Most Annoying thing to happen tot a Stalker

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Goldenrod, according to Zwillinger.

My colorblind *** thinks it's orange. (His owner too, my donkey and I have difficulty with the colors. makes it a nightmare for character costuming.)

Super Speed is a lot of things in one package. It's a very fast travel power (easily outpaces Super Jump and doesn't need a second toggle to hit Afterburner speeds), it's fire-and-forget, and it has a partial stealth effect that stacks with pretty much any other stealth power for full invisibility.

Also a -threat effect. Subtle, but handy.

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The way I see it, it's the other way around. The dev have given up on balancing for Stalker sets and Stalker's needs.

The playerbase is only responding to what the dev created for them. What's considered Stalker's strength (stealth) is shared with many other ATs so if you want a stealthy AT, just take concealment pool.

And I am not just being bitter. It's the reality. The dev have no time to balance for just ONE AT. Time is better spent on creating something for 3 ATs - Brute, Scrapper and Tanker. Stalker's mechanism makes things difficult.

QUOTED FOR TRUTH.

Paragon studios just doesn't give a crap at this point and it shows.
Heck look at ice armor. They knew it was underpowered due to having one of its key defenses gutted by the Stalker AT HP cap, so they just tossed on a ridiculously balanced T9 and called it a day.

The set will be a monster on scrappers, because lets face it everythign is better on scrappers.

I am looking forward to the day the devs port over Ninjitsu.

When I'm recruiting, I usually PM a few stalkers. Most tell me not interested. But I always try.

I agree, but the funny part is that Doms were among the least popular ATs when someone (Arcana?) ran the numbers. I was the only dom on more teams than I can count pre-i12 (I left the game shortly after), leveled her the normal hard way. There were plenty of fire/psis for farming and mind/fires for pvp but Stalkers were also very popular in pvp, I believe they still are in what's left of it.

But the devs radically revamped doms, including making the Psi assault more balanced, which had the effect of gutting the fire/psi crowd who farmed, and now you see quite a few of them, usually at least one in each team. Maybe they just can't figure out what to do with Stalkers?

Yes, Dom used to rank at the bottom of the barrel just like Stalker but I've seen way more Dominators nowadays than Stalker especially at high level.

The co-relation is that they made Dominator BETTER, a whole lot better for new players and for those that didn't enjoy Dominator's "high and low" performance.

The reason Stalker is still at the bottom of the barrel is that Stalker is still weaker. Weaker, doesn't mean useless. I find Stalker quite balanced among themselves and quite frankly the game is easy enough that most AT combinations will work. The problem is there are a lot of min-maxers and Stalker isn't a likely choice.

Some of popular min-maxing sets like Super Strength, Fiery Aura and Shield...Stalker has no access to.

I am fine with current Stalker performance but I really hate it when they DECIDE WHAT STALKER THEME SHOULD BE LIKE rather than letting us decide what theme we want our Stalker to have. I would love it if my Stalker has a Shield or a Giant Weapon to smack the s@#$ out somebody in the dark.

The "theme" reason is weak at best because they have problem with Stalker using a Shield/Giant Weapon but they have no problem having Brute using a "slim Ninja Sword". If they want to follow that theme logic, then the reverse must be followed as well. You can't deny Stalker and not deny other melee ATs.

I really think they wish Stalker were never created or they wish they could totally re-vamp Stalker AT. It's a headache to create something for Stalker because their mechanism is different and they don't have the TIME to do it. They have all the time in the world to create SJ and Titan and later Staff set but we all know Stalker's version is always going to be inferior because they have no time to modify the set for Stalker's needs. You can't just take out any pbaoe and insert Assassin Strike or take out any cool mechanism for Build Up. It just doesn't work well for Stalker.

Now that we know Time won't be spent on the LEAST POPULAR AT. At least they are frank about it this time. Time is BETTER SPENT ON OTHER POPULAR ATS.

They keep saying "oh, we may give Stalker something down the road...' Yeah, Stalker is always an AFTER THOUGHT, isn't it? :P

With them pushing new sets out so quickly, Time wont' be spent on balancing for Stalker. Just look at Street Justice. You can't tell me that taking Rib Cracker out won't affect SJ's performance for Stalker. Rib Cracker has two useful debuffs and its animation rocks. If they actually PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION TO STALKER'S NEEDS, they would have kept Rib Cracker and taken out one of the tier 1/2. What happened to the attention they gave to Kinetic Melee?

They are rushing new products out that won't fit Stalker's needs. Mark my word. This is only the starting of the trend. in fact, they haven't even announced any new sets for Dominator and they are already working on ANOTHER FREAKING MELEE SET.

This is because those sets were ported to Stalker with POOR balance. The only thing they did is to take out the useful pbaoe (Dragon Tail, Whirling Wind, Spin, Lotus) and insert Assassin Strike and call it a day. And now they are married to this "Cottage rule" and won't insert pbaoe back in.

Any dev that paid attention to the set would say "mmmm, I wonder if a melee set needs 7 freaking ST attacks?" I am not an expert but even I'll think that's too overlapping.

I've said many times that Stalker's core problem has a lot to do with sets. It has more to do with the sets than how Stalker's critical/HP Cap work. You can have the best Damage Scale in the game but if your only pbaoe is taken out, good luck.

The newer sets are better but still inferior (minus Kinetic).

I can see a place for it if they had sufficiently diverse effects. Like stuns, fear, knock down, DOT, or whatever. Then you could pick attacks that compliment your secondary. Going /dark and taking the stun aura? Get an attack with 50% to stun and nail lieuts. But as you said, they didn't spend the time and think through it. And what we have doesn't work as well as it could.

A slight case of Necromancy because I just re-watched this series. <.<

The building crit will help this a little ... more frequent crits 2X the damage. And a 25% chance to do a combo w/[hide]AS.

Reminds me of an old South Park standard....

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Things get out of hand pretty quickly when an "inside joke" gets brought out in public without a leash.

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