DM/Shield/Blaze for the win

As soon as I heard that scrappers were getting Blaze mastery (copy of Pyre mastery from tanks), I started dreaming of Soul Drained, AAOed, Fireball-crits. I finally will have my dream of an AV-Soloing characters with amazing survivability, ranged attacks, and defense! That's right, a )-&(^M$^$ (censored to protect the silly).

As stated before I think Fireball will be silly/amazing on a scrapper. Whether its a Fire/Fire using BU and FE, or a Claws/Willpower using just FU, the masses shall weep when a scrapper hits 47.

However, the rest of the set seems to be nice too. Even Char and RoF can be used to slot some great sets. Fire Blast seems like it was made to be chained. I'm officially predicting that FB-SL-MG-FB will be better than Smite-SL-MG-Smite.

Is anyone else nearly as excited as I am about Blaze Mastery?

Melt Armor sucks for Scrappers too.

I largely notice it, so do my friends ; but I'm also one of these crazy guys who pick the leadership pool on scrappers and Grant Cover to buff my teammates.

Kioshi - Oh yeah ? Well, YOU suck for scrappers. So there.

Poor, poor Melt Armor, you're underappreciated.

I'd kill to see a soft capped Dark/shield/blase.

Well when a power does less -resist than a single *blaster* Howl it's no surprise it's underappreciated.

I guess it is so, people never look at the big picture...

You know, it just occurred to me that a DM/FA/Blaze may be all sorts of crazy too, thanks to the extra oomph from Fiery Embrace.

I forsee a second build for my DM/FA. This is going to be awesome.

Yep so I can't hit the soft cap with a Dark/Shield/Blaze build.

BP, your link to your build is broken

My DM/SD/Blaze is 2.5% shy of ranged, if you want I can post but there are quite a few posted already. No PvP IO btw.

Okay so I took BP's build and tweeked it a little and this is what I got. You'll need St@n3y's Mid's to read it.

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I'm going to do a DPS analysis on the following build, which is what I plan on having come I16. I'm assuming that the build has the 20% +recharge power from a base.

The attack chain I'm using is FBlast-SL-MG-FBlast.

The average damage of an unslotted, unbuffed Fire Blast is 111.35. This differs from the damage shown in mids because mids incorrectly assumes that every tick will fire if the first one does.

IE, mids has it at:
83.4 + (8.32*4*.8) + (83.4*.1) = 118.4

While, correctly it is:
83.4 + (8.32*.8 + (8.32*.8*.8) + (8.32*.8*.8*.8) + (8.32*.8*.8*.8*.8)) + (83.4*.1) = 111.35

The base damage of SL is 122.6, and the base damage of MG is 172.7.

The enhancement values for those attacks are as follows:

FB -> 89.92%
SL -> 96.92%
MG -> 89.92%

The total +damage buff given outside of enhancements (assuming full AAO and SD) is 213.8%.

Therefore, adding the values gives us:

FB -> 303.72%
SL -> 310.72%
MG -> 303.72%

Giving us damage values of:

FB -> 416.03
SL -> 503.54
MG -> 697.22

Adding in criticals (assuming 10% chance to critical, not 7.5%):

FB -> 457.63
SL -> 553.90
MG -> 766.95

Adding in procs

FB -> 507.33
SL -> 552.90
MG -> 802.29

This gives us a total chain damage of: 2370.85. Total time (in arcanatime) is 7.26.

Therefore, damage per second is 326.56, 310.72 with a 5% miss rate (.95% hit rate even against +4s). This is without counting in Hasten, Soul Drain, Active Defense, and Dark Consumption. With those, it may drop below 300, but will still be a fair bit over 250.

The EPS drain of the attacks is 3.5 EPS, meaning I lose .65 end per second. This means it would take me 177.42 seconds to run out of endurance, and with Dark Consumption recharging in 50.69 (assuming additional 20% recharge again), this means I won't run out of endurance.

