Water Spout

I took this power on my stalker and I'm kind of enjoying it. I'm wondering how people are slotting it though. I don't really care about how often it stuns or knocks up, so right now I have it slotted with 5 posi blasts mostly for the passive set bonus and the fact it does decent damage on stuff that it doesn't blow around. Is it worth slotting for anything else?

It looks like it does good debuff and good damage. Not sure which would be more efficient. It'll go to about -25% def and good damage. I'd prolly use it for debuffs it you have good damage already.

I put 5 Positron Blasts in mine, for the recharge bonus and the damage. Thought about the Kinetic Crash set for the knock-up. The defense debuff not really any help for me since my stalker is Broad Sword and the stun is to low a magnitude to be helpful.

i would prolly slot it with an achilles heel proc, and then some other dmg procs (LG neg dmg proc, posi blast proc, ect)

Made me log on a check.

3 recharge and an achilles' heel proc

3 Dmg/Mez HOs, 2 Recharge 50 IOs and the -Resistance proc if you can spare the slots. Works best on a toon that can -KB or versus KB-resistant baddies. Best ST attack my dom had for ages.

Set of ragnarok's, minus the chance for knockdown, and an achilles proc. Note it does not need -kb powers to be effective as it does knockup now, not knockback. 5 posi's + achilles proc is good if you don't want to spring for purples, but posi's doesn't enhance the recharge all that much.

Since Water Spout is only available in the 40s, the real question is how often do you need more than a 15% defense debuff at those levels? Is being able to deal with the occasional Elude user more easily worth losing the damage and global recharge you'd get slotting Positron's in it? I normally have a 95% chance to hit pretty much anything that isn't using a godmode power at those levels, and even things that aren't quite 95% (like Rikti drones) are close enough that 15% will make up the difference.