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Not only is this an awesome costume, but I love the spin you put on the Batman concept. Amazing.

Thx Striker, this looks, intriguing. I wish they'd just make IH a toggle again. Does making DP a toggle still boost max HP, I wonder? Also, this says it's coxg, that's not the same as Homecoming, is it?

Follow Up boosts is basically Claws version of Build Up. If you hit with it, it makes it easier to hit with subsequent attacks, and of course, boosts your damage. It's fairly easy to stack it as well.

Maybe it's just that the heatwave is getting to me, but damn you are being a whiny, over-entitled, ungrateful little son of a bitch, aren't you? Every penny of which goes towards the game's hardware, hosting, and bandwidth costs ... and not one thin cent goes into any of the dev team's pockets. ... because the alternative is NO CITY OF X AT ALL, you insufferable little ingrate. >:( +1 inf for you, good sir.

I thought you meant like in Bleach. I was in a Bleach themed SG back on the live servers. One of the nice things about the Soul Reapers was they weren't all necessarily all just katana/ninja blade/dual weapons. Yoruichi doesn't even wield a Zanpaktou. Rukia uses more kido more than her sword. Sui-Feng (2nd squad captain) has that thing on her finger. Hell, you could go Fire Melee, it has 2 or 3 sword attacks and you could think of the others as kido.

Wait, Soul Reaper, or Soul Reaver?

I love the cce size swap, that's genius.

Thanks for the reply, I've been holding off until I was more clear on this. I appreciate it.

Why the focus on rotating around Shockwave? Is that for single target? It looks like the other t1/t2's in Claws do more damage. Thanks. This is talked about a couple of times back and forth in the thread already. Shockwave still has really good DPA despite being a cone, but the biggest reason is the fact that it can be slotted with a -20% Res Proc which gives the entire chain around it a significant boost. Otherwise the only option for optimal chain is Follow UP > Focus > Slash, and it takes a ridiculous amount of recharge to get there. Either way, Shockwave with the proc is worth it. It's *only* 313% recharge in Followup for it to work out without a pause. I did try out the shockwave chain instead but the end suckage was just too damn high. Best time so far with BZB claws/sr scrapper: 2:30 for around 380 DPS. I'll take it but I think it was an aberration. Looks like I'm averaging around 3 minutes per pylon. Can someone help me understand these stalker times of under a minute? Is it just assassin's strike doing this? It's the ATO's. One puts them back in hide. So they can crit with a heavy hitting attack from hide, be put back in hide and crit off of another heavy hitter, then hit AS for another fast heavy hitting attack. They can basically crit on demand now. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't happen 100% of the time, but frequently enough. The other recharges build up. If they happen to have the Gaussians chance for build up and that goes off to, well, double build up for them. So whatever attack they use next is gonna do a LOT of damage. Especially if it's a crit. (I just rolled my first stalker tonight to get a tste of it myself, lol.)

So what do I use Bioarmor on? :) The toilet

I had a Claws/Reg as well, unfortunately, I just haven't been able to adjust to it since they changed IH. Maybe I should give it a try again. How many years has it been since I4, lol? I do plan on making a Sav/Wp brute, but it will have to wait until after this project, and my first ever Stalker are complete. Damned Altitis, flaring up again.

Probably because it's such a small percentage. It's 1% Personally I 3 slot Cleaving Blow for the 1.25% E/NE def, and then 3 slot Eradication to get another 3.13% def to E/NE, Gives me almost 5% def to E/NE and decent stats in the power itself.

Justin appears to be down, still. I'll keep my eye on it though.

No problem. Another idea for staff that I have, you can feel free to take if it interests you, Staff/Bio. Toxic Avenger. Just not sure if the have a mop option for the staffs. Well, have fun in the City.

Every time I see the title to this thread, it makes me want to go and listen to Metallica!!!

Thanks for the reply. What are the best powers to slot the ATO in? I believe I read in here that the Stalkers Guile should go in Assassins Strike? Is that right? What about the other set, another longish recharge that the recharge makes better? Say original cool down was 12 seconds, but with global cool down (hasten, sets) it's down to 6 seconds?

I'm interested in this as well, as I'm thinking of rolling my first Stalker. I already have a Elec/Sd Scrapper, but with a supposedly superior st attack chain, I wouldn't mind rolling it over again.

I haven't played staff yet, mostly because I can't make a convincing Donatello costume, but I have made Stj. And boy is it fun! It's kind of a mix between an MMA and dirty street fighting. It looks great, sounds very visceral, and feels like it delivers the pain well. As a matter of fact, I have Pines up right now working on my first stalker. He's probably going to be Street Justice. It pairs well with just about any armor set/ Stj/Sr=Daredevil or Spiderman Stj/Sd=Captain America Stj//Wp=Punisher Stl/Nin=Batman Well, you get the idea.

My opinion is that Staff sometimes sounds like someone is hammering on something. When teaming, on occasion, I'll think my neighbor has started another project next door, only to find out there is a Staff user on the team.

As the thread title states, this will be my first serious attempt at a Stalker. I tried one when they first released on CoV, but I wasn't a fan of the playstyle. As I understand it, there have been some changes to how they are played, mostly due to ATO's? Is that right? Anyway, I wanna give it a real go this time. I love Brutes and Scrappers, I wanna like Stalkers to. So, where do I begin, what do I think is fun in this game? I mostly run with PuG's and do TF's. I like trying to solo AV's. I've never really enjoyed PvP, but my only experience with that was as a Scrapper or Brute in Zone PvP. Not fun at all. Which powersets to choose from? I don't really have a preference. I know I'd like to have some AoE capability. I already have an Elec/Sd Scrapper, but as I understand it, Stalkers have a superior ST chain, so I may be open to that combo again. Only thing I'd like to try and stay away from would be Regen and Bio. Any tips for building a Stalker I should know? Take tp so I'm helpful on teams? What about stealth, I've seen some stalker builds with it here in the forums, is it necessary to stack stealth with hide?

Anybody think that's what they're doing with rage now? Tearing it down and rebuilding from the ground up? That's what we did in the Army. From basic training to S.O.P.'s(standard operating procedures). Maybe they're working on fixes before the port?

This made me laugh the most out of the whole thread. +1 Inf to you

My wife bought me a new computer, just so I could play this on the highest settings. I think she likes me.

I picture a tiny WB cartoon character sneaking around with a ridiculously large mallet behind its back when I think of stalkers with titan weapons. +1 Inf for you, good sir.

I laugh every time I watch that cutscene. And at what you said. +1 Inf to you, sir.