Super Reflexes and Lucky

This is something of a surprising concern for me that I just became aware when my SR Stalker got high enough to start thinking about passives: Stalker Super Reflexes doesn't have Lucky. Does this mean my passive resistances are two thirds of what a SR Scrapper gets? Moreover, does that mean I'll be more vulnerable to AoEs? Isn't that kind of counter-productive to what Stalkers do, the AoE defence thing? I mean, even Hide has, like, a 40% AoE defence buff when hidden.

I'm hoping either Dodge or... What was the other passive called, the ranged one? I'm hoping either one will have double the scaling resistances, or otherwise both will have some more to make up. But this just seems... Odd. I know Stalkers give up protection for being Stalkers, but I always thought this would be in terms of overall numbers, rather than in terms of missing chunks.

I'm not preaching doom, mind you, it's just... Surprising.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

you want to know why you dont need it?, because evasion covers what evasion/lucky does for scrappers/brutes. they had to get rid of something to bring hide in so what better way to do that then combine luckys defense with evasions and now you get it in one toggle.

Stalker Evasion actually gives more defense than scrapper Evasion and Lucky combined. I do believe you miss out on the scaling resistances.

I believe the only significant way "Stalkers give up protection for being Stalkers" is in their crummy HP totals. The stalker versions of /dark, /elec, and /regen actually offer more survivability than their scrapper/brute counterparts because they give up an offensive or utility power and get Hide in return. /SR, /energy, and /WP have more of a trade-off but in my humble opinion Hide and Placate make up for the scaling resistance loss.

Edited: I thought Stalker is missing out on some defense from Energy Cloak but Stalker's Energy Aura shields (like Kinetic) actually have higher base value at 16.5%, while Brute's is 12.8%. Interesting.


Mmmm, this could explain why many Brute players don't like Energy Aura because it starts out pretty weak and some don't even like to take Energy Cloak (thinking it's counter-productive). Well, I have an Energy Aura Brute and I just use Taunt to grab aggro. If your Brute doesn't take Energy Cloak, it's pretty gimpy.

Its for that very reason I will never make a SR stalker. Dont forget that without that one power you also miss out on valueable debuff resistance as well. Its just better to go ninjutsu you have the heal and be easier to soft cap cuz you dont need as many powers slotted.

There's a good reason my Stalker takes Aid Self. Once I get 1-2 good hits and am about half health, I use it. I don't typically have too much problem with getting one shotted, but then again, the scaling defense does squat for you if that happens anyhow. Yeah it might take up 2 power slots to get it, but it's something that a defense oriented character needs anyhow imo. With fitness being inherit now, you got three slots open to choose powers.

Then again, this is coming from the person who went without an epic to get Aid Self on a Stalker who can solo +2/x8 quickly for a stalker (best speed/safety of my current characters) and may die only 2-3 times (if that) for an entire map of spawns. So yeah...