best ST stalker

[Frosty15]

what would be best st stalker?

[Maelwys]

Last I checked Energy Melee, Fire Melee + Katana were all pretty much within a hair's breadth of each other (with MA hot on their Heels) in terms of raw damage output.
Katana's Lethal damage and Energy Melee's Smashing Damage Component are both resisted much more frequently + severely than Fire damage though.

[Frosty15]

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[Championess]

The 3 extreme damage attacks EM gets on stalkers is a bit hard for other ones to match imo.  Total Focus, fast ET, fast AS is a ruthless ST chain.  Honestly there's no stalkers with a non AS attack like fast critting ET.

 

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[aethereal]

16 minutes ago, Championess said:

The 3 extreme damage attacks EM gets on stalkers is a bit hard for other ones to match imo.  Total Focus, fast ET, fast AS is a ruthless ST chain.  Honestly there's no stalkers with a non AS attack like fast critting ET.

 

Ice Melee has Freezing Touch.  Its base damage is lower than Energy Transfer (148 vs 232), but its crit is on-par, because it gets full crits and not partial crits like ET -- so 296 damage for a critting Freezing Touch vs 297 damage for a critting Energy Transfer (and both have a 1 second animation time).  Half of Freezing Touch's damage is DoT, which is worse than ET, but on the other hand FT is also a hold and thus can fit an additional purple proc and lots of additional normal damage procs.

 

What Ice Melee lacks is a decent third ST attack -- it has Assassin's Ice Sword, Frozen Touch, and then very mediocre attacks like Ice Sword, or you can use Frost as a ST attack to, again, mediocre effect.  If you have high recharge, you can mostly just use AS, FT, and an epic snipe, but when you do that your ability to build assassin's focus suffers.

Edited 11 hours ago by aethereal