TerraScorcher

WAITAMINUTE!!!
No face off? No Youtube vids?
I was really looking forward to this.
Specially since my brother and I had a discussion about which would farm better a spines fire scrap or a fire fire tank.
I know ColdMeds tank is Blazingly expensive, I wanted to see what it could do.
Likewise this would be the first time I got to see you in action.
I'm bummed

Just a small correction,
Kruunch said his Spines Fire Scrapper would kick your Fire Tanker, not his Fire/Kin

ummm what new SK?
whats happening to SK?

I have a DM/Fire,
and I can tell you it is a blast to play.
Its got everything.
High single target damage, a damage aura, a cone attack, Burn (for damage and mitigation) it scatters bad guys like roaches which is Fun and can give you time to heal.
It is kind of like regen in that your surviveability centers around your heals more than your resists.
Its very active, very fun and puts out a ton of damage.
I suggest (at least in the early levels) you take Air Superiority.
It is a really effective form of mitigation.
Used properly it can keep you in a fight while every one else faceplants.
It is a great tool to use while you slot your resists and heals.
another thing siphon life does wikkid damage while healing you so dont neglect to slot it.

So between
DB and Katana for AV soloing
Which one is better DPS?
Which one is better EPS?
Assuming WP as the secondary would Katana be more surviveable because of DA or would having DAs melee DEF allow different slotting choices that open up other options?
Or is it a 6 of one 1/2 a dozen of the other type of thing.
Or perhaps a "How fast can it go? That depends, how much money you got?" type of deal?

Agreed with all of the above.
Go find Nihiliis post on DB vs stuff....
or BD/WP-so easy a macro could do it.
And watch a couple of vids just in case you had any lingering doubts about BD.
Now that you know they can rip AVs to shreds quite handily you can pick whichever weapon looks cooler to you.
Really that’s basically all you have to worry about. Since you said inf was no object, go to the character generator and take a look at what looks cooler to you, Dual Blades or Katana. Theres nothing one or the other has that you can’t slot around with enough inf, so it’s a matter of which you prefer the look of.
To me BD feels more accrobatic and a little faster than Katana, though both look way cool.
With my DB/WP char I do notice my health drops faster than my BS/WP because DB doesn’t have parry (Broadswords version of Divine Avalanche).
I don’t have tons of Inf so to me that made my BS/WP a bit more fun to play, but now in jonesing for the look and feel of BD!
Since you have the inf to slot IOs to make up for it, it wont be an issue to you.
It’s easier to softcap Katana when you take into account DA, but I have seen builds that ignore DA because they want a more optimal attack chain.
Umbral, Werner and several others can provide the optimal Katana chain.
With BD its Blinding Feint- Attack Vitals (Ablating Strike, Vengeful Slice, Sweeping Strike)

Hey Werner,
More questions.
I'm confused, I thought BS was High damage.
Isn't the sight of BIG orange numbers the reason (aside from concept) that people take BS.
A previous post said BS has high burst damage and Katana has high DPS.
What gives?
I know you build to the optimal attack chain so wouldnt your attack chain be basically perma burst damage?
So assuming high recharge and enough recovery, wouldnt BS be at the higher end of the damage scale?
Or was the low end of the damage scale statement taking into account SL being heavily resisted and thus reducing the amount of actual damage taken to BS attacks verses the amount of Fire or Dark resistance lessening the amount of actual damage taken when an AV is hit by those attacks?

Hee

Love the pic its awesome.

Vitality,
Virtue is one of the servers I don't currently play on.
I used it to create costume concepts and store them for recreating later.
I grew frustrated trying to find a throw away name to save the characters since x, xxx,yyy, aaa etc all seemed to be taken, so I started naming them with their intended name.
Now that we can save costumes I can save the costumes and delete the characters (I should have done it before, but its like moving your characters to a new day job location, I never remember!
There might not be any names you want, but if you like I can PM you with the list of names that will be reintroduced to the server.
Maybe one of them will work for you.

Thanks for the build Heraclea,
question
Would you take air sup if you had your city traveller badge?
It's awesome mitigation in the lower levels (higher levels too for that matter).
but in an IO build if you had the chice would you keep it or use the slots elsewhere?

I have been looking at any and all threads I can find regarding Willpower. I haven't seen many with DM/Willpower specifically so its tough to figure if the way DM needs to be slotted to optimize WP.
At any rate there is a thread that explores softcapping (actually coming close to softcapping 42.5 %) Willpower through typed defense.
But there is another option which Kruunch mentioned in that thread is positional defense.
Any advice on which might be the best route to take value for inf without gimping your character?
Cough Nihilii Cough Power Cough Werner Cough Prey Cough.

