Croax

Hi All! I had seen something similar for the Sentinel AT and wanted to make it for the Stalker. Feel free to share and use it for all your new Heroes and Villains as a basic Idea for different builds. If you have questions or suggestions, just leave a comment. The Stalker Hide provides enormous Def while Hidden. Once you are not Hidden you only retain a small 3% Def bonus. That's why i made the Overviews with and without Hide. Here are the Links: Stalker Secondaries Overwiev with Hide Stalker Secondaries Details with Hide Stalker Secondaries Overview without Hide Stalker Secondaries Details without Hide Edit Note: Since the forum does not allow high quality Pics, you can find a link to imgur. (The kids use it theses days, thx @Redlynne) With and w/o hide added. thx @Microcosm Now for the People that don't want to klick on Links. Here are the low quality versions that work on this forum: Overview With Hide Details With Hide Overview Without Hide Details without Hide

Hi Dixa, First off: That Video is Amazing! I came here looking for a support build, because Demon/Thermal suits my Theme but what you did is beyond my expectations! I would really like to go for your build, but the Pines v2.23 gives a error code when i try to import it. Could you tell me the Version you used?

From what i have seen primaries that are considered good are: Street Justice (Best all around) Broadsword (Strong single target damage) Electric Melee (Strong Area Damage) The commonly good secondaries are: Energy Aura (Defense Set, +recharge, +endurance, +healing) Shield Defense (Defense Set, +damage, gets a extra aoe attack that is quite good) Bio (mixed set, offers a lot, but you will have to klick some more powers) Super Reflexes (Defense Set, +recharge, +run speed, cheap to build capped defense to all)

This is amazing! Could you post your build here for Stalker noobs like me, please?

I don't like to qupte myself, but is this not the answer to your question?

Welcome to City of Heroes. First don't panik! This community is very helpfull and if you try to get answers in game with the /help channel, the community will answer you. If you are totally new to this game, than i would suggest to go first to the pay2win Vendor located in the starting area. There you can grab a double XP boost. There is much more to this vendor but let's skip it for now. Now you can just do some missions for contacts or join a group that is going for a low level trial (something like a dungeon in other games). Just watch out for the /lfg channel and people shouting 'dfb'. That means 'Death from Below'. You can join them even with lvl 1. Now after you have got some lvl you want to get powers from your spines and bio set. I would skip taunt for a brute. Try to evenly distribute the slots between your attacks and put 2 extra slots early on to 'stamina'.It is a bonus power from a power pool called fitness. I would say that you simply try to give the most powers 2 extra slots. Until lvl 22 don't buy any enhancement. Just use the ones you find and sell the ones you can not use. Since i don't want to confuse you, pick a travel power somewhere on lvl 8, 10 or 12. For new players i would suggest fly, except it does not fit your roleplay. At lvl 22 comes the really hard part. You are about to get Invention Origin Enhancements, or simply called IO. But to get them you will need some influence. I hope you did end up with some merits in your salvage inventory tab. Go to the next Auctionhouse, they are called wendswort and blackmarket. A merit vendor will stand next to it. Buy enhancement booster and a few enhancement converter. You can sell them in the auction house. The enhancement converter will be a instant sale for 90k. I hope you made enough influence to sell one or two.now you can sell the enhancement converter for 1,2-1,5 million each. Congratulations, you are now a millionaire! So with a few millions and lvl 22 you now go to the next university. There should be a contact to run you through a tutorial on crafting. After you have learned how to use the crafting tables, here is another cool thing: type '/ah' into the chat. It will bring up the auctionhouse almost anywhere in the game. You can open the crafting window and the ah window side by side. Now you can use the ah to buy the IO you need or just to buy the components to craft them yourself. You can use IO of 3 lvl above your chatackter lvl. So you will craft and slot lvl 25 IO. From now on when you get new slots from a lvl up you can immediately get the proper lvl IO. Standard IO come in lvl increaments of 5. You can get lvl 25, 30, 35, and so on. Unlike nirmal enhancements, the IO never expires because you have a higher lvl. The lvl 25 IO will be fine up to lvl 50, when you should start to look for a proper endgame build. After you know how to lvl, get some money and craft some IO. Now comes the part you where thinking is the information you really need. What enhancements to slot now? The enhancements have diminishing return on every enhencement of the same type. So 6 slotting for damage will not work. You can mostly stop to get benefits after the third enhancement of the same type. Surely you remember to put 2 extra slots to stamina so you have a total of 3, did you? That is because you can only slot endurance modification to it and can not benefit from more than 3. As a overwiev, from left to right slotwise: Attacks up to 6 slots: 1Accuracy, 1Endurance Reduction, 2 Damage, 1 Recharge Reduction, 1 Damage Toggles with Defense 5 slots: 2 Endurance Reduction, 3 Defense Toggles with Resist 5 slots: 2 Endurance Reduction, 3 Resist Auto Powers with Defense 3 slots: 3 Defense Auto Powers with Resist 3 slots: 3 Resist Stamina: 3 Endurance Modification Health: 1 Healing I hope you get the idea now. I write it like this, so you can use the information on any charackter not only this spine/bio brute. And don't be afraid to make a mistake you can totally change your power selections and your slot distribution with a respec. Just type /respec into the chat and you can distribute it again. You get a free respec every 10 lvl. I hope this information eas not too much and somehow useful.

