Zul_Vakirol

In depth? I gathered that kind of detail by looking at what they did for my claws/regen, and I could just look at the set bonuses when getting to 50 with skads of inf and draw up the same conclusion for what sets to slot where for global recharge and getting close to softcap.

It's little more than what I said, an instruction pamphlet for someone at 50, and by the time they could look at the guide and make good use of it, they'd be doing so already. Anyone who plays regen knows it's best to get as much global recharge and defense as possible from IO sets, that's been common knowledge since they were introduced way back when.

Dude, your guide, simply put, is the scrapper regen equivalent of a Purple'd out Warshade.

It is -NOT- a simple guide, it's just an instruction pamphlet for people with billlions of inf at 50. Why don't you call it that? Or just post it here where people can actually comment on it like they would any other guide?

Werner showed that could happen. Just took him six hours against Nemesis.

Earth/Storm is great. It does take a while to get up with decent powers, but DFB fills that need perfectly. I find the addition of fitness as an inherent and able to take a travel power without pre-reqs to be very nice. About the only powers I never took on my Earth/Storm were Salt Crystals and O2 Boost, and even now I'd just take Fly for my travel power, Hasten to get everything up faster, and O2 Boost purely to help Stoney in some tough fights or to slap on a tank/scrapper/brute who's be expecting lots of end drain and isn't Elec Armor.

Quicksand is great, you can throw it down and follow up with Stone Cages to keep them still, immediately hit them with Stalagmites (all the -def is for a reason) and you've got a quick, poor man's aoe hold right there. Volcanic Gases is easily the best aoe hold ever, no matter what an illusion controller or mind controller will say. You plop down a pseudo pet and for the duration of the pet, it keeps re-applying the hold, so even after the first few targets that are held die, survivors will be held.

Earthquake is wonderful, it keeps enemies flopping up and down, doing absolutely nothing. It debuffs their resistance a lot, and the AI tells them to leave the patch ASAP. However, communication is key, if other controllers/dominators keep throwing off their aoe immob for damage, I'm looking at you fire controllers/dominators, then a good chunk of Earthquake's mitigation factor is gone. Snow storm is useful since it slows down the enemy a lot, even with -recharge, it's a good -fly as well. Steamy Mist is great because most tankers will appreciate the extra fire and cold res, plus it gives mag 6 confuse protection and hefty confuse resistance, so on the rare spawns that fire off confuse, invulns and such will love you. You could even combine Steamy Mist with Superspeed for cheap PvE stealth as well. freezing Rain is more for the -res and constant knockdown than damage, but refer to Earthquake for dealing with immobs that have -kb on them.

Hurricane is godly when you can herd enemies into corners, and this is where terrain and such comes in handy. Office maps with those small cramped quarters and you can have an entire spawn of say, Tsoo Yellow Ink Men in one corner, their tohit debuffed and even going through the knockback animation. The aoe immobs will stop knockback, but not repel. I recommend going to places like The Hollows or Perez Park and stick to the -11 Hellions, Skulls, etc to practice proper Hurricane and Gale use. Yes, even Gale is useful. Throw an annoying melee enemy back into one of your patches, or off of a fellow squishy team mate, but do not use Gale whenever just because it is up.

Thunderclap is a nice PBAoE stun, and when combined with Stalagmites, will hold Bosses as you'll be combining Quicksand, Stone Cages, Stalagmites, and Thunderclap together.

Tornado and Lightning Storm are both damage pets and control pets. One reason I recommend taking Fly or at least Hover is because if you fire those powers off while hovering/flying directly over your target and thus target location, it should turn the Knockback into Knockdown, but there is a new unique IO that's coming out soon enough that will turn all KB into KD, and that would really only hurt Gale since Hurricane pushes away mainly with Repel.

Again, it's a very tight build that relies a lot on hasten, not perma hasten, but perma hasten just improves it even more, and good positioning and knowledge of the area you're in. Office maps are perfect for Hurricane to herd, in wide open maps, hang near the squishies to keep hard melee hits off them via repel and by debuffing tohit if repel won't cut it.

Fire Mastery gives you a nice self-rez incase you need it, but there is a delay between activation and untouchable, so it's less useful in stuff like Magi Trial with Tyrant in it. Stone Mastery gives more control in it's few attacks, plus a hefty +HP/Heal in Earth's Embrace. The patron power pools, Scorpion's shield is +def, so good for those sets. Mu Mastery has power sink for when you need more end in a snap. Primal Forces is mainly for conserve power, temp invuln, and power boost. Ice is iffy, Hibernate is questionable on a squishy controller that's active enough as it is. I would have to say that your most useful Epic Power Pool is Psionic Mastery for mainly Indomitable Will, maybe Mind Over Body, but IW is a mez protection and the only pool that grants it to controllers is duh, Psionic Mastery.

