Dusting off my lvl 50 Claws/Nin (returning player)
By
Black_Aftermath,
Posted on: 2009-10-05 20:51 in Stalkers
It seems like part of the appeal of */Claws is the speed of the set. However, as a Stalker I find gameplay is a bit "hurry up and wait" (in so much as you have a very formulaic approach to combat, and it feels like you are constantly waiting on AS/Buildup/Placate to be recharged). This runs a bit contrary to Claws and may be the reason.
Or, it may have to do with the numbers, or that most Claws concepts would now seem to work better as a Brute... No idea, really.
Where are claws current ranking among the other stalker primaries? Still at the bottom I assume?
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How would one even come up with such a thing?
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Originally Posted by Black_Aftermath
Where are claws current ranking among the other stalker primaries? Still at the bottom I assume?
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My old main was a Claws/Nin stalker that I took to 50 and played quite a lot. This was before the i12 changes hit and I took a break from my main and the game for a few reasons:
Claws/ is all lethal damage typed. At 50 in CoV, nearly all the mob types you run up against have insane lethal resist. It got to the point that the only time I really felt powerful as a Claws/ stalker at 50 was when I was up against carnies. I just got irritated that nearly all mob types would resist about 20-50% of my lethal-typed AS damage.
There are times I do miss the stalker playstyle, especially stalker version of claws because the set has a good mix of burst damage and damage over time, and it used to have a good mix of single and aoe damage. But, eviscerate was changed to affect only one target instead of as a cone aoe. Good and bad change, but it really does suck when your best aoe damage is no longer an aoe.
When coming back, I went with brute claws simply because fury's damage bonus is enough to bypass late level mob lethal resistances.
"Scrappers don't want the bit of dignity that Brutes left them taken away by (lol)Stalkers." -Delta_Strider, on Stalker buffs.
Current Project: Hard Goodbye, StJ/Nin
Retired: Blitzwulf, Claws/Nin (50); Perdition's Blade, Night Widow (50)
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Spin is one of the bigger reasons. Claws for Brutes (and Scrappers) is a strong AoE set. It also has Follow-Up for a consistent DPS boost.|
Originally Posted by Black_Aftermath
I do see a lot of Claws/Brutes, why the disparity?
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For Stalkers it doesn't have much going for it that other sets don't also provide. It is a better set overall since the tweaks. It's a solid set, not like before when people called it "Clawlz".
Eviscerate was changed into a single-target attack. The downside is that you can't hit multiple targets with it anymore. The upside is that it crits reliably from hide now, so the set has a big hitter other than AS to use after Placate.
Just recently returned from a 1 year hiatus of CoX. Around the time I left I remember hearing something about Claws getting a buff (a believe to it's DPS) but I left before implementation. I thought about dusting him off but first wanted to get a feel for what to expect.
I don't see many claws/ threads so i'm assuming it is still pretty unpopular? I do see a lot of Claws/Brutes, why the disparity?