I am no expert on any build but i have some questions regarding this build. First off, if you ever want to do low level content than you should switch some of the powers. I would allways take speed boost at 20 and fulcrum shift at 38. For the endurance problem: if you find yourself low on endurance just because a transference missed, you could: 1. Slot Performance shifter into stamina 2. Slot Performance shifter into speed boost 3. Drop Focused Accuracy and take Tactics instead (For the Gaus Set ofc) and slot Kismet 6% anywhere. Focused Accuracy is very expansive to Endurance and if you want to hit stuff reliable and get hold of the sweet Gaus Set Bonuses than you could grab tactics. Also there is a unique IO that gives 6% to hit to all powers. To get more slots you could take a look at enhancement boosters. As far as i know you can get perma hasten with only one Recharge Reducer that has been pimped. Same goes for Fulcrum Shift. For the gameplay of this alt: Are you kintic with blasts or are you a blaster with buffs? If you ate a kinetic with blasts i think you can drop steam spray for another power maybe from leadership? If you are a blaster with buffs. Drop steam spray and get aquabolt early in leveling. It will help speed up tidal force gain dramatically. Point is, drop Steam spray it is not great. I hope some of my thoughts and questions help you.

If you want to tank on a serious lvl i would like to point you to the 'rage crash'. If rage expires you will deal extremely reduced damage for 10 seconds AND your Defense will drop by 20% also for 10 seconds. Since Shield is a Defense focused set you will loose a lot of your mitigation during that period. Better take some purple inspiration during that time. Just consider another primary if you could find it annoying to pop purples all the time.

I am playing a SS/Will brute and i did take taunt. It is because i feel in lower lvls it is needed. My Powerset has only one bad and ugly ranged attack and sonetimes i need more enemys around me to rise up to the challange (pun intended). So taunting enemys from the next group makes my life sometimes easier, they shoot at me and come a little closer. Also there is a really good set that gives a big boost to s/l/melee defence, which i like to slot. It is part of my build to get 45% def without incarnates. I don't remember the name but it procs a laughable amount of psi damage from time to time.

Ich wurde gut in der SG aufgenommen und bin auch schon die ersten Missionen mit SG Mitgliedern gelaufen. Viel besser als alleine Unterwegs zu sein! Einfach mal den Global hinterlassen oder im /help Nachfragen. Wäre cool, wenn wir uns zu einer bekannten und beliebten SG auf Reunion etablieren.

Hallo Zusammen, Bei so vielen deutsche-sprachigen Spielern gibt es doch bestimmt auch eine deutsche SG oder? ;D

Is this Incarnate stuff which i know nothing about, yet.? I tried to do that but unfortunately i will have to wait for the beta server to get a new patch. My account is new and therefore it is not available for me at this time. :'(

I understand the slotting in footstomp now. Very good idea to go with armageddon and force feedback. But my main issue when i lokked in the forum was endurance problems. It looks like your build could suffer more than my idea. How about we just live with rage crash pop a luck and go into the epic pool that lets me slot two more Performance shifter. Or is it enough to have 2?

