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Someone sig that.

Same on my build why is that silly? It gives me an extra slot

Some of those people that calculate on the Scrapper forum, post here and are telling you you are wrong...

Most fun I've had since I figured out how to play a warshade

Yep, that "risky" part is my general point with the mitigation stuff. Yes, Eclipse and all that is much better in general, but it is not at all consistent. For better healing, I did not mean the pb puts out better numbers, but that, again, it is far more reliable. If my warshade is in an AV fight and I really need to heal, I can use the human heal *lol* and try to pop into dwarf to get another heal; the pb just hits one of its two, no problem. The reliability vs roller coaster idea is a major part of the balance, but that isn't (and really can't be) represented in the numbers. And pulling out AV fights is pretty relevant, since that is a whole lot of the endgame.

This.

Double this.

Scrappers make best use of shields yadayadayada. I have a 50 DM/SD scrap, 45 SS/SD brute, and 50 SS/FA brute. The first and the last are fantastically good. The middle is fantastically boring and a ridiculous end hog, even with Superior Conditioning, Physical Perfection, and Endurance slotting. I really, really don't recommend it. Only do it if you must have SS.

Just use it with AS or an AoE and you're fine.

Hejtmane has it exactly right. While Lightning Rod is good to use whenever it is up, Thunderstrike is really bad against just a single target and is probably hurting your dps rather than helping.

Both, although I don't like /ea.

Electric Melee gets all the same AoE's as the Brute/Scrapper/Tank version, but with higher crit chances ('cept Lightning Rod which doesn't crit).

Spines loses quills, but gains the ability to have a 50% crit rate on throw spines from hide or placate, which more than makes up for it. It's seriously awesome.

It's possible Spines does more AoE damage over time because of the high crit in throw spines, but its single target damage will be significantly lower. In fact, when IO'd out, electric has the ability to do better single target damage over time than either the Brute or Scrapper versions, though for this you kind of have to pair it with /nin.

The confusion has to be that I am talking about dpa, damage over activation time {3.168 seconds arcana}, not over its recharge or whatever. I always refer to that as dps because the recharge time thing is not usually significant to me.

That chain is not the whole chain, it's just what you do every time buildup and lightning rod are available, which could be ~26ish seconds with a lot of recharge. You use waterspout when it is up, but otherwise you use caltrops so you don't have to wait for waterspout's really long recharge (which is why I put it Caltrops/Waterspout).

Facing one opponent, the AV, with softcapped defense and the knockdown of Lightning Rod, it is extremely unlikely that you will get hit and be interrupted, actually. I do this all the time. Even if you do get hit though, you just continue with the normal chain (CI>CB>JL>CB). You should be using buildup, lightning rod and waterspout when they are available anyway with that chain too, so there is no wasted time except for what part of the AS animation you went through before getting interrupted.

I hope that clears up what I am saying.

OP, Elec/invuln should be fun; I'd take the blast brandx mentioned with an elec scrapper.

With three lvl 50 Damage IO's, from hidden, with buildup, AS does 355.17 dps
Midnight's Grasp with fully saturated Soul Drain and 3 lvl 50 IO's does not touch that, neither does Greater Fire Sword with Build Up (picking somewhat randomly; if there is a better dps attack available, compare that). Only after you start adding in a bunch of other +damage from, say, shields, can you get closer to that. The only thing I found at a glance that could out do it is a Brute's Seismic Smash with Build Up and a bunch of Fury.

An elec melee brute with gloom would be my second choice.

What normally lowers the dps value of AS is using placate with it, which makes its effective animation time longer. What I'm trying to say is that with Electric melee you can skip that by doing Caltrops/Waterspout>Build Up>Lightning Rod>AS every time Build Up and LR are recharged. Those should actually be a part of your normal attack chain anyway, as LR is one of the highest dps attacks elec melee has, and caltrops or waterspout both do some ok damage over time. So you do that when those things are recharged, and when they aren't you follow the normal chain of Chain Induction>Charged Brawl>Jacob's Ladder>Charged Brawl.

It's not just the Placate>AS thing; Electric is a special set, as you can do a certain chunk of your attack chain and go back into hide without using placate. So you can do

Placate>AS>Caltrops/Waterspout>Build Up>Lightning Rod>AS

and get two full Assassin's Shocks without stopping, while other sets can only get one every time placate is up. This is because Lightning Rod is designated as a summoned pet, not direct damage from you. Inserting the game's highest melee single target dps attack twice as often tends to help a bit against AV's.