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Mmmmm
The Sherwood Observer? nope, Blinkey is the official Sherwood Observer, The Lycra News?

Oh m8, still 2 hours to finish at bthe office.

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Sorry to sound n00bish - OotCS = ?



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Sorry for Aero sounding n00bish, but what is OotcS?

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As we spaniards say "me parto la caja" wich is basically ROFL.

We dwarves are soooooooo cuuuuuuute

BTW, today a technician will come to fix my da_mn washing machine . Think I missed maybe three or four waves, for what I am really sorry.

Oh, and I am willing to team with you guys whenever you need me.

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We were hoping you could repair it yourself since if so, we would have convinced the devs to award you with the "Handyman" badge, unfortunately now the badge will have to go to the technician

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If i am to believe Buffy's guide, the difference of slotting the passives with 3 defbuff slots instead of one is aboout 1.5% each (if i recall correctly), so i prefer to use the slots somewhere else.

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It's 2.03% difference, which doesn't seem much but it's important to realise that the nearer you get to 45%, the more each percent of defence is worth.

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Totally agree on that, hence why I would use maneuvers or weave, you get 3.75% with maneuvers or 5% with weave (more or less) which is more defense than slotting the passives with 3 SO's each and if you slot any of them with 2endrdx / 3defbuff you still save 2 slots. Of course, another question is if the build will be able to afford either weave or maneuvers endurance, but I honestly think it's worth the try and if can't be afforded then respec.

On the other hand, regarding your comment of the 2 endrdx in the toggles, trust me, I was a firm defender of your position since I was already familiarised with the meager 0.12 figure, however someone convinced me to give it a try and I found a lot of difference. I guess that with that many toggles, a 0.12 end per second each becomes noticeable. Trust me when I say I was truly amazed at the change when I tried that 2nd endrdx in the toggles.-

OK then, time to dig into it, I am doing some research since now, as per your post I am curious about it. I wouldn't recognize a soft cap even if I had one climbing up my leg, but for some reason I refuse to believe (knowing I can be very wrong) that Elude can't provide more than 45% defense.
What if I my defense is debuffed? let's imagine I am happily scrapping with my 45% defense in Elude and suddenly i turn a corner and found myself looking at a nasty AV. As per Buffy's guide, Elude 3 with DefBuff SO's provdes a 70% defense, of which only a 45% is effective, if that nasty AV starts debuffing my defense (he's real nasty) and let's say the % of the debuff is 15%, would it mean that I, with my 3 slotted Elude would get 70-15= 55% keeping thus my 45% defence untouched and a scrapper with no defbuff SO's in Elude would see it reduced to 45-15= 30%?
Not being English my native tongue I am trying my best here to ask the question properly since I think it is really interesting to know about these things. Please let me know if the question makes sense or I need serious rephrasing since it is not that easy to translate for me.

Thx

As I said, I suggested the build that fits my playstile, the best build in paper is not necessarily the best build in game , otherwise anyone reading Arkana's Guide to Defense would only roll /DA and /regen. If builds on paper were perfect there would be only 1 scrapper build in game.

As I said I have no problem in joining. I will be on with one toon or another and Bounty has got me on global, send me a tell if you need me

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So shall we say Sunday evening for the Posi TF? Perhaps run 2+ teams if everyone wants to do it?

Has anyone got any good ideas for a name for our Global chat channel? Witty suggestions welcome!

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Mmmm, i think we should get a way of announcing TF's or things like that with enough anticipation for someone to try get to the appropiate lvl, probably the Message of the Day besides the SG channel. It would also be helpful IMO if you guys made coalition with your main's SG's to make it easier locate a member through coalition channel.
I am not really skilled in SG events and internal communication, so there may be easier ways of doing it.
TF Sunday works great for me and it would be awesome to have 2 teams doing it and racing through it

Regarding the Channel name, well it's difficult not being english my native language, what about "The Sherwood News" or "The Merry Network", dunno

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Heheh, I'm still chuckling to myself now!

Here they are sitting in their play-pen*, one of them has a rattle... aaaw aren't they cute?

Awww, dwarfy done poo poo...

And finally, having a cuppa tea and slice-o cake waiting around for the next wave.