I have taken all of your Builds and put together something myself. It would be nice if someone could check if i missed some of the super unique IO or if i did a big mistake. Is this IO setup an expansive build? i have no idea of the high lvl economy. http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php? Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 2.22 http://www.cohplanner.com/ Click this DataLink to open the build! Level 50 Mutation Brute Primary Power Set: Super Strength Secondary Power Set: Willpower Power Pool: Fighting Power Pool: Speed Power Pool: Leaping Power Pool: Leadership Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery Villain Profile: Level 1: Punch (A) Superior Brute's Fury - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge (3) Superior Brute's Fury - Recharge/Fury Bonus (3) Superior Brute's Fury - Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (5) Superior Brute's Fury - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (5) Superior Brute's Fury - Damage/Recharge (7) Superior Brute's Fury - Accuracy/Damage Level 1: High Pain Tolerance (A) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance (7) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (9) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (9) Unbreakable Guard - +Max HP (11) Gladiator's Armor - TP Protection +3% Def (All) (46) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3% Level 2: Haymaker (A) Superior Unrelenting Fury - RechargeTime/+Regen/+End (13) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (13) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (15) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime (15) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Damage/RechargeTime (17) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Accuracy/Damage Level 4: Mind Over Body (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (17) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (19) Unbreakable Guard - Endurance/RechargeTime (19) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance (21) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime Level 6: Fast Healing (A) Numina's Convalesence - +Regeneration/+Recovery (46) Numina's Convalesence - Heal Level 8: Knockout Blow (A) Superior Blistering Cold - Recharge/Chance for Hold (11) Superior Blistering Cold - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime (21) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage (23) Superior Blistering Cold - Damage/Endurance (23) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (25) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge Level 10: Indomitable Will (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed (25) Luck of the Gambler - Defense (27) Reactive Defenses - Scaling Resist Damage (27) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All) Level 12: Taunt (A) Perfect Zinger - Chance for Psi Damage (29) Perfect Zinger - Taunt/Range (29) Perfect Zinger - Taunt/Recharge (31) Perfect Zinger - Accuracy/Recharge (31) Perfect Zinger - Taunt/Recharge/Range (50) Perfect Zinger - Taunt Level 14: Boxing (A) Empty Level 16: Rise to the Challenge (A) Panacea - Heal/Endurance (31) Panacea - Endurance/Recharge (33) Panacea - Hea/Recharge (33) Panacea - Heal/Endurance/Recharge (33) Panacea - Heal (34) Panacea - +Hit Points/Endurance Level 18: Rage (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff (34) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge (48) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance (48) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance (50) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up (50) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance Level 20: Quick Recovery (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End (34) Performance Shifter - EndMod Level 22: Tough (A) Unbreakable Guard - Endurance/RechargeTime (36) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime (36) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (37) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance Level 24: Weave (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed (37) Luck of the Gambler - Defense (37) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance (39) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge Level 26: Hasten (A) Recharge Reduction IO (39) Recharge Reduction IO Level 28: Heightened Senses (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed (39) Luck of the Gambler - Defense (40) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance Level 30: Combat Jumping (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed (40) Luck of the Gambler - Defense (40) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance Level 32: Foot Stomp (A) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage (42) Superior Avalanche - Damage/Endurance (42) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (42) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (43) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge (43) Superior Avalanche - Recharge/Chance for Knockdown Level 35: Superior Conditioning (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End Level 38: Strength of Will (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (43) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime (45) Unbreakable Guard - Endurance/RechargeTime (45) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance Level 41: Maneuvers (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed (45) Luck of the Gambler - Defense (46) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance Level 44: Physical Perfection (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End Level 47: Super Speed (A) Winter's Gift - Slow Resistance (20%) Level 49: Super Jump (A) Unbounded Leap - +Stealth Level 1: Brawl (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Dash (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Slide (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Quick (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Rush (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Surge (A) Empty Level 1: Fury Level 1: Sprint (A) Empty Level 2: Rest (A) Empty Level 4: Ninja Run Level 2: Swift (A) Run Speed IO Level 2: Health (A) Miracle - +Recovery (48) Miracle - Heal Level 2: Hurdle (A) Jumping IO Level 2: Stamina (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End (36) Performance Shifter - EndMod ------------

Basically, as you exemp, you start losing attacks and armor, as well as the set bonuses slotted in them. I think i will try out your build. but could you explain why you choose the earth epic pool. i mostly see people pick scorpion shield and the like. what makes the 3 powers or sets so important?

i have no idea. this is the first time in years playing again and i am a little bit confused allready. what would be the main difference playing high lvl and low lvl?

Oh Hyperstrike, your build looks like what i had in mind. you took the earth powers to carry the set bonuses or why did you choose that pool?

The Last time I played was around the time when Willpower was new. I remembered a lot of the things that is written in the old guides. But now that i am in my mid 30s with my SS/WP brute i start to feel like a lot was changed to this sets. I could really use someone that is familiar with IOs and bonuses to make a nice build. I have serious endurance peoblems which lead to me beeing inside the minions and just waiting for my blue bar to fill. I deactivate weave and though from time to time but the build does not feel fluid anymore. Maybe someone can show me something that i am missing.

Hello OP. Maybe it is too late but reading this thread i was thinking maybe SS/WP brute is just what you are looking for. You just have to watch rage and begining with lvl 32 and the Force Feedback proc, you can Footstomp every 5 seconds. Casuallay cc a whole spawn throwing out knockout blows for huge damage. Just ignore the fact that you play a brute and not a min max super scrapper. Jump in and SMASH!!!. You really should give it a try i am having a blast.

If you want to see TW/Bio at its best damage wise, put it on a Scrapper. Scrapper's higher base damage and the fact that offensive adaptation gives scrapper larger bonuses both serve to make that application shine best on a Scrapper. The damage is unbeatable. If you want significantly more potential toughenss (90% Resist Cap vs 75%), the Brute still hits about 3/4 as hard as the scrapper (at least in my hands) and has much greater potential survival. This is mostly applicable to team roles - oddly, solo, they performed about the same for me - the Brute's extra HP and resist gave me more breathing room to focus on my offense, and the Scrappers higher damage output dropped foes so quickly as to moot some of the extra mitigation. Given that Bioarmor is a set without DDR, in some situations the Scrapper was 'tankier', just because it could put down foes even -faster-, something that matters when the AI is happily lowering your DEF and RES to -100% Thank you for the insight. :)

At this point, would you go for TW/Bio Brute or Scrapper? (Does Stalker even have this combination) I am having fun with my SS/Will brute and maybe would try something similar now. I am used to long animations due Knockout Blow, so that won't be a problem at all.

Hi all, I have just discovered the homecoming servers. I have not been this emotional since the birth of my son :P I like to play on the red side only. On live i was allways playing the bad guys, i will keep doing that. Therefore i would like to join a group that is active on the villain side mostly. I am online in the evening. My Global is @Croax i guess. Hope to see you soon and smash some hero skulls together ;D