Martial Arts Set for stalkers.

Hello everyone,

I took the decision to make a new stalker, and i thought its time to try Martial arts.

Now, my question. If someone else has a high lvl Martial arts stalker, i would like to ask if its good for stalkers. I remember that at scrappers is very good. I do NOT expect of me to scrap though, i just dont want to be dissapointed like i was with Ninja blade (compare to Katana) So any help, advise etc Would be appreciated

Thanks in advance!

all i can say is that at low level ou will ask yourself "why didn't choosed EM, it does the same but better.
your hard time will be 'till level 26. with crane kcik you have a descent follow up for an as and the knock back will help to control a little.

stay strong and continue your road and when you will hit the level 32.

MA take all it's strengh atlevel 32

and for a stalker it change your play style as having a high attack that can crit out of hide make you less dependant of the shadow to do damage.

as far as i'm concerned i like mine.
i was tempted to erase it a lot of time specialie when i was with EM or spine stalker as the first hit stronger and the second dont need to run ater the foe.

but as a Martial artist you have something no other set got ^^
you got the style !

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and for a stalker it change your play style as having a high attack that can crit out of hide make you less dependant of the shadow to do damage.

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If I'm not mistaken all stalker primaries have one.

nop.
spine and EM don't have one.and maybe dark but i don't know this set yet

I have gotten critics out of hide on impale and ripper, although not very often tbh

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all i can say is that at low level ou will ask yourself "why didn't choosed EM, it does the same but better.
your hard time will be 'till level 26.

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Because of Bone Smasher?

Imho EM doesn't get unbalancingly strong for stalkers until they get ET at 26 then TF at 32 - in fact those two powers are usually the only reason EM is considered a strong set for all the ATs that can take it.

I'd argue that you'd probably start asking yourself why you didn't take EM at higher levels, when higher enemy smashing resists start to kick in, and in PvP perhaps where EM's energy/smash burst damage and secondary effects are arguably more useful than MA's pure smashing and varied effects.

YMMV

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nop.
spine and EM don't have one.and maybe dark but i don't know this set yet

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Hmm you are right, I was mistaken.

even at low level the damage are different.
at higher level true that it's more an evidence as a lot of stalker tend to
1/ only play EM
2/be very lonely so the first time they can compare is in PvP
and seeing a crane kick rooting you force dealing half of ET is generally when you erase ordecide to be strong.

by the way i find the disorient componant working way more often that all your side effect you got in MA so at low level it help a lot too.

i can be wrong it's true but from my experience it's like that.

buuuuuut i say it again MA rocks and is cooler than EM.

1) Thank you all for the answers
2) Well i have an EM/EA Stalker and if you ask me i dont like it much. If is MA cooler than EM.. I dont know...
EM has 2 Extreme attacks and MA has 1 High which many call it monster crane kick and a Superior damage, Eagles claw. Though, EM (i think) has worse accuracy and Recharge than MA. Both of them has Stun/Disorient effects. So both are good. Now to the main subject... So you suggest me to make a MA? If ill make one ill go with regen.. in my opinion regen is good at high lvls, where Scrappers got Focused accuracy, blasters got perception etc (Generally when someone can see you.) I think that with regeneration, Martial arts might be good because i have, if not the best, good damage plus with regen i can support it with my heals (Lets not forget Stalkers have low hp)

I have a 23 Ma/Nin stalker. It's quite Ok for the moment, well your damage outside of hide are very low, but you have the style and a little control: disorient with thunder kick, Crippling axe kick helps you to make flyers staying on the ground..

I've teamed up with lots of stalkers, even making teams with stalkers only. All i can say for the moment is that, there is not much difference in the "hit and run" process between all stalkers. There will be surely more in high levels but for the moment MA is quite fun to play.

Yeah EM has more damage but i don't like to be ubber and i m not a pompom girl
And honestly its boring to see always the same type of stalker..

I played a MA/ Stalker up to 35 and liked it a lot. Crippling Axe Kick (Think that's the name) is great for -Fly and Immobilising peeps. I loved the knockback of Crane Kick mostly for giggles, but nice for pvp when someone is on the edge of a building, although that could be classed as giggles Or for getting them out of an area. Eagle's Claw has to be one of the coolest moves in the game too, and it's bloody decent to boot, disorient chance and occasionally you'll get a double critial from Hide which feels good, esspecially when it saves your behind. Build Up + AS + Placate + Eagle's Claw gets addictive.

I just find MA/ more fun to play.

MA is a good stalker set. If only the AS animation was better.. Id rather like an animation like Bruce Lee's famous one-inch-punch, or some other form of 'death touch'.

Idd it's just like "oops i eat something wrong this morning, gotta go to toilets" ^^

I'm 28 actually with my MA stalker, its good to have crane kick. Decent damage and knockback. I cannot wait any longer to have eagle's claws

One more thing, someone tried cobra strike in pvp? I just wanna know how often u can stun with it? (%) i don't wanna know against tank/rava .. who resist disorient

you will almost never stun a tank or a scrapper in PvP (specially all those regen)

but it's good for the blast/def/contro and some kheld

whats wrong with Katana? :P i like my sword stalker. the only thing we miss out on from the scrapper set is a taunt and a AoE attack but we get a cool unique stabby move none of the other stalker sets have

Those are pretty cool as well but I've found you cant have the sword drawn and use tpfoe at the same time. Not a problem though if you dont want to use tpfoe.

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Idd it's just like "oops i eat something wrong this morning, gotta go to toilets" ^^

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You can activate AS and then turn around with mouse to do a 'butt-attack' with MA and EM.

Kinda like blasters can turn around after activating snipe so they shoot backwards, over their shoulder

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One more thing, someone tried cobra strike in pvp? I just wanna know how often u can stun with it? (%) i don't wanna know against tank/rava .. who resist disorient

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I believe it has 100% chance for disorient (whether target is actually stunned depends on their disorient protection). I found it very nice power on my scrapper. It does no damage though.

it is the greatest pbl of MA stalker IMO
if you want to pvp at siren you will miss some hum strong attack as you lake the very good AoE scrapper got. so you will have only crane kick wich hum is not that damaging in a stalker "hand"

I have MA/EA stalker that im building 4 pvp, and i find it very fun to play, im only lvl 18 atm but its fun to play. Didnt want to take regen cause i got a scrapper (spines/regen), nice with some change. only problem i got is the end, so i strongly recomend the fitness pool with it.

but i dont know so much about the melee toons, i only have this one and my scrapper(im more the ranged player). but i think this one will do quite good in pvp combined with aid self and the concealment pool 4 extra stealth against those +perception heroes....