Silas

Uh, actually /Traps as a bunch of advantages over /Dark for AV and GM soloing.

+def and mez protection from the FFG, huge -regen from the PGT, -def and much more -res than Dark gets from the Acid Mortar.

I just went and beat on a Rikti dummy on my SS/FA, just doing my normal attack chain. I was hovering at around 70 Fury once I got going. So that's with literally nothing attacking me, just Fury gained from my attacking. Since on teams I'm usually at 80 Fury with entire spawns unloading at me, I don't consider it a huge difference.

TBH, it was a bigger deal before the Fury changes. Back then, you really did need a lot of aggro to maintain high Fury.

This is a quality post.

Oh, I wasn't trying to suggest Organica doesn't have well built Scrappers, I've not seen their builds so I couldn't say one way or the other. My apologies if it came across that way. Besides, even if I had, it'd still just be just like, my opinion, man

I was just curious about how one would quantify or qualify the statement of their characters being well built. What factors they'd considered, what metrics, that kind of thing.

As you say, its one of those things that people will say and doesn't necessarily have a bearing in reality. I'm personally quite interested in builds and player skill, so I'm interested in any kind of insight as to how someone judges these things for themselves.

So TY Organica for the insight

As for how could someone could not know whether their Scrapper is well built, as above you've got people with crap builds who think they're awesome and people with awesome builds who think they're crap, but its also difficult to objectively qualify whether or not a build is good. How do you judge it? For example, softcapping. With IOs you can softcap to just about anything, that doesn't mean the build and the sacrifices you make to do it aren't terrible though. I've got a few quasi-benchmarks I use for my own builds, but that's more 'does this build have what I want' rather than 'is this build totally rad and also boss as hell', hence why I'm curious as to how others measure these things.

Given the Hasten down time, do you know if your Mind Link is actually perma? I'm terrible at maths so I won't embarass myself trying to calculate it, but if you know how to work it out I'd recommend you take a look. Just because if ML is perma when Hasten is up, but hasten has a 14 second down time ML might not be fully perma. Since ML is a huge chunk of your softcapped defenses, I wouldn't want any downtime on it.

While Maneuvers is nice for defense, the real benefit of the Leadership pool is running dual Maneuvers and Assault for giving you and the team +30% damage and +13% defense. Adding that to ML, you're giving the team close to 30% defense all the time just by being there.

As for Health/Stamina slotting, a couple things. The Stamina slotting with the proc and the generic end mods is better than the 3 end mods slotting. The Shifter proc itself works out to about .2 end/sec so it provides more end/sec than a generic End mod will and provides more relative benefit the more end mod enhancement in the power you have. My Fort has 4 P Shifters slotted, gives 91% end mod plus the proc.

For Health, if you're single slotting it you'd be better off using the Miracle proc since it provides more recovery. The +regen in the Numi +/+ is a nice benefit, but not the real value of the IO.

I've seen you say stuff like this before and while its fair enough if you wanna run a pvp build, I don't really get it. Why not use your alt build for a SO/generic IOd pve build?