Like others mentioned, MA is far from weak, been thinkin to create one myself actually. However:
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Martial Arts is one of the best Stalker primaries next to Energy Melee.
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AS>placate>eagles claw does higher damage than AS then energy transfer.
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But how bout AS then total focus? 
"god, how many devs did hami have to sleep with to get ED?"
Total Cat @Stagefright
Insane animation time dude. A squishy can pop a couple of respites, use a self heal etc in that time.
Spines has some toxic DoT, but BU+ripper+placate+impale kills squishies too, with the advantange that u neednt be beside him for the final blow. Besides BU+impale+placate+impale leaves him red, then u just have to peww "f" and leave impale clicked, you dont even have to go close (nice against bubblers, stormies, devices blasters..), and he wont go far
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Imo the resists dont matter as much if we stalk properly, as afaik crits and most of AS are unresistable damage no matter what the powerset. Its different if somebody wants to scrap..
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Actually Stalker criticals don't contain unresistable damage, the only unresistable damage a stalker has is assassin strike.
Only scrapper criticals are unresistable, not stalkers.
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I stand corrected 
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Insane animation time dude. A squishy can pop a couple of respites, use a self heal etc in that time.
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In Sirens at lest, BU+AS+ET will drop anything but a Tank or a Scrapper running Dull Pain.
Not forgetting that ET is an almost gaurenteed Stun, making Total Focus easy to pull off if you're A) Good at getting your attack chain going and B) have a team/buffs.
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Imo the resists dont matter as much if we stalk properly, as afaik crits and most of AS are unresistable damage no matter what the powerset. Its different if somebody wants to scrap..
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Actually Stalker criticals don't contain unresistable damage, the only unresistable damage a stalker has is assassin strike.
Only scrapper criticals are unresistable, not stalkers.