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The +3% defense is fairly cheap and a great investment for shields I buy that 1st before I bought a miracle on a SD toon

I don not think scrappers will ever get Ninjitsu I think the devs may have put that as stalker only just like the only way to get empathy or poison is to change sides.

Other sets like EM may be of the table with Kentics and I doubt if scrappers ever get stone armor that will most likely stay brute and tanker only

Time will tell

It is not difficult never said it was I just hate the way it plays not a big fan of the set and it just turns me off fro the set despite multiple attempts.

I do not like the way brutes play period I have tried I hate furry

Not sure if we will ever get it

But look at the builds it is not just an 81% damage buff my IO build adds another 20+% to that 81% so I am hitting a 100% damage buff and I am sure I am not the only one

I tested the pylons both saturated and non saturated I can hit 190-195 dps with solid global recharge on my build when I fully saturate I was hitting the 230-235 range so i think it is more than just the 80% it is the extra ontop of that from the builds

Since crits existed the reason it crits is because it is in the primary and not the secondary

Odd I know

There was no cottage rules back then

There where regens that laughed at people for taking reconstruction after respecs IH

Several nerfs i remember there was a reduction in regeneration that was not in the patch notes and Statesman caved in and admitted it after several weeks of denying anything changed it was a stealth nerf, IH eventually went from a toggle to a click power

There where some more but those where the two biggest there where constant downward reduction on the regen totals. I think at one time regen scrappers had like 1600%-2000% regen + perma dullpain

Then also perma unstoppable by Invulnerability it sucked being an /sr back then with everyone doing way more than you ever could even with perma elude

Poor /da use to suck I think like 5 people got it to 50 before stacking armors in I3. I started my dm/da in I2 and he sat. /da was a complete and utter waste of time for a complete year I mean you might as well played a blaster you be more survivable then /da scrapper back then

Fire has advantage over BS by pure damage and the attacks are less resisted than the lethal damage dealt by BS. Fire can also string together a high end dps attack chain with less recharge than BS.

Basically it comes down to
Fire has more damage and easier attack chain

Fire out performs BS on the high end Single Target AV's etc. In groups both work great, solo they both work great. BS can solo Av's etc Fire is just flat out better at it than BS

Run with whatever you want they both work

Try multi strikes they are cheap real cheap you can put those in lotus drops and flashing the set literary cost 1-2 million each IO already crafted that will boost your attacks and also give you 1.88 extra defense in melee and aoe so that is like 6-8 million a set and even casual players can make that selling stuff on the market

Just something to think about and if you run TF's all the time you can get that Numia etc easy without much cost but 240 merits so you save those up and get what you want when you can

So slowly over time you can build your guy as you please and remember bosses are dropping rares now so you always have a chance when you are running around of getting lucky like a purple you can sell for 400 million or a respec recipe I sold mine for 250 million. Just take your time and fill it in when you can is my advice.

That looks like a UO picture in your Sig gave me flash backs

There is a rule and I do not remember what the numbers where but all the post I remember reading about said not worth it so I only put them in damage auras for set bonuses.

On damage auras I slot two ways depending on where in the build this go back to early days where I seem to get the best results

For SO's I run 2 end 2 acc and 2 damage (I like to be able to run higher lvl mobs)
if not I suggest 2 end 1 acc 3 damage

On IO's I always recommend multistrike for several reasons it cost like 6-8 million to slot up, it gives 70% acc 95% damage and 88% end reduction on lvl 45 ones (that is the rough numbers) plus the 5 and 6 slot give 1.88 defense to melee and aoe.

Now some auras take other sets (example EIA IO takes end but I always prefer pushing to damage IO's) Because the amount of damage output may seem small but it is better than most think

From our good friend Umbral


Re: "Chance for Damage" + Damage Auras
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Also, is this a viable, useful strategy to use? If I invested in the four "chance for damage" IOs and put them in a PBAoE damage aura, would it deal the insane amount of damage that I think it would?
Procs check once per 10 seconds per activation per proc. This means that, in a toggle which is on at all times, it will check against every target in range of that aura (and this can be either the primary or secondary effect of the toggle, depending upon which effect the toggle is "riding" on)
once every 10 seconds. If you have 4 damage procs in it, once every 10 seconds, whenever the aura ticks, it will attempt to hit every enemy affected by the aura with every proc in the power. In general, you don't get much benefit of procs out of toggles simply because it's not checking that often.

Link here
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...s+damage+auras

Actually I am looking at an IO build right now putting me at 34% to all three positions which is better than I could do with my elec build and there is a s synergy.

Death Shroud rarely resisted damage, fire rarely resisted damage watch things die

While they added the fear effect back when they nerfed the power so technically it was not part of the original power

It was over nerfed back in the i4-I5 days much like COF was

The best way to state it is I have access to three accounts that way hey you can own and pay for 3 accounts their are people that do own three accounts and they have no prof one way or the other

Dark has more flexibility in some areas you have resistance some defense in cod a -kb hole that you need to fill, a fear or a stun one of the best heals in the game for pve.

Then you IO it out for goodness

Elec has good resistance higher S/L and caps on energy, grounded gives you kb when on the ground I put one IO for when jumping around, Power sink helps with woes and can drain the endurance on enemies (a pretty solid one and can be better with added slots) so it is not OG or cof but it does give some mitigation energize is a solid heal and a regen buff


Both have damaging auras

It is about preferences both function fine I give a slight edge to dark for having more utilities. I played two /da's to 50 all pre IO's and I an currently working on a lvl 41 db/eia.

I love to run at 50 or in the low 40's which is why I prefer the 42-46 range over the 50 range IO's. I was working on my lvl 41 db/eia I have going so I was in the market for the 41-46 range again on my build.