Attack Chains (minimal attack powers) *Attention Werner!

Werner,

I've read your comments on various attack chains and you seem to be an authority on the subject. I was particularly intrigued in your interest in minimal attