I can understand the rant about nb (well as much as any other smash/lethal set primary on stalkers, which actually means all but 2)... but about regen?????
Regen stalkers dont need Quick recovery. As mentioned before, many stalkers go even without stamina, since most targets die in 2-4 hits. Ninja Blade is underpowered as hell, so underpowered that my words for it would be GIMP. [censored] endurance drain for its damage, [censored] recharge for its damage etc. My advice would be to reroll. I find regeneration annoying too on stalkers. I remade my MA/regen stalker to MA/ninjitsu before a few days.
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#3 regen on stalker.....bleh. Not enough HP to begin with, there isn't one recovery aspect of it, unlike other sets. (this being a stalker problem not just connected to my sets)
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#3 regen on stalker.....bleh. Not enough HP to begin with, there isn't one recovery aspect of it, unlike other sets. (this being a stalker problem not just connected to my sets)
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Stalker HP is just fine considering the amount of damage they can dish out.If they buff up the HP of stalkers they are ruining the balance of AT's. Stalkers get really high damage and criticals and all the hide goodies and in return they get lower HP.It's fine as it is.
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Few attacks in blade, your effectively wittled down to using AS,plac, soaring and golden. Problem yet again being loading, dmg and acc.
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Tbh this is pretty much same as the scrapper with the lack of Taunt (Calling the Wolf) and Lotus Drops which is a PbAOE which essentially the stalker wont be using as much or not at all and even if they got to use Lotus Drops a PbAoE that crits frokm hide would be OP. If we talking PvP he wont be using at all.So again the set is just fine.
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but it's very slow (even with hasten) and the dmg is pathetic
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You can get on with placing some sets to enhance speed but 7 seconds for AS is a good speed imho and the rest of the recharges are aligned to the scrapper set. Katana is a Medium damage set sitting below Energy and MA together with Spines with an average speed.So there is no problem.If you want a faster recharge set you could have a look at claws that has some really good recharges.
Finally the problem with slotting is easy to solve since if you go into the black market you can easily acquire Acc/Dmg enhancements that will allow you to slot recharge.
The Stalker tree IMHO is :
1)Energy melee and 2)dark melee at highest top due to Smash/energy and negative damage
3) Martial arts, smash set with pretty good damage
4) Claws and Spines together, both lethal sets, claws faster set, spines toxic damage and ranged set.
5) Ninja blade, Medium damage, full lethal, no range.
Note: i repeat again its IMO.
Ninja Blade is an average set in general.So this is pretty much expected regarding damage.
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The Stalker tree IMHO is :
1)Energy melee and 2)dark melee at highest top due to Smash/energy and negative damage
3) Martial arts, smash set with pretty good damage
4) Claws and Spines together, both lethal sets, claws faster set, spines toxic damage and ranged set.
5) Ninja blade, Medium damage, full lethal, no range.
Note: i repeat again its IMO.
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QFT, agree with this one
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Ninja Blade is an average set in general.So this is pretty much expected regarding damage.
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Yeah NB is an OK set before you take in account lethal resistances that most of the high lvl NPCs and nearly all of the PvP players have. Also if you take in the stalker damage modifier you are looking at MUCH lower damage figures than scrappers.
I mean, WHAT THE HELL is up with my gambler's cut (lvl 42) doing 50 damage on +2 enemies even when it has 3 damage SOs in it? That is gimped big time. My lvl 20 blaster does more damage to +2s with DOs.. :/
Also, golden dragonfly does approximately 150 damage on +2s, on my scrapper the number is 300'ish (granted, he is level 50 but still, 150 damage difference??)
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I dont undestand that you miss alot with 3 acc slottet that mus be a bug.
The recharge in Ninja Blade is pretty ok i think with hasten running you can get of 2 golden dragonflys of in one build up that is ok. and Divine Avalanche is a pretty neat trick in my book.