BTW I have located most of the threads (I had them favorited before) where you all have responded to my questions in the past. But due to my alt itis they were about different power combos.

I have started playing with mids so I will be able to show you what Ive been working on. But to be honest I know Im still lacking on the theory of building so its a bit hit or miss.

Thanks kindly.
I appreciate it,
though now I feel like an idiot for asking,
I should have done more poking about before asking.

Greets scrappers,
Before the forum migration I had favourited a bunch of threads that had good advice regarding sets slotting builds etc of primarys and secondarys I was interested in. with the migration I dont have them any more. More importantly I dont know how to favourite in the new forums.
Does anyone know how to favourite a thread in the new forums?

Oh agreed,
every recent post I've read about Invuln says that the "Psi Hole" is no big deal really. But since it was a possibility that the original poster might go after the Rul weps at the earliest level possible, I thought it might be worth a mention that Ruls are one of the groups that definately use psi so there might be a frustration factor to overcome.
But OP please DONT abandon plans to use invuln because of the PSI aspect.
Psi is manageble, just be aware that it may be a bit of "a challenge" or PITA depending on how you view things.

Take a look at posts by Nihili,
specifically DB vs Stuff......
there are a couple of Builds for DB/Invuln and just to prove how badassed they are a ton of vids of Nihilis char beating up on AVs.
plus some really valuable advice on doing so.
Mind you the latest project is a DB/WP that is evidently so tough and so safe that and I quote "its so easy a macro could do it!"
So that might be another combo to look at.

I didn't post one since I'm So'd as opposed to IO'd and basically want to get a better understanding of what to build for and which sets do what when you start slotting them.
I'm still trying to get a handle on how to build up a character effectively. For instance given DMs unique powers with its buildup, self heal and end powers being to hit powers is there a a different way to slot them or sets to slot them with that are more advantageous?
Does the fact that it has 2 single targets and 2 multi target attacks affect which sets you use?
Is the fear power (which I actually use because it basically takes one person out of a fight!) a good power to slot because of the bonuses you can get with fear sets?
Where does the most surviveability come from in augmenting Will Power given the above? ie is it a good idea to pursue higher defense, more regen and hit points? a little of of both?
The only set I have thus far is 5 slots of touch of death. but in the posts I have seen I havent seen alot of people using that set. which is when I said Wait up a bit there Ken, Its time to get help from the experts.
Which sets work best with DM and willpower to yield the best results?

I see posts regarding typed def and positional def, is one better than the other?
SR seems to be position because the descriptions mention Melee, AOE and Ranged
Is one easier to achieve with Willpower than the other.
In my case the character I'm interested in pursuing def with is a DM/WP if it makes a difference in terms of what sets I can use to achieve good def numbers.

Just a note to say I ended up shelving my DB/WP in favor of my BS/WP.
He will still get played and will become an IO project in time, but for now the difference in surviveability that I feel with parry being in the arsenal makes the character more fun to play even though DB has some nifty animations.
I appreciate all the input it really helped.

No help?

OK the War Chest looks a bit better now, after draining most of my alts I have 124 million which should be a good sum to get started.
So let the build advice commence

a simple tell or team chat JUST before the Rom fight would have been all it took, "Hey, lemme go take the alpha on Rom k?"
Done, no kicks, no wipes, everyones happy.
So was the tank right to kick? NO.

I'm looking for help on respecing my level 38 DM/WP scrapper Captain Midnight.

Cap is slotted with level 41 SOs and I'd like to start getting him IO'd.

what I'm looking for is a respec build capable of soloing AVs by 50 or sooner if possible.

I'd like to have the flight pool as my way of getting around.
Stealth too if it won't gimp me too much, but thats not nearly as important to me as flight.

I have a slight influence "Challenge"...
My Mighty War Chest is more of a half empty cigar box, I only have 24 Mill inf at the moment but I can probably rob from my alts, But best bang for the buck at least as a starting point is kind of key. I'll be gradually swapping SO's for IOs.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Didn't Old school
Energy Transfer hit multiple foes?
I seem to recall threads from way back when warning of the dangers of using it if you had pulled to many badguys since you took damage per mob hit.
I never got my INV/NRG high enough back then to find out.
But if that was the case, then doing ET damage (with 6 damage enhancements mind you) to multiple badguys would seem to make it possible to rival scrapper total damage output.

SWEET I'll be there on Weds Night.