Hyperstrike

As per the first post in the thread:

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True. But it does take practice.

My thinking was much the same.

Well, some of our number are level-locked. However, I have my secondary Fire/Rad that's going to 50. So, eventually, we'll be trying stuff like the ITF and STF.

I play a little every night.

Hyper doesn't get LOTS of merits most of the time. He's my "main" but I normally pull him out of Hami raids and events.

My two Fire/Rad controllers (that I'm doing Fire/Rad superteams with) are out and TF'ing pretty much every Monday night.

Okay. What I'm saying is, I don't understand why. The strategy behind it.

Okay, I can accept that.

This can be said about pretty much ANY AT.

Nuh uh!

I "only" got merits!

=)

Anyhoo, while Hami gave a couple of our attempts a sound and thorough drubbing, we still stuck it out.

A few months back, this likely would have resulted in a lot of people practicing their best "brb" and "gtg" lines.

I think our problem right now is just getting cooridinated enough.

One thing I DO feel the need to ask though, mainly due to ignorance.

Is there a reason the ranged team is going after blues first, THEN greens?

I'd think it'd be easier to deal with a bit of end drain and frag greens than it is trying to kill stuff through 10,000+% HP (due to constant regen).

I noticed that we seemed to be trying to do the same thing during the villain raid, failing, then turning over to the greens.

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These are about on par with "I will stand here and h3@l U!" defenders and petless masterminds.

Stick it in, scrap it out.

Other than carving large chunks out of the enemy's HP.

Well, Schwarzschild started out as a project to see how long it'd take to go 1-50 solo (Grav/Kin) on standard difficulty. Sometime in the mid-40's it got painful... At that point I stopped trying to solo and started TF-ing and raiding. He's got about 4 hami raids under his belt, a couple respec trials, and a bunch of TFs. Still, just under half of the merits are from arc completion.

Okay, one thing to keep in mind.

There are two types of builds people work with.

Leveling builds
Finishing builds

I'll deal with them in reverse order.

Finishing builds are what people tend to eventually respec into. They're usually better planned and better laid out than anything they have during leveling. They can be simply because the players now have a surfeit of powers and slots to play with, as well as enhancements specifically picked to give them the results they want.

But these builds sometimes do rather counterintuitive things (like six-slotting resistance powers, etc). At lower levels, trying to run with a build skewed this way (and not having the slots to fill other necessary things out) can lead to very painful levels of underperformance.

Hence you have leveling builds. These builds aren't necessarily the most powerful or efficient. But they do the basic job of keeping your toon survivable.

In a lot of cases, this isn't much different than "playing it by ear".

That's the problem. You're looking at quantity. Let's talk QUALITY.

When played right, and with decent support from teammates, this is meaningless.

See above.

But they CAN (and in some cases DO) outdamage scrappers. Their primary function is NOT to scrap. Yes, they can do this to a limited degree as well. What they really wind up being are point-blank blasters with high burst damage and various methods of foe-mitigation.

They sneak into a group, look for the biggest bad, and when the team pulls attention, said big bad finds his guts in a pile at his feet. Usually this is a Very Bad Thing for them. You then fade out and let your teammates finish them off and go looking for your next victim. You're not supposed to be trying to play alt-tank.

Again, a stalker's job isn't to wipe out hordes of foes simultaneously. They're there to come as close as possible to insta-killing singular foes, usually some of the larger, harder targets. This lightens the load on the rest of the team as they can concern themselves with mopping up the rabble that's left.,

Are you trying to convince ME or YOURSELF? If the former, you're failing spectacularly.

Quantitatively, there's nothing wrong with stalkers. They're burst damage kings. They can provide a massive contribution to a team.

Qualitatively, there's nothing wrong with stalkers. Unless you're trying to play them as if they were a tank, brute, scrapper, or stalker.

None of which has ANYTHING to do with some moron kicking a stalker off the team.

linky no worky!

Have found a link for the public vid here.

Probably because it's very hard to tell how evil a girl is when you're gawping at thigh-high fishnet stockings and an open mesh chestpiece.

Most guys begin rerouting blood allocation from the primary head to the secondary at that point.

This is invuln we're talking about. And a tank no less. Why the hell would you need an immob for farming?

Built properly for softcap and with a quick recharging Taunt, are you have zero real need for an immob.

I love this picture! Imagine being the poor sap who owns the car Babbage is using as an ottoman!

You're entirely welcome! Get your Fire/Rad built up and take a couple practice runs with him in lowbie missions to appreciate how nice he is solo.

And once you team, don't drink anything. The urge to cackle insanely at how fast stuff dies will cause you to choke.