wildifire1

The second is my favorite, used him as a spines/bio stalker.

Japanese Oni inspired

I've never done high level content so I was wondering is lethal damage a source of frustration at those levels? I hear about every enemy except carnies have it especially bots and wonder if it makes a noticeable difference?

What he said basically...bots are pretty low damage even with their aoe except on AVs. If you want mission clearing aoe, go thugs or demons.

How many Pet IOs do you have and which ones? You can add up to 10% to defense (20% to aoe) and 30% resistance to your bots with IOs alone. World of Pain has a resistance buff that will go well with that 30% resistance (from IOs) and bots shield themselves for like what 20% defense? The protector bots will have lower defense since their own bubble cannot be put on themselves. They can bubble each other though. With maneuvers and the IOs you can get to around 30-31% defense. Resists wise, bots have 26% to lethal, cold, and psi + 30% from IOs +20% from World of Pain = ~76% to those 3 resists and 56% to the rest. I personally don't think pain is the best for bots because it doesn't take of advantage of their bubbles, but it is still viable. CC? Maybe try and getting an aoe immobilize from Mu mastery or Mace mastery or bonfire from Heat Mastery since the bots are primarily ranged from the epic power pools. Not 100% sure about my numbers, but if not it will be pretty close.

Yeah, looks like it needs some sort of CC, but will go great with a resistance based pet like demons or necro. Gonna play a demons/elec today, fingers crossed.

I have a 41 km/inv and it is fun as heck. On a ST, its faster than any other powerset ive ever played except for stj. Savage is great too esp with shield, amazing aoe and ST. Just takes time to build up dmg. Fire is underrated too, solid aoe. I just ignore greater fire sword because of how slow it is.

So...if tomax.cohtitan.com, the legacy site, is to be trusted...Broadsword actually does not have increased crit chance on any of its attacks when switching to stalker. They're all 10% chance when solo as stated by the formula which gives it a native crit chance of 7% and a 3% for each team member with you being included making it 10%... Martial Arts however does have indeed get the higher crit chance, but on anything stronger than a pet or minion it's the same crit chance as a scrapper's without having the 33% crit chance bonus effect from eagle's claw. Again, if the data from this site is still accurate. But if it is the same values, that's...disappointing. On a positive note, it tells you the exact chance of each attack to get a stack of Assassin's Focus which all but 2 of Broadsword's attack has a 100% chance. So any primary set attack with a 10 second cooldown will always get a stack of Focus. 1. Every skill starts with a 50% chance base at 0 seconds of cooldown and gains 5% per added second. Example: Soaring Dragon - 95% chance/9 sec CD, Sting of the Wasp - 75% chance/5 sec CD. L 2. Low cooldown powersets are worse if you focus on 3 stack Assassin's Strikes i.e. Savage, Kinetic, StJ. Martial Arts is great for using Assassin Strike because it has long cooldowns, but short animation times. This is relevant as every set has a different animation time for in-combat AS. (Broadsword and Katana's are slowwww) Stalker Martial Arts