AnElfCalledMack

Willpower's a bit of a generalist set. Praetorian Clockwork will stop your regeneration, so it might not be the easiest mob type to run through. Malta Sappers can be quite annoying. Carnies will be a little annoying with their on-death End drain, but (Dark) Ring Mistresses will be fairly painful thanks to Mask of Vitiation, a huge -regen debuff. Everything else will be fairly easy, so enjoy yourself.

As far as stuff that you'll really rip through, I'd say Council and 5th Column. Their robots are vulnerable to Smashing damage, which is what SS deals, and none of the rest of it will really screw you over.

Depends on the cone, really. The Ice/Ice Blaster has long, narrow cones. Basic idea is target something at the back of the spawn and let rip - the cone should've spread out enough to hit most or all of the spawn.

Melee cones, on the other hand, are much more fiddly. Shadow Maul, for instance, can be made to hit two people - the best way is to usually try and maneuver so that a second target is between you and your primary target. Getting more than two is more luck than anything, and it's not worth losing too much sleep over it - Shadow Maul is okay even if it hits a single target.

Okay, quick comments:

You've overslotted a lot of your toggles. Combat Jumping only costs 0.06 Endurance per second, so an EndRedux there is a waste of a slot. Similarly, you've slotted your toggles for heavy EndRedux, but left the resistance completely underenhanced. Super Jump should not be running in combat, so a single EndRedux is plenty. Lightning Reflexes shouldn't be slotted past the default - you'll get more bang for your buck slotting Sprint, and the real benefit or LR, 20% Recharge, is unenhanceable. Build Up's Endurance cost isn't what's causing your endurance problems - skipping Stamina is more likely the cause. Slotting Energize for Recharge will save you more endurance, through having that endurance discount up more of the time, than slotting for endurance reduction ever would.

Conversely, your attacks are underslotted. You don't have enough damage in your heavy hitters, especially Lightning Rod. That power demands three damage SOs or an IO frankenslotting.

You probably have too many attacks here. There's no way you could use even half of them before the rest had all recharged, so those powers are mostly sitting on your tray, unused. In particular, I'd reconsider Caltrops - it causes scatter because the mobs run in all directions, and with Elec Melee's heavy AoE focus, you want tightly-packed groups of enemies to lay waste to. The Stealth pool also sounds much better than it is. for the most part, a Scrapper can just kill anything between the two points you want to go, or at worst turn on your travel power and outrun the enemies.

Finally, Confront is widely considered fairly useless on a Scrapper of any description. If you want something's attention quickly, unload a Thunder Strike into its face - if you can't hold its attention through doing damage, either there's a Tanker you're fighting for aggro, which the Tanker will win, or there's a squishy doing something really stupid, like keeping Healing Aura on auto, and it is, regrettably, their own fault.

Anyway, that's my advice. The important thing is whether the character is fun for you to play. But with the amount of endurane slotting going on here, I'm suspicious that you're getting tired of hitting Rest every time it's up. There are plenty of guides around the forums for ways to avoid the No Endurance Blues, especially on Elec/Elec.

I won't pretend to be on Samuraiko's level, but here's my go at it:

Destriana (magic fire/fire tanker) is a demon. But when a Hellion looking to try and get a leg up in the gang structure summoned her to try and make a pact, he botched part of the ritual, and Destriana was set loose on the mortal world. She decided to start by setting fire to the Hellions' hideout.

Now, the Paragon Fire Department is fairly used to Hellions setting buildings on fire, but when an abandoned office bursts into bright purple flame, they call for MAGI. One of their opreatives caught up with Destriana's rampage and quickly put her down, then offered her a simple choice. She could be banished back to the pit from which she came, or she could register with the FBSA and do what she was told. She signed up, and quickly found that helping people was far more to her liking than torturing the damned for eternity. Now, she is a shining, or at least flaming, beacon for the heroes of Paragon City.

