Stalker Dark Armor?

Thinking of rolling up a Staff/ Dark Armor Stalker. I love my Kat/Dark Scrapper. Just wondering how good DA is on Stalkers?

Almost the same as scrappers.

It loses the AoE damage aura for hide, and loses the Cloak power for a passive auto power that gives you the same benefits as the cloak while it is suppressed.

I believe other than that, it is exactly the same.

It is primarily a resist set..which aren't as good for stalker. FOR a stalk, not 'on' a stalker. Other than the cloak being auto, the values are the same.
Although with the changes to AS, you could make it work easier, since you dont have to rely on defence (and hide)for AS to work.

my dark/dark stalker is my favorite stalker I've played yet. Even before I respecced and was missing critical powers *cough-Iforgotmurkycloud-cough* and only had 24% def to S/L and less than 10% to anything else, I was able to hold entire spawns on TFs when the party wiped and have held nictus rommy with 3/4 nicti essences for 2 minutes while everyone else hosp'd and got back.

Post respec, I'm not sure I could solo him, but I'm really, REALLY sturdy.

Personally, I'm a fan of the fear aura over stun, Arcannaville made a really good argument for having both of them (shortened short version is they mostly target different enemies due to the way they select targets so having both doesn't double hit a few, it increases your total coverage in large groups). I just like that the fear stops fleeing enemies after a few seconds whereas the stun makes them wander away. And I really hate chasing them down.

End consumption is not very bad outside of the heal. Even levelling before inherent fitness I didn't have a significant problem. Granted as a primary darks' actually pretty easy on the endurance so you might bump into that more than I did on Staff.

Dark has one of the better self-rez powers. I sometimes detoggle and die just so I can fire it off. The Mag 30 autohit stun can shut down some AVs for a not insignificant period of time, and anything else is just out of the fight period. If you slot a couple sun/recharge IOs into it (I just use common recharge currently) you can keep minions and lieuts stunned for stupidly long periods of time.

Thanks for the feedback. Gonna roll a Staff/Dark. How well do Cloak of Fear and Oppressive Gloom work going in and out of Hide?

To expand, each of the auras have a "tick" duration which runs a hit roll every five seconds or so. Since it counts as an offensive action, this will reset your timer to re-hide with every tick. It can also interrupt your next attack after placate if you aren't fast enough. With the changes to assassin's focus, this isn't as debilitating as it once was.

All that said, /Dark can be very potent on a stalker, particularly with IO's. The Theft of Essence proc in Dark Regen is a godsend, and there's a lot of ways to layer defenses on top of your resists which are then bolstered by that amazing heal.