Electric Melee

Hey - im currently creating a new toon - obviously a stalker and i was wondering if anyone could tell me anything about the effectiveness of Electric Melee - In PvP mostly and suggest a decent secondary set to go with it as i cannot make my mind up, and dislike Electric Armour. I've played a Nin/Energy Stalker up to 34 and will never touch Energy Armour again.

Thankyou in advance

My Electric/Ninja hit 50 the other day, but I dont PvP much, so may not be of help, but I have heard bad things about Lightning Rod in PvP, and thats its skippable, but for PvP its very effective.

Since it's crits are all energy damage it does quite good in that respect, and atleast in PvE is a very constructive output for the team with its various AoEs and it's cone.

Ninja secondary is good, but has alot of skippable/siutational/tools which may not be as effective in PvP as i find them in PvE. That and defense is fairly useless in proper PvP, probably go willpower or regen perhaps?

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Thankyou very much for the reply
It's actually a ton of help

Aye i intended to go WP

Yeh i was only intending to do "part time PvP"
To keep my interest while leveing

Again cheers

Elec melee is brilliant for pvp, i've recently just slotted up my Elec/regen stalker for fun in RV and all i can say is that Thunder Strike rawks! It is probs the best crit in the game, seeing as it has a base of 195 damage, and crits to double that most of the time, i can do nearly 1400 damage with it (disreguarding resist ofc)
Most other moves in stalker sets dont crit to double, for example total focus only crits for an extra 50 base damage, which is really poor
And the next highest crit move does 320 reliabley, and thats shadow maul from the dark melee set. I <3 elec, with its chance of either 290 or 390 base damage

After seeing the likes of Whoogie's Elec/Regen, Elec is really good at spiking like he said. You can do ridiculous amounts in comparison to other sets.

Couple that with /regen and say hibernate + phase you have a silly amount of panic-safe buttons, which are practically essential.

Fury

Yeah, regen is silly OP for stalkers. If you get defeated while playing one you've either not been paying attention or your [censored].

Many Lulz for that comment, but you know someone's going to. with IH going you can achieve well over 1700% healing rate wonder how many heroes that would take ganking one person...

Instant Healing gives nothing like that in PvP and that's not what keeps you alive. It's hibernate and phase like Fury said. MoG even has a good use.


3 panic buttons and 2 heals are a lot more effective at keeping you alive than the 20hp/sec regen IH gives.

Does Dull Pain still prevent you from being knocked out of hide? That was the main reason I went regen with my stalker.

Dull Pain just increases your max hit points and heals you :?

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Dull Pain just increases your max hit points and heals you :?

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It has been a long time since I last played but when I did with Dull Pain on you could often just stand there getting hit and hide would come back on and once on hits often didnt remove hide.

Sadly I havnt re-activated my villans account so I cant check on my old spines/regen but since they are so easy to level maybe Ill nip on and get one to level 10 today.

Ill post what I find out if anyone is interested. DoTs etc. not removing hide was always very useful in pvp I found.