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Lol that's okay Siolfir, you know, I like /Nin so much that it's not impossible that I'll make a third reroll of my ELM lol (ELM/Regen, now /EA) - although I do want to test the new EA IOed up. And the Stalker forums are kinda slow anyway - you already helped because my OP actually made Heavenly think I was after a PvP build.

Have you incarnated any Stalker? I got most of what I mentioned for concept and because they're useful for me, but I have serious doubts on Destiny... My current build has 45% melee / 50% ranged / crap AoE (and stamina lol) and she already does well enough with 1 small luck or external buffs so I'm thinking Barrier may not be optimal (and for some weird reason my Stalker received lots of Fortitudes on all the iTrials, I felt so special).

People tell me that Rebirth is not that hot on the +HP branch, and since I want to get one that can be useful on most iTrials I'm considering Rebirth +regen or even Incandescence - would be perfect for a Stalker when things go south. Well maybe basic Incandescence and getting Rebirth to T3/T4.

I know someone will be more helpful, but to be honest? I'm done with the Mac client. Mine crashes once per hour even on performance settings.

I have a top end 2011 iMac 27' and play at 2560x1440 at almost max ultra settings and I can play for 12 hours without crashing if I want. The same way I played on performance for hours and hours on my old mac mini core duo with intel gfx, and my fps never dropped even on rikti raids.

Hoe did I manage that? I run CoX on windows 7 via Bootcamp. The Mac client is garbage.

(Although since Mac OS X - the system - is so damn memory hungry, you might want to use the max RAM you can in your system - Everymac says your mac can handle up to 6gb although Apple officialy says 4)

The real question is, is there ANY Brute with problems generating Fury after the change?

The worst offender was Mace/Dark using Oppressive Gloom because that combo can stun the whole world, and I heard complaints about that relating to Fury, but I guess even they can maintain 70% Fury most of the time nowadays.

The thing about the self heals is that they cost 10.4 end (Healing Flames, Dull Pain, Earth's Embrace, Energize) so you don't quite feel it because you'll be using them instead of an attack usually - and 10.4 end is about the cost of a level 8 attack such as Thunder Strike, or just a bit more than Bone Smasher (8.5) and less than others like Heavy Mallet (11ish).

So when I use the self heal on my em/nin stalker or my ss/fire brute I barely feel the end cost, and they're slotted mostly for rech and heal (the usual doctored wounds setup).. Total Focus on my Stalker is far more noticeable since it costs 18.5 end and I use it way more often than Kuji In Sha, same as KO Blow on my Brute, also 18.5 end, used way more often than healing flames. The other ones I have are elec, ea and ice so they have end management tools, stopped caring about endurance on my sm/elec brute even when she had a single rech SO on Power Sink.

Well Test_Rat, despite being bitter on the forums lately, is a very nice player (teamed with him plenty before I took a break) who made top end builds for a lot of stalker combos, and if he said his spines/nin felt more damaging than his elec/nin I believe him. I'm leveling an elec/ because I dislike spines, didn't work for me as a scrapper, didn't work for me as a Dom (/thorns plays a lot like Spines).

I just did my first MoM. First thing the leader did was saying 'if you need help, please say now'. I said 'I never did this'.

He explained it to me nicely and succinctly, I didn't even die.

It was very nice because I've done about 5 successful Keyes (never failed one) but I'll have to read up because I had no idea what was going on, on any of these (and 3 of them were when they were 'harder' - I don't even know what changed, nobody would explain the trial to me even though I asked).

OTOH I see Snow Globe's point, people sometimes don't even read obvious things. Like, Lambda. Done plenty of them, failed only once, but almost EVERY time I see that text 'MARAUDER WILL USE THE NOVA FIST BACK AWAY' (quite obvious right?) I back away and I fully expect 5-8 players to die at least, and it goes like that every. Single. Time.

I just did my first MoM tonight. Leader was very patient to explain it to me. I ignored the patches except when they overlapped and gave me like 75 dot, but *only* because there were an absurd amount of heals in the team, I was on a Stalker, I didn't even die, and some people did.

