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That's a slick tip. That'll come in real handy on those "Defeat The Guy Named Thusly" missions where all you need is the one guy and his spawn.

'twas good times! My first Hami raid ever! I logged in just in time to see the final calls for raid members, and didn't get to make an in-theme costume, but I enjoyed how well-organized the raid was. I was on Elegost's team, and all went smoothly.

Another thing about being a Scrapper - some of your teammates (the Defenders and Controllers and Corrupters) will have endurance-hungry toggle powers that make your enemies bubble with green, black, white, (or practically any other color they choose) energies and special effects...

Those toggle powers make it hard to see during battle and are kinda scary looking when a bubbling-green oozing mass of critters comes your way, so if you always target and defeat those critters first, you'll have much clearer vision, and your squishy teammates will thank you for saving them endurance!

(But you'll be missing out on all the sweet debuffs those toggles provide!)

Very true, and then I remember what my grandpappy used to say: "Have you hugged your Dark/ today?"

They could always swap roles and have the other Tanker guy go get a new spawn to bring back while the scrapper punches the boss.

Or heck, the way I do it: bring the leftover bosses to the next spawn, and keep punching them while the new minions melt in the AoE.

Because sometimes, "working together" means "everyone takes their own spawn." It rarely requires 8 Heroes to arrest a single spawn, and it always makes me laugh when all 8 Heroes attack the last remaining critter of a former spawn.

I'm firmly in the "if you want SB, you must be within 50 feet of me" camp. I put two EndMods in there, and no Ranges.

However, plenty of maps have space for a team to spread out more than 50 feet and still be "together," so my /Kin or Kin/ will have Flight or Hover or Super Speed on, and I'll click the teammate's name, hit Auto-follow, and trigger the boost, and then move on to the next teammate after it fires. I don't mind moving around to buff teammates, and I'll try to remember to shrug off Blasterlock sometimes in order to buff.

I try to watch the teammate buff icons, but seriously, when a toon's icons stretch 2/3's the way across my 24" monitor, it's a little hard to notice the tiny green blinking foot icon somewhere in the middle of all that, so I watch for teammates running slow. Or I'll hit IR or Siphon Speed first, and when it wears off, I know it's about time to re-SB everyone.

My preferred bufftime is as everyone is running in to take Alpha, because I sure as heck don't want Alpha aggro (unless I'm throwing the mass-hold) and it gives the spawn a bit of time to clump up around the melee toons before I immobilize them. And I'll throw ID on bouncing Blasters or other squishies if the knockback is getting out of control.

And sometimes the team will eliminate the spawn without me throwing a single attack, but big deal, I'll weep quietly to myself and hope Propel finishes animating in time for the next spawn.

Yep. I think she's just anti-fun. Since there's no easy mod, I think it's time to tell her to go harass a PTA board meeting or something.

No cable, and no broadcast TV since it went digital. We watch anime online or DVDs, and either video games or go outside for entertainment.

And it's COLD outside!

And the other cool thing is, since Active Defense is a click, you still have mez/kb/immob protection even if you get toggle-dropped due running out of endurance, and can beat a hasty retreat while your toggle-mez friends get held in your wake.

Plus, on a Fire Armor Scrapper, your mez resistance was built into the normal Fire and Plasma shields that you would have taken anyway, but Shield's aren't.

And since FA doesn't have built-in knockback protection and gets immob protection only from Burn, I'd suspect you'd take Combat Jumping on both toons, and then live with the knockback (or maybe take Acrobatics or get an anti-KB IO).

So I can see how switching to a SD scrapper and not taking Active Defense isn't unbelievable.

But once you get it, put two Recharges in it, set it to Auto, and get your scrap on! It's what makes Scrappers unstoppable arresting machines!

(and if you do have Acro or anti-KB IOs, you won't need them.)