Build:

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.401
http://www.cohplanner.com/
Super Everything Man: Level 50 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Dark Melee
Secondary Power Set: Shield Defense
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Blaze Mastery
Hero Profile:
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Level 1: Smite KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:35(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg:35(3), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx:35(5), KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg:35(5)
Level 1: Deflection LkGmblr-Rchg+:50(A), LkGmblr-Def:50(3), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg:50(15), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx:50(21)
Level 2: Battle Agility LkGmblr-Rchg+:50(A), LkGmblr-Def:50(17), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx:50(19), Ksmt-ToHit+:30(39), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg:50(42)
Level 4: True Grit Panac-Heal:50(A), Panac-Heal/+End:50(17), Panac-Heal/EndRedux:50(19), GA-3defTpProc:50(34), Panac-Heal/Rchg:50(40), Panac-Heal/EndRedux/Rchg:50(42)
Level 6: Combat Jumping Zephyr-Travel:50(A), Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx:50(7), Zephyr-ResKB:50(7), LkGmblr-Rchg+:50(13), LkGmblr-Def:50(42)
Level 8: Siphon Life HO:Nucle(A), Hectmb-Dmg:50(9), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx:50(9), Heal-I:50(11), Numna-Heal/EndRdx:50(11), Nictus-Acc/Heal:50(13)
Level 10: Active Defense HO:Membr(A), HO:Membr(34), HO:Membr(40)
Level 12: Hurdle Jump-I:50(A)
Level 14: Super Jump Zephyr-Travel:50(A), Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx:50(15), Zephyr-ResKB:50(31)
Level 16: Against All Odds EndRdx-I:50(A)
Level 18: Health Mrcl-Rcvry+:40(A), Numna-Regen/Rcvry+:50(39)
Level 20: Stamina P'Shift-End%:50(A), EndMod-I:50(21), P'Shift-EndMod:50(37)
Level 22: Dark Consumption P'Shift-EndMod:50(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg:50(23), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc/Rchg:50(23), P'Shift-Acc/Rchg:50(25), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc:50(25), P'Shift-End%:50(31)
Level 24: Phalanx Fighting LkGmblr-Rchg+:50(A)
Level 26: Soul Drain Oblit-Dmg:50(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg:50(27), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg:50(27), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(29), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(29), Oblit-%Dam:50(31)
Level 28: Boxing Stpfy-Acc/Rchg:50(A), Stpfy-Acc/Stun/Rchg:50(40), Stpfy-EndRdx/Stun:50(43), Stpfy-Acc/EndRdx:50(43), Stpfy-KB%:50(43), Stpfy-Stun/Rng:50(45)
Level 30: Tough S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+:30(A)
Level 32: Midnight Grasp Hectmb-Dam%:50(A), Hectmb-Dmg/EndRdx:50(33), Hectmb-Acc/Rchg:50(33), Hectmb-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(33), Hectmb-Dmg/Rchg:50(34)
Level 35: Shield Charge Oblit-Dmg:50(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg:50(36), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg:50(36), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(36), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(37), Oblit-%Dam:50(37)
Level 38: Weave LkGmblr-Rchg+:50(A), HO:Enzym(39)
Level 41: Ring of Fire RechRdx-I:50(A)
Level 44: Fire Blast Apoc-Dmg/Rchg:50(A), Apoc-Dam%:50(45), GJ-Dam%:50(45), Apoc-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(46), Apoc-Acc/Rchg:50(46), Apoc-Dmg/EndRdx:50(46)
Level 47: Fire Ball Ragnrk-Dmg:50(A), Ragnrk-Dmg/Rchg:50(48), Ragnrk-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(48), Ragnrk-Acc/Rchg:50(48), Ragnrk-Dmg/EndRdx:50(50)
Level 49: Hasten RechRdx-I:50(A), RechRdx-I:50(50), RechRdx-I:50(50)
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Level 1: Brawl Mako-Dam%:50(A)
Level 1: Sprint Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest Empty(A)
Level 1: Critical Hit

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I tweaked it a bit to improve the slotting in Smite and in Siphon Life.

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You've missed the point by a wide margin. Smite was replaced by FireBlast, the whole post was about the validity of doing that. Smite became a mule.

I messed around with your build just for kicks, took out the purples, the PvP IOs etc and softcapped it. Does the same but of course, Hasten went from 124 to 137 seconds and there are no super procs in the attacks.

After that mathematical avalanche how did Smite VS Fireblast compare? Obviously Fireblast was better since you stuck to it, but by how much?

He's not planning to use Smite, though.

However, your numbers are off, Combat. Unslotted Fire Blast does, at level 50, 62.56 damage with 4 80% 6.26 ticks. Smite does 82.58 damage and gets a full crit, with a faster animation. Smite is easily the superior choice.