*play-pen may resemble reactor-core chamber

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ROFL
The animation of the dwarf's cuppa is just hilarious

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Oh and guess which movie is on dutch television this saturday

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Hehe - yay!!

SG invites are now available to all ranks. I should be able to get on tonight some time after 8:00 GMT.

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Coolest!!!
Oh man, I ran out of keys for all the new Achoo binds.

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thanks for the help guys im now torn between claws/sr and dark/sr or claws/invuln i jst dno bout the defences now for soloin PvE lol, im going to be roling him tonight so need to be sure im going to create the right one, all i want to be able to do is solo well,take damage (or avoid damage)

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Roll one of each and in a couple of days yo can decide which one you like best and delete the other two. You will keep all three

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so what would you recomend for someone who will be soloing alot, should i get all SR powers as soon as they are available?

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That's what I do in all my /SR scrappers. The only ones I may not take as soon as available are the passives (dodge/agile/lucky) but definitely I take them as soon as possible.

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thanks for all that guys, im torn between regen and super reflexes, i have used regen and know how it works, i do like it (but borin a little) and i have never used SR. what is SR like using? how do you slot it? is it easy? fun? need all the powers? i have no idea lol

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Personally /SR is my favourite set for a scrapper, combine it with Dark Melee and you will be the most difficult to be hit scrapper in game, /SR works well with any set bearing in mind that it is a bit high in endurance consumption.
In my humble opinion, all /SR powers are required. I usually slot them as follows:
Toggles: 2xendrdx / 3xdefbuff
Passives: 1xdefbuff
Quickness: 1xrunspeed (or flyspeed)
Practiced Brawler: 2xrecrate (enough to make it perma if SO's)
Elude: 3xdefbuff

So far it works for me, although there are many other ways.

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Great fun again tonight and quite a few levels gained across the SG. I'm not sure if I can change the SG invite setting or if Rob needs to do it, but we will get it sorted as soon as poss.
If we can get enough people in the level range shall we try for the funfest that is Positron's TF over the weekend?

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Definitely count me in for the TF, I will try take Achoo to TF range tonight. Usually for this TF every guide mentions that the less ppl the easier, but due to our AT's i think, THE MORE MERRY MEN IN TIGHTS, THE MERRIER WILL BE THE TF!!

Of course your opinion is very valid but, as I pointed on previous post, I suggested a build that fits my playstile and I obviously disagree in many things with you, meaning neither of us is right or wrong. Regarding the travel power, well I don't think it is that important, specially since most of the times there's usually a friendly tp available and may be a problem in some large maps kinda IP or for the Terra Volta Trial, but if my teammates are that upset, I can always solo or change team, besides, i also mentioned him it's his choice to pick up a travel power or not, bear in mind he was getting fly at lvl 49 and that made me think he didn't want a travel power.
In my humble opinion, tough is a must for getting the most of the /SR powerset for the passives bonus, but again, that is just my humble opinion.
Regarding the toggles, if slotted with 2 endrdx each I managed to keep them without problems on my DM/SR scrapper, but then, DM is not BS in terms of end usage, however i felt it was worth the try.
On the other hand, I find more defence useful that's why i choose maneuvers and that allows me access to tactics which suits me well when facing the AV's in RV which is my main occupation after hitting 50.
Also, my playstile is not going perma-elude, in fact i very seldom need to use elude, hence keeping it just an emergency power also useful when low on end when a second mob is attracted.
If i am to believe Buffy's guide, the difference of slotting the passives with 3 defbuff slots instead of one is aboout 1.5% each (if i recall correctly), so i prefer to use the slots somewhere else.
Conserve power is of course a good power that i neglected to suggest (my fault) however in any case i was pretending anyone else to follow the posted build as a bible, but again, choices must be done in any build and in the one i am planning to try, my choice wasn't conserve power this time, of course it may be a mistake, that's what respecs are for.
And finally, regarding medicine pool, i also recomended it to him as an option to be considered.
At the end of the day someone was asking for suggestions and i suggested what i think it's best, of course warning him that my suggestion fitted MY playstile.
Every build is conditioned to the person behind the keyboard, and as good as your build may be, your scrapper played by you may be the best scrapper in game by far, but exactly the same scrapper played by me may not even be decent.
I appreciate your critics, but perhaps it would be a matter of returning to the main point which is giving suggestions to someone who asked for them. As sub-optimal as you find my build i find yours and that doesn't make any of us right or wrong.

