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Oh! Oh! Can you answer this with a Yes or No?

Ahem.

"Will Staff Friday be released Yesterday?"

Let me stop you there. StJ is one of the few Stalker Primaries with a slower-than-average AS. It means it WILL get a (small) damage boost from the normalization.

Thus being, the outlier Stalker STDPS Primary is getting a buff. This is why I feel it could use a slight scale back. This is also ignoring the fact it is the only Stalker Primary with a Raw Damage/Damage Scale power like Crushing Uppercut supporting 100% Critical Damage.

I strongly support all attacks doing 100% Critical Damage, but Crushing Uppercut as it is, for what it is, is slightly too strong. If you transfer some of it's raw damage into combo damage, you only nerf it's extreme critical levels, but not it's average damage.

People not wanting this to happen are well aware of how ludicrously powerful it is on a critical hit. This, I do have to scoff at. It's 'protecting the precious thing' mentality. And if Stalkers couldn't force critical hits for Crushing Uppercut, this may not be needed. But they can.

And before someone says "That's just for IO's", all it takes is one extremely easy to get IO. Or Placate, I suppose. And it wouldn't be a nerf to SO builds anyway because they can't abuse CU as badly and they wouldn't notice an overall damage loss.

So, tell me how this is unreasonable; Some of Crushing Uppercut's Base Damage is transfered to Combo Point damage as an artificial way to reduce it's ludicrous critical damage.

Oh, I want Rage hit with the nerfbat. Simply put?

Rage: No longer works with powers that are not Super Strength powers. Super Strength powers have a slight damage increase to balance this.

Fiery Aura is fine.

StJ is NOT fine on Stalkers. It's badly outperforming all other Stalker primaries. It DOES need to do a bit less critical damage in exchange for having 100% Damage Crits. It's that or 50% Damage Crits on Crushing Uppercut and then THAT would be a major nerf.

Take your pick.

Your entire first paragraph is a strawman.

Your second paragraph is just wrong.

Your third paragraph is ?_?.

To explain!

Your entire first paragraph is based off the performance of other archetypes, while trying to dodge the point I was making in the first place. Tanker Survivability is their niche. In exchange, their damage is lacking and some people feel Tankers have become a little useless since Brutes Do It Nearly As Good But With Vastly More Damage and Scrappers Can Do It Good Enough.

Scrapper ST Damage is inferior, flat out. You're badly underestimating New AS, but maybe you're not and just don't want your New OP nerfed. I'm afraid to say it that nerf is already confirmed, and I'm just trying to make it more known. AS IS getting normalized. That's a fact, accept it.

Your second paragraph? There is not a SINGLE case in primaries now that Scrappers win in ST damage, as even the almighty Titan Weapons can't quite match up to the best Stalker Primaries. This is also Working As Intended, but that doesn't mean AS doesn't need the normalization it's getting, and that doesn't mean Crushing Uppercut is TOO strong on Stalkers. Because it is. My suggested 'nerf' is only to fix the sheer disparity that Crushing Uppercut has as an outlier. I do not support wild outliers and would prefer somewhat more global balance.

IE; not widescale nerfs, but outliers do need to be pulled back a bit so EVERYTHING as a WHOLE can become better due to no fear of breaking an outlier as a result. Crushing Uppercut does too much damage for a 100% Crit Ability. If it's scaled back JUST a touch, we can make the 50% Criticals into 100% Criticals with similar damage.

And your third paragraph needs no commentary. It is what it is.

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For everyone who disagrees with Stalkers getting AS normalized, and the outlier that is Street Justice being slightly scaled back so the rest of the primaries can be improved with out fear?

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That argument fails with recent power creep sets like Kinetic Melee, Street Justice, and soon Staff Fighting. KM lost it's worst AoE nobody cares about and has an auto crit, StJ kept BOTH AoEs, and Staff is only losing it's really bad AoE.

This doesn't 'balance out', and Assassin's Strike WILL be normalized. That's a fact. I'm simply saying it's far too powerful right now until they're all normalized. It won't change much, but it will be a nerf to Kinetic Melee. Which.. doesn't honestly need it.

StJ does need a flat nerf on Stalkers. Best way to do that? Lower the base damage of Crushing Uppercut, Spinning Strike, and Sweeping Cross, put that damage into the Combo Damage metric. AKA; they crit for less, but still do the same non-critical damage.

Easy enough fix.

5 Dollah if u want waste resources?!

Nice strawman at the end for trying to give an excuse as to why you can't respond to the points, and instead continue to flail your arms and make excuses.

Edit: Also, this?

Blatantly retarded IE insanely broken IE what you WANT on Scrappers and are just skirting around the words needed to make it entirely obvious.

Sure, no problem.

1) This was an overhaul. The hit and run playstyle is now all but a memory.

Explanation: The Hit and Run playstyle was always optional (and inefficient). It existed only if you wanted it to. To suggest it ever truly existed is to try to strawman the Stalker AT's issues. This is something Leo_G has done, which is furthering my theory of those two having a club together.

