protector_knight

That is what I was looking for. My invun scrap side is limited to pre 28, and my wp xp is even less than that.

The build I made for it, I left out build up by mistake and would have to re build it. but that build with 10 baddies was at 43.5% def to everything except nrg/negnrg which was at 45%. He had 3.63 rec/sec and burned 1.9 a sec. that might have been with super speed on. he would regen at 18 hp/sec and with dull pain have 2200+ hp and regen at 30/hp sec. I figured the hits that got trhough would be resisted decent, then the regen would factor in for some more mitigation. he was running at 110% rech I think, but something would have to go for build up, probally be hasten. and because my vet is high enough I don't need it to get SS. Or I could skip speed all together and get super jump. and get res elements into my build. Or even better than that I could get build up res elemnetal, and skip out on travel power and go with ninja run.

Looks like mids gonna get some attention.

Thanks. Not sure why people didn't want to touch this post. I was sure Werner would have been all over it... meh. I got what I needed.

This post holds quite a bit of merit...

I have a buddy that lives in RV. He has two SR's. One is a dm/sr which is more geared for duel battling. Although last PvP rating I saw on that toon was in the high 800's. Then he has a ma/sr. Gutted for zoned pvp. and that joker is a beast to watch! He does however have tons of influence in both builds.

However my wife runs a ice/ss tanker Pure SO build for PvE, and she gets compliments all the time about how beastly she is. Rarely dies, throws a boulder or two, knocks a few heads around. Hibernates when need be....

I have a bs/sd/bod, and get made quite the fool. However, my bs/sd/bod is the only toon I can get kills on. and no not just by SC, I can actually fair well, but the gank style of ten vil's on one hero makes her drop fast.

Took my spines/sr in there, dropped faster than a pair of panties after seeing a ten inch.
'Took my db/regen in there... pfft. what a mistake.

They say regen is one of the best... I don't see it, however none of my toons are pvp slotted either... My xp in PvP is lack luster at best.

I can't speak for laser eyes, but a good buddy of mine kat/invun/bod has torrent and yes it is red. Actually red and white, but meh, red!

[edit] if enough recovery focused acc is great. and I like phys perfection. anything that curbs the blue bar can be good. That and the added regen is always a plus.

Honestly I have a hard time justifying taking any other epic for scraps. Course that may be me just stuck in my ways...

Whats a super scrap? More so where can I get one?

by "super" I am thinking Super reflexes. so elec/sr.

Well I have a spines/sr that is absolutely vicious. I can imagine that elec might possibly out perform. Not sure on that one. The ST damage on both sets isn't good. But AoE I think Elec might trump spines, because energy is less resisted than leathal damage. (I know toxic is a secondary on spines.)

I have had a bs/sd, spines/sr, db/regen, fm/wp, fm/da. So lets try my hand. In all of the above I will rank as general, not a ranking for each catagory.

WP
SR
SD
inv
EA
DA
FA


I ranked willpower as the highest. As my own tastes don't really care for it. I like invun better.. Anyways willpower is the easyest to lvl, has great coverage on just about everything. Not sure it will do great in a AV solo fight, cuz of the hard hits is it's down fall. However IO's can turn a willpower into something grand. I just watched one tank 10 AV's at once.

SR second cuz with all but the tier nine, cj, weave and steadfast global +3% def, ur at soft capped def. And it is amazeing to watch too many dodged/deflected over your head.

SD third, cuz even though a lil squshie at times, witha good build it can acomplish a whole lot. not sure why I put sd in there. heh can't play with claws.

Invun... so far my over all fave. great res to the most used dmg types, and decent res to the rest. hugh +hp/heal, and invinciblity that will raise your defense to astounding numbers, and the to-hit facter too. people can modify invun to soft cap with one baddie, so there is that.

EA, I can't say to much very lowbie lvl'ed on that one, and that was brute side. decent resists, energy aborbption esk power, and a heal.

DA, Great controls, great over all resistances, heavy end (can be solved). used right da has many options for you. my xp here is a bit lacking too highest da was a lvl 28 fm/da brute.

FA, can't play, wish I could, but the constant flame sends my brain hay wire, with massive headaches in about 5 minutes. Mass amounts of damage, a heal, decent resistance, and a endurance recovery power, a ressurection power too.

I think I forgot about regen some where. regen is good, massive heals, great recovery, very active set though.

you don't have a single scrapper with boxing or kick? go to some random lowbie map and kick and box things, see what comes up

No I don't play my shield toon for Shield Charge. I play her because it allows me to create the concepts I love (medievil). It just seems like the "I win button" has spoiled me a bit. She does however have a 45 second recharge on it. A bit slow by a lot of peoples standards.

