DM/Shield/Pyre, the scrapper that does everything.

I was thinking about DM/Shield/Pyre, and was considering how much of a monster it's going to be at the high end. It might not have the AoE of spines/fire but Spines/Fire can't touch it in ST or survivability. It might not be the hands down most survivable, either, but I think that all around an IOd out DM/Shield/Pyre is going to be the go-to Scrapper.

With enough investment you will have:

Extreme damage buffing. AaO+SD. DM/Shielders now are already showing how amazing this can be.

Soft-capped defenses with a fast recharging self-heal that is part of your attack chain.
tons of +HP and slotting for extra regen with accolades and tons of HP you might as well not even have a green bar.

Extreme ST DPS. Again, DM shielders are already doing this.

Two great AoEs. Fireball and Shield charge would probably be enough to drop everything but bosses with enough damage buffing.

It's got what it takes to perform extremely well in:

AV solo
Rikti Pylon killing
Farming
General PvE solo and teams
Tanking

Now any scrapper could pass at all of those tasks, but DM/Shield/Pyre is going to be absolutely brutal at performing all of them. It's going to be a very flexible, interchangeable, and downright fun scrapper to play.

It's like The Perfect Storm.

And awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4

I'd imagine your thesis is correct. I'm currently running a DM/Shield (w/fighting pool) and he's fairly beefy. I've also created a SD/SS/Pyre Tanker that is softcapped and has about 55% +recharge. The time spend with double stacked RAGE is good times. I look forward to running around on a DM/SD/Blaze Scrapper.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I'm actually running a Shield/DM/Pyre Tanker at the moment. I'd imagine a scrapper with the same sets would be 1) insanely fun to play and 2) unstoppable.

The bad thing about going for DM/Shield/Pyre is that you'll be VERY short on slots for both powers and enhhancements. Soft capping while maintaining high recharge will be difficult. Although you can skip quite a lot of the +Rech if you're willing to use Fire Blast as a filler in your MG > Smite > SL > Smite chain.

Here's my Shield/DM/Pyre build to give you ideas:

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