The PvE God...

Hey guys and Girls,

I just returned from a year Hiatus from CoH and I'm really interested in exploring the PvE ability of the scrapper. I have zero interest in PvP at this point ( AoC beat that out of me ) and I'm looking for your recommendations on the ULTIMATE PvE powerset combination.

Thanks for all the replies and it feels great to be back home in CoX !!

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Hey guys and Girls,

I just returned from a year Hiatus from CoH and I'm really interested in exploring the PvE ability of the scrapper. I have zero interest in PvP at this point ( AoC beat that out of me ) and I'm looking for your recommendations on the ULTIMATE PvE powerset combination.

Thanks for all the replies and it feels great to be back home in CoX !!

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DM/SD is very strong, as is FM/SD and FM/SR. Kat/WP BS/WP and BS/SD are also good contenders.

If you're looking to be the best all around in as many situations as possible my moneys on FM/SD or /SR.

The following assumes your budget is unlimited.

Solo ability, I'd pick DM/SD or FM/SD.

Team ability, Katana/Invul.

DM/SD

I'd say pick Fire Melee/Shield Defense because Dark Melee's animations look like you're punching enemies with poop all over your hands.

I've been quite pleased with my Fire/Invul, now at 35. He'll eventually have capped S/L def with one enemy in range and 36% E/N - if I want to solo an AV I can just herd a buncha minions to softcap energy/neg. And has Aid Self too.

I wouldn't call him the 'ultimate build' because I wasn't able to get fire/cold to a significant number to be able to softcap it with invincibility, but a very solid toon that is the closest a scrapper can get to a Tanker (imho).

It would be a totally different answer whether you're looking for an AoE god, or a single target god.

AoE : spines, paired with something solid, unfortunately cant have /shield here. My personnal preference is /invuln.
ST : dark melee/shield
a bit of both : fire/shield

Fire/Shield is the whole package.

Well all around I would say Fire/Shield.

It as great ST damage almost the best, but the other is DM/SD and need to have everythign just right.

It as Good AoE, FSC with BU is awesome and add AAO and SC you should have great AoE.

With Soft Capped Def can go a long way. The only thing it lacks is a Self Heal which is not that bad if you have Soft Capped Def and good regen, or you can work in Aid Self.

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I'd say pick Fire Melee/Shield Defense because Dark Melee's animations look like you're punching enemies with poop all over your hands.

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That's a good concept character... Protector Pinkeye.

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I'd say pick Fire Melee/Shield Defense because Dark Melee's animations look like you're punching enemies with poop all over your hands.

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That's a good concept character... Protector Pinkeye.

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And with color customization in I16, you can change the DM attacks to brown.

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I'd say pick Fire Melee/Shield Defense because Dark Melee's animations look like you're punching enemies with poop all over your hands.

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That's a good concept character... Protector Pinkeye.

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And with color customization in I16, you can change the DM attacks to brown.

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That's it! No brown DM attacks and no yellow ice tanks!

Oh.. To the OP, FM/SD is what you are looking for.

grrr....no claws/sr with both -res procs

thats what my claws has right now

well thats my vote claws/sr

Depends on what makes you feel "godlike" with your character...

Claws/SR, is indeed, all that and a bag of chips. Like most Defense based sets, though, it matures somewhat late, but damn... Has a superb top-end build.

Kat/Willpower can be exceedingly durable early on and still offers a strong late-game showing. Its performance will scale a lot more linearly while leveling up, with an early increase in survivability with Divine Avalanche.

Fire/Shield is indeed a great combo, and one I am exploring now. As others have said, you get a relatively un-resisted damage type, extra damage (AAO), an extra AoE from Shield Charge. Soft-capping with IOs is very viable, and you get some blistering (pun intended) single target capability.

It's a bit of a personal thing, but for me, it's my Claws/SR Scrapper. He's just got the "Go, go, go, go" vibe that feeds my frenetic Scrapper mindset. He's also the one that seems to draw the most "How the HELL did you do that?" comments. And the one handing out wakies to the team once he solos the console in the ITF after the team faceplants... Yeah. Claws has no build-up so it's just stabbing things until tabbing runs out of targets.

Crap, I'm getting twitchy just thinking about it.

I vote for FM/SD as well.

I keep hearing people (elsewhere than the Scrapper forum mostly) say that you have spend billions of inf on IOs to get it to be awesome, but I only spent a little over 500 mil and my FM/SD is pretty freaking awesome. I've soloed 10 AVs now (some of them twice) and he has become my new farming toon since he has no problems taking on my Supa Dupa Troll mish set at level 53 for an 8-man team. (It will be so nice when they actually add that feature and I won't have to fill with my second account.) He's got more than soft-capped defenses to all 3 positions, 52.5% recharge time bonus, and a nearly seamless attack chain of GFS-Inc-Crem-FS, GFS has about a .4 second delay until it comes back up. I've found that it doesn't really matter much though and it's a good time to let AD activate, or pop buildup, or throw in an AoE.

The "PvE God" is a Fire/Rad Controller :P