Stealth Pool Question, comment

I have just recently created a character that I planned on using in PvP. I read that the stealth pool is pretty handy for this, so I decided that I would try to get it into my build. I needed to drop 3 powers to get Phase Shift, but which?

I decided that the simplest option was Kick/Tough/Weave. Now my thinking was that I would lose quite a bit of defense for getting Phase shift, and Invisibility, but low and behold, Invisibility has a 7% defense buff. Despite the heavy weight of the Toggle, that could actually be useful and in combination with Phase Shift, a quick get out of jail free card. I think that Stealth (1.75%def) Invisibility and Phase Shift are quite a decent tradeoff when compared to kick/tough/Weave

I never see people use the Stealth Pool, so exactly what is the hitch, what am I missing?

High toggle cost, but decent recharge, and have fast activation, and the 7% doesn't supress in PvP or PvE (according to Red Tomax)

The 7% defense in Invisibility doesn't suppress because you can't do anything that affects more than yourself while it is active (i.e. you can't attack)

Stealth in PvP is just barely this side of completely useless for anything but a stalker. This is because the stealth cap for non-stalkers is 571 feet. Base perception for everyone is 500 feet. Any kind of perception bonus at all completely negates stealth for non-stalkers. The kicker? Tactics is a huge perception buff that is available to anyone.

Most people that I've talked to that have the Concealment pool for PvP take it ONLY for Phase Shift. Unless you are a stalker the rest of the pool does very little good.

Stealth has a small amount of defense that suppresses when stealth is broken.
Grant Invisibility is not usable on yourself.
Invisibility has a nice defense buff that doesn't suppress, but you can't attack while running it.

You never mentioned what the character's AT is that you're building, so I can't be much more help than that.

Most people that would use the Stealth pool already have a Stealth power in their primary or secondary.

Also, I've personally noticed fewer and fewer people using pool powers at ALL except for travel.

I'm half tempted to take as many pool powers as I can and make a "Pool Power Man" as a concept character to see how viable it would be.

Also, there is now a cheap Phase Shift craftable power and one you can buy in a PvP zone too I think, so that has "helped" reduce the number of people taking the Stealth pool.

The stealth pool is an excellent place for a squishy to place KB IOs that's another main reason for picking it for pvp.

Off topic: go bleach avatars!