Necromatic

Another thing, what is the criterion for the ranking of the list? Zone or duels?

Zone, I would put blaster/stalker as tied at the top.

Personally, I like stamina cuz I'm lazy. I'm a lazy stalker. Yes I could go without stamina and slot the miracle and numina globals, but then I would need to be more careful with one of my travel powers (toggle one of SS or SJ), that is, MORE careful than I already am.

A WP stalker has a little defense (nothing to write home about) and little res (again, nothing to write home about), but +perc and pro from repel. It also has a heal and easy to cap hp. That's all you need the set for. Really, your main defense is your stealth, phase/hiber, and the one shot recon.

My spine/wp stalk has ss, sj, stealth, and fitness with mako. Easy zone mode. I have a tweak that exchanges fitness for leadership, but I'm afraid to try it. Besides, too lazy to re-up my alt so I can transfer and have had bad experience with 'tweaking' a build that already works well.

Personally, again, get fitness. After a while, get leadership and try that out.

maybe a /kin or /rad

As far as pvp goes, I think your choice of primaries is going to depend on your choice of targets.

elec/em are good for harder targets (scraps and tanks)

spines are good for squishier targets (blasters, defs and controllers)

Now, not saying you can't use one to fight the other, just gonna be a little tougher. Your PPP choice is going to add a little flavor to the build.

Leviathan for more ranged and hibernate (again, good for fighting squishies)
Soul for survivability (shadowmeld)

However, both those patrons are 'me me me'. You could go mace which is very helpful for a team. I think all vil PPP's have access to -jump except Doms (interesting).

One more tidbit, zones, dueling, arena(kb) are all slightly different though I would say that zone and arena(kb) are more similar these days.

For zones, I like dot and ranged. Dot will help get you more kills. So spines and leviathan are the way to go. (Eventually, zones will clear of hero squishies leaving tanks and regen scrappers. It will be slim pickens for kills at that point.) This is where EM or Ele would be a bit better.

Remember though, after AS, you just a scrapper with less hit points so getting AS in should be priority #1.

For dueling, I like Ela with a high recharge on placate.

Dark/rad would be OK in the zone if the villains have the advantage. Otherwise, your gonna have a tough time but I could say that for most squishies.

In duels (arena), be sure play with HD off, then drain life will be useful.

Had this happen to me, logged out and back in. Was fixed.

Uh, don't want to hijack, but this is similar. What about for /thermal? Specifically Zombie/thermal. Thinking the shield would be OK and the PB'd heals would be nice. Having some pvp in mind.

a tanker says 'Wow, it took three stalker AS's to kill me!'

LOL, seriously, your a tanker! Aren't ya supposed to be hard to kill? Now if you want more survivability, roll a regen scrapper.

Maybe downgrade energy blast. There seems to be a lot of knockback IOs on the market these days...

Wouldn't it be awesome if shadowmeld auto hid you?

I like energy/pain. Once you get soothing aura, combined with the knockback of energy, you'll gonna be a mini tank (as long as you can keep knocking stuff back).

I would like to see the corrs get the blaster version except with scramble thoughts exchanged with Confuse!

I gots to say!!!

Who gives a good gad damn??!!1!

elec/nin

As far as /whoall cutting through hide, maybe they should post pvp zone populations somewhere in game.

Phase + slotted super speed/leaping + sharks + hide = dead running def/con/blaster

About 1 and 5 kills is a phasekill for me. So many times I hear the telltale phase sound on somebody who is near death. Best if they stand still and think they are OK (happens sometimes believe it or not, maybe they trying an aid self?), then you can AS them. Most of them run for the base. In that case, you wait for hide/build-up while chasing them and shark'em. That's why your travel powers need to be slotted.

Impale doesn't have the range for this (mine even has 3 dam/range HO's), but if you do manage to impale them, there's an additional slow/immob for more attacks.

You know, TP is still the fastest travel power and great for catching runners (on my corr), wish it didn't suppress when hit.

If someone trash talks you, your doing something right.

As far as teams, half call targets, half don't. Of the half that don't, half od those, target calling is implicit. But the other half is just, well, lets group together and try to kill more stuff.

My stalker got on a team the other night with mostly doms and a corr. Was lovely, nobody called much, but they didn't have to. I just looked for the held or knockdown guys and AS. Sharked/impaled when they started to run. Got mucho kills.

That would be a pipe dream and a little OP. Now if slows did something in pvp...