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The resistance buffs are decent, but like a boxer already leaning on the ropes, it is often too late. SR needs some personality, as it is Ninjitsu and and Energy Aura provide comparable protection with much more utility and flair.
Personally, I'd fix SR by removing the passives (Dodge and Agile) and upping the toggle defenses to make up the difference. This would free up two powers to add some utility or a "reactive" defense.
My suggestions:
1) Make Agile on a 2 minute timer and when the power is activated the next 5-10 attacks (randomly generated) will miss you.
2) Make Dodge on a 2 minute time and when the power is activated it will heal the damage from last attack that hit you, as if it never occured. Example, boss hits you for 70% of HP; if you are quick enough you can hit Dodge and act as if the dmg never hit you (since it will heal back the exact amount of dmg taken, from the last attack). If you're too slow, you might only get back a minion's dmg.
Cheers,
SUN
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Since you are talking about energy aura and only two passives (dodge/agile), I'm assuming you are referring to the SR stalker set, and not the SR scrapper set. The two do not play identically.
The SR scrapper set can take all three passives, including lucky. Because of the way the passive resistances stack, the mitigation they provide gets amplified non-linearly. As a result, three is way stronger than two, and the SR scrapper set gets a much larger benefit from the passive resists (when they take all three) than you might expect if you've only seen the effect with one or two. The SR scrapper set has way more net mitigation than the ninjitsu or energy aura stalker sets.
The SR stalker set has much more mitigation potential than the ninjitsu or energy aura sets. The passives are not trivial defense for stalkers, especially with ED preventing the use of more than 3 defense slots in the toggles. And the specific advantage of SR over energy is that hide stacks with SR defenses, but since energy is damage-typed, hide doesn't stack with energy defenses. The combination of passives and hide give SR stalkers a significant edge in pure defensive mitigation over ninjitsu or energy.
One thing that some people are overlooking in the SR stalker set is that hide - even in its suppressed state - is more slot-efficient than the SR passives, and its defense is non-trivial (its defense is lower in base value when suppressed, but hide is defense to melee/ranged/aoe). And when SR gets evasion, the combination of evasion and hide means that when SR is in the hidden state, its for all intents and purposes immune to AoE splash damage - important for stalkers.
Ninjitsu and energy get other toys to compensate, but SR's defenses are nevertheless significantly higher overall.
I used to believe that SR lagged tremendously behind the other sets, but I don't believe SR stalker lags the other stalker sets by a large margin (its hard to say yet with any precision, but if anything is lagging its probably energy - until it gets overload). The SR scrapper set with the passive resists is probably at least in the same ballpark as the other scrapper sets at the moment - I doubt anyone would say the four scrapper sets were dead even, but the ridiculous imbalances of the past seem to be strongly suppressed.
If there is a problem with the SR scrapper set, its that the resistance component of its defense is so high on a relative basis, SR is not the "don't get hit" set anymore: its mitigation is roughly split 50/50 between defense and resistance, and that breaks the "feel" of the set, as a separate issue from its overall performance.
This is in PvE. In PvP, the passive resistances are much less of a factor. Regen and DA probably both still outperform SR on average in PvP, without elude. Within the elude window, SR does at least as good if not better than the other scrappers: sometimes better and sometimes worse, but possibly better overall.
[/ QUOTE ]Your 2nd to the first MA/nin theres one on justice , but grats to you anyways, back on the subject please buff the hell out of SR i love the set, i just hate how bad they really are.
