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Not sure about that. My claws/SR scrapper takes twice the time to kill the same amount of stuff as my SS/ElA brute. But I don't know if that's due to the small radius, no taunt aura, or doublestacked Rage.

I'd say /dark hands down. It has the best heal, covers exotic resistances the best, has built-in defense and an aura that prevents the mobs from attacking.

Fire and ElA don't have such an aura, have worse heals, and each of them has a resistance hole - Fire has psi, ElA has toxic.

The same way as always. I take the alpha and smash stuff like a cackling madman. Instead of spiking to 95% fury like before, it spikes to a bit over 80% and suddenly slows down. Further than that, the fight has to last a bit longer.

Mids disagrees with you. At 3 damage SOs in the attacks and saturated Soul Drain for both toons, with 100% fury for the brute, the scrapper wins:

Smite - 286.1 scrapper > 270.3 brute
Siphon Life - 424.8 scrapper > 401.3 brute
Midnight Grasp - 598.2 scrapper > 565.1 brute

Brute only wins by a tiny amount with Death Shroud at 41 damage vs 39.4 for the scrapper. At 91% fruy the brute is down to the same damage with Death Shroud and to an even bigger difference with the other attacks.

That's how it goes for sets which rely on +damage.

Btw, FA still favors the brute because it doesn't have +damage buffs but adds straight up damage, and fire DoTs are affected by fury (for example Burn) but not affected by crits.

I don't see how this is true. It's certainly harder to get to 90% fury than before, but I don't have any problems reaching 80% solo or teamed, which is the amount I base all my calculations in Mids on. And guess what - at 80% fury, a brute does more damage than a scrapper, except on those sets that make significant use of +damage buffs, of course (SD and DB for example, although Claws are interestingly an exception to this as the brute base numbers on the attacks are higher than scrapper ones).

The #1 reason why I vastly prefer brutes to scrappers is that they have a much easier time leveling up. Scrappers do piddly damage until they stuff 2-3 damage SOs in their attacks, while brutes have great damage out of the box thanks to fury.

SwellGuy covered it well. If you didn't have 3 tips already, the RNG hated you that day. But have in mind that you can only hold 3 tips at a time - if you don't do their mishes or drop them, you won't get any new ones.

Log into lvl 50 claws/SR scrapper. Go to Dark Astoria. Super Speed to spawn. Take position at one end of spawn. Shockwave the mob at the opposite end. Super Speed to next spawn, etc. When tip slots are full, go to Talos and ghost the mishes (set at -1/x1). When all 3 mishes are done, return to DA for the last 2 and repeat the process. If day = 1, log out. If day = 2, get back to DA for the morality mish.

That's how I do it, and it takes me no more than an hour of total play time, of course spread over 2 days.

I think certain toxic-only attacks (like hydra vomit) are using the fire type.

You can't, because if what you say is happening, you are using the European game client. The European and American servers are separated, and with one account you can only play on either the European or the American ones (this is determined by your purchase).

If you live in Europe and have purchased the European version of the game all is fine, join either Union or Defiant (Union used to be much more populated than Defiant a few years back, but I hear things are much more closer now). If you live in America and have purchased the American version, you should download the American client.

If you live in Europe and have purchased the American client, be aware that although American servers are more populated than the European ones, you will likely be playing during off-hours because of the timezone difference. If you live in America and have purchased the European client... I'd try to get a refund in your place.

What does it do out of Hide for Stalkers?