Rather long-winded, but there you have it. Oh, and your powers are very visible, so people will know how much you're contributing, no matter how much their graphics cards might suffer for it.

1 billion is like, 20 times what my richest character has, at least.

Using slug would make it worse. Redraw on the rifle, bow, and mace. Call him Major Redraw/

Would you be able to sacrifice any other powers for Ignite while still keeping ranged softcap?

Would you call the tradeoff worth it? I mean you can last longer, but you're also taking longer killing things without ignite.

Doesn't power surge have a horrific crash that's only offset by the Mag 3 or 4 hold that triggers?

For some, "carp" is a horrific and painful death on the path to fun.

Good god I didn't even see that part. Perma Hasten -and- Perma DP? Yeah, that's not a guide for a normal Regen player AT ALL.

You mean the guide that requires so many sets and doesn't show accurate slotting and I'd be more likely to be successful as a purpled out tri-form warshade?

Sorry, but when I think of 'guide', I think like what Jock Tampson or EvilGecko has, something that goes into a good amount of detail for each power without needing to look at mid's or the power details in game. Yes I know regen is a 'take everything' set, but that doesn't help when figuring out what to slot and when with what.

It's still more forgiving as an SR or SD tank than other defense sets.

If you're learning, then bots/ff would be the easiest. I have standard SOs slotted and when running the big bubble, all my pets, save for the prot bots sport 49% defense. They sport 38% and me roughly 20 or more defense. I'm not even done leveling or slotting Technological Terror yet either, I imagine the defense will get higher when I nab Mace Mastery for Scorpion Shield. Maneuvers with a bit of slotting could bring the Protector Bots even closer to softcap.

Why would anyone play regen at this point?

Apart from caltrops, my AR/Dev disagrees with you. I'm sorely tempted to remake him as an AR/TA Corr because at least with Flash Arrow, a nearby spawn won't concern me, with Glue Arrow, Ignite is suddenly more useful especially with a Scourging Ignite patch. Acid Arrow would help deal with the enemies resisting lethal and fire damage, plus EMP Arrow is a great power for any TA, able to have a powerful hold at range with no super-crash.

Sure I lose Defiance and Traps gives Force Field Generator and Acid Mortar, but at least AR/TA Corrs are not a mainly stationary set (the mortars, bombs, mines, and caltrops).

It's sad when an AT like Corrs can outdo Blasters because as the enemy gets lower in HP, the chance to crit/Scourge increases, and against high hp targets like EBs, AVs, GMs, etc, this allows their damage to consistently skyrocket above that of a Blaster while providing a form of debuffing/buffing during long fights.

We shall call such a hold.... Drownball.

I was about to make an AR/Dev on Virtue, but I decided that AR/TA Corr would be less painful. At least Flash Arrow helps in positioning and glue arrow helps with ignite. Oh, and all the scourging on stuff like Ignite is awesome stuff. EMP Arrow too. Oh right, I can use Acid Arrow to help negate the lethal damage that gets resisted.

I think Defiance adding untyped damage or -res on every attack that lasted for a good 10 seconds or more and could continue to stack would really help.

My own thoughts for devices' own TD and Cloaking Device is whenever you attack outside of combat with CD active, the attack is considered stealth if it's a snipe and won't aggro if it misses, and will crit, less than a stalker's AS, but more than a scrapper's crit. TD would also add more damage at all times, basically like the assault leadership power, only stronger since it requires a specific secondary. Combining the two would make any non-snipe crit for 2-2.5 or 3x damage, but automatically get a ton of aggro and could of course, only be used as the blaster's own alpha strike. For any snipe, it would basically one-shot anything at Boss rank or lower upwards of 3 levels above, not taking levels shifts into account as Incarnate stuff is entirely different. Using a snipe in this manner would allow the */Dev blaster to instantly remove one enemy from the fight, but it could only be an alpha strike, so no combining that with the extra crit on something like FA, Fireball, Flamethrower, etc.

Some might say overpowered, but really, there's little else a Blaster can do aside from damage, and they need more of it, */Devices especially.

That is actually far more restrictive than you may think.

I'd like to see older sets get some love as much as the new ones. I realize that won't make money for the game because they can't re-sell exisiting and released powersets, but I'd like to play an AR/Dev/Munitions character and not feel terribly gimped because everything and their mother laughs at Lethal damage just about everywhere.

Masterminds are so much fun! I would uninstall the game instantly if they ever got removed. What other game gives you command over several demons/soldiers/zombies/thugs/ninjas/robots and call them your own personal, loyal army?