Pinny

To be honest, you don't need that karma knockback protection in agile. With just quickness and slotting alone, you can easily stack practiced brawler on yourself. If you have a bunch of +recharge though you can probably get away with just one recharge in it.

You won't be able to make praetorians, do the new incarnate stuff, or have characters switch sides without going rogue.

Not sure on the specifics, but that's the gist of it.

Elec armor has the same disadvantages as most other resistance based sets. But unlike other resistance sets, Elec armor has end drain resistance and reasonable resistances to EVERYTHING, instead of massive resistance to one thing (which elec also has in Energy. You'll be capped to it before SOs) making it much more flexible.

It also has a heal, meaning you can skip out on aid self

DM/Shield scrapper.

Bask in your awesome, and laugh at all the other "subpar" scrappers

It's a pet peeve of mine, so yes I would be kinda peeved about "Paragon City/Rogue Isles is all this person's dream, and could thus be ended with a thought" characters.

Then I'd just ignore the bio and be on my merry way.

If it's an accomplishment for you, then there you go.

I know I wouldn't even dream of trying to solo an AV, level shift or no.

Skipping over Pinny, because she'd be a boring tank and spank boss fight.

Shadewing is unique in that she summons her own sentient shadow to help fight. Throughout the fight, she'd pick a person at random (aggro rules don't apply) and send her shadow out to hold/slowly drain the person's life. Nothing close to instant death or anything like that, but the only way to get it off would be to hit it. AoE's wouldn't effect it, so you'd have to manually target it and hit it ONCE to get it off. Nothing serious, but if the team doesn't pay attention then people will start dropping and she'd constantly be healing.

At 75%, she'd summon a bunch of shadow beast monsters to attack the party while she becomes unaffected by everything: Her natural HP regeneration would also stop to prevent her from going back up to 100%. While the party fights off the shadow beasts, Shade'll sit in the back flinging out debuffs, she also loses her shadow's life drain ability in this state. Once they're all dead she becomes targettable again.

At 50%, she loses her life drain ability and instead summons up her shadow to fight with her full time. Shade functions as normal while her shadow acts as she was at 75% HP: A debuffer. To keep the party from just steamrolling her, once Shade gets to 25% HP she stops taking damage, forcing the party to kill off her shadow first.

At 25%, she gets pissed off and forces part of the netherworld to flow into the battlefield, causing a stacking damage over time effect on the entire party. The fight effectively becomes a damage race: Beat her before the DoT defeats your whole party.

No one-shot gimmicks involved.

If it sounds similar to how That Other Game worked some raids, it's because I played it a bit, so blame that >_>

To be even more hardcore, the flying swords that made the chopper your team was on crash should have completely destroyed it, instantly killing the entire team, causing you to fail the task force.

Basically, you just want to be even stronger.

You also have to keep in mind the very rares now ignore 2/3 of ED.

So you want the final to ignore ED completely? In that case, too overpowered.

Just wait for the next incarnate slots to open up like everyone else.

I went was musculature for my claws/SR, since it already recharges pretty quickly and I don't have many click powers that I want up really quick. Besides, extra damage would always benefit claws, right?

SR scrappers don't need a taunt aura.

The only reason brute SR does is because they need enemies trying to attack them to uild fury.

Claws is lethal damage: the most commonly resisted damage type in the game.

Dark melee is dark energy damage: not so resisted.

So uh...yeah, obviously a claw/WP is going to feel "second rate" to a DM/SD min/max build with capped damage, defense, and resistances.

obvious hero favorism. :P

Well you certainly aren't helping your team by attacking, running away for 10 seconds to get in hide again, attacking, running away for 10 seconds to get in hide again, attacking...

It's a flat circle, I believe. Trust me though, as kinetics you ARE going to be in melee range, so there's no point in trying to beat around it with combat jumping, or trying to foobar it with hover, or anything like that: Just run right next to the enemies and stand there. It's not as bad as you think (considering I used to do it all the time as a kin/rad. That was fun)

Lame. Oh well. Guess it would be too powerful to allow them to have their inherent, stamina, and body mastery all at once.

They can take Patron power pools, so why couldn't they take APPs if they go over to hero?

I dunno...If you don't have your scrapper built like a glass cannon you should be able to survive with the taunt aggro. Especially if you're /willpower.

Let's not forget that even if the maneuvers powers from VEAT or power pool doesn't instantly hardcap all your defenses it's still a nice power to have, seeing as you can stick a LotG +Rech in there. Seeing as you can get those for 200 reward merits or 2 alignment merits, the recharge can stack up.

Besides, 3-5% defense is better than nothing.

As much as I like VEATs, I think you're all over exaggerating. A VEAT is not going to replace a dominator or a controller for a group. A VEAT is not going to replace a defender or corruptor. They aren't going to replace a scrapper, blaster, brute, stalker, tank, or mastermind, either. No group is going to invite a scrapper, then see a VEAT LFT, proceed to kick the scrapper, and invite the VEAT.

The word you guys are looking for is "More versatile than other ATs", not "better in every possible way than other ATs" They can control, they have high defenses, they can buff the team (tactical training: leadership pool x50), and have good damage, but they aren't better than an AT who was built to do a specific job, such as a controller with locking down enemies, a defender with supporting the team, etc.

Since when was kinetics NOT viable?