Larac

Dark mele has a very high dps ok dmg attack (shadow punch) and a much harder hitting slightly lower dps attack (smite)

Both recharge very very and very quickly (respectively) which will really help when your in granite.

Only one small cone attack, no AoE. The single target mag 3 fear could come in handy.

Dark consumption could be useful. if it hits 3 targets, you get full end.

Best advise is to suck it and see.

As per above, I have kick to get tough. Rarely use it, but some times like when slowed you need another attack to kepp the agro or keep a chain going.

Oh well was my memory playing tricks then.

Speaking of redraw, have the changed kick from the fighting set? I'm sure it never used to cause my archer to redraw, but my BS scrapper does.....

I joined a raid team last night, nearly all lvl 50's including brutes and tanks. The little active power icons against every player were blank bar what ever travel powers we then activated to get to the pylons.

Very very anoying.

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IMO EVERYTHING /DA is good

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As a man starting my 4th /DA scrapper and a DA tank now i12 is here, I whole heartedly agree.

Can't coment on kat/dark, but I have a lvl 50 dm/da/dm and a lvl 49 bs/da/dm and one they are IO'd up I never really go bellow 50% end unless I'm spamming dark regen.

I have sacrificed a few % of dmg res by slotting Impervium armors in all 4 rez shields, but it does give a recovery and max end boost.

Have a look at my guide bellow for some /DA tips.

It's not a bad post but it's only a few steps away from LOTROL sytle name police posts you get on their forums.

If I want to give my toons short snappy names (Dagar, Larac, Rian, Precip) I shall. If I want to give them longer single word names or multi word ones (Fenchurch, Superiluminal, Altered Carbon) then I will.

If people want to call their toons w0lv3r1n3 then let them, they might be lacking in imagination etc but they still pay their subs and may contribute to the community.

I'm not having a go at you (as you pay your subs etc your entitled to post what you want), but some people may see it as being elitest and preaching to them.

I've been having a look at the inital numbers in MHD update 14, they have upped CoF to a mag3 fear from a mag2. The base res numbers have gone up to 30% bar psi which is no 50% base rez. The numbers for death shroud have gone down inline with the tank modifier.

CoF and OG would both be useful, CoF possibly more due to the fact that the foes don't wander off like they do with OG. How ever the .52/s end usage stings a bit.

The stealth toggle is useful, but as stated above it will reduce your threat level so it will be harder to hold agro. But still I'll be making a DA/?? tank and taking all 9 powers but not running all 7 toggles at the same time. Thinking of EM for the stuns, maybe DM (as I know the set well and can get by just taking 5 powers) or maybe fire at the outside.

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I believe dark armour is weak against NRG, so probably isn't the best option for anti-rikti. I would go for WP.

For secondary, most rikti are resistant to S/L and NRG, so go for Ice, Fire or Dark Melee.

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Checking my current build for me DM/DA scrapper, I have ~ 24% nrg rez which isn't that much really. I'm assuming that the tank DA will have higher base numbers (the scrapper base is 15%).
I know with slotting different IOs I can get over 30% nrg res, but it's still no where near the rez you have for other damage.

Having said that I've never had an issue on the LGTF with my DM/DA even when there have been no tanks and I'm being trying to hold the agro DS & OG.

I would say the DA tank would be fine in a decent team. Plus you have one of the most powerful self heals in the game.

Isn't elec/fire the mele blasters farming choice? Seems to be very popular on the us boards.

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I heard spines/dark does great aoe and that the cloak of fear Was divine. Any thoughts?

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Fixed that for you .

spines/dark is a nice little combo, requires more thought an planning than your usual claws/regen. But can be made to work very nices.

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One more thing, should I buy the recipes or the enhancements them self?

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which ever is cheaper.....

I would say that BS has much more reliable big numbers burst damage due to having buildup and the fact that Disembowel has a 10% chance to crit anything but players/minons and Head Splitter has a 15% chance to crit anything in the cone range.

But you do get a little frustrated by the standing around inbetween animations though.

DB has lower cast times and animation times for most powers, but with no BU type power it relys on stacked combo bonuses which are less reliable. Also the DB power with the 15% chance to crit is a single target not a cone attack.

PM'd you a few details.

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I'd take nrg as a primary. Big tweaks would be needed as I have said in other posts about it.

Scrappers need another primary which is NOT based on smashing / leathal damage. Fire would be good, energy as well or even elec.

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Thanks mate. And any thoughts on the build?

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NP

As for the build, I have a lvl 31 nrg/nrg but haven't really looked at the slotting much.

One of the SG guys has an nrg/nrg which he has fully set IO'd out for +hp, +regen & some +end. I'll ask him for a mids extract for you.

I believe that is power burst.

Nice power bu it has a 2 sec cast time so it quite often seems like there is a delay between you firing it off and the arrestie taking damage.

I have a BS/DA scrapper @ lvl 27 and must say that I have no real end issues unless you get into a real prolonged fight and have to use dark regen twice.

Otherwise its all down to slotting, spamming parry and knwoning which shields you need to run against which mobs (oh and don't run death shroud most of the time....)

Well spince/dark is your PBAOE combo although I wouldn't recomend it for a new player though.

If you want to jump in and see big numbers, make a broad sword scrapper, maybe regen as the secondary although willpower also works quite well. BS has two PBAOE attacks which can hit everything in an 8 or 10' circule, it has two huge damage attacks oe of which has a small cone (can hit targets 5 or 8' infront, 20degree arc) and a few other attacks.


As for blasters, elec/fire is flavor of the month for the shere number of PBAOE attacks and having one my self I would say that having 4 PBAOE attacks by lvl 12 is most amusing (although you may bee a pet rezzer....)

WB Jester.

Just my 2p worth. I haven't taken CoF on my two /DAs who have it available. I wont be taking it on my 3rd either. I find that OG does the job. CoF has more of an effect in casual PvP as most builds have no rez against fear. But as I don't pvp, I never take it. If they put the tohit debuff back to it's old i4 level I'd take it in an instant.

Also, why have you not taken shockwave?

If you are after for survivability, try putting tough into the build. well slotted Dark embrace and tough will give you 55% S/L rez.

I would say that OG is a must have, no real end cost. PBAoE mag 2 stun. Whats not to like.

Linked bellow.

Like all guides, my personal pref on powers and slotting. I have also changed some of the slotting on the armors. Will post you an updated example when I get to work tomorrow.

What is your Primary as that can affect which powers you want to take.

The animations in BS are quite good, the way the toon moves really does make it look like they are chucking around a big fat 5ft lump of steel. Rather than the kat which looks a bit more dainty.

Here you go. Follow the link bellow. It gives all i10 base lvl 50 numbers for all the scrapper primaries. acc, dmg, rechrg etc etc.

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7175/scrapik9.png