Sprit Sharks in Siren's Call

These days, Stalkers are far less effective than they've ever been at any point
in the past.

With iStuff, Stalkers are pretty much rep-bait in RV, or at best, a minimal factor
in battle outcome.

Nobody is ever in Bloody Bay, and rarely Warburg, so no factor there either...

Historically, they've been banned or limited on Arena League teams, so minimal
factor there either.

SC is pretty much the only zone where Stalkers can have an appreciable impact
and even there it has been reduced in recent times.

I'd be curious to see the Devs datamining on PvP kills, but I'd wager that Stalker
kills are WAY down from the early days.

So, basically, what you're essentially calling for is Stalkers to be removed from
the game, given that their effectiveness has continually de-volved pretty much
since PvP was rolled out.

Frankly, I'd prefer to see PvP as a whole removed from the game first.

Of course, a better answer would be for the Devs to actually understand PvP
and do it *right* to begin with, but I'm serously doubtful that will occur.


Regards,
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Sharks are OP in zones, just need a few of them to get a kill because of TS/HD. But AS is extremely easy to use in zones because of TS, so you're bad if you don't use it.

Also, part of the reason Stalkers are less effective in arena is because what they are used for is ASing on spikes, and since AS is not amazingly powerful anymore, you're better off just running blasters or doms instead most of the time in an 8v8 situation. You need 2-3 Stalkers in order to have any real effective Stalker based spike in most cases.

If AS was buffed that would help solve that problem some.

I have long been of the opinion that no AT should be able to 1 or 2 shot anybody. Any power being able to do that in any zone is a problem, regardless of the justifications that people make up.

Sharks is a problem not only because of the ability to deliver a huge packet of damage from complete safety at range (which not even Blasters can do), but also because it minimizes the ATs most powerfull attack. A well slotted AS even in it's nerfed form deals about 50% more damage than Sharks. The ability to AS a moving target has long been seen as one of the last indicators of skill left in the game, but now is looked at with disdain because Sharks is easier and safer. In other words, we are dumbing down an already dumb process.

I see what you're trying to do here Ares, but this should be at the very bottom of the priority list. I say leave it alone, nobody uses Sirens anyway. Please file an in-game petition for stuff like this that doesn't really matter, instead of clogging our forums. Thanks.