New Stalker powerset?

[Naraka]

Curious when they'll ever get around to adding a new Stalker set.  I don't even remember the last one they added, I think Stone Melee?...

 

If they did introduce a new existing set for Stalker, which would you want first? Super Strength? Titan Weapons? War Mace?

 

I think the easiest would likely be War Mace and Battle Axe which I'd welcome.  However, I've always been annoyed that Titan Weapons wasn't made an option for Stalkers.  Just make it a giant scythe and it'll be golden.  I wouldn't even mind if they made some of the activations slower, just keep the momentum feature intact and our crit-control and it'd be more than amazing.

[Hjarki]

The one I'd want would be to take Demon Summoning, remove all the pet stuff and expand it into a full melee set.

[Octogoat]

20 hours ago, Hjarki said:

The one I'd want would be to take Demon Summoning, remove all the pet stuff and expand it into a full melee set.

So ... Whip melee

[Frosticus]

Axe looks like the easiest port to me.

AS for swoop

Placate for taunt 

[Naraka]

4 hours ago, Frosticus said:

Axe looks like the easiest port to me.

AS for swoop

Placate for taunt 

 

I've been waiting for Battle Axe for forever.  Assassin's Guillotine.  It just makes sense.

 

Since BA and WM are similar, 2 birds with one beheading.

[biostem]

36 minutes ago, Naraka said:

I've been waiting for Battle Axe for forever.

Not a perfect solution, but give a battle axe/ninjitsu scrapper a try!

[Octogoat]

14 hours ago, Naraka said:

 

I've been waiting for Battle Axe for forever.  Assassin's Guillotine.  It just makes sense.

 

Since BA and WM are similar, 2 birds with one beheading.

WM stalker is just bane spider

[Naraka]

4 hours ago, Octogoat said:

WM stalker is just bane spider

 

All the more reason they should have put it in the game a long time ago. 

[JJDrakken]

On 1/17/2025 at 6:58 PM, Naraka said:

Curious when they'll ever get around to adding a new Stalker set.  I don't even remember the last one they added, I think Stone Melee?...

 

If they did introduce a new existing set for Stalker, which would you want first? Super Strength? Titan Weapons? War Mace?

 

I think the easiest would likely be War Mace and Battle Axe which I'd welcome.  However, I've always been annoyed that Titan Weapons wasn't made an option for Stalkers.  Just make it a giant scythe and it'll be golden.  I wouldn't even mind if they made some of the activations slower, just keep the momentum feature intact and our crit-control and it'd be more than amazing.

 

Even before Demon Summoning came out on Live.  Folks wanted a Whip Melee Set.  I remember BDSM Buddies on Virtue wanted that shit 24-7, lol.  (Man Virtue Pocket D was a cesspit, lol, this coming from someone who use to be in the BDSM Culture, lol).

 

But yes folks been wanting Whip set for ages now.  Original Dev's would laugh/talk about it, but nothing came about.  Not sure what the HC Dev's thoughts on it are.

[Onlyasandwich]

I'd love to see whip melee across all melee ATs! Such a beautiful set of animations - sad to see the limited just to MMs, many of whom don't even take them.

 

As far as porting existing sets, I agree with you on War Mace. If they do, gotta get a blackjack option for the Mace in there 😄

 

 

 

 

[aethereal]

So, according to chatter from over the years, the issue with anything like "whip melee" is that the animations for the whip powers are a beast.  They are apparently like five times the size of other animations, and also the claim was that the fire on the whip covers up some real problems in how the whip actually animates and connects.  In order to do an actual whip melee set, you'd need at least 2-3 more whip animations, and that's a very tall cliff to climb for any animators out there.  In addition to all the pain of actually creating a new set in general.

 

I've long felt that instead of going full whip melee, they should make "Hellfire manipulation/assault" sets that are blaster/dominator secondaries that use the existing whip animations plus some fire blast or melee animations to fill out the sets.  Broaden whips to blasters and doms and you can make do with just the three whip animations that we have already, and a lot of people who don't like Masterminds would get access to them.

[StrikerFox]

War Mace! I want to make the stalker version of "omg War Mace + Energy Aura so strong!" hero.

 

[Errants]

3 hours ago, StrikerFox said:

War Mace! I want to make the stalker version of "omg War Mace + Energy Aura so strong!" hero.

 

Meme, but true. Mine just hit 50, and it is absolutely hilarious.