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Don't forget that you can also auto-complete missions that are just too hard. Maybe that's what you mean by "abandon" but I thought I'd point it out.

What server are you on? Usually it doesn't take much to get someone to help for a quick battle if you advertise over the global channels.

Shivan Shard: Don't leave home without it.

There's also a "backup-radio" power from the market that you can just craft and have 5 charges of temp pets.

Either a PPD Hardsuit or Crab spider, for hero or villain respectively.

Also: Vanguard HVAS for vanguard merits. Not useful until level 35 though.

The backup radio is pretty respectable pet.

Yes, I'm aware of the auto-complete once per 3 days. I've used it exactly once as a villain (the EB who summoned bosses), and once as a hero (Proton EB I think). I don't like doing so because it feels like a cheat, but have done so as a last resort.

Didn't actually know the radio was a summon power. Not sure if 1 measly summon would beat some of the EB's I've seen though. Also didn't know about Shivans because I generally don't care for PVP so haven't been to Booty Bay.

I'm a Tier 8 premium, so I knew about Tier 9 summons, but since I'm not rolling in tokens, I didn't know if those Tier 9 summons were worth using or not.

Usually you only encounter other Shivan hunters in bloody bay.

To back up what some others were saying, you get the "cannot invite enemies" any time a redside team is trying to invite someone in a blueside zone or vice versa. It also happens when you are in a coops zone and trying to invite someone from a blue or red zone when your team has at least one member from the other side in it.

If you have a rogue, going to a blue zone will fix that.

OK, back with different questions (yes, I did finally join some hero teams, so that question was resolved):

My stalker just hit 47, so I'm setting up powers/enhances for the final push to 50. I'll probably do 1 last respec to get rid of a couple powers that were more for solo levelling (ie, Tport Enemy) and less for teams. I'm mostly following a build I found on the Stalker forum, dated I12, but had some questions (and I can't post to the Stalker forum to ask them).

1) It's recommended to get Stealth in addition to Hide if one plans to PvP, due to increased Perception. What if you don't plan to PvP? Does Stealth help any against NPCs that can see through base Hide (ie, Rikti Drones, Sniper-class NPCs, etc)? If not, is it basically useless for PvE? I understand there are Stealth and Perception caps, but don't know the specifics.

2) The guide I have admits the Patron Power Pools are of questionable help. Nonetheless, they grudgingly chose "Leviathan Mastery", which I felt was really breaking my char concept (I think this was before PPP diversification, so maybe the choices were different as well). I choose "Weapon Mastery" ("Physical Perfection", "Shiriken", and maybe the exploding one too), as much for concept than really researching. Was this a bad call I should respec out of? What PPPs are good for melee-based characters?

Rikti Drones

Knives of Artemis

Rularuu Eyeballs

These enemies all ignore stealth. No amount of stealth will alter their perception range. -Perception powers (Smoke, Flash Arrow) will.

I thought hide was good enough to sneak by Sniper class enmies as is - they, unlike the above, simply have a longer perception range. So Stealth effects do work vs them.

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