Slight tweak for Stalker Street Justice.

Had an idea as I was looking over the powers for my new Street Justice/Ninjitsu stalker.

I don't know how you guys use your AS, but I tend to use it as follows:

Build Up->AS->Placate->Heavy hitting attack (usually the tier 9 if it's up).

As it is, using the powers in that order will cause you to either use your hard hitting attack at Combo level 2 (from AS), or waste your Placate crit on a combo builder. Or you'll have to use Placate before your AS to get that first combo level. It's not practical to try and fire Crushing Uppercut at level 3 with a Placate crit (It DOES crit after a Placate, right?)

What if either Build Up or Placate were also a combo builder? I'm leaning toward Build Up on this for thematic reasons, but I could see Placate too. Both is probably too much to ask.

It's a small change, but it would be a nice tweak to an already pretty good set.

Thoughts?

I'm really enjoying my SJ/Dark Stalker and I concur that having one of those two being a combo builder would be really helpful. On other ATs, Combat Readiness raises your level to 3 but having Build Up add 1 would be great as it means you could use Build Up > AS > Finisher at level 3 rather than level 2.

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The combo I'm using on my StJ/Ice is BU + AS + shin breaker (that has an -res proc in it plus builds to combo lvl 3), and then either placate + lvl 3 CU (if I need a massive burst) or one of the finnishing AEs. Yeah, having BU or placate adding +1 to the combo would have been nice, but I'm happy with it as is. Overall I think StJ is a pretty stellar set for stalkers, even with rib cracker missing from the picture.

And yes, CU does crit after a placate, and it crits hard. I have mine slotted with the purple melee and hold procs, and when both fire on a lvl 3 combo crit it's not uncommon to see 1700+ damage. It out performs AS by a good bit, this is one of those sets where having controlled crits is nice as hell.

The tweaks you mentioned would be nice, but again I'm happy with how the set turned out for stalkers.

I'm happy with it as-is too, which is why the only tweak I could think of to improve it is a really minor one.

I won't be heartbroken if this doesn't happen, but it'd be a nice addition that I don't think would unbalance anything.

I am having a blast with Street Justice. My combo chain is great, placate->crushing uppercut is fast and very damaging (lvl 3 critical is more than AS). I would like rib cracker, but the Set is fantastic.
my chain is:
build up-> AS -> Shin breaker -> crushing -> heavy blow -> shin breaker -> spinning strike
heavy blow -> shin breaker -> sweeping cross.

if they don't revamp stalkers and make AS or Placate an inherent power, they could change shin breaker to something like double strike, a mix of shin breaker and rib cracker.
(slighting higher damage as shin breaker, but -def, -res. maybe a couple seconds of extra recharge/end).

I think Placate giving one combo point is fair and it should make BU + AS + Placate + Finisher a lot more potent.

I am pretty sure Stalker's build up won't give combo points since we get more +damage.