If you prefer clicking buttons to stay alive, go with Regen.
If you prefer turning on toggles, go with SR. SR also boosts your recharge and run speed, which I always appreciate. And when you get Elude, you'll be running around like crazy, Lightning Rodding everything in sight!
You can also go with Sheilds - there's a nifty elemental/electric shield, and tons of electric/shield builds floating around this forum.
Believe me, I KNOW that there exist lots of elec/shield scrappers, I just don't wanna be one of them, at least not now. The reason I want it not to be /shield is because so many players use that combo and because I don't really consider /shield so "fast", because of the needed AAD that needs you to be in a group, surrounded by enemies, before you should use the alpha strikes (Lightning Rod and Shield Charge). My idea with this toon is to experience the rush of crushing down in an unexepcted mob with full power, totally destroying any threat around me.
And btw, I've always wondered if LR works with Critical Hit, does it?
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And btw, I've always wondered if LR works with Critical Hit, does it?
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If you want to just run in and lay the smackdown, doing nothing but attack, you want SR! You'll only have to pause every 120 seconds or so for Practiced Brawler to animate, and then you're off again!
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In that case, case closed. I'll try making an elec/SR scrapper soon, then I can see if it is nice to me. Thanks for the help so far =)
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If you want to just run in and lay the smackdown, doing nothing but attack, you want SR! You'll only have to pause every 120 seconds or so for Practiced Brawler to animate, and then you're off again!
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As far as I know LR doesn't Crit. The last thing we need is a BU + Crit LR o_O
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I'll have to look that up. It summons a pet, which might not have the Crit capability.
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Elec/SR is pretty fun. I have one I just recently leveled. Being different is the most interesting part though.
I was going to suggest SR as well, and now I wanna make one too >_<
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Super Reflexes, definately.
1) It's easy to slot and can softcap defense pretty easily, without elude.
2) With lots of defensive powers you can slot 5 LoTG +rech giving you an added 37.5% rech.
3) you get a nifty +20% recharge in the set to make you that bit faster. and boosting the external recharge bonus up to 57.5% att.
4) it doesn't rely on enemies, so you could run in attack, run out to hide, thn strike... kinda like a ninja.
5) you could have a lightning bolt type theme, my elec scrapper's theme is science as well. it's something along the lines of him suping up his nervous system and becomeing in controll of the electrical impulses in his brain to create massive pulses of energy through his skin.(kinda like synapse i know but i realised that after i concepted it =P)
So there are 5 good reasons why SR is the fastest set.
Also i had a Martial arts/super reflexes build haging arround that had perma hasten mixed in. It was on about 108sec recharge for 120second buff. and thats super fast!
Hi. I have both a 50 Regen (Spines) and a 50 SR (Martial Arts).
I will be honest as running both to 50 there isn't much downtime on either toons depending you take into account a few things when doing so. I was in a farm last night with another regen a lowbie. I told him to doorsit, he insisted on fighting. He said he wanted to try something and run in take the alpha on a 53 spawn with bosses like I do on mine, granted I am setted out he is not. Needless to say he died, immediately instantly under 2 seconds. I told him do not go on your quest to 50 with that mentality. My SR can jump in a group of people with no problem being soft capped you can be a lot more careless with your survivability when you get to the soft cap. Regen requires a defensive play style without really any defense, (its easy to get you to like 10% but that is really nothing) Plan ahead and understand what kind of damage you are going to take. It is not uncommon facing high baddies that you will lose your 2400 hp in one alpha and a follow up easily. Grab some resistinces and as much defense as you can. On my build I have about 20% to all positions mighty fine for a Regen with absolutely no defense to boot. SR much more playable and you can more easily determine your time of death. I can litterly sit there and feel comfortable with 1/4 health bar and know I wont die immediately as long as I know what my defense and res is you can almost calculate it.
Overall I love both toons. What am I playing right now? The SR, it is just so much fun. Just watch running into Nems and Rularuu and you shouldnt be too disapointed, that and possibly rikti but yea should be all set, have fun.
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Hello heroes!
I have been very excited about making a Elec/ Scrapper, but have had some difficulties concerning the proper secondary. The theme I'm considering right now is a person who, through science (precise source unaware atm) has gotten superpowers. The idea is that he's gotta be a fast fighter, meaning that he doesn't need much downtime. As said before I want the primary to be Electric melee, and I can help your aiding that much as to say that I want the secondary to be either SR or Regen, as I have not tried any of the sets, and because I have heard, and got the idea, that both feel like having short downtime. So, if any of the veteran Scrappers out there have tried both regen and SR would be as kind as to give me aid in my problem, I will be very pleased  |
Seems like you have you concept down. Now all you have to do is decide between /SR or /REGEN.
So, I'd say...
Elm/Regen if you want to PvP (ELM isn't considered the best for it, but :P to that).
Elm/SR if you want to strictly PvE.
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Originally Posted by JanusFrs
Believe me, I KNOW that there exist lots of elec/shield scrappers, I just don't wanna be one of them, at least not now. The reason I want it not to be /shield is because so many players use that combo and because I don't really consider /shield so "fast", because of the needed AAD that needs you to be in a group, surrounded by enemies, before you should use the alpha strikes (Lightning Rod and Shield Charge). My idea with this toon is to experience the rush of crushing down in an unexepcted mob with full power, totally destroying any threat around me.
And btw, I've always wondered if LR works with Critical Hit, does it? |
at any rate regen and willpower will do better at keeping your end bar full.SR will help you get LR up a bit faster(and no it does not crit).
If he's s'pposed to be speedy and have Elec then I'd go with SR, not as much of a powerhouse as SD but a cheaper to soft cap and also Quickness would go with your theme.
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The "no/not much" downtime requirement is the one that makes SR vs. Regen kind of tough. Yeah, there's lots of clicking in Regen, but it does boast an advantage over SR; Endurance. Most downtime issues are going to be due to your blue bar more than your lack of an available attack. Plus, your better Regen builds are built for Recharge, and it doesn't take a ton to always be able to run CB>HP>CB>JL. The little sleeps (zappy dance) from CB and JL, plus the KD of HP, TS, and LR pair pretty well with a Regen character, also (not to mention a WP, which might be the best "no downtime" option, but the choice was SR or Regen, so)
I'm just wondering why WP isn't in this discussion?
I'm wondering why Electric/Electric isn't being mentioned. It has the extra quickness like SR, but also has resistance and heal powers, as well as endurance drain/recovery. Nothing says 'living dynamo' like a curtain of sparks flying off of you in every direction!
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I'm going SR too. it's just sounds right concept wise and is a non fail secondary.
Hello heroes!
I have been very excited about making a Elec/ Scrapper, but have had some difficulties concerning the proper secondary.
The theme I'm considering right now is a person who, through science (precise source unaware atm) has gotten superpowers.
The idea is that he's gotta be a fast fighter, meaning that he doesn't need much downtime.
As said before I want the primary to be Electric melee, and I can help your aiding that much as to say that I want the secondary to be either SR or Regen, as I have not tried any of the sets, and because I have heard, and got the idea, that both feel like having short downtime.
So, if any of the veteran Scrappers out there have tried both regen and SR would be as kind as to give me aid in my problem, I will be very pleased
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