Hejtmane

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cool thx for the info. yea i know spines isetn all to great but its how much fun you have with the class imo =) but thx for the help and wow i dident no pvp IOs were bugged yea i saw panaca prock going for 500 mill lol ouchies..

spizzie ur Avatar Rocks lmao funny

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Expect them to double after the next patch go lives and they nerf the farming

Smite 1st shadow maul I always find the best second attack if you know how to line it up to hit multiple guys

Siphon Life should be a damaging attack 1st not a heal the best defense for /sr early levels is an enemy that is not attacking. Siphon got a big buff and even late game most suggest a franken slot approach of acc/damage/heal/recharge because it is that good of an attack



/sr is a late blooming set just for an fyi but is a great set and dm/sr is a wonderful combo

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as of right now, STF is still broken on live and test

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We are running an ITF instead

Here is a soft capped build with out tough weave and aid self


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Just wanted to toss out a reminder for tomorrow night!

Forming up at 6 pm EST hitting the TF at 7pm EST.

If this goes well, I have an idea for what to do next that is all scrapper...
We might end up turning Sunday night in the Scrapper Forums Take over Test night!!!...

ANd once again here is the final roster:

1. Oz
2. Iggy_Kamakaze
3. Shawn_Sage
4. Celeste Cat
5. Werner
6. BrokenPrey
7. Hejtmane
8. Rieze

At 15 minutes to 7pm EST we'll start filling with alternates so if you didn't get on and would still like to show up and cross your fingers!

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My guy is prepped and I was able to add another purple this weekend in my build yay unless something happens at home or work I should be a go

I have done it on my fire/mind I have two different builds I messed with him on

he is only 31 I have hasten/ss because I have not hit 60 months quite yet. he has standard SO's and I solo the thing all the time with him

I do not even use stealth though I should get a celebrity +stealth to put in sprint to make life easier

Since I can not fit health yet I stuck in rain of fire it is more useful than you think on bosses and the eb at the end

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To double-stack it, you need it go off every 60 seconds.

200 / 60 = 3.33 = 333%

333% - 100% base - 95% slotted = 138% global. Actually, slightly more to account for activation time.

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Thanks

Ok active defense has a base 200 second recharge

it last 120 seconds if I have 95% recharge in the power how much global recharge do you need to add to make it double stacked permanent

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Ultimately I think my friend would be happier with the Scrapper option as he is not the type to want to stand there and let other people kill the map for him.

It's up to him, but I think that is my recommendation.

Hell, Maybe I'll build the opposite of whatever he chooses and we can run them side by side.



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So, here's my other thought, as I was looking into it... if you're going fire melee, I'd go tanker.

Just from playing with #'s (napkin calcs in excel) the tanker's weaker damage is made up for with combustion and fireball. While I *love* energy torrent, fireball hits more targets, easier to use, etc etc etc.

I was struggling to decide between fire melee + shield tanker or scrapper, and I think I'll be leveling a tanker.

Disclaimer: I like big teams, multi spawn herds and crazy situations, I don't solo or think about single target attack chains much.


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Blah by scrapper is still better with fsc doing more damage and shield charge what else do you need I mean I also solo AV's with no temps or inspiration

Stick with a scrapper damage rules

I got my kanata/sr to soft cap but I had to go maneuvers to get there to get the build to do what i really wanted it to do

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The reason why the Fighting pool is generally considered requisite for softcapping is because Tough is the only pool power that will accept the Steadfast and Gladiator's 3% +def IOs and Weave is the most powerful +def pool power. That's 11.85% +def(all) that you're knowingly abandoning by not taking those pools, not to mention the rather significant benefits that taking Tough can have for an */SR.

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Bah I do not miss the tough/weave on my fire/shield either but I was going for damage my +40% damage buff for 1 target makes up for what I lost from tough yes I am softcapped

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A good place to check for AV abilities and resistances is here. Just in case you want to check before wasting 20 minutes fighting an AV with 50% lethal resist.

