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In my completely subjective opinion... People love Shield Charge for a few reasons...
First, it is perhaps the most visually dynamic power that you'll see on a Scrapper. You click the power and your character crouches back a moment then... BAM! You blur into pure kinetic energy that crosses the gap in an instant and explodes in a burst that blows the spawn apart, knocking them off their feet and clearing the immediate area around you. For me, that animation has the whole "comic book super-hero" vibe to it nailed down cold. With other AoEs, you spin around in place, stomp the ground, clap your hands, etc. With this one, it's a dynamic whole-body motion that just conveys boundless energy and focused intensity.
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this is actually incorrect, though it was the way i was hopeing it'd be, it sadly is not... you do not just click the power and crouch BAM!, the power is a Location AoE and not a Target AoE, and there for, you click the power and it creates a Location recticle on your cursor which you must then manually place by looking arround to where you want it to go, moveing your cursor icon to that location and then clicking the mouse button to designate that location and then BAM.
doesnt quite fit the standard play of scrappers with it as it is, so it takes some getting use to within the chaos of scrapper-lock, but it is very much worth it once you get use to it...
also another point of why it's so great is, not only is it another attack at your disposal, but it's an AoE, which helps to compliment primaries lacking in the AoE areas.
I find it more appealing on Tanks to be honest. The numbers for Scrappers aren't quite as nice... and soft-capping is freakin' expensive. But yeah, SC is fun...
So you're not alone.
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In my completely subjective opinion... People love Shield Charge for a few reasons...
First, it is perhaps the most visually dynamic power that you'll see on a Scrapper. You click the power and your character crouches back a moment then... BAM! You blur into pure kinetic energy that crosses the gap in an instant and explodes in a burst that blows the spawn apart, knocking them off their feet and clearing the immediate area around you. For me, that animation has the whole "comic book super-hero" vibe to it nailed down cold. With other AoEs, you spin around in place, stomp the ground, clap your hands, etc. With this one, it's a dynamic whole-body motion that just conveys boundless energy and focused intensity.
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this is actually incorrect, though it was the way i was hopeing it'd be, it sadly is not... you do not just click the power and crouch BAM!, the power is a Location AoE and not a Target AoE, and there for, you click the power and it creates a Location recticle on your cursor which you must then manually place by looking arround to where you want it to go, moveing your cursor icon to that location and then clicking the mouse button to designate that location and then BAM.
doesnt quite fit the standard play of scrappers with it as it is, so it takes some getting use to within the chaos of scrapper-lock, but it is very much worth it once you get use to it...
also another point of why it's so great is, not only is it another attack at your disposal, but it's an AoE, which helps to compliment primaries lacking in the AoE areas.
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It's very easy to skip the whole aiming reticle step by use of a teleport bind for Shield Charge:
/bind shift+lbutton "powexecname Shield Charge"
You don't click on Shield Charge in your tray and there's no aiming reticle. You just hold shift, point and click where you want SC to land, and BAM.
You can even use this bind while your current attack is animating and SC will queue up and go off as soon as it's done.
EDIT: And what's not to love about Shield Charge? Big burst damage, a huge AoE, and knockdown? It's like Foot Stomp with a teleport.
currently im in league with the op. i have this great build and what not for my fm/sd...but my fm/sr and claws/sr get moar playtime currently.
i have always had a troubling time to get another toon to 50
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Hate to tell ya, but it is really hard to judge any AT powersets by level 10. Keep at it and you'll know if you really enjoy the set or not.
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I hate to tell ya, but you don't have to do things that you hate.