JamMasterJMS

Originally Posted by je_saist

yeah. the fact that it's basically energy manip means it's already fallen short. The developers have flat out stated that Energy Manipulation is not actually a manipulation set, it is an abnormality in the Blaster Manip line-up, and that no more powersets will be based on it's model.

Originally Posted by Thinkso

Fair enough. I'm of the opinion that several other dom sets are top notch platinum, while mind is top notch gold.

Which if you adjust said scale where the platinum rating is the best then mind does indeed fall somewhere in the middle quality rating.

Taken in context my words were essentially that mind is middle of the pack, but that is still excellent. Just like how gold is still great, just not as good as platinum.

Originally Posted by Shred_Monkey

As you can see from the other responses, you're probably safe with just about any scrapper primary except for spines. As far as boss killing on an 8 man team, I play this way a lot (except for when I play my spines/electric). It's a good strategy for speeding up a team's pace as there are often several AoE "farmer" types on a random team that will do a good job of taking out the minions/LTs... and the Bosses tend to be the last living target of each spawn unless someone is focusing on them. Scrappers are indeed an excellent choice for this task as they can go headfirst into the full spawn first if desired and start beating on the boss right away. Plus they have the ST damage output to finish the bosses in the time the rest of the the team takes to mop up the rest.

I personally prefer the fast animating attacks sets such as claws, dual blades, and Dark Melee over the slower big hitters like broadsword and to some extent MA. Broadsword may do big burst damage, but I find that's often wasted when on a team. It's not unusual to target something click headsplitter and watch it's hitpoints disappear before your animation finishes.

I'm not sure I'd take regen, because you really do want to be the first toon into the spawn to be very efficient at what you're doing. Regen can do that well with MoG and Shadowmeld from the stalker patron pools, but what you're essentually doing with those 2 powers is turning yourself into a well built /shield or /SR scrapper for 15 seconds... why not just be a well built /shield or /SR scrapper?

That said, there's dozens of ways to do what you're wanting to do. All are effective. The points and counter points are essentually about whether you'll be able take down those bosses in 10 seconds vs 11 seconds... You'll probably spend more time waiting for teammates to show up to the mission then the difference between playing boss killer with the best scrapper option versus the worst scrapper option.

Originally Posted by Doomguide

Second your passives provide a scaling damage resistance. Only with all 3 and with all 3 enhanced will you get the maximum damage resistance possible for any given amount of health.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

Nope, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the game was borked, the devs knew it, they also knew they wanted a crafting system and that ED and the GDN were part of the plan to both deal with balance issues at the time AND prep for crafting.

EDIT: Or I'm giving the devs far too much credit and every step along the way have been reactionary kneejerk reactions.