Also what I may be seeing is my tank durability and trying to think my scrapper has achieved that. She is tough as nails, can tank for most teams, even some AV's.

Thanks for reminding me... Not sure where the SD is crap with out SC came from. Maybe it is the near death hits. I dunno maybe I wish the set had a more balanced res/def feel. Curse me for roleing a invun tanker first :P

She is also the only scrapper I have that can solo +3x8 on a vast majority of enemy groups. Didn't mean to throw dirt on the power set like that. heh... damn. ur right SD is more rounded than I care to give it credit for. Sounds like I need to re connect with my favorate toon, over my 3+ yrs of game play.

for exzample boxing or kick? hmmm never really tryed it, but I would say no. I think that only applys to scrap primary. I never seen a dmg aura crit that was on the secondary, thus port powers don't crit either. The only dmg aura I think I saw crit was quills, and that is spines, which is primary.

ur number 1

and you think they are gonna alter the power set that drastically? Shield defense ain't nothing with out SC, you reduce that, you can kiss shields good bye. Okay you can soft cap a shield, but even with that, they don't have the staying power that other sets do with out shield charge.

I hope it isn't power set ending nerf.

hehe. before I got heavey into my bs/sd I said "hey let me test which one farms faster." I go get my spines/sr. tested... I have only logged her once since. She is great for other things, but when shield charge can out damage both spine burst and throw spines combined... Yeah there was no going back.

However I roled a fm/da scrap, and his base damage with fulcrum shift was hitting for about as much as broad sword enhanced. mind you my bs/sd is IO'ed and 50, this fm/da was in the teens with no nothing.

Makes me wonder about a fire/sd, but I just have too many works in progress.

Global buddy has a sd/electric melee, and gets paid 10-20 mil per solo farm run. Sd/SS would be great too. Shield charge will damn near kill everything and then Lightning rod, or foot stomp would have all but bosses dead. I would go SS because it has the ST dmg for the bosses. or SD/FM.

Honestly really anything paird with shield defense will do great. Maybe a fire/fire/pyre will out perform, but that is only 20 seconds at a time.

It is auto hit

yeah focused ACC and Taunt, really were fillers. Same with punh. On that note, I would probally rater slot punch than jab, it does more damage. In punch I ment boxing. I could drop punch all together. Boxing does more dmg than jab, less damage than punch though. I could drop punch and focused acc and taunt and pick up resurgence, strength of will, and conserve power. Conserve power would help with rage crashes, and SoW crash for that matter.

The reason for ToD in the attacks, was a 3 fold option of 28 hp, 2.5% dmg, and the 1.8% S/L def.

That and Kinetic combat is so blumming expensive. Last I looked one was selling for over 120 million. I generally only get about 15 hours a week to play, so this build is quite high end for the time it will take to finish the build.

Kin combat, all those squshies like to use to make them soft capped, and gods.

I will play with the build. I thought of resurgence and SoW. Might re-look at my build.

Well actually it kinda does work. my fire/kin/earth troller is soft capped to S/L and because almost all attacks have a smashing and leathal component in it, it roles to the highest defense, rendering the majority of attacks only a 5% chance to hit on a even con.

That troller is a beast, even out of council and bm farm. I hate createing a very one sided toon anyways, to me it takes the playability out of the toon.

You got it. I also have, a ice/electric/pyre tanker (not finished), but very fun. I have tried alot of tankers some have stayed, others have gone...

Yeah this toon isn't really designed to be a lead tanker. If he holds some agro while pounding some faces, so be it. Lately it has all been about the end game for me. However going rogue will probally change the way people play this game.

This toon will actually probably be something that I am on a end game farm team of friends with or something. A team that doesn't need the agro management, yet more of a damage out put. Why a tanker? Meh not really needed to be, I just figured I would create a toon that I could attribute my self to. You ever see Big Daddy Jake running round, give him a read, his bio is a stent in time of my own life events.

The forum goers like you, and many of the others I used to post with, make me miss the forums. Glad it was one that I know.

On my stone/stone/pyre. I took granite and gutted the primary, thinking I would be a granite runner. You know what, granite is over rated! Vastly over rated. If you have a strong secondary power like "fault" and "siesmic smash", you can tank almost everything out of granite. Least normal game stuff. I used granite as a "oh sh*t" power.

I had one person ***** and moan about me being slow (while in a cave). I am like, okay, sorry I have sight issues when I am taller than the cave ceiling.

So what did I do next map that wasn't a cave? I was ahead of the team every steop of the way, I said "what cha bitchen bout now?"

The slow speed of stone can be a hurdle, but any hurdle can be jumped if you take the time to learn your weaknesses, and make them work for you.