Scrapper must kill!

GREAT TEAM: Friday night. Scrapper is level 20. Scrapper joins team in Talos. Radio mission, set to +1. Enemies are +2 to +3 to rest of team. Scrapper goes from 20 to level 27, in few hours, average half a level per mission. Charge forward! Kill, kill!

Player A wants to up things to +2. "We've all got SO's, we can handle it" (total conjecture, nobody had asked how scrapper was enhanced, but starting at 20, scrapper could not have slotted SO's... although scrapper did, in fact, have a full set of level 20 IO's.)

Enemies are +4. Take too long to kill. Everyone agrees, +1 is best, +2 and +3 to rest of team.

MEDIOCRE TEAM:Saturday. Scrapper joins mission (not radio) team. Run all over city. Enemies are -1 to team, -2 to leader. Perhaps an old contact? All Council, very easy. Enemies die when scrapper looks at them. No challenge. Takes many missions for scrapper to gain 1 level.

GOOD (not great) TEAM: Scrapper joins radio mission team in Brickstown. Enemies are +4 and +5 to scrapper. Tank says, "Wait here while I herd!" Comes back with small group. Tank says, "Wait here again!" "Wait here!" "Don't go past this point!" "Stay in first room!"

Scrapper gets bored. Tank says "Herding is bliss!" Scrapper says, "Actually I find it boring." Tank stops herding, leads entire team into large group of +5 freakshow with 6 boss tanks. Everyone dies. Scrapper last to fall. Used entire inspiration tray. Tank says, "See? Herding is safer!"

Tank pulls groups of sky raiders. Each comes with 1-2 force field generators, which spawn because scrapper is not allowed to run in and kill engineers immediately. +5 sky raiders with force fields, very hard to hit. Scrapper only gains 2 levels in several hours.

MORAL OF STORY: +5 takes too long. Scrapper likes +2 or +3 enemies. Scrapper does not want to wait for tank. No wait! No stop! Run run run! Faster, scrapper, kill, kill!

Just sayin', a scrapper hits the back ranks. Leave the front for the tanker.

I have been on that Tanker's team too often. It's no fun when not everyone can be involved.

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Originally Posted by perwira Just sayin', a scrapper hits the back ranks. Leave the front for the tanker.

Except for those times when the back rank is in aggro range of some bad guys who don't know we're here yet, and the front rank is already sixty feet away. Much twiddling of thumbs.

If I'm playing a tank, and there's 2 or 3 groups ahead, I'll pull to a corner. If the enemy is scattered, I'll gather them up.

Other than that, herding, especially the kind where you tell people where to wait and stand around until you're sure they're waiting, and/or pull from further away than the next room, is slowing the team down.

I do understand that on a steamrolling team, the defender or blaster occasionally dies. But scrapper knows that casualties are a part of the business!

I joined another team last night in Bricks that had several different tanks. One asked "herding of steamrolling"? Leader said, "Whatever works for you," but scrapper fired off "STEAMROLLING!" faster. Then added, "Oh yes, but do what works for you." Tank only pulled when it was convenient or situation warranted it. We steamrolled pretty much all night, went from 30 to 35. Scrapper was happy!

That's 20-35 so far this weekend and I still have all of Sunday. Love 2xp weekend!

Scrapper listened to team plan? Arent scrappers like wild pitbulls let loose off their leashes when they get invited to a team?

Soon as a scrapper enters a mission, its all fair game!

Heh. "Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brutha, I hurt people."

Scrapper joins team with no tank. Leader says, "Okay, we'll use scrapper tactics."

Scrapper thinks "scrapper tactics" is an oxymoron. Leader says, "Run in and kill stuff!" This scrapper understands!

Scrapper is now level 38. ^_^

Hee. My answer to slow tanks is very simple, very effective. If a tank wants to herd, I hit damage and accuracy inspirations, hit Moment of Glory, hit Build Up, and then Lightning Rod into the middle of the next pull.

"See?! No need to herd, pull is mostly dead. Next pull!"

No patience for herding on easy content. Steamrolling is better.

Tanker: The thing that keeps squishies alive while I'm killing things that get highlighted when I hit tab.

Blaster: The thing that makes things I've got highlighted fall down instead of me making them fall down.

Defender: The thing that sometimes makes me cause things to fall down faster.

Controller: See defender. Side note: Causes things to stand still instead of being tossed around room. Annoyance.

Kheldian: See all of the above.

Brute: Cousin.

Corruptor: See Blaster and Defender.

Dominator: See Controller.

Stalker: Kill thief.

VEATs: See Kheldian.

Mastermind: Annoyance.

I've made this handy diagram to show scrappers where the back ranks are:



The fullest definition includes "the next spawn", but I didn't want to make another diagram.

If I were to sit there, I'd be KBing spawns back into the squishies. That doesn't make much sense.

Which is probably why I prefer to be off that chart bouncing between the two spawns northeast or northwest of this chart.

This thread makes me feel warm and fuzzy