ClawsandEffect

Congrats, you just figured out their April Fool's prank this year.

If you're planning on delving into IOs on that character you won't need Hasten at all. Willpower has ONE power that recharge even affects, and if you need that one back faster you have bigger problems than recharge (it's the rez)

I've found that with just IOs slotted, giving me about 53% global recharge bonuses, I can run a chain of Follow Up, Eviscerate, Spin, Repeat. (this is with a Claws/Regen scrapper though, so you might need a little more recharge for a brute)

In the meantime, go ahead and slot a recharge or two into Spin.

Yes and no.

Electric Blast doesn't get a hard hitting 3rd blast (like Shout, Blaze, Cosmic Burst, Power Burst etc.), but it's tier 1 and tier 2 attacks hit harder than other blaster tier 1 and 2 blasts to compensate.

If you only have one target Voltaic Sentinel's damage is actually very nice. It is basically 10 Charged Bolts that are independent of anything else you may be doing and that you have already paid the end for. Unfortunately, if you have MORE than one target, Sparky seems to waste his shots a lot.

Ball Lightning is DoT instead of a big hit all at once. It is actually more or less on par with other targeted AoEs, but it doesn't seem like it because of the DoT.

Electric trades it's heavy hitter (or more AoE) for Short Circuit, which is the main part of the draining gimmick. The downside, that you've already discovered, is that Short Circuit by itself isn't that great. In order to be effective at draining you need to have either Energy or Electric as your secondary so you have a power to use with Short Circuit (Power Boost and Power Sink respectively)

The best drainer out of Hero ATs is a Kinetics/Electric defender, because you get Short Circuit and Transference out of your primary and secondary, and if you go with the Electric APP you get access to Power Sink as well.

Actually, an Electric/Kin controller is probably just as good at it, but you'd need to go villain to pick up Mu Mastery for Power Sink (since Electric isn't available as an APP for controllers)

I've heard that Electric/Thermal corruptors make good drainers too, but I've never played one, so I can't verify that personally.

Weird, my Dark Melee/Ninjitsu stalker once tanked a GM for more than 5 minutes, simply because I hadn't noticed that no one else jumped in with me. And that was at level 42 with little or no IOs slotted.

I didn't die until I stopped to ask the team why they were just standing there looking at me. My response was along the lines of: How are you still alive? (Ironically followed by my death)

I've never had any undue problems staying alive on a stalker, or finding teams when I'm playing one. I tend to avoid the people who have proven themselves to be build nazis in the past, so AT dislike is almost never a factor.

Miles vary I guess.

In my experience, the above is only a valid argument when you have team leaders that consider you useless unless you are pumping out hundreds of points of AoE damage in every spawn. In other words: dicks.

I've simplified the whole "AT Role" down to 2 things: 1)keeping us alive, and 2)making them dead. As long as you are actively doing at least one of those two things you are welcome on my team.

It doesn't matter if you are making lots of things dead, or making one thing REALLY dead, the making dead part is all I care about. As long as I occasionally see "Your Name has defeated Enemy Name" in my window, you are welcome to stay on my team as long as you like. Or alternately, if your presence makes it easier for other people's names to appear in my window like that, you are welcome then too.

I think it's 25, but don't take that as gospel.

As far as I know, you can go to the complete opposite alignment and remain in your SG/VG, you just can't do anything with it (no taking from storage, can't use the porters, etc.)

I haven't tried as a vigilante or rogue, so I can't confirm one way or the other on that.

Okay, if that's what you want.

We have War Walls.

They tried that. It's called Elusivity, and it was unbelievably overpowered when they first implemented it. For about 6-8 months it was damn near impossible to hit a defense based character (hence why Widows were so popular in PvP for a while)

Then they realized how broken it made defense based characters and adjusted it. End result: Defense is a little bit better than it used to be, but still doesn't do much good because everyone slots for extra accuracy in PvP anyway.

I think I'm going to sig this one.

Don't care.

You're here to kill things, can you do that?

You can?

You're in.

All I usually require in a teammate is a player that's not a complete idiot. Very seldom will I ever look for a teammate with a specific AT or powerset. Even when I do it's usually more like "something that can control agro" or "some kind of debuffs" than "I need a Stone tank" or "I need a Rad"

If you want to play a stalker on my team, understand that your job is to KILL STUFF. Your job is NOT to "scout ahead". We don't need to know what's ahead of us, because we already know what's ahead of us: Stuff to kill.

Yeah, by what you asked I decided to suggest the cheapest possibility that doesn't lock you into a particular APP or power pool. Since Hand Clap is already in your secondary it doesn't force you to use a pool you may not otherwise like.

You could put the Hold set in KO Blow too, but that would gimp the power quite a bit, and it's more expensive than Absolute Amazement.

Alternately, if you don't want to take Hand Clap, I believe Jab will accept Absolute Amazement as well. or Boxing will if you have the Fighting pool already. There are options all over SS for that set.

This concern stems more from the fact that there are a number of emotes that can appear sexual, and that you can make them say anything you want. You can also, through costume color/skin color choices, make a character appear to be naked.

The time between allowing pet customization and someone breaking the Teen rating of the game would be extremely short.

The real problem is that it does indeed involve specific character models that the game looks up when you summon them, very similar to how Granite and Kheldian shapeshifting works (you can't customize them either)

So, the second part is the problem they have, and the first part is why they aren't looking into solving that problem.

Absolute Amazement in Hand Clap.

Probably going to be your cheapest option without getting ridiculous about it.