MA on Stalker

[Project]

It's very basic - But the text for Martial Arts for Storm Kick and Eagles Claw reads that there is an increased chance of crit... But are we talking 1% or 50%? 

There is no additional information to find anyways, which is a bit annoying really 😞

[twozerofoxtrot]

Storm Kick has a 12% chance to crit.

 

Eagle's Claw has a 15% chance to crit.

[Project]

2 hours ago, twozerofoxtrot said:

Storm Kick has a 12% chance to crit.

 

Eagle's Claw has a 15% chance to crit.

Thank you 🙂

[Hjarki]

Many such questions can be answered here: https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=stalker_melee.martial_arts.storm_kick&at=stalker

 

In any case, Martial Arts on a Stalker tends to be... not good.

 

The key virtues of Martial Arts as a set are generally accepted to be:

• Storm Kick provides a boost to all defense.
• Dragon's Tail, slotted with FF+recharge, is one of the highest dps AE available to melee AT.

You'll note that neither of these features appears on the Stalker version of the set.

 

So if you really like Martial Arts, you're probably better served with a Tanker or Brute. If you really like Stalkers, a set like Street Justice is thematically similar while still having AE. Of course, Street Justice isn't all that great either since its AE has an incredibly small radius and the mechanic of the set can't crit.

[MoonSheep]

if you did want to play MA on a stalker, the crit chance of eagles claw is mostly

irrelevant as the most effective attack chain would be to slot the chance for hide ATO in assassin’s strike and then after casting AS and you get your chance to hide, using eagles claw for a guaranteed crit

[Errants]

Poor Stalker MA... It has needed a look since Legacy.

[Groovy_Ghoul]

100% agree with @Hjarki. MA needs a serious re-vamp for Stalkers. Currently it has no AOEs, Cones or Ranged attack. Single target attacks only. All it has is theme. IMO the worst primary for Stalkers.

[Hedgefund]

Definitely needs a little love.  Not to be simplistic but it seem like adding Dragon's Tail over... choose one, any one of the ST attacks, I don't even care, just make it not the only set in game (that I can think of at least) with absolutely zero aoe.

Edited September 29 by Hedgefund