Sir_Lionheart

I am working on my first T4 Alphas for my 2 main toons, and need shards for the FotW's. Someone had mentioned to me that we can now earn shards when exemped on missions under 50. Can anyone confirm?

Thanks!

I ran Apex on my Scraps and Tanks for the first time last week, and it was really fun and different. But I have a melee-related question about the BM mission.

Does holding BM stop the blue swords from falling on her? It does not appear to, and if BM is held, I have to wait until the blue energy wears off before I can attack. I wanted to tell the trollers to stop holding, but didn't since I didn't know if there was a reason for it that I wasn't seeing. Assuming there is a Tank/Taunter on the team, it seems more productive to let them draw her out from the energy field.

I think a good starter build if you're new to Scraps is Kat/WP.

Kat is not really heavy on PBAoE, but does have 1 PBAoE, 1 wide cone, and 1 small/medium cone, which isn't bad. Divine Avalanche is also a great bonus for early level survivability, which is good b/c you will undoubtedly jump into situations that will be more than can initially handle.

WP is a nice overall set that is good from start to finish, whereas a number of other secondaries are more late-blooming. It provides layered defenses which is always useful.

Good to know, thanks for the info, all. Now that I think of it, I actually read here previously that pets had higher to-hit chance, but it totally slipped my mind. Good to know about Blind, they were throwing that around a lot and I think it was the attack doing the highest damage.

This did not seem right to me, but I thought I'd ask here in case I missed something.

My soft-capped Fire/SR (46% to all positions) was running the Mask Heist Tip mission at 0/8 and got creamed, three times. The first I chalked it up to a bad luck streak, but then the same happened the next two attempts. My Def was not debuffed, that I coudl see. The group I fought had 2 Master Illusionists and their spawns which did most of the damage, all the minions went down easy.

On the fourth, I opened a tab for Hit Rolls, and saw that certain attacks had chance to hit well over 5%. Blind was 66%, Spectral Wounds 53%, Energy Torrent and Power Bolt were 31% and 28% (I forget which was which).

Is this normal? Do they have Acc or ToHit bonuses that I'm unaware of?

I mainly play melee toons, and have virtually no experience IO'ing Blasters. As most of my main toons are near completion, I am taking a look at my Blasters now, and giving myself a crash course on the sets and Bonuses.

My main question is if there is a general consensus as to whether it is "better" to cap S/L Def or Ranged Def. My natural inclination is to go Ranged, but as has been pointed out to me, most of the attacks in the game have some kind of S/L element. Plus, if I take one of the defensive Ancillary powers, it seems easier to hit S/L cap.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Probably easier for them to package a new sprint/jump power with another Booster Pack. After all, the whole point of Ninja Run is that it IS a specific power/effect themed for Martial Arts.

It's mostly personal preference, but I've just felt more comfortable with SR on Scraps. If I'm playing a toon geared towards grabbing aggro, I like to have layered defenses.

I have come across situations where my soft-capped SR Scrapper has been overwhelmed by a large number of mobs, and I had to retreat for a few seconds to regen, or wait for any debuffs to wear off. I can imagine that a Brute with an aggro aura and SMASH mentality might run into these situations more frequently, and having to fall back even for a little while might mess with your Fury-building.

Question... I know most people will be playing level 50+ content, so it may be moot anyway, but if you exemp, even to 47-49, you'll lose the Alpha Bonus, right?

Pardon my ignorance, but can anyone enlighten me as to how these Alpha slots will be applied, physcially? What I mean is, will we get additional slot(s) to our current powers, or will there be a separate, new "power" devoted to Alpha slotting? And do we get one Alpha slot per character?

I plan on respeccing him at some point, but FWIW, on my current BS/Inv build, I use both Invincibility and Parry to "cheat" on softcap Def. While he's not the uberest, and he definitely won't be soloing AV's, he's pretty tough and get through most of the game content.

I prioritized S/L /E/N protection, and decided to get by on F/C with whatever slots I had left (which wasn't much). So he is softcapped to E/N with 5 mobs in range, and likewise has around 30% Def to S/L, so that one Parry will put him over softcap to Lethal. I still have a bit of a hole against Smashing, but decided to let my Resistances and Parry's Melee Def handle the difference. He admittedly has a glaring hole in F/C Def, but those are not as common as the other types.

Obviously, I leverage Invincibility as much as I can, and use Parry often. I do ITF speed runs often, and there have been times when I was was overwhelmed by the Romans when unable to hit with Parry. But he generally holds up well in all other aspects, including the crystal mish.

Just curious to know if ticket drops are affected by team size, like Inf and recipe/salvage drops. I always assumed it was, but was recently told that players get the same number of tickets regardless of how many on the team.

Can anyone confirm? Thanks in advance.

Are you guys noticing price drops, due to increased supply I presume, on high-end IO's due to the introduction of AMerits? I've been sitting on a handful of (theoretically) popular enhancements for most of the week, as it seems that I may have vastly overestimated their value.

I was faced with the same decision and I went Brute. I had a DM/Fire scrap at around 30, which was alright, but felt squishy compared to my other Scrappers. The Scrap probably does more dmage, but so far, I've been pretty good at keeping Fury at 2/3 - 3/4 on teams, so damage is good enough for me.

I prefer the higher survivability, and general consensus seems to be that Soul Mastery is awesome.

Will killing AV's in the Praetorian missions via Ouro flashbacks count towards the Dimensional Warder badge? I think I read somewher that they do not, but wanted to confirm. Thanks.