Rib Cracker

So. Rib Cracker is the power that Stalkers lose within the Street Justice set. How good is it, exactly, and how much will it's lack annoy me and gimp my possible next stalker?

I didnt notice it was gone...to tell you the truth

Playing a Stalker though is different then playing a Scrapper, or Brute or Tank.

So i guess for me it wasnt a very big issue at all...

For me Stalker Play is more about prescision and choosing your targets so that i dont waste energy and time with non-essentials.

So the missing power really didnt matter much......i was still annihilating the targets i needed to.....and onthe beta....i admit it...i also had to run away in one place...becaseu the crazy spawns showed up faster then i could kill things.
But i think that was due to lag alot....as i found my self standing there with an attack qued and waiting for it to go off.


By the way...dont know if i made htis clear on this forum or onthe beta...but lag really hurts the street justice set's combo build up.

It makes the stalker set into a "take 9", you lose the sick animation, you lose the debuff, and using AS in your attack chain gimps your DPS.

The main problem for me is that like other primaries (Energy Melee) if you skip the tier 1 or 2 attack (like I usually do on Stalkers) you'll have to wait till level 26 to have a decent ST attack chain, on most other sets it's level 18.

Rib Cracker is a normal attack in dmg/end/rech formula, it also does -7.5% res and -11.3% dmg. On a Scrapper I'd get it so I could skip one of the first two punches and have Rib Cracker (so, 3 attacks) at level 8.

I personally felt that it should've replaced "generic attack #2" - which relates to my feelings on Heavy Blow - as the tier 2. They're both combo builders, a 30% chance for KD is "blech", and a -resistance debuff (that's built into the power and not an IO proc) is unique among melee sets. There are also many precedents for Stalkers having their power order shuffled around.

[edit: I finally got around to logging on to beta to get the numbers again; Heavy Blow is better DPA than Rib Cracker and the debuff, while easy to keep up permanently, is only 5 seconds. I still like the animation for Rib Cracker a lot better and the -resistance will help make up the DPA difference... particularly if it was right before a level 3 CU crit! ]

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Plus, it's pretty stalkery/critical level damage to Knee someone in the Groin/Abdomen.

Wow. Yes, that would be a nice thing indeed. Replace Heavy Blow with Rib Cracker. Yes, please.

Haven't posted in a while.

Yup, it's sad that the dev couldn't add Rib Cracker. It's just too late in the development by the time some of us voiced our concerns.

Rib Cracker has AWESOME animation and it has two debuffs. The debuffs are not huge but most debuffs stack in this game so every little bit helps.

Stalker really doesn't need 2nd tier attack. That heavy blow looks boring.


What the dev may do in the future is to make Shin Breaker hit a bit harder but we'll see. Street Justice is one of the reasons why I participated in beta for the very first time but unfortunately, nothing was really changed/updated for Stalker Street Justice. I didn't play all the way to 50. I've only tested early levels. The good news is Stalker's version doesn't lose any aoe attack (even though the aoe has small radius).