1. Spines is great on a team. You need to master the use of "cones". You usually open battle with Build Up + Throw Spines.
2. Spines starts out really weak until lvl 19 when your Impale has 3 slots. Don't give up until you have Throw Spines!
3. Willpower is my #1 secondary on stalker. It gives you some elemental defense and decent resistance, +HP and a single heal. It gets even better once you have Shadow Meld (patron power) for awesome Defense to open the battle.
4. If you don't have veteran attacks, take Barb Swipe and then respec that out later.
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.
I'm trying a stalker out and am Spines/WP and i'm wondering if any of you guys could point me towards a guide for a good build?
If not, I was just wondering is it not a good combination or just not something that gets picked a lot???
Thanks in advance.