Clave Dark 5

The soul of wit is brevity. But I know I'd start using bunches of longer names too, partly because probably every three and four-letter combo's been done by now.

Wow, those last two are really good in very different ways.

Solid point on Parry. "Useful", sure, but also dull. This isn't inexplicable: I dislike having to throw away three power choices on boring background stuff when I could be choosing more neat-o pew-pew-pew powers (plus I'm already running lots of toggles). I also get tired of the same power choices made over and over again across so many toons, such as every squishie taking Scorpion Shield, merely because they make a lazy shortcut to Easy Street. (This means that yes, I am not building for a Min/Max orgasm, which, also yes, I realize makes me the freak around here. But even that doesn't negate the fact that the build is still perfectly playable.) You can also build towards the same goal other ways. The build posted above struck me as light on the BS attacks, so my suggestion was to help free up some choices.

Being a native red-sider, I used to have to go the other way, "I want to roll a Defender, but they're so wimpy! This damage is pitiful!!" 😁 If I can learn, you can too!

IIRC there's a RWZ contact who gives an endless cycle of Rikti-based missions that are about radio-level of storytelling, so that's already sort of thing. Makes sense there'd be no radio there but that the Vanguard would be giving them out, right?

Because they're scared of REAL villains!

*cracks knuckles* OK, time to look stupid! I'm running a BS/Energy Aura right now, and I know a little bit about stuff and things, so lemme see what dangerously wrong advice I can offer. If nothing else, maybe some actually knowledgeable person will come along and point out what a fool I am, and then both you and I can learn something. All the below just comes from my perspective and style of play, character concepts etc. and I fully recognize this might all clash with yours. I see you skipped Slice. I've found it to be a very useful and early cone. I'm not sure you need that many slots in Parry; I mean, set bonus, sure, but... I'm not 100% on how useful Parry beyond a slot or two, and nobody in my own recent thread answered that question for me (possibly because forum people generally don't react to threads about the "uncool power sets" like BS). I tend to use Parry to fill in a hole in my attack chain as the chance avails itself or if I think I might need all the help I can get in the current fight, but I don't generally rely on it, so I'd feel odd about giving it so many slots. Is Electrical so bad an armor that you need Boxing/Tough/Weave? My recent EA build didn't touch 'em and so far at level 33 I'm doing ok. That just might be my grudge against them talking anyway, but... Not too sure you need the Leadership powers either - drop those and the ones mentioned above and you suddenly have room to take Slice! And other attacks. If you want to examine my own thread, you can find it below. My build's pretty close to the later one Carnifax posted near the bottom, iirc - I don't have my MIDS in front of me to double check, but I don't recall making too many changes. https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/24696-broad-swordenergy-stalker-build/ FYI, I checked it in-game, Parry gives you +15% to melee and lethal for a handful of seconds. Useful enough, but doing only minor damage, it didn't seem worth it slotting for that, just enough so it wouldn't be too likely to miss. YMMV of course.

I'm currently taking my time leveling up a Broad Sword stalker and there's not much AoE in there at all, just a couple of thin cones. I've done fine with being a single target damager, but I have to admit that having some AoE creep into the set as I leveled up felt like something of a relief, if nothing else because it's fun to manage a crit on three targets at once. Which, come to think of it, sounds like a real good argument for wanting AoE for stalkers. But still, you can easily still live and do your thing without it.

Redside was my home on Live (before the population drop and the All-Incarnate-All-The-Time madness swept up the end anyway) and I've got a stalker I'm currently revisiting the Isles with solo as well. Once or twice I've hopped over blue to gain a quick level or two, but otherwise, justa nice leasurely re-exploration, just taking whatever mission's on offer that I feel like. Some of the mission-givers are insulting yes, but not all of them, I feel that's an overly broad brush. I'll also note that the tips I've run have been very "You encounter [situation]. You could be a right dastard and do X, or maybe be less of a dastard and do Y," so I actually haven't felt too talked-down to yet myself. Mainly I've done tips, Doc Buzzsaw and Dr. Graves so I dunno maybe I just ran into better ones?

I haven't fought her since live, but I don't recall her ever being any kind of royal pain, so maybe I only faced her at lower levels. Or got lucky and dropped her HP too quickly.

It doesn't seem to me that one needs to organize a mere five or six things, but I wouldn't stand in anyone's way if they implemented this. I do like the macro idea though. I always think about making such for my various characters, but... just never seem to find the time.

Well I certainly am going to now.

So that explains why I've never seen this giant spider before - it blinded me!

I'd never really thought about it, but since they can set it for just present throwing, they should be able to theoretically set it for any number of things. Throwing nothing but (lamp) shades would be funny. 😃 And I'm sure there's a character concept for someone who throws nothing but those cement gargoyles.

Anyone know how wide a base those things have? Zone-wide, 100 feet? I hoard them.

Huh, I had no idea. Maybe I've never done that one before. o_o

How did you get those eyes? Is that part of the aura?

I have that same issue on a toon with that same hat, or a hat much like it (it's been awhile). For me it worked out because the scalp color wasn't too different than the hat color so I imagine few people notice it. Then again, I didn't take the cell-shading effect in consideration, which makes it look much worse huh?

Huh, I could have sworn I saw someone running around with that name. Maybe they tricked the censor by swapping out and I for an L, that sort of thing.

Do you? I often take Kick instead of Boxing when I start up the Fighting tree, even if I don't use it much, but from what I've seen when I do, the weapon stays out.

Repsecs are easier to come by (if still a pain) so trying something out's not a bad idea; you can always dump it later. I have to admit I listen to a fair amount of received wisdom from the forums to help me make my choice too, but you have to get a good number of opinions to make a decent call so that one lone person telling you to six slot Rest or something won't lead you astray.

It's s shared pair of rose-tinted glasses, if so, because that's how I remember things too. (0% of the time it was great, and angry or mean posters didn't last long for whatever reason (I recall seeing a few identifiable ones over on the Champions Online forum when that game was just starting up).

Huh, after all the big talk around how scary they were going to be for level-capped toons, I' was kinda expecting something bigger.

I had forgotten about the getting outside trick until seeing this so I went and did it myself. I even saw another player outside while I was there, apparently taking selfies with the Tardis on the roof. And imagine my great disappointment after trying to fly off to one of those distant planets in the sky that I discovered you apparently can't. Aw well, stopped off and got my Manny's t-shirt before I went home.

Never acknowledge you posted the thread in the firts place, block any replies from showing up in your email. Deny everything. Threaten legal action if anyone ever raises the topic again.