I'm super happy with my Staff/Ninjitsu stalker. I don't know if it's better or worse but it's fun to play and feels plenty sturdy at level 41.
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They get Kinetic Melee though, which is basically "fixed" Energy Melee.|
Originally Posted by FireWyvern
So.... i'm going to make a melee character and saddly, scrappers still don't have Stone Melee or Energy Melee.
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You can make Spines into flints or crystals in power customisation.
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However, there's 3 new sets and stalkers got changed. I'm hesitating between: em/something stalker. The secondary would be one with no or almost no fx. |
Whilst staff is a great set, it is valued more for it's AoE, survivability, and utility, not for hitting the top of the single target damage charts.
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I love EM for it's animation and i think it does more damage then KM? (might be wrong)|
Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
They get Kinetic Melee though, which is basically "fixed" Energy Melee.
You can make Spines into flints or crystals in power customisation. |
While Spines look cool, it's really not a ST set. Like.... the worst. =p
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| Whilst staff is a great set, it is valued more for it's AoE, survivability, and utility, not for hitting the top of the single target damage charts. |
"It's a scrapper. If he can't handle it, no one can." -BrandX
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Originally Posted by FireWyvern
I love EM for it's animation and i think it does more damage then KM? (might be wrong)
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Kinetic Melee has a few things going for it that Energy Melee can't even hope to compete with:
1) Its AoE power, Burst has a 100% chance to critical when Hidden.
2a) Concentrated Strike will instantly recharge Build Up instead of dealing extra damage when it crits.
2b) When you put the Stalker ATO Chance to Hide in Assassin's Strike, it will fire every time you use it. So, use AS, automatically Hide.
2c) Concentrated Strike will automatically crit when Hidden.
I'll let you figure out how 2a, 2b, and 2c relate to each other
KM is pretty high on the single target damage charts for the above reasons.
Street Justice is apparently the highest damaging single target set currently available to stalkers.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
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2a) applies to scrapper KM too?|
Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
You are wrong.
Kinetic Melee has a few things going for it that Energy Melee can't even hope to compete with: 1) Its AoE power, Burst has a 100% chance to critical when Hidden. 2a) Concentrated Strike will instantly recharge Build Up instead of dealing extra damage when it crits. 2b) When you put the Stalker ATO Chance to Hide in Assassin's Strike, it will fire every time you use it. So, use AS, automatically Hide. 2c) Concentrated Strike will automatically crit when Hidden. I'll let you figure out how 2a, 2b, and 2c relate to each other KM is pretty high on the single target damage charts for the above reasons. Street Justice is apparently the highest damaging single target set currently available to stalkers. |
In the quote, i was talking about scrapper(theorically)/brute though. They don't have the same set and ATO then stalkers. Does KM for brute also do more ST then EM?
StJ is also the highest ST set for scrapper? Or it's mostly on stalker that it's superior?
What's the difference in play style now between scrapper and stalker? Are they pretty similar? Wich one is better at dealing damage? ( for burst it's stalker, but for continous DPS who wins?)
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No, any crits while HIDDEN refer only to stalkers.
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So.... i'm going to make a melee character and saddly, scrappers still don't have Stone Melee or Energy Melee. However, there's 3 new sets and stalkers got changed.
I'm hesitating between:
em/something stalker. The secondary would be one with no or almost no fx.
kat/ea or WM/ea scrapper
or maybe one of the new power sets.
Wich one should be better at ST damage while having okay survivability? I don't know much about staff, TW and StJ....
I'm planning to IO that character like crazy, get accolades, and all the incarnates! I'm just posting here cause i'll only sub in a few days. =p
Thanks for the help!
P.S. Actually, if anyone have a list of the different melee set's ST capabilities, that would be awesome. I know there was a bunch of those comparaison on the scrapper forum 2 years ago...
"It's a scrapper. If he can't handle it, no one can." -BrandX