Clave_Dark_5

I've been playing my Energy Melee recently and he seems to down them pretty quickly, to chime in with what some of the others are saying. I'm pretty sure he's faster at it than my DB stalker was, at least; part of that probably has to do with resistance to lethal that a lot of foes have.

I haven't played any other stalkers past, say, 15th however, so take this with a grain of salt.

When working my way through low level redside, I've always found any MM to be great. I make a point to take out a few street foes along the way to the next mish (if the pets fail and die, I'm already working on high-tailing it) and it always seem like I turn around and I've dinged again.

I only have two 50s after something like three years playing, something always comes along and I either get bored with a current toon or a new one I've made grabs me more.

When GR came out, I thoughtlessly made like 8 toons, only three of which have gotten past 30, A couple have finally left Pratetoria, but the rest still languish there as I prefer teaming and it's hard to find teams during my normal hours of play (early morning). The three are an Ill/Rad troller, a Mace/Elec tank (first tank I ever cared for) and an MA/SR scrapper who's nothing but fun.

And then I started enjoying playing my namesake stalker again after all this time, finally getting him up to 43rd and well on his way to being IOed-out...

And then I went back to a DP/Mentalwhateverthatpowersetiscalled blaster who was at 18th level, got her out of Praetoria and found a great team and zipped her along to something like 26th...

And then I went back to a Fire/Traps corr from a long time back and ran him a few tips...

...and that poor tank I liked hasn't been touched in months.

I just can't help all the toon-jumping-around.

The only possible gripe I can pull for the video is that it appears you used some of your footage twice. Seems to me a video like this is "words to listen to while I also show you some pretty pictures", so there should have therefore been different "pretty pictures" all through.

Otherwise, well done.

Thanks everyone and a big, big thanks to The American Legion for holding the contest!

I went ahead and checked my arcs and only one out of my seven was affected. The bad news is it was my newest one, which annoys me to no end.

So I went ahead and filed a bug report on it as suggested above.

Ok, that was amazingly well done, hands down. I'll be reading this all the time, but I might feel the need to hide this fact from my girlfriend and manlier friends.

1) Put hands over ears.
2) Do not look at the server list for the new servers when you log in.
3) Speaking loudly, say "I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALA!"
4) ?????
5) Profit!

I sincerely wish you good luck with your break down.

Yeah, in teams AS is only occasionally useful. I usually would open up with 1K Cuts on my DB unless there was an AV to start out on because teams usually steamroll too quickly. Still, I did find there were moments when using AS was a viable option. It's all a matter of being flexible during combat and seeing your chance.

That said, if you don't like it, dump it and be done it it - no crime in playing like you want to.

It's nice to have a tough choice between two great things isn't it?

Having played both (but not Elec yet), my own generalized description of play for each one goes something like this:

SR: nyah nyah, can't touch me! Time to just click my attacks, too bad for you poor fools! However, it starts slow at the lower levels.

Nin: I can heal up pretty easily and oh so many useful toys! It's fun from the get-go and just gets more-so as the new toys come rolling in.

I've enjoyed them both, neither one will steer you wrong, unless there's something about Elec I don't know that makes one or the other terrible choices. Is Elec tough on End? I found SR was, until I slotted myself well to help with recovery. Then again I was running an Energy Melee which is already tough on End.

I know ProPayne (sp?) posted a long thread long ago about doing just such a thing, giving short reviews along the way. I think he just asked for people to submit their arcs for him and he made it to 50 on that alone, so it can be done. The thread that Teeto_K mentioned would be a good place to start too; if you scan this forum, you'll see a couple of good threads chock full of "play-tested" arcs like that.

Plus, if you get stuck, I'm sure you could make a request here and people would be glad to suggest arcs they've made or even others they've played and liked that would be level appropriate.