And regeneration. You have dull pain to get the scrapper like HP. Ok no quick recovery 
then you will have to take fitness pool like most other guys 
And Gamblers Cut is a bad power there is no way around it. Get Air Sup. in stead if you need it.
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I can understand the rant about nb (well as much as any other smash/lethal set primary on stalkers, which actually means all but 2)... but about regen?????
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Some time ago I was thoroughly surprised cause a /regen stalker was able to scrap with my blaster in an arena duel.. And whenever it wasnt fit to scrap it could just hide.. Id like to try it again sometime cause my damage has gone up since then..
And I agree with others, ninja blade is thoroughly mediocre set.
The only problem I have with the Stalker /Regen set is the low Stalker HP Cap.
Not their starting HP, but the Maximum HP they can attain. Even without a Cold Corruptor's buffs, Set bonuses or accolades, slotted Dull Pain puts a Stalker over their HP cap (157% of Normal HP, Slotted Sull Pain is +60%).
I do not think that ninja blade is that useless, Granted gamblers cut sucks big time, But i also find the other attacks in the set have much more uses than all out damage. You have two attacks with knockdown and even in PvP i have seen blasters/defenders and the odd scrapper flying about as they get splatted with soaring dragon.
Ah well it maybe just me but i find ninja sword a rather good set, Oh and who cares if everything has resistance to lethal atleast it's a decent challenge chopping someone up 
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I agree, its a really average set tbh
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Ah well it maybe just me but i find ninja sword a rather good set, Oh and who cares if everything has resistance to lethal atleast it's a decent challenge chopping someone up
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The problem is ninja blade works reverse. As levels go up the worse it gets in pvp. Till SC it can be ok. In WB it becomes the happiness of all squishies. In RV just dont come at all with ninja blade cause epic shields on squishies and the HP boosts and IO's simply make Ninja blade stalkers suicidal.
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Ah well it maybe just me but i find ninja sword a rather good set, Oh and who cares if everything has resistance to lethal atleast it's a decent challenge chopping someone up
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The problem is ninja blade works reverse. As levels go up the worse it gets in pvp. Till SC it can be ok. In WB it becomes the happiness of all squishies. In RV just dont come at all with ninja blade cause epic shields on squishies and the HP boosts and IO's simply make Ninja blade stalkers suicidal.
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What he said. NB needs fix.
Like all scrapper derivate primaries, it suffers from the disparity between stalker/scrapper base damage (0.9/1.125 - yes, stalkers do 80% of scrappers' damage with the same attack). It's not just ninja blade, martial arts suffers too, and claws as well (but we don't care because of the uberness that is focus
In my katana scrapper, the only things I didn't like about it was the redraw issues, which devs tell will be solved soon, and enemy lethal resistences in the later levels, which won't be solved.
I can't really speak for stalker NB, since I didn't move past the early teens with it, but I'm willing to bet the lvl 18 Divine Avalanche would work really well with the defensive sets.
I don't know if this is connected to other blade/regen users (if any exist) but I am REALLY fed up with both sets now.
#1 Blade : not only do I miss ALOT with 3 acc on each attack, but it's very slow (even with hasten) and the dmg is pathetic. Coupled with the fact that if you take out dmg to give recharge, you lose even more dmg which you didn't have much of.
#2 Few attacks in blade, your effectively wittled down to using AS,plac, soaring and golden. Problem yet again being loading, dmg and acc.
#3 regen on stalker.....bleh. Not enough HP to begin with, there isn't one recovery aspect of it, unlike other sets. (this being a stalker problem not just connected to my sets)
Spose what i'm saying is, why was this ever considered viable by Cryptic. Regen needs recovery, can lose resilience (I find that power completely useless) Blade needs more dmg, more acc, and flashing steel/gambit need a serious look at.
So atm, it's satying as it is utnil a fix appears (so never) and to ensure epic AT can be used (also in many years to come at present state of game/issues)
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