OMG we already have an Asneeze and a Maiden Marian and the team tonight ruled!
Btw Aero, we need to sort out something for SG invites permission, I got someone rolling a maiden marian and then found out that none of the 3 only persons with invite rights were logged

That was by far the fastest respec i ever joined. We were lucky we did it before the uber lag got in defiant.

Mmmm we didn't agree any specifical dress code although most of us went Green

As a reminder, we still need a Rabbi Tucker, Maiden Marian and Asneeze from the "Men in Tights" movie (among others

Ok I am going to bite the bullet a bit, if you like to keep the fights short and no end worries, then BS/Regen. If you like a steady build highly resistant with good damage output and few weak points then go Katana/Inv (good for all except toxic and psionic which are more uncommon than lethal/smashing). If you enjoy to see foes not being able to hit you then DM/SR or Claws/SR for lower endurance consumption. If you want to build the most accurate scrapper in game then go MA/Inv. If you want to go for very challenging builds but at the same time have protection for EVERYTHING then DM/DA, Claws/DA. If you like good AoE dmg then Spines/Regen or Spines/SR or Spines/Inv. If you like A LOT of AoE dmg then Spines/DA. And last but not least, if challenge is your second name, then go BS/DA all the way.

Personally I think /DA is a too challenging set for a first time serious scrapper (don't know if that's the case here), but that's only my humble opinion.

I hope this helps

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I need the first respec (24-33) for my level 26 Warshade, Omega Stryker.

If you can assemble a team, I would like to come. You can contact me at @Inercia or PM me.

We are at GMT+2 here in Barcelona, so, if I am not mistaken, 18.00 GMT will be like 20.00 here... which works perfect for me.

It would be great to have a tanker, I think. I am tri-form, but I am lousy in my tank form. Still not slotted, which is part of the reason I need to respec...



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Careful noia,

We are GMT+1 in Spain therefore TF will start at 19:00 pm Spain's time not at 20:00

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No, not really.

You made me check http://www.timeanddate.com/ again and we are currently at GMT+2 in Spain (you know, for daylight saving time and stuff).
It is called CEST (Central European Summer Time).

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OK, you show up at 20:00 Spanish Time then and good luck , we will let you know how the TF is going so far, if all goes well we should be already in the reactor.
I should learn the lesson and stop trying to be nice.

Lol I am Achoo, not Stego m8

Ok, as I am in the reserve team I will then give a go to Achoo on Friday (man, "Men in Tights" is FUN) and I did this TF last week on an alt. If you are 1 toon short, give me a yell, Bounty has got me in Global Friends and if on the other hand full team shows up, then GL with the TF guys!!

Gratz on badge m8,
Please remember we're doing respec trial today so I won't be able to log Achoo. I should also be doing a TF tomorrow with Rob's alt, but as the post has not been updated, I am not sure there's room for me or not hence I am very tempted of skipping the TF tomorrow and give Achoo a go, he's lvl7 now. I guess when we start reaching lvl10 being able to do sk, the toon lvls in SG will be balanced faster.

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I need the first respec (24-33) for my level 26 Warshade, Omega Stryker.

If you can assemble a team, I would like to come. You can contact me at @Inercia or PM me.

We are at GMT+2 here in Barcelona, so, if I am not mistaken, 18.00 GMT will be like 20.00 here... which works perfect for me.

It would be great to have a tanker, I think. I am tri-form, but I am lousy in my tank form. Still not slotted, which is part of the reason I need to respec...



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Careful noia,

We are GMT+1 in Spain therefore TF will start at 19:00 pm Spain's time not at 20:00

Veskit is very right here mate, in fact something similar was being covered on another topic here in the scrappers forum, bear in mind that the build choices that may work great for your playstile delivering not only an amazing scrapper but also tons of fun for you may look sub-optimal on paper or vice-versa, hence I would advise you to choose the powersets whose description appeals you the most. In my case I was lucky and I found my favourite scrapper at my first attempt, DM/SR, it's a matter of trying different things and select the one you enjoy most.-