Mr. Vee

I'm no stalker pro but I quit taking placate and now use a big hitter out of hide for the crit rather than assassin's. Reason being the faster animated version of assassin's still hits hard and with the chance to hide proc in it often sets you up for yet another big hit. Placate has its uses but unless it's the AOE one you take a chance on it being broken by another enemy before you can hit your target. It just feels like a skippable to me now given the much more scrappery faster style you can play stalker with now. For me it's no comparison, stalkers are way more fun than they used to be.

I remembered, it's sudden acceleration. But a six slotted overwhelming force will get you an extra 4 KB protection which is nice for dark.

Unless they've changed to let them drop at lower levels. Iirc they could drop from enemies starting at 47 but y'know, 7 years away.

Overwhelming force has one, it's the universal damage set that's a reward from summer blockbuster. I forget the name of the KB set that has the other. I'm on mobile so can't really check and it's not in pine's either.

Just put a knockback to knockdown io in shockwave rather than removing it.

I got a catalyst drop on a moonfire last night, and incarnate shards/threads. So I'd imagine purples would be the only thing that wouldn't drop exemped.

Once you pick up the aura it becomes much better, even after they fixed the hilarious bug that was giving the highest recharge bonus for every enemy in range.

I kinda assumed they were copying all the announcements here since they've had brief ones there with links to longer versions here. But I guess that's not the case. Probably going with discord for the pings.

From Odd in discord announcements:

Disney once famously C&D'd a daycare with a homemade Mickey Mouse mural. So yeah.

If you're like me you remember to change it back two times but never a third :)

You and your thread moving ;)

I had a katana/dark scrapper and pretty much the whole time past the point where it was too high to reroll I wished it was a brute. I planned to remake it as such but that's way down the road. Too many new things to try.

Badges seems a bad place too though, as I don't give a rodent's posterior about badges but do care about accolade powers. But I doubt it matters too much since the new posts button is so much more convenient than searching particular forums anyway.

Best bet is to level as widow and io a fort build when you can. But like flux said if you're committed to only psi attacks you'll be underwhelmed by the damage even on an expensive build.

Yes, Silk, only downside other than cost of catalyst is that they then become unable to be level boosted. So if you plan on only playing high level content you might want to go that direction instead. Alternatively suppose you're an altoholic like me and you have a toon you're only going to use for penny yin tf, e.g. in that case you'd be better off getting level 27 ios and boosting them. They'd still behave as 27 for set bonus purposes but have the stats boosted. And no desarix, they should be in i24, but the market change that allows recipes and enhancements to change to the level they are bid at is i25 I believe.

Apart from the cost of the catalysts yes, that's correct. And even without the luck you can bid on the set at its lowest level in the market and get it at that level even if someone put it up at a different level. So if you intend to attune you might as well always grab it at the lowest level for earliest slotting.

They come in higher level versions but they only retain set bonus effectiveness three levels below the level of the enhancement. So the 27s in Redlynne's build would have their bonuses work exemplared to level 24. It's become much easier to get enhancements and recipes at the level you desire because all of them on the market go into the same pool now and a winning bid gets you the level you bid on. It's a huge qol improvement. Alternatively if money is no object and you plan to exemplar a lot you can buy enhancement catalysts and attune your enhancements to work at any level (well the full level range of the set anyway). https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Enhancements and the various links off of it should explain a lot of this better than we could. Though it's been a bit outdated by the introduction of more sets with bonuses that work at every level, the basic information is still correct. The newer sets will indicate in their info when their bonuses are level independent.

Getting an accolade power easily seems generally helpful :P

Same here

Good to know. Still probably easier to pop to red to do high pain threshold now that it's just marcone lieutenant and minion instead of bosses, but a good option. Now if only there were one for arcmage for people who refuse to go to red side.

You're also Jerry Mathers though

Less we have to remember Batman Inc the better.

Placate became much less necessary after they fixed stalkers in ish 20something. I've basically stopped taking it. Willpower you'd usually build for insane amounts of HP/regen and try to grab as much defense as possible. It's a weird set in that it's split between resistance and typed defense, letting the to hit debuff in the aura cover for some of the holes. I honestly have no idea how i'd go about building it for a stalker, though. The staff +defense attack being split melee/lethal would further complicate things.

Yeah some are so used to being wanted and slurped in holy trinity games that they take constructive criticism about as well as King joffrey. I suspect some take on the healer role in game after game just for the blind validation from strangers.