Well, obviously, wiping out humanity entirely is an overreaction, but before, during and after the Hamidon Wars, humanity has been systematically degrading and destroying all other parts of the Earth's environment. While I can't agree with his policy of genocide, I also can't agree with humanity's response - to shut out the wilderness behind the sonic fences, burn away the forests and wild places near any settlement, and build up a "perfect" little island of concrete, glass and steel. We don't even grow our own flowers, and have to endure those Syntha-Flora mockeries. The only water supply in Praetoria is chained to an industrial plant and doped with Enriche. The tunnels are filled not only with Neuron's embarrasing failures, but also the waste, industrial and domestic, of thousands of homes and hundreds of manufacturing plants. And the glorious Emperor's only response to this obvious challenge from Gaia herself? Build a bomb. Escalate the war on nature.

I don't know about Marcus Cole, but the rest of us need to breathe. We need to eat and drink. And if we win the war against nature, if we destroy all the wild places, then we won't be able to. The ecosystem collapses, and our high-rises will become mausolea. The Hamidon is more than just a monster. It's a warning. Our planet will not stand to be abused much longer, and when one champion of the wild has been stopped, another will rise to take its place. Can we really afford to fight another Hamidon? A bigger, better, more primally destructive beast? We don't have to agree with the Hamidon to accept that there's a problem, and that bigger cities and more technology won't fix it.

Since it adds extra damage at a fixed proportion of the attack's damage scalar, it works just like an attack. Scrappers will do more damage than brutes with it when that scrapper would do more damage without it, and vice versa.

Of course, scrappers can't take Super Strength, so Rage + FE + Foot Stomp is only available to brutes, if that's your cup of tea.

Edited for clarity.

Well, money's not quite no object, but I can spring for one or two procs that'll make real quality-of-life improvements. Soft-capping can wait for a bit - I don't think I can manage Kinetic Combat, Eradication and Reactive Armor at the same time on my budgets. Thanks for all the advice.

Well, I hve multiple Elecs going, and I have neither a DA nor an Invuln...

Dammit, I want to go DA, but it's going to be painful until I19. Soft-capped DA tank with an attack chain like that?

Yeah, I'm gonna have to get used to the sound of toggles dropping, aren't I?

You're certainly about to spawn at least one. I'd wanted to try DB for a while. So, Claws, do you have a primary suggestion for a Dual Blades DPS tank? The old standby, Shields, doesn't work, so... what does?

Personally, I'm thinking about Elec/DB. LR gives 20% recharge to help with that NS/BF/Attack Vitals chain, endurance problems are a non-issue, and there's Psi resist in the status toggle. No defense, though... not sure how that'll stack up.

Especially without team buffs, Scrapper KM outperforms Brute KM. Yes, random crits cause a lot of overkill on Scrappers, but we can ignore them for a bit.

Power Siphon is one of the best self-damage buffs in the game (after Rage and Soul Drain). Fully stacked, it's something like a +150% damage buff. On a Scrapper, this will increase a power slotted for +95% damage (three damage SOs or equivalent) by 77%. On a Brute with around 70% fury (what a good attack chain will maintain, and close to the break-even point with Scrappers damage-wise), the same stack will give just 44% more damage because the brute's base is lower, but boosted by fury. Also, the Concentrated Strike "chance for Power Siphon" instead of crits mechanic is a great way to avoid massive overkill. How often do you think a CS crit would be overkill? Well, it isn't - it's a big damage boost for the next 25 seconds, instead.

Uh... Stalker KM has no KB, just KD. No obnoxiousness required unless you're beating on blue-conning minions. And Concentrated Strike is also an extreme damage attack, although it won't crit from Hide.

So, overally, I'd say KM. It's a lot faster than EM, even if it doesn't look it, and like you mentioned, it has an AoE, a ranged attack, and -dmg in all its attacks, instead of a chance to run away.

Well, if anyone's feeling artistic, Destriana would welcome a piece or two.


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