Nostromo21

What would be the top 3 primary & secondary for stalker, now that we're at the end of 2025 guys? Mainly solo single target for levelling.

I think he already does - he just has undead simulacrums he sends out on his behalf! 😉

I'd like to create a solo-only, ranged sniping monster, so Energy naturally pops up. Blasters have EA for the secondary to help with this of course, but what would be a good/comparable Corruptor secondary...Kinetics?

@UltraAlt - confusion is one of the main weapons in the Dom's arsenal! 😉 (yes, I was just (mis)quoting Groucho Marx for shits n giggles 😉

Cheers, what does Psi bring to the table that Stone can't - Psi resists...? I'd also like to know if the Stealth pool power is worth taking on top of Hide. I'd like to make a theme stalker that only takes out the bosses to complete all levelling missions as quickly as possible. I plan to pair it with Mystic Flight, as I don't love SS or SJ or pure Fly-ing for indoor missions. The translocate from MF is such a great addition to the basic flight, I take it on almost all my toons now, I just add 1 flight SO/IO and 1 end red. I can backstab a boss/lieutenant and just TP back up out of range into a hover, with just one keybind, if I want to. 🙂

I might have to give an EM stalker a go now I think! 🙂 What would be the best secondary for solo levelling and survivability...?

As a dominator, I could never team with anyone that would want to team up with me! 😉

My best and most survivable solo blaster on HC has been a dark/ninja, so I def agree about Shinobi! Add perma Kuji-In Toh and that's most of what you need from Ninja! (I built a mostly ranged hover blaster, so yes, I'm one of those... 😉 ---- I'm also going to give my ice/dark corr a fair shake, as Snarky says they are scourge-tastic! 😈 I'd really love to build a Godly solo stealthy ranged sniper type hero, but I don't think CoH has anything like that... sigh

This is generally true, however, you're going to have a bad time with certain builds, such as Dominators and other AT/builds that rely heavily on global recharge to reach perma-uptime on certain powers. So you at least need the set IOs and LoTG recharge enhancements that are almost mandatory to achieve that.

I would think that any SOs/IOs will take you up to level cap easily, so long as you slot to improve the powers strengths that you're after. And don't use more than 3 of the same enhancement within each power's 6 slots. That's it. Now, if you want to do super-hard endgame content (solo or in groups), you'll probably want to start slotting ATOs/uniques/sets/special origin enhancements, and of course, procs...it's all about the proc, bout the procs, bout the procs! 😉

Thanks for your detailed and thorough analysis MonteCarla! 🤪🤣

How did you go with your build mate? I'm having an absolute blast with my demons/thermal - so much dps out of the little devils and so much survivability out of the thermal toggles I find! 😄

Yeah Beasts/Nature was similar.

Maybe I'll just killify everything and unsummon if and when I really need to skip to the end he he!

Wow, you managed to pick up pretty much all the powers, especially thermal! I assume all of the healing/rez team powers work on your pets then, or did you take some of them more for team play? I mostly solo, so would be good to know which ones I can skip. Playing a demons/thermal MM right now, more for thematic reasons, eh.