No but sounds pretty cool . Need to see a pic if possible of this "concept "
My broadsword/ninja stalker hit 47 last night. He's going to be my first 50 villain, but I have kind of mixed feelings about the character and what it brings to teams. First, the good: Headsplitter and Disembowel do, in fact, hit like a truck, and there's nothing more satisfying than lining up 2-3 guys and destroying them with a single headsplitter. On the other hand, Headsplitter, as an AOE, only has a 50% chance to crit from Hidden, which means if you want to do something like Assassin's Strike -> Placate -> Next Best Attack, you have to use Disembowel, and a crit on Disembowel generally will not quite one-shot a minion. Not bad, but not the best of times. For a strong-hitting set, Broadsword has a lot of mitigation, starting when you pick up Parry. For a ninja, one Parry generally means hardly anyone is going to hit me with melee strikes; for WP stacking is a little more awkward, since you get hardly any Lethal defense and no position defense. It'll still help, though, especially if you get a little def buff slotted into it and double stack (which is easy). Plus, with Disembowel and Headsplitter both taking enemies off their feet, you spend a lot of time kicking (or slashing) people while they're down, which is generally entertaining and worthwhile.
There are three things about Broadsword that bother me, though. One is that it's almost purely single target. Yes, you can hit multiples with Head Splitter, but generally you're using it as a single target shot, and Slice, your only other cone, doesn't hit particularly hard. I spent a lot of time craving Whirling Sword and not having it, and I often felt less useful to large teams because of my poor AOE capability. If I make another stalker, down the road, it's almost certainly going to be Elec. Melee. Also, the purely lethal damage means a lot of enemies have at least some resistance to your strikes, and some have a lot, especially robots (another point in favor of elec.). Lastly, the animations are kind of slow, although not horrifically so. It's not that uncommon to set up a Head Splitter and waste some of the damage because one or more team attacks land first.
All that said, I found Broadsword very strong, it's fun to stick sharp things through soft things that scream and bleed.
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...it's fun to stick sharp things through soft things that scream and bleed.
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I have kind of mixed feelings about the character and what it brings to teams.
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Extra 3% crit chance for every team member, gotta love that.
Learn to leverage the crits people. Its one of the main things you bring to a team once you have used AS. I pride myself on knowing I can easily line up 2 to 4 enemies with each use of Head Splitter or Golden Dragonfly.
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Now that the useful information has been said and since I haven't played Broad Sword anything past level 16...
If you listen to broadcast in Recluse's Victory on Freedom, all Stalkers are BS*, so it should pan out just as well as every other primary!
* - Although I'm pretty sure they don't mean Broad Sword...
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I find the BS animations frustratingly slow. The bonus damage is ok for spikes (hence the popularity in PvP), but if you're going PvE, I really recommend Ninja Blade. You'll have a better experience in teams with fewer wasted attacks, and it just feels a bit more satisfying.
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I have a 43 BS/elec stalker that has been stalled there for about 6 months now. The lethal resists got old after a bit, I avoided any mish with robots because it was so painful (malta, council).
However, the toon was quite the carnie killer: hard hitting lethal attacks + 95% immunity to end drains made the Carnival of Shadows cry. Was funny to get hit with the ring mistresses mask of vitiation (sp) or a malta sapper and just shrug it off.
More to fit a concept and have fun with apparently one of the most exclusive power sets, I decided to make a BS/Wp stalker. Looking on down the line however, it seems like it might be pretty powerful in the later levels. An superior damage knock up, and extreme Cone (with higher chance to crit) sounds pretty good.
That being said though, I've only gone a few levels in. Does anyone have experience with BS stalkers and know how it pans out?
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