2) I get what everyone says about them still being good. I don't quarrel with that. But when I look at the AT as a whole, I can't find any advantage they offer outside of taking Shield. That powerset leverages their higher self-damage buffing in a way that properly pulls them ahead of Brutes and Stalkers. But Shield isn't an AT.

Explanation: Badly opinionated. Their advantages? Up front, no nonsense, no remote gimmicks. Having no disadvantages at all. There is nothing WRONG with the Scrapper AT and there is nothing Blatantly Retarded about the AT. This post is also key of the hypocrisy I mentioned. Wait for it.

3) Scrapper don't offer any advantage over Stalkers or Brutes. Brutes leverage AoE better, and Stalkers leverage Single target better.

The mentioned hypocrisy. If you look up, he goes on about Shield, and states 'Shield isn't an AT.'

Brutes only leverage more AoE in two circumstances: Super Strength or Titan Weapons paired with Fiery Aura. Their AoE is inferior unless HEAVILY saturated (and the difference is minor) with any other combination. He is trying to define his argument BASED OFF POWER SETS, which he said just about Shield and Scrappers "is not an AT".

Stalker single target is generally higher in all areas, but not in ALL areas. They have inferior Primaries to Scrappers in SOME categories, but they overall DO leverage higher now. Working. As. Intended.

Stalkers having superior AoE (only in Kinetic Melee due to 100% Burst Crits) is a flat lie otherwise. Their lower modifier is too damning to abilities with out Auto Crits, and Auto Crit fireballs aren't that much leverage.

Hypocrisy and just lying.

4) Yes, you don't start as strong as Scrappers, but it takes mere seconds to get back. As for Stalkers, they're just Scrappers now, but they have all their other advantages besides.

Dumbing down the AT for your argument is ludicrous. But that's the second half of the statement alone. The first half? Mere seconds is hyperbole, and ludicrous.

I have explained.

... And you make posts like this and I KNOW you're just arguing for the sake of arguing and bloating your post count. And also being badly misinformative. Underlined bits being the obvious sins. Some for being flatly wrong, some for being opinionated and pointless, and one or two being just hilarious.

Edit: And one being just hypocritical of your ENTIRE argument.

Did you and Leo_G start a club on "I do what I want while not quite breaking the rules but I am clearly skirting so close that a soft summer's breeze is a legitimate risk!"?

And no, I didn't take it out of context. Perhaps if you worded your post better and didn't sound like a child who is flailing their arms at not getting the best toys and all the other children being left out in the snow, maybe I wouldn't point you out for acting like a selfish brat. But since you do what you want, I suppose that was your intention.

And even if it wasn't, you still came off that way. My apologies for you.

Ultimately, you still lack one (more than) key point(s), which I shall give to you because you're already acting like a spoiled brat.

1) Blasters do need the buff more, but they had a niche no other AT can claim still; Superior AoE Burst, outside of Judgment Powers but everyone gets those and they're 2 minute cooldowns.

2) Stalkers had no unique niche. Single target melee burst was on a superior AT(s) for it; Banes and Widows. They had no niche besides lower than average single target damage, generally little to no AoE, and were very good at being terrible alternatives to Scrappers, Brutes, Banes, and Widows.

Or Meleenata, which are superior.

As long as Blasters had that niche, Stalkers were a bigger priority. With that priority out of the way, Blasters can now be examined with the knowledge of the recent Melee Power Creep, IE; Titan Weapons having radical AoE Burst, and other sets having Good Enough AoE Burst. Combined with Blaster ST damage also falling off due to the recent Melee Power Creep.

You have been provided the knowledge you need to know why your argument was flawed. You are welcome, and I can go back to being nice and rolling my eyes.

Can you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt earlier full-throttle localization attempts would have been entirely and, even marginally, profitable? Paragon suggests the opposite.

I'm sorry. All I'm reading from this is... honestly rather childish.

"Stalkers are now, by various levels of margin but not by any significantly game-breaking amount, superior single target damage than Scrappers! As well, Brutes can tank marginally better and only have superior AoE when they are Super Strength or Titan Weapons/Fiery Aura!

I must boycott Scrappers and demand unreasonable buffs, even though I am swearing up and down I do not want Scrappers to get buffs, but something 'vaguely unique' that isn't a buff! But now I'm looking like a giant hypocrite because I won't play Scrappers until they are BUFFED. It's almost like I've wasted EVERYONE'S time in one elaborate April Fool's prank, a couple of weeks too early!

Wait. I'm not that clever."

Did that come off as rude? Sorry. I did stress 'I'll try', but your recent and new stance just honestly pisses me off.

You're acting like a certain Tanker activist now, for all the wrong reasons. Please, stop.

You can't decide how AoE combos work, sorry. I was comparing a total package of maximum potential damage. Also, that proc? Ehhhhhhhhh. Diminishing Returns blah blah.

Gonna be a super-villain in this case, then, I guess. If it doesn't make them money now, it won't make them money hiring a full-on localization team for you all. The fact you all can't grasp that, refuse to grasp that, or selfishly don't care if it loses Paragon money in the short and long term is a bit depressing.

For the sake of the growth of the game, sometimes bad things do need to happen.