Nightmarer

Steampunk is right, however, I fail to see the big problem about Inv scrappers, they have a cycle exactly as any other sets. You have Regen which is pretty consistant going from lvl 16 onwards, DA and SR which are late bloomers and start catching up from lvl 35 onwards and Invulnerability, which breezes you through early lvls and starts having real trouble from lvl 40 with certain foes. Does Invulnerability need to be played differently than other scrapper sets? yes, but so does regen, and DA and SR and if we include primaries it spreads over.
I have found soloing with scrappers equally easy or difficult, the only thing that changes regarding sets is at which lvls do you find soloing easy or difficult. From lvl 40 onwards, if you want to do the praetorian AV arcs, you will have to team anyway. I know now maybe someone can say "I soloed all AV's with my scrapper" etc..., but where's the fun on that? The real fun for scrappers after lvl 40 is to team and if possible with other scrappers on team, so you can mock whoever faceplants before you or being mocked when it's you the first faceplanting scrapper. As usual, some AV's will make some sets faceplant easier than others.

Anyway sorry for drifting. To OP, any of the scrapper choices you proposed on your post will do great for soloing at some levels and will make you struggle at others, exactly as any scrapper set combination, so choose the one that fits your concept for the toon. If it's just for steaming off for half an hour every now and then, any scrapper combination will do just fine, so go for concept or looks or anything you feel like

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Revive has been stun-free for many, many issues now.

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Really?
Then I gladly stand corrected!

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You haven't used Revive in several issues?

w00t! lvl 32!
I am pleased to announce that from now on, Higgins will join our meetings regularly to throw some rocks and whatnots to our foes

Gah I always miss the fun stuff. Glad you made it Nine (and company, ofc).

OK, then. I am fine with radio mishes. Not sure about RWZ though, although it's the only arc we can all sync and get same contacts, I find Rikti and Fusionette boring.
My 2 cents.

Ok thx all for the advice. All copied, pasted and amendments done

Yep, I'd really like to know if we're going to be badge-hunting so I can lvl Agent Magnum on my own. Not all of us are badgehunters and although I don't play only for XP, I do like XP.

I totally agree with you, every scrapper has strong and weakest points and although inv scrappers can sometimes perform as a tank (pseudo-tank), but I think it's wrong to call the other scrappers self centered.
How can a DA scrapper be called self centered? DA offers protection to every kind of damage, plus 3 damage mitigation auras available and a very powerful heal, a regen who turns red into a mob just have to hit dull pain and instant healing and you just watch him kill foes like a Duracell bunny, that can't be called self centered, a SR scrapper, if hit, only has to activate a self heal (or pop in 1 - 2 greens and a purple) and watch him dance "can't touch this".
In fact, now that I come to think, scrappers are the AT's who need less attention.

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Regen's are also horribly favoured by IO sets being able to have perma-DP, amazing regen, loads of HP etc.

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I didn't say regens are not favoured, I said that imo, the other sets are more favoured, for example Inv scrappers can also have perma DP now.

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And my regen is finished, build only cost 100 mil inf.

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Well, when LotG sold for 2 mill, my build would had been much cheaper. In fact I could have chosen other sets different than the ones I have and get a cheaper build, it all depends on the sets you want to settle with and the AH price.

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What? Regens aren't scrappers now? Regen's are also horribly favoured by IO sets being able to have perma-DP, amazing regen, loads of HP etc.
And my regen is finished, build only cost 100 mil inf.

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Nope, didn't you know? regens are not scrappers, they're just selfish empaths with an attittude

I think I also might have it on my Dark Defender, I have Tina McIntyre as a contact and I just did the Clockwork King, iirc, the Hydra is the mish after. I'll check and if it is the one, I'll give you a shout so your defender can join and you don't need to relog and stuff. Besides I have recall friend

Well, I will probably be moving toons both directions,

Ah what do I care, we just pwned Greece.

MAN WE'RE GUD!!

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If I remember correctly the reaction for the first time it was done was something along the lines of:
"Yaay! We're the first EU server to beat the new Hami! What a <bleep>ing nightmare that was. Well at least we found a method that worked. Anyways, we've done it so let's never even think of doing it again."

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Besides, when we did that post I9 Hami Raid, remember that EoE's were bugged and dmg was zero while EoE's were active. They fixed it now so it will be much harder.

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If we all have maneuvers we will be better than SR scrappers.

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Just for info, 40% defense is not more than SR scrappers, at least not more than some SR scrappers

Sorry I missed this team, but I have my dark/sonic in Defiant and my Union dark/dark is at lvl 40.
Not attracted right now to any other defender sets, although I am sure that this team will rock and will be mega-uber-ninja-dinosaur.
Hopefully will be able to join ya at higher lvls since my dark/dark seems to go nowhere after 40.-


Have fun ppl.

No Octonions?

I'll be there for buffs, debuffs and moustache.

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When it comes to PvP I would bow to anyone elses experience as it isnt something I ever build for. Thanks on the grats and I have to admit it was one fun toon. Was sweet payback time for all them CoT's and Carnies that had abused my poor Blaster.

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Not that I PvP a lot myself, just occasionally in zones. 2xacc plus FA is one of the advices I've been given to improve my PvP and it literally doubled my PvP performance, I used to faceplant in 3 seconds now I faceplant on 6 seconds.

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Em pulse dosnt do end drain like a normal nuke, it just stops you recovering end!!

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w00t!! coolest news.

I'll make amendments then and when time comes, I'll worry about the convenience about Leadership or not, depends how often I do STF's, plus some respecs in test will be handy.

Thanks very much indeed for the advice

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Oh yes - I always slot 2 Acc SOs regardless of the primary, you can't have enough accuracy.