Not that I've done that. >_>

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yea like I spent 20 minutes on nightstar with my katana/sr wondering what i was doing wrong

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Ya, i figured it would. just really really expensive.

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It is why i farm solo posi missions for those or runs tons of ae's and random role I got 2 miracles like that as well

add a miracle + recovery in health that gets you to 3.22 endurance recovery that will give you a big boost.

next make sure you do not kick of conserve power to soon take it down low click it then wail away in fact with marauder on my fire/sd I had less recharge than you do an I slowed my chain just a touch for it to kick in when he was in unstoppable mode and then ramped it up when it came back up

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Look here is the point of it... you need to have atleast one toon you did all the work for yourself, that meens doing TFs, doing regular missions, PLAYING THE GAME LIKE IT WAS MENT TO BE PLAYED! If you got alot of 50s, go ahead and farm if you know what the powers do and know what to do with them. I am just saying that the devs need to make it to where people won't spend a major part of the game just doing AE all the time.... I play on victory, a friendly but not so easy shard to find teams on like, say freedom. I just get sick of people that want to do nothing but AE farm all the time. I am good at finding teams, hell I tanked a majority of the TFs in the game with much ease and know what to do on all of them, but for people that just want to do nothing but AE all th time, it gets old! I tried to get the new Vill TF forming and that one you need to ahve a pretty balanced team, atleast one of everything on it, for each of the debuffs and a load of dmg... I couldn't find a good tanking brute, such as a stone, wp or invul... and finnally the team left becuase all the brutes were in AE!!

I am not saying that AE is bad, that isn't it, I love it, but there is MORE to the game than just AE, that is what people need to understand, and some of you I1-I4 people should agree with me on this, becuase I am not the only person from that era that agrees what AE has done for this game! I remeber when LotG 7.5% were about 20-30 mill... now they are over 100mill where I am. People are farming more in AE which have made the prices for everything skyrocket. If people went back to doing regular missions and TFs and got the markets under control again the whole game would be easier on everyone.

Oh and I do use the global channels to find teams as well, and most of them do AE so it doesn't work most of the time.

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You mean the same TF's I rarely ever get to run because I played late hours and can not always play for 2-3 hours straight

I mean Merits is have the issues there. Heck lotg may cost 100 mill but kismets +acc have dropped from 10-30 mil to 2-3 mill there is some balance in fact I can say the only tf I play regular is posi because I have access to 3 accounts and I can solo it 0ver 99 Hours and get access to lots of merits so 4 runs in a month and I can by 2-3 high end lotg's etc

Easier that way

heck AE has gotten me two miracle roles in a 2 week stretch

You assume a lot of people want to run TF's a lot of people hate TF's because of the long drawn out time constraints it is easier to get rewards in a short period of time farming AE. That is why all those brutes are in AE to get rewards from random roles easier than a long drawn out TF that sucks the very life from people

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Hm. Maybe. I'm a bit wary of a tanking Scrapper, but if he's got a regular team that can support that, more power to him.

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Why softcapped dm/sr is easy to be a tank I mean come on I done it; tanked with a katana/sr I been a better tank on my fire/shield then some of the tanks I have run with very little support.

Grats on Infernal I am not sure my fire/sd can take him otu solo with the 50% fire resistance

Dom is one of those AV's that give lethal a real hard time do you have the Achilles proc in gamblers you may also need some +damage to get buy her

I always slot mine like a normal attack until late game then I slot something like tough of death or Mako for the 3.75% defense set bonus

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Yeah, fire armor is wet paper sack armor. Made one, enjoyed a ride up to 50 with it (TFs most of the way, yeah!), but don't really do anything with it anymore. It was an offensive beast when I had a real meatshield to hide behind and wait to herd everything up. That double build up is fun. As is dying just to blow up in a Rise of the Phoenix, because debt just goes to feeding badges at 50 anyway anyway. I called it my corpse nova

Yeah. I think that Mids guy said he was stepping down from updating his planner...probably just doesn't play CoX anymore. Dunno if anyone has taken the reigns. I remember he took over when some other guy stopped updating theirs himself.

