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On top of that, defense helps regen by giving you more time to let the regen get you back up to full. If you have no defense, you'lll be taking a constant stream of damage, but with defense, you will get hit, go a while with no hits, then hit and so on and so forth. Those times with no hits allows your regen to get used to its full advantage, since defense and resistance get better the higher percent of damage, but regen is based on your hp per second. Defense gives more seconds.

WP seems to be fine against E/N/F/C. HS takes care of that rather well, on top of the regeneration.

Well of course the main damage type of almost every group in the game isn't going to be smashing/lethal. Arachnos has bane maces, widow claws, tarantula claws, guns, darts, etc etc. Carnies have their hammers, knives, super strength, etc etc. So obviously those daily farms on arachnoids and Mother Mayhem are just too hard for pathetic little invuln to handle. And really, caves are soooo much easier than warehouses to fight in, I mean you just have such a clear view of everyone and everything and can maneuver perfectly.

And I guess rikti aren't end game content afterall, are they? Sorry, I guess I must have read it wrong when it told me that LGTF was an incarnate tf, and clearly their high psi and energy damage that lets /Elecs farm them is non existant.

You're right, immobilizing mezz protection toggles must have been great. I suppose having to stop playing at perma soft cap and crazy high resistance levels with a hp boost is just too harsh, and a rage quit is clearly the only solution to that issue. I suppose learning new tactics and adaptability are for noobs anyway, right?

"about having a smooth ride to 50..."
"...Normally, because THE SET REQUIRES SOME EFFORT TO PLAY WELL, I would have just got a friend to PL him up..."

Those don't contradict at all, now do they? Especially since those hero merits you claim to need are obviously not available to any of your higher characters, like your MA/Inv.

Well clearly you haven't been leveling to 50 smooth enough while saving up your inf for those sets worth slotting and softcapping after 5 mil of investment. And don't all scrappers farm x8 from level 10 onwards?

What are you talking about? Clearly the rikti that were being battled there were too easy, and a /fa or a regen without IH or MoG could have whiped the floor with them in nearly half the time. I mean, how can anyone expect to play a set with such a low level of performance like that?

/endsarcasm

EvilRyu, please, please, PLEASE show us your amazing skills and farm some x8 carnies/arachnos/malta with your perfect scrapper. I will pay you 1 billion inf if you show a video of a non invuln scrapper soloing a mish x8 carnies, then a mish of x8 arachnos, and a mish of x8 malta with only SOs, no alpha, no insps, no deaths, and no temps, without having to touch the rest power or waiting more than 5 seconds to move on to find the next group. The video must include you clicking on your enhancements and scrolling through all powers to prove no IOs at all, and monitor all def types/positions. And just for sh!ts and giggles, no
caves.

So as it was said earlier, your move.

Amen!

That actually helps the point I was going to make. That build (if it's even that; that short selection of powers) will only gain .4 end per second with stamina 3 slotted on SOs. And it would not much of any offensive potential if it were to maintain that defense.

So if you aren't soloing x8 with only SOs, then the ride to 50 isn't smooth? I'd like to see what characters you play.

And show me a SR build with NO inventions pre level 40 at the softcap solo. For that matter, show me any set on a scrapper that can solo x8 on SOs pre 40.

Invuln troll, go away.

2 things.

1. Show me pics and vids of ANY scrapper set to x8 solo taking damage to anything but its main type, on only SOs, and I'll consider this a valid arguement to /inv being a subpar set.

2. Playability is not defined as a character with a secondary of damage mitigation being able to survive off of a non specialized damage type mob set for an 8 person team coming at them.

/EA seems to not be hated as much on stalkers as it is on brutes for some reason. Anyway, if you are talking about a non IO'd build, /EA will perform about as good as any other non IO'd set.

However, I would say /nin for the large amount of utility in caltrops, the heal, and blinding powder.

For a primary that "sticks around" you don't want a lot of agro, so DM, nin, or kin. The auto BU on kin makes me want to try a kin/nin. And because saying kin nin out loud is fun haha.

I compared it on mids a while back, and although the % numbers are much larger for defnders, their lower health means the hp/sec is about the same. Keep in mind though, my comparison was with my mids IO'd regen scrapper who was at the scrap cap (haha I rhymed) for hp, and the defender was not running auras, because I found better power picks once AB is factored in. With RA going, they may pass up the scrappers a bit, but with that much defense, plus tough and epic shield res, the regen is a last resort. And honestly, I still say go 2 sonics, I just am a bit fed up with arguing on the forums so I compromised a still viable option haha

Lawn of the Dead and Atilla the Honey really got me.

I recall it being without bosses. The xp/time on them is a lot less than LTs I thought.

IMHO, emp is far superior to pain in ally buffing (self damage buffing being it's only upside). Fortitude and auras seem better than the debuff and AoE debuff in pain, can't think of the names right now. And AB's recharge makes it far better than PB's +damage in my opinion, because two people can stack AB perma on each other with just SOs, but pain can't because it doesn't boost recharge.

You forgot to mention perma hasten and perma sould drain (should you choose to go //dark, which you should). And capped defense with weave/cj/maneuvers. I say go for it, it's the best combo I've played.

Very well said. I know Local Man will be around eventually with the exact numbers on CC, but trust me, it is effective, and you want the lockdown proc and ED capped end/hold on it (don't use acc frankenslotting, it is useless).

Soloing AVs on a fire/rad is a cake walk if you go for ranged defense, mine did the whole (old and revamped) Maria Jenkins arc no problem, and I ditched the hero that helps in the new mishes. As far as large group defeats, it won't be as fast as fire/kin, but it will be safer with RI and EF going.

And if you plan on soloing GMs (AVs still important, but especially GMs) make sure that Lingering Radiation is perma and has good acc slotting, it lowers the required dps to take them down. AVs for the most part can be donw without it, but it is much faster and less stressful if you use it. And I think GMs regen fast enough to make it manditory to solo them.

And a rularuu sword/shield combo looks sooooo BA.

Even so, it's meant for 6-8 people and he did it with 1 and a half.