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Same here. I cannot tolerate anything less.

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Hmm, never really slot more than 1 Acc in a power. Then again, i only have high lvl scrappers, which all have FA.

My Kat/Regen has 1 Acc IO in each power and atm unslotted FA (only end reducers till i get HOs).

And my herostats show than when fighting vs +3s/+4s my acc is 94-96 for all poewrs (which is the ceiling)

Then again, i mostly team. where there might or might not be acc/tohit buffs

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I am with you here, I find that 1 acc plus Focused Accuracy is enough for PvE. Only slot 2 acc in some DM key powers I don't really want to miss, such as SIphon Life, Soul Drain and Dark Consumption. In this case, being a regen, not sure he needs Dark Consumption and/or Siphon Life though.

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hi, me again.

Now I've got Quick Recovery 3 slotted with EndMod, should I threeslot Stamina with EndMod as well?

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Try with just the base slot and if you feel you lack a bit of recovery, you can always slot a second one or even a third one.

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That's not participating that's relying on passive powers and they're even worse than toggles (at least you have to turn toggles on).
The way you're describing Inv isn't participation it's just an exercise in masochism.

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Oh, but trust me, it's sooooo funny, specially from 40+ and the Clockwork King involved
To be fair to invulnerability, now you can get quite easily (and quite expensively also) a psi dmgres between 20 - 30% making the set far more interesting. Still can't tell you how much more interesting because I am still working to get all the sets required for my Kat/Inv.

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I recently took a Katana/SR scrapper to 50 (just over a week ago). I played solo most of the time on Invince setting so always against higher level mobs. Before focused accuracy I went with only 1 acc slotted. I found along with Buildup i had no real problem hitting anything. Once I got FA I 6 slotted it with 3 tohit buffs and 3 endred and run it constant and have no Acc in my attacks at all and still hit everything fine. At level 50 my atacks are slotted 3dam 2rcgh and 1end so my attack chains fly along. Of course this is purely a PvE setup.

Bio

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The reason I advised 2xacc plus Focused Accuracy is because OP mentione PvP. In my opinion, or PvPing with regular IO's, I'd go 2xacc/3xdmg and the either 1xrchg or 1xendrdx depending on the attack, secondaries, pool powers etc... plus Focused Accuracy.
It becomes tricky when set bonuses come into equation, with the 5% acc bonus Katana inherent, 1xacc enhancement, Focused Accuracy and some +acc set bonuses the OP may just slot 1xacc on the attack, but that would mean to look for specific +acc sets that may be the ones he needs or not, or even may force him to add another enhc of a particular set for the +acc bonus that he wasn't planning to.

Usually, when slotting a full set on one attack you get the accuracy equivalent along the lines of 1.25 or 1.5 acc IO's, plus some +acc bonus from sets that are not necessarily related to melee attacks, so if set bonuses involved, then it's impossible for me to give an opinion unless I see the intended build on Mid's Hero Designer.

Btw, gtz on your new 50 Bio

For real high dmg, I'd go BS/DA instead of Spines/DA because spines is too AoE oriented, which may be great on teams but not sure that good if you want/have to solo. BS offers more versatility imo.

Tbh the reason for Fallout was thinking STF wise, hence my query about also Leadership. I could ditch one of the trravel powers and get Mental Blast or something.
Regarding EM Pulse, I didn't take it because I am not sure I like the idea of getting end drained in the middle of a mob for the Defender/Controller Nuke low dmg, but I guess it's a matter of trying the power and the decide.
Also, not sure about Confuse. I find that power extremely irritating in duos/small teams, but it could be because of abusing of it by the player I was teaming with.
Maybe Air Superiority could be of assitance for easy dmg mitigation?

Thx mate

Mwahahahaha, /SR, now you're talking. Tbh my DM/SR has improved loads now that I have his defenses almost on or past the defense soft cap and endurance issues are non-existant.
I can't even remember if I have Elude on the power tray

I think SR and DA scrappers are the most favoured by Inventions, followed by /Inv scrapper who now can get 20 - 30% psi resistance. Downside is that, as you said, you need billions. I am 9 enhancements away from the final build for my lvl50 DM/SR, and unless I get lucky on drops, these 7 enhancements will cost around 200 - 250 mill at current prices (1 Miracle unique - 3 LotG +rchg and a few LotG bits and pieces)

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Nightmarer is just jealous because Regen doesn't need a crutch like Tough to get by.
And we're not continually screaming "HEEEAL MEEEEE!!!!!"
Regen isn't weak at high levels, you just have to know when to time your heals.
As for comparisons to Elude etc, which Paragon Protector do you have to most trouble with when it pops its tier 9 defence? The MoG'd one.
The other night I was in a team of four and tanked 3 AVs with my Claws/Regen/Dark(47), I didn't need to touch MoG in any of those fights.

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You're almost right there, I don't like regen because I feel it's overpowered easy mode. Besides, I don't like to be clicking more than one heal, I prefer the laziness of the toggles, turn on and forget. You're wrong on the healings though, I don't think I ever asked for healings on any of my scrappers. Not saying I don't ever need them of course, it's just I don't like to beg for heals, if I am good enough to get in trouble, I should be good enough to get out of trouble.

Btw, I also tanked 3 AV's in STF with my DM/SR without needing Elude. I guess, at the end of the day, everyone needs to find the right scrapper that better suits his/her playstile. I am having now unexpected fun on DA, rolled a DM/DA and enjoying so much that I also got a Claws/DA.
I tried regen, BS/Regen deleted at lvl 24, Spines/regen deleted at lvl 14, for some reason I don't get my way around regen.

Besides, getting Firekitty irritated is always an added bonus