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Does Poison Dart's 25% -regen stack on its own? Somebody told me it does but with just 25%, I can't really tell. Any experts here?

Poison Dart debuffs -regen for 15s.

My dilemma is this. I used to have TK Blast (it attacks fast) but then I respec and took Poison Dart thinking that I can provide some -regen during AV fight. It turns out, with claw weapon draw and activation time, I feel my dps is hurt quite a bit when I include poison dart in attack chain. Is 25% even meaningful? If not, I want to respec it out with TK Blast.

Another idea I have is that SoA Soldier's Pummel is similar to Riflebutt but does decent damage and less stun chance. Maybe they can add some good melee damage on Riflebutt? I mean it's already rare enough for Spec-Ops to use it but it would be cool if Riflebutt does very good melee damage when it happens! Riflebutt's damage would match Snipe's theme I guess. Decent burst damage.

If Riflebutt does good melee damage, it may make more sense to goto Spec-ops with that pathetic Stealth that serves no purpose.

I am surprised this thread is still active. Castle made it pretty clear that there won't be any stalker buff in near future (or Stalker is already "strong" enough).

Now they have more important things to work on... like Alpha balance and more Alpha slots!

PS: I still talk about how MM's Merc and Ninja can use more changes because Castle hasn't made comments on those yet. :P (Oni still takes Knockback set when he has no knocback)

Willpower on Stalker is also very good. It's a bit different from Scrapper's version. Stalker's version can handle spike damage because of the single heal while Scrapper's version allows him to handle more mobs around him for high +regen.

Regeneration on Stalker is just not very good. It needs something more to back up that low HP cap.

I would go with Ninjitsu and Willpower for a "unique" Stalker experience.

Electricity Melee is great on Stalker. Good choice.

Edit: I know this is off-topic but I've been telling people who dislike Stalkers to try Bane instead because Bane has decent burst damage (no setup time), great buffs, debuffs and even aoe. You'll feel your Stalkerish-Bane offers way more to the team than your Stalker's damage.

i19 is out?

One thing I've experienced with is Team Teleport. You can actually teleport FFG with you and since your pets are melee oriented, you can try to team tp into the mob to start the fight. I've tried it on my Necro/Trap.

SoA as long as they take Maneuver. I like SoA because you just need to stick together and fight and you don't really need to ask for healing or buffs.

Everything under the category of "Stalker". :P

Blah.. pvp sets are so expensive.. did you save up 35 purple merits?

I've been wanting a "Natural" set for Dominator. If Whip Assault just takes too long to make (as stated by one of the devs), then I would gladly take Riot/Gadget Control and some kind of natural assault attacks. I am not too sure if I want another Assault Rifle-kind of sets. We already have Assault Rifle and Soldier. I am leaning towards Martial Arts style with kicks and throwing star. :P


With Mind control and MA/Ninjitsu, you can become a mind-controlling Ninja!

Looks like you just don't like Claw. Claw/Elec looks pretty good to me because kb and kd should offer even more protection for your Elec Armor.

Instead of stripping this toon, I would just keep doing Villain or Hero tip missions and use those purple merits to buy uniques that you spent so much money on. Maybe you'll like your Claw/Elec more on a larger team later?

I recently started a little project called Stalkerish Brute (Dark Melee / Energy Aura) as a goof because I've made several Stalkers to lvl 50 and haven't had one Brute past lvl 42. With the new Fury change, this Brute has become my most favorite Brute!

To make long story short, here are some positives about /EA Brute (not too sure about Energy Melee though)

1. Unsuppressed Stealth! It allows you to stealth in, kill some mobs while other mobs can't see you! In fact, there were times when I took down two targets and the rest of the enemies in the same group didn't even know I was there! You can't get any more Assassin-like than this!


2. Take Taunt! Brute's Taunt has no accuracy check. With i19, you have one more room to take it. Use it to grab aggro when you want to. Use it to generate Taunt! Use it to Pull! I've never taken Taunt before until I made my DA/EA. I love it. It costs no endurance too.

3. Take Energy Cloak! Think of it as giving you "flexibility" rather than "restricting" your role. When you want to grab aggro, use Taunt. Energy Aura set is balanced with you running Energy Cloak because the base value on Kinetic Shield is lower than Stalker's version. (I didn't know that until recently!). So if you are not using the stealth power, you need to get other powers like Weave to get decent defense, unless you want set bonuses. Kinetic Combat is one expensive set.

4. Yes, Psionic damage sucks. This is part of the reason why I chose Dark Melee as primary so I have another heal in Siphon Life and tohit debuff to avoid some psi damage.

5. Stop carrying so many Green inspirations! After you got Energy Drain, you really only need Purple! Just with one purple, your defense is high enough to take most alpha. With two purples, you are god-mode. Just carry one or two greens in case you get unlucky heavy hits in a row. And I only carry one blue.

6. Energy Aura has repel protection. I love it when I stand beside Singularity pet when I fought Family bosses. :P


Honestly, Energy Aura on Brute offers a different and yet EFFECTIVE gameplay style. You see Masterminds trying to be "Tanker". Well, you can turn your Brute into a Stalker-like while still doing awesome damage and being able to tank when you want to!

My Stalkerish Brute is lvl 35 now. I must say this is one very fun Brute.

To make my Brute more Stalkerish, I added 3 damage procs in Shadow Punch and Smite to give myself little Critical system. It feels really good when at least two procs go off at once. I see 4 damage numbers! I don't see the word Critical but those orange numbers look just as good.

I did put at least one damage proc in Siphon Life and Midnight but I think Siphon Life power is better off with a mix of damage and healing. I may change that later. With Brute's higher base health, Siphon Life's healing is better than on Stalker's lower base health.


If you like an alternative Stalker-style gameplay, I highly recommend /EA Brute and Bane.


I've had people telling me it's stupid to have Stealth on Brute because I am supposed to be the "tanker". Well, I see it as being flexible because I took Taunt and if I feel like grabbing aggro, I'll use it and if I don't feel like grabbing aggro, I just run past them or run in to kill them one by one. And Energy Aura gives decent defense. So far, the only big difference between Brute and Stalker damage is when my fury is low. I usually save Soul Drain when my fury is low.

I thought Blaster's VS does more damage than Defender's version. I think Corruptor/Dominator/Blaster's VS all do the same damage? I could be wrong on this as I don't play Defender but Mids shows Defender's version is less damage?


I've suggested before that VS would be a good one to add "electricity jump" attack like what you see from Chain Induction.