Best "stealthed" Archetype for DPS

[Snarky]

52 minutes ago, Doomguide2005 said:

Holy bananas?  200ft???  Illusions Superior Invisibility starts at 80ft and maxes (iirc) at lvl 32 with 200ft.  That's better than a Stalker.

 

Edit:  Cripes, it even includes a -perception power in the same set.  Illusion has two edges left (wrt to stealth, concealment and perception).  An AoE team stealth in GI and doesn't suppress when attacking. 

Yeah i cannot tell from mids if Arsenal is the same as Illusion with respects to invisibility.  Mids has been going thru… well, you all know.  And i do not have the time to field test a bunch of stuff.  I think i am going with Illusion.  If the team rolls that way.  Odds were 90%+ a few days ago bit votes are shifting. I give it an 80% chance of a stealth team now. 

[SeraphimKensai]

@Snarky Elec/Ninja blaster is amazing. Pretty easy to hit your typed defenses, and you get Shinobi for your stealth (while pairing an unbounded leap or celerity stealth proc).

 

Plus you can use blinding powder or smoke flash to be thematic for stealth.

Also given your preference for dark related toons, obviously dark black/red lightning.

 

If you're building defense, and have a procd short circuit with a couple end mods in there, most mobs will get drained flat, and whiff their few attacks they get off on you given your defense. Then you can pull out your sword, because you can.

 

For even more tom fuckery, ice mastery app, toss on a snowstorm to slow their recharge to shit as well. You'll be a huge damage mitigation asset to your team keeping mobs drained and slowed, while having pretty damn good damage. Additionally you get frozen Armor, hoarfrost, and hibernate too. You'll be a pretty resilient stealth blaster.

[tidge]

On 11/28/2024 at 5:44 PM, Snarky said:

yes i said it wrong.  i should have said "true invisibility" but... i didnt.  experimenting with a bane now.  will look at boards to see if it is what i want.  i still may go ill/psi/psi dom or dark stalker.  but Bane has 55 stealth with Cloaking Device

 

A Bane will work, but there are a few things to consider:

• You will either be using guns or a mace (or both) to make attacks and use certain powers (Placate, Build Up, for example)
• (my experience) Bane's are quite slow against single (hard) targets, but pretty good with AoE
• Mask Presence comes midway through the build (for both Soldiers and Widows)

If you want less of a 'mechanical' means of attacking, a Fortunata offers quite a lot (with or without the claw attacks).

 

There are a variety of different directions to go with either Banes or Fortunatas. I don't think any of mine have particularly great DPS against +N content (especially if the enemies resist the primary damage types) but they are fine against +1x8. Some leveraging of the Patron pools might me necessary, depending on what is taken earlier in the build and if an off-type damage is desired.