I take this I would only use it on AVs/non kb targets that take forever to die. If it doesn't work, I will put Spirit Shark in it's place. I got nothing better so I got unslotted hibernate and caltrops at 47 and 49.
Another thing, which IO sets should I use? I wanna use Kinetic Combat but the percentages are not adding up good enough for me. I want sets that will give me more defense and recharge. In my melee sets I got Crushing Impact so far but advice is needed.
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i love hibernating stalkers in pvp.
i mean who doesn't love a power that allows a stormie to set up camp on top of you while you can't move.
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Hibernate then roll off into Phase right out of it seems to work just fine for my Stalker vs. Heroes. Now...versus "other" Stalkers that doesn't always work out too well haha, if they time their attacks just right that is lol 
I'm rerolling my EM/Nin Stalker atm and I was wondering how Water Spout did for damage. I of course, am getting it for it's looks, as I just want the hold in the set. After that, my left over choices are Caltrops, Spirit Shark (or Water Spout), Smoke Flash, and Hibernate. What do you guys think of those?