Saltyhero13

I'm calling shenanigans on this thread based on the title alone. We all know scrappers don't walk..they swagger and strut!

In all seriousness it sounds like you were the victim of an AE baby Tanker that doesn't understand game dynamics. Most tankers would have no qualms about taking it in the face for the team!

I was referring to the alpha strike!

Ohh Shiny! I'll take a look at home!

Thanks Dechs!

With all the purple IO sets I am guessing that you are going for a high recharge build?

If so looking at your build at the macro level, I don't see the point of many of the sixth IO slots. I could understand if you were pursuing bonuses only available with six slotting certain sets, but I'm not seeing that here.

/Storm in combination with +recharge bonuses will certainly demand a lot from your blue bar. To mitigate the high endurance consumption, my primary recommendation will be to pursue some +max end and +recovery bonuses to help recuperate some blue. This will allow you to continue spamming those expensive storm powers. In addition I would look at some of the sixth slots. I am willing to bet some could be converted to end reductions to help with the high endurance costs of this combination (e.g. LS, Tornado, Roots and Hurricane are culprits known for their endurance hoggishness)

At the micro level, the choice for slotting the Kinetic Crash sets are sub par for those particular powers IMO. If you want -Kb resistance I would highly recommend rolling some 10-14 Bronze Ticket Rolls. You are bound to get some quickly. I would also recommend looking at the BotZ -Kb. I haven't looked at their price on the market lately, but I do believe the nerfs to the BotZ Universal Travel Sets have brought -Kb IO's price down considerably.

Hurricane is best slotted with -To Hit Debuff sets and Endurance Reduction. This can potentially give you 45% -To Hit debuff (equivalent to "soft capped like" defense prior to debuff resistances). I mention this particularly if you use the power for "Herdicane" critters into tight groups to maximize AoE effectiveness; Enhancing the Kb aspect of this power will only serve to scatter critters vice grouping them.

Tornado, with the right -KB setup, is one of the most underrated damage powers in /Storm. If you can keep critters locked down and prevent them from scattering, I think you will surprised on how much damage Tornado can do. IMO Tornado is a damage power so I would slot it accordingly.

Tornado, Fly Trap and Freezing Rain all accept the Achilles' Heel. Typically this proc does not stack from the same user. In this case the game sees them as being proced from three different sources giving you the potential to produce a total of -60% resistance debuff in addition to Freezing Rain's inherent -30% resistance debuff. Do the math! You can nearly double your damage output when they stack!

Just my .02 Inf. Some things to possibly consider

Good luck with your Plant/Stormy!

Another +1 for VG from this player

Ever since the big ED nerf I would typically recommend a pass on the controller AoE holds. Earth is the exception to my rule. VG is a unique controller AoE hold that has significant tactical utility. In addition to its persistent holding effect that have been discussed to some degree in the posts above, I would also mention that it can be "cast" without having line of sight (LOS). This allows you to basically fire this power from behind cover and not worry about eating the alpha strike as a squishy.

What are you looking for specifically?

Are you looking for something that describes what the powers do? If so go here: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Regeneration

Mid's Hero Designer is also a great tool for understanding how the powers work. For this go here: http://www.cohplanner.com/

Overall Regeneration is a set that is designed around the idea of self healing. If you follow the old guides keep two things in mind regarding some Regeneration changes.

• Instant Healing used to be a toggle but is now a click on a very long recharge timer.
• Moment of Glory (MoG) used to be a long duration "God mode" power that made you unaffected by heal powers. This has been changed to a 15sec duration Defense and Resistance boost.

Coming from owning scrappers of the DM/FA and Spines/DA variety, I'll share my observations of the three sets you mentioned.

Dark Melee is a single target focused set (Shadow Maul being the only cone attack) with the primary secondary effect being -To Hit. The majority of its attacks deal negative typed damage (one of the least resisted types in game).

Despite the set being light on AoE attacks , Dark Melee has several utility powers that are worthy of mention.

• Touch of Fear is a single target Fear power capable of terrorizing Lts and below (Mag 3 Fear).
• Siphon Life is next on the list that is an attack and a self heal combined into one power.
• Dark Consumption is an Endurance Recovery power that returns an amount of endurance based on how many foes it hits in range.
• Soul Drain is basically a build up power that provides more +To Hit and +Dmg bonuses for each additional enemy it hits. Midnight Grasp is a ST attack that is also an immobilization power.

"Dark Melee goes well with everything" is what you will often hear because its true. I could name some notable combinations like: Shields (Redonkulous DPS output at Soul Drain and AAO saturation), Fiery Aura (This combo provides two heals, two endurance recovery powers, and two build up powers), and Dark Armor (Stack Fears, Addition heal)...but ever combination has a unique synergy...it really does go well with everything.

Spines is an AoE focused set that has Slow and Toxic DoTs as its secondary effect (along with some long animations ). Its worth noting that this set is the only Scrapper Primary with a damage aura(Quills) and has two short ranged attacks: Impale (ST ranged) and Throw Spines (Targeted/Ranged AoE). You can also customize the spines to look like something else besides bananas shooting out of your body. Some good synergies are with Dark Armor, Electric Armor, and Fiery Aura. The rationale is that these sets provide an additional damage aura. Please note Spines cannot be paired with Shields.

Dark Armor is a resistance based set (very high in Psi and Negative resistance) with access to two crowd control auras (Oppressive Gloom is a stun aura, Cloak of Fear is a fear aura) in addition to its damage aura (Death Shroud). It also boasts a stealth power (Cloak of Darkness) as well as a self heal (Dark Regeneration). Dark Regen. is often touted as the best heal in the game, but this comes at a high endurance cost per use. The high cost to heal in addition to the dependency on several toggles to survive is what gives this set a bad rap (Recovery can be slotted for using IOs to mitigate this sets end hoggishness). Dark Armor does not offer any native resistance to knockback like other scrapper secondaries do. Some notable combinations besides Spines and Dark Melee (both synergize well) include: Katana(or Broadsword)/DA (Werner has demonstrated that this combination can soft cap to nearly everything), Martial Arts (Stack-able Stuns with DA's Stun Aura) and possibly Claws (its very endurance light)

I hope this provides some insight on these sets (and that I didn't miss anything critical)

Good Luck on your next scrapper!