Although the team was very experienced except for me, I asked if it would be too hard without heals and they said 'yes'. Not a problem on my EM Stalker because when there was too much dot I used the PvP tactics of queing Total Focus/Energy Transfer and running past the AV so that I would execute the slow attack when I was far, but certainly a problem for a Tanker who would stay all the time there.

Right after that I was rejected on a MoM by another player because I was a Stalker (first time in three years that happened to me, and on freedom, so I wasn't upset). 10 minutes later the same guy was 'BAF forming'. So it must be kinda hard for some team compositions (I guess, when I did it there was a ton of heals, even my Stalker didn't feel the patches).

Ok so while nobody helps me (which is okay because I'm finding it hard to keep these numbers I got for rech/etc without purple sets except for the confuse one, and also cap AoE, which is the only shortcoming I see - Heavenly's build is great but is 100 billion and has no AoE but it's a PvP build, like mine is currently but without sharkz because I stopped PvPing in i13), I can't decide on the Destiny Slot.

Got her to T4 Agility which is lovely (33% rech/20% def/33% endmod/33% movement, the radial branch), got my lore pets (Polar Lights, high-defense ranged pets that are also subtle and have assault), with Vorpal (yes subtle again and I'm very mobile so I like cones, smashing is not that resisted so I find Vorpal pretty good) and Diamagnetic interface (because everyone and their momma has Reactive and if I were to change Stalkers I'd up the AS debuff and throw other debuffs like the Rogues in other games, although I know the numbers on -tohit and -regen aren't that hot).

But I can't decide on Destiny. I don't have end problems and I'm okay with the recharge, even now that she doesn't have the same base global rech as the build I posted. I was thinking about Barrier Radial (+def/+res and you can rez somebody, even two somebodies), my only other incarnate was easy, I went Spiritual/Ageless/Reactive because he's a SS/Fire Broot nonstop carnage machine, but I wonder if there's another Destiny that would be helpful to me and the team? Rebirth also looks good (especially for +maxhp with the upcoming changes) and I don't understand exactly what Incandescence radial does with so many effects it seems to have.

Thanks!

I'm no min maxer but I couldn't stand PBs, I found them so weak, but I kept trying them.

After the buffs I actually like mine now. Sure to min max you'll need an expensive build and you won't farm or devastate tons of mobs like a WS, but I find the playstyle very fun - even on SOs she feels very damaging especially with the Inner Light power. It's like a blapper with shields and heals, or a scrapper with ranged attacks but no mez protection (since I don't have Light form yet).

I don't mind redraw much, I barely notice it on my DP/Dark corr or my kat/regen scrapper. Poison annoyed because it's probably more active than any other secondary, with ST debuffs recharging in 10 secs and the tier 9 not fitting with BR's playstyle (imo, because I never had a reson to go to melee and ideally you'll want to be near melee with a tier 9 15 feet aura). But that's the only time I was annoyed by redraw on a toon, poison is way too clicky (and imo, the set is lacking compared to my old favorite rad)

It's more about what impression people have on the BR set, be it on Blsters, corrs or defs, since it hasn't been discussed much after the initial weeks.

And Jayboh, I still think Disintegrate should be a short recharge low damage spammable power. For example, Ring of Fire does more damage than Fire Blast on a fire/fire blaster, but in seven ticks, and who slots that for damage since it takes 'forever' to deliver? I haven't planned my BR/Traps build yet, but I may actually leave disint with 1 acc and 2 rech or something like that... or even 2 acc/rech ios.

The only reason my newish Stalker is Elm/Ea is because I played Nin to death (although EA is very good, I still like Nin better)

I only ran them on Freedom and Virtue (Freedom for the first time because I no longer care about my old 50s there except for my Stalker I hadn't played in more than 1 year - btw Necro was it you who gave me Fortitude? I was surprised somebody remembered to buff the lolStalker! - I was the only Stalker in all the 7 trials I ran today, BAF, Lambda and Keyes).

On Virtue, the global channels (especially Virtue LFG Beta, I think that's the name) announce them all the time, but if you prefer you can just go to RWZ. On Freedom the place to be is Pocket D, the global channels I'm on there don't get much use (weird because they're the ones with most users).