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I've posted about this before in regards to Energy Melee on Stalkers. For all I know it impacts all Stalker primaries. This is my first encounter with it on the new Stone Melee for Stalkers. I was in Hidden status. I started a slow Assassin's Strike which neither missed nor hit yet did alert the mobs to my presence. I did not move or otherwise interrupt or cancel the attack.

Sentinels were pretty clearly designed to be solo toons for people who couldn't hack it as Blasters, and that right there is the source of the problem.

No, because they at least tried.

No, they’re not. We are operating with different definitions of good enough. Also, this is a silly way of looking at it. Buffing Sentinels does not make anyone else worse. They are the only AT that is so far outside the norm.

No, we don't. Athereal is right, there's already lots of overlap among ATs, some more is fine. Corruptors, for example, are also not the best there is at any one thing, but they are good enough at a couple things that it works out. Scrappers are also not the best there is at any one thing, but they are good enough at a couple things that it works out. What we are back to is "what does a Sentinel have to be able to do to be good enough?" and the simple answer is "a bit more".

No, they’re not fine. They don’t do enough on teams.

I do think that "Scout" is the vaguely appropriate team role term. Opportunity represents the "scouting report" as it were. Simplify and improve Opportunity and raise damage a little bit. Done.

I don't think the comparison is particularly apt anyway. They don't play very much like Forts at all.

level 10, Teamwork: Indomitable Will

It would be cool if the door in the cave where the ship is berthed took you up to the pathway above, by Sister Valeria.

Yes, Forts have good mez protection.

Fortunatas are Almost as durable as Sentinels, and with strong CC.

I have had one experience on a team in HC where Sentinels really shone. It was a 4 person team running SBB. I was on a Sentinel, there was a second Sentinel, and there was a Scrapper and a Spider. Basically, the other Sentinel and I were clearly paying pretty close attention to what each other was doing, because throughout the AV fights when my Opportunity debuff dropped the other Sentinel almost immediately put theirs up, and vice versa. As a result, there was basically an Opportunity debuff up at almost all times. I'm in no way trying to suggest that therefore Sentinels are fine, just that in this one case, a small team with limited support, Opportunity seemed to pull its weight. I still think just raising the damage is all that's really needed.

stalkers get instant AS in combat now

Aeon Strike Force is 35 minimum. There is actually very little level 50 only content in the game.

The games in question have a skip feature like that because in those games the end game is the game and is new every expansion. That’s not the case here. I’m sorry if you don’t enjoy the one to 50 game, but it is simply false to say or imply that the real game is at 50. Yes you can learn your toon at 50, but by doing so you are being rude to your fellow players.

No, only the primary target is made intangible. Nothing about the original function is changed.

Edited the OP for clarity.

Oh! I see. Yes, I meant it’s an AoE Immobilize with Draw In on a one minute timer. No Holds involved.

I didn’t say holds. That would be crazy.

That's what Buff/Debuff sets are supposed to do. Currently there are THREE "pull them all together" powers in the game: Wormhole, Singularity, and Fold Space. I see no reason there shouldn't be at least ONE more, and Detention Field in Force Field seems like a good choice.

If I have 2-5 Performance Shifter: Chance for +End slotted, how does the stacking work, assuming it does?

Add an AoE Drawn In and Immobilize effect to Force Field>Detention Field! So you put the Detention Field on one mob and it pulls all the others to it and holds them there keeps them from moving while you destroy them, then you kill the first mob!

That’s a gigantic nerf, why in the world

So you’re saying you had the character, you played the character, with the name a couple months ago, and you just recently logged in and now they’re telling you to change names? Did you move between servers at some point? Someone could’ve taken the name while you were on the other server.