TerraScorcher

Been awhile since I was able to make time to play, but I was able to get a whole 30 minutes of game time in yesterday!
I took a look at the different servers I have characters on and went with a char I hadn't played for over a year: Killer-Bee.
I stopped playing him when regens green glow started to annoy me, but now with customization the green glow is Yellow and all of a sudden I'm remembering how much I liked him in the first place.
He is a pint size ball of Havoc!
I didn't see any threads about Claws Regen so I thought I'd ask about what the current thinking is about slotting?
hes only level 13 at the moment so to grow build ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks

I still have a ton of Base Salvage on a bunch of my chars, what can I do with it?
and how do you do whatever it is?

Thanks Much for the answers!
The scrapper boards are the 2nd best thing about rolling a scrapper!
The first is Flippin out and killin stuff.
I'm just trying to loosly plan out my build for the levels after 36 (which I'm presently on) for my Claws/SR.
My current levelling build which I'm about to respec out of took
Swipe, Strike, Slash, Spin, Follow up, Focus and Eviscerate and FF, FS, Agile, PB, Dodge, Quickness and Lucky.
also the fitness and Tricorder pool.
I'm not wild about the animation for Eviscerate even though it is a literal embodiment of the Flippin out and Killin things credo!
So that will get swapped out for shockwave, and I'll be eliminating either swipe or strike and take evasion.
I'll be getting into tough and weave and would like the Flight pool, I have the vet power that allows you to go right to fly so thats gonna help.
Physical perfection seems like a good choice for the for the ancilary.
I want to start getting him to the soft cap for defenses.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Whats the "Cottage Rule"?

Whats the best Claws attack chain for ST?
Is there a best for AOE?
also since it's somewhat related.
There was a thread which sought to figure out which was better swipe or strike, previously, the conventional wisdom was take which one you like the look of better, but the thread, which had alot of Bill Zubba (Claws Maniac Extraordinaire) in it, seemed to have figured out that there was actually a difference, one was better.
I cant find the thread so I'm hoping someone can link it or tell me what the outcome was.

I forgot about that scene!
I'm so watching that movie over again.

Katana cant be used with shields because.....Waitaminute, You wouldnt be poking fun at Werner would you Funstuff?

Cant remember,
is Plaid better than ludicrously overpowered?

Depends,
What type of player are you?
Do you want to go with SOs or will you be IOing out your toon?
Are you more concerned with what your character can do at level 50? or what he's like to play on the road to 50? Are you looking for an AV specialist or pushing the envelope of what a scrapper can do to its absolute limit?

DM/Shield is capable of INSANE things.

But try thinking of it another way, what will be a dealbreaker for you.
What would be the thing that would disappoint you enough to make you wish you were playing something else?

If in your secret heart of hearts it's really important that you are playing what can be the Uberest combo, currently it seems that DM/Shield is it, so if you will be feeling sub par if you are not playing the combo with the most awesome sauce that might be something to consider.

If you are teaming (I know, I know, but I've heard it can happen to the unwary scrapper) and someone else's character is putting out more damage, or has better end management or can out tank a tank is that the kind of thing that makes you shelve the character because yours wasn't keeping up?

Ultimately ALL scrappers are capable of doing INSANE things. Some do AOE better, some do single target better some have a blend of both.
So really, Scrappers free you up to do what you want to do.
All of them can be built to do just about anything the game has to offer.

PersonallyI go for Looks, and concept, I want a character to beat the snot outta badguys and hes gotta look Bada$$ed doing it.

My advice is figure out what you like the looks of and go with it. If you are having trouble, or your character isnt feeling quite as awesome as you were hoping, post your build here on the Scrapper forum and you will have 3 or more build maestro's giving you advise on what you can improve and how!
So go forth chose a primary and secondary secure in the knowledge that it WILL be AWESOME!

BTW you might want to take a look at the falling out of love thread to see what people are currently in love with.

Yes 60 Month reward = Freedom from Travel Power Pre requisites.
Woot I answered a Werner question.
=)

I don't necessarilly fall out of love with my Scrappers, I just get the itch for a new concept/backstory and fall in love with that a bit more for a while!
I have my 6 year Vet Badge and only ever levelled one character to 50!
So clearly I need to get a stronger Alt Itis medication!
I vowed to get one of my Scrappers to lvl 50, and I think I'm doing pretty well with Captain Midnight, my Dark/Willpower, He is curretly at 41.
I started IOing him after a really frustrating Abandoned Sewer Trial that went south from the get go.
I didn't feel like the awesome weilder of dark power that I thought I should have by level 38.
His primary powers are now IO'd and I'm starting on his secondary, he won't be as pure awesome as some builds at 50 are but he should hopefully be able to take on the AVs he is going to start seeing in his missions If I do it right!
So I'm actively focusing on him at the moment, but then I needed to get my Claws SR his Tals so he got played this weekend (67 vanguard merits 33 to go)....

The best part was we had to hang on like grim death, coming back from 3.
But the call went out and the Scrappers answered!
It was epic!
I cant wait for the next one.
Fair warning, the missus is a defender and she is going to activate a forum account for the next one!

The Tanks are Worthy opponents,
But There Can Be Only 1!

The tanks are starting to dip into their tier 9's
Time to use Build up, Follow Uo, or Focus some Chi!

Woot Catwhoorg has joined the fray!

Its like an AV fight!
We specialize in them!
But fun to have a worthy opponent.
It wouldnt have been epic if it was us vs something else,
Well mebbe Brutes would be a close second, but their Fury petered out!

OK BILL,

Fenders are gone you can get back to slashing Tanks!
=)

Posted my last attack for the night Scrapps = fenders -
I'll be back in the AM.
Keep up the good work
Semper Fidelus

They have Scrapper Lock,
It happens

Done!
5 stars

I have an hour commute and I'm just headed for home but I should be able to get 2 more Heal/Hurts in before I collapse!
I think there are gonna be fewer posts for a bit since its prime play time now, But I'll do what I can to keep us strong.

Theres a reason that everyone who comes to the Scrapper boards loves what they find here...
We RULE!
Plus even though we almost always solo, we find time to help almost everyone that asks, and even though we are by and large individualists, we can have a differing opinion without getting snarky about it =).
It's good to be a Scrappper!

That's why I think the Tanks will try and take the Fenders out.
They are still sore from the last time.
And realistically I bet they'd prefer the final fight to be against us Scraps,
cause we sometimes make them redundant.
Mind you technically the Tanks and Fenders should be ganging up on us since we don't need either of them and they live to be needed, but hopefully they wont form an alliance.
And if they do, we will just have to flip out and kill stuff faster than them!

Ya know Prey, Your Chesty Puller quote is quite apt for how this battle was going.
We were down to 3, surrounded by 3 hostile armies.
So we started killing em!
and now we are at 53 and the corrs are gone!
Now its just 2 armies against ours!

Agreed,
Defenders next they stole the Kill Shot which is something Scrappers HATE,
and really who would you rather have a grudge match against
Defenders?
Or
Tanks?
I think fighting Tanks is a more epic battle.
Plus I have it in for Defenders ever since my wife and I did an arena match and her D3 totally owned my Nrg/Nrg....... over and over again.
I got her once she creamed me 7 times.
Between dark Fluffy and all the accuracy debuffs I couldn't touch her!