[Ice/ but what secondary?]

42 minutes ago, aethereal said:

I played an Ice/Bio stalker through to the endgame.  It's a powerful choice (as in:  I soloed TFs and probably 20 or so AVs).

 

Bio lacks in pure mitigation.  I disagree with the previous poster about the essentialness of DNA Siphon and Parasitic Aura (I mean -- if you want to play at high difficulties.  If you want to play at +0/x1, I presume you can do whatever you want).  You'll certainly want to invest in power pools and sets to turn the mediocre resistances and defenses that it gives you into something better (especially in offensive mode).  But it gives you a damage bonus, good heals/absorbs, and powerful endurance tools.  Getting the accolades helps everyone, but it particular helps heal/absorb/regen-based sets, which Bio is properly thought of, so you may want to consider how much you like/dislike getting them.

 

One issue with the damage output of Ice is that it's actually too easy to build too short of an attack chain.  I could pretty easily just use Assassin's Ice Sword, Frozen Touch, Moonbeam, and Ice Sword for filler, but if you do that, you run into the invisible 10.25 second lockout of the chance to hide proc (which I hate) and only get your crit-from-hide every other attack chain.

 

A counter argument! thank you 😄 But yes that short of an attack chain I'm particularly feeling now that my current Ice Melee stalker is at 12, but what do you mean with the invisible lock out chance from the hide proc? I've yet to play with the ATO yet so this sounds like something pretty important.

[Ice/ but what secondary?]

Thanks for your input 😄 I might just try level a few different Ice Melee stalkers up to a certain level and see for myself, but if I remember right isn't Bio a secondary that mainly shines later on when you got most of the powers and get IO'd out?

[Ice/ but what secondary?]

Hi guys, I'm very certain that I'll be making an Ice/ stalker but I'm quite uncertain on what secondary to go with it, the clearcut top tier choices after doing some digging seem to be Energy, Invuln and potentially Bio?

 

Is there any real advantage or specifics I need to be looking at before I make my secondary choice? At this point it really is less about being thematically correct and more about synergy since you can more or less change the appearance of them all to fit the characters theme.

 

Also Inf is not an issue in regards to Enhancements so recommend away 😎