New Dawn

I pretty much don't care how you build but this was the corner of the build that I pondered over for myself so just felt like it maybe worth more of a ponder.

Shiver is healthy -DPS, fire and forget, unlike snowstorm. Snowstorm you have a anchor to choose and anchors get killed swiftly as if you called target. Frostbreath well its good damage, but then there is Hibernate which should you need it gives you health and endurance.

I even like mass sleeps, if I solo, they're great, if I team then I won't be using them without a cup half full reason myself.

Likewise 90% of the people were never in the top 5% of the most intelligent people either what does that tell you?

The Scrapper AT is defined by what's in its Primary and then what's in its Secondary. It's role was to lead in Raw DPS and do things like take on AVs. A Monkey can be trained to stand before a keyboard and press 1,2,3 until an AV gets defeated, but it would be even more difficult to get that Monkey to know what else to attract, because they knew who needed to be saved whilst fighting that AV.

In 7 years of playing I have come across many Brutes and Scrappers who think they are Rockstars, they believe that they are the only one on the team and their skillz was all that anybody else would think was enough. Telling me that they can run up to things and hit it for attention.
They were never rockstars, they never could always run upto things for attention, they often missed key targets who went onto take out the Defender who just so happened to be the one making them look like rockstars. So often. Most played like planks, oblivious to what else they could of done that would of been better for the team. I expect most Scrappers log in and have one notion and that's go kill stuff whilst everybody else is a sidekick, a spectator there to celebrate when a Scrapper is the last one standing, never mind the idea that the Scrapper could of prevented those other peoples defeats.

I believe that Scrappers could solo the Menders Silos TF on the hardest setting. Go in and come out undefeated, freeing every single hostage and having them alive for a massive group picture. That's to me what they're capable of, taking out every Arachnos AV in turn, letting no hostage die, getting Jade Spider sorted not some Rikti Pylon test or one AV whilst nothing else is going on or nothing else could instantly go wrong.

With SOs, tier 1s got skipped, with IOs two Primaries could easily be skipped, with Incarnates more can be skipped, how much "look at me survivability" does a Scrapper need before they start adopting powers that can help others by controlling a situation quickly and properly, and actually make a non half ***** challenge for a change?

I'm backing the bigger crutch idea, that just suits the mentality of 90% to me.

Just because you skip a power because you find it useless doesnt make it useless. You are giving away your limitations as a Scrapper as we speak.

I've never not had confront, since March 2005. For everything really. Pulling low levels, one of the inner circle late levels, Tanking AVs for teams, saving someone from dying in the nick of time, attracting a target immediately onto me who could be detrimental to someone else who could be the keystone of the team so to speak. It's almost like an absorb pain.

Tanked the first all scrapper STF with it and we had no more than 5 defeats total which is much better than anyother result which even included, what we didnt include, temp powers such as pets and nukes.

Doing Tankers jobs for them, doing things that the confrontless Scrappers think they can yet can't always when it comes to it. I wouldn't touch a confrontless Scrapper with a barge pole. All my Scrappers have it and it works well in PvE and PvP.

How long have you had your /Devices Blaster?

If a Firetank can't find you in a duel. You can set them up for anything. Thats sensible PvP, you play to win. I won.

I've dropped a Firetank in PvP with a /Dev Blaster.

Tripmines unlike most other Blaster Secondary attacks have a long expiration time which allows them to be stacked again unlike most other Blaster Secondary attacks. This is advantageous against at what would otherwise be for other blaster types insurmountable odds. If they can be dropped like sweeties, anywhere at any time then you gain a flexibility, to balance the situation there might have to be a loss somewhere in flexibility and that loss would most likely be in the stackability. A lot of /Devs have had their /Dev since the beginning. They may not be too pleased that someone who has just started the game, came, saw, sucked and got the change they wanted giving all the longer /Devs the change they didn't want. Tripmines I'd be inclined to say should always keep its long expiration time.

Each one of those poor 11 PvPers would only end up complaining about the several new /Dev players in what was "their" PvP zone.

Trip mines in teams, it's meant for the struggling team. It's there for -fight duration. Time Bomb in teams, it's there once again for the -fight duration. These things go back to when people were new, on SOs, Debt was silly amounts and scared people. Some servers do have tactfully roleplay minded people still today though but despite that Tripmine and Timebomb would be most likely used to a /Dev who soloes from time to time, likes to play differently from all their other Blasters perhaps, likes to rely on their wit, a bit of maths and a bit of foresight.

If there is a power that could be changed or should be changed then I would be willing to see Time Bomb be placed quicker, lower interrupt and be a toggle which expires by its current self destruct time or before that when you decide to detonate it.

Oh well if you don't think it'll be an issue...

Scratch that, we'll see. I think it will take work that isn't really desireable. If you put out 3, triple the recharge, triple the damage, triple the endurance. Even though this will make Time bomb even more skippable to many I'll be able to enter a group undetected drop a time bomb, do my count and drop 3 tripmines all at once, for a super toe bomb. Sure this will make me do more in an instant. I still think in PvP it might be too advantageous.

I am looking to do it in all types. In an ambush farm it's not hard nor crazy to find or establish time where pets can be alright. That time taken from the total time in the farm will give me realistic figures for that situation.

There is no one scenario.

Very easy for me to find out if haste has any effect. My builds are pure builds cept with haste. It's easy to predict ST attacks so I have made sure I got all AoEs, kbs will be a prob but how much of one is the question.

Does depend on how you go about the ambush farm I think, no two builds are the same. I bet I can do one and keep their life expectency above 0s, don't forget I am going from +0 to +4