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Mids is being handled by someone else the issue is he had to redesign somethings because of pvp enhancements his latest post is he is swamped and they have a second person to come in to help with the data entry part

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Yea, Dark Melee i am familiar with. SR i've never played it.

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I will tell yuo right now the set is a late bloomer early on it is going to feel a little under whelming but siphon life and the -tohit will mask some of that for you but when you get it sloted and get around 30% defense you will start to notice when you hit all soft cap you are going to think you can do anything anytime

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Hmm, how many level 50 scrappers have I deleted... 2 I think. Neither of them had names I felt really attached to, both of them had the 4 main accolades.

I currently have 5 level 50 scrappers, 1 is stripped of most of her enhancements, and only still exists because she's my common IO crafter, and another one only still exists until I come up with another cool concept for the name Bonespray.

Would I delete a scrapper? If I liked the name, wanted to use it for another concept, and didn't play the other one anymore? Hell yeah I would.

Currently, my only lvl 50 villain, is my fortunata, because my one and only previous lvl 50 villain has been rerolled so many times, and I think Maiden Mayhem has finally found the perfect combo of SS/SD... maybe. She's only level 4.

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I am in the process of stripping two of my scrappers just to many lvl 50's and not time to play them all so my pines/da and my dm/da sit retired

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Hmm this has all been a great help and concept wise /DA seems promising to a character in my mind (I'll admit I'm a bit of a story and concept geek) but just how complicated would it be and what may go well with it?

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/DA works fine make sure to take acrobatics or buy kb io's because you have no kb protection

katana, dm and spines all go great with it even martial arts can leverage it stuns with OG from the set anything will work with the set.

Also take either cof or og they do not really work well together most people go with OG because it only takes the default slot or two (depends on how high you want to fight) to make the power good but COF needs 6 slotting

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So will they ever fix the Ancillary pools for Scrappers, or will they always suck?

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They will suck I mean I never take focus acc any more it is no longer worth the cost of endurance for the return I will stick with tactics

Conserve power is like the main power I take on all my scrappers the exception is my dm/da/dark scrapper and caltrops I took on my spines/da to stack with the aoe and stuff

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I decided to go with SR. Easy to softcap for a cheap price. made a quickie build in mids with SO's and got almost 40% melee/aoe/ranged

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yes it is easy to softcap dm/sr with very cheap IO's the 3% one in tough and you are almost gold right there

Take siphon life early in the build with it's recent buff it is a must have in your attack chain

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So I've returned to City to find a couple of Issues have passed and shiny things like Mission Architect have shown up. I'm looking to make a Phoenix-themed Fire/something scrapper, and I'm wondering if anything has happened in the last few issues that might affect my choice of secondary (and if there's any must-take/must-not-take in Fire Melee).

Mids' Planner doesn't seem to have been updated since last year - is there something new to use, or just not many changes?

Secondary-wise I was thinking either /Fire or /Regen - both seem fairly phoenix-thematic, although I do love Quick Recovery in an almost unhealthy way, and Consume doesn't look like it can replace Stamina (about half as good, with both fully slotted?) From some playing with the planner, I can take all of Regen and all of Fire Melee bar the taunt, while I have to be a bit more picky about Fire Armour due to having to fit Stamina. How good is the damage aura?

Any thoughts/experiences much appreciated!

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If you do not mind spending for IO's late game to really make your scrapper rock go shields with fire oh my and the beauty is you can get an elemental shield look of fire and still meet your theme

Shield has a damage aura buff.

Fire/shield for the win heard up build up + shield charge at your feet > FCS next



Also Mids has been updated in the last year it just not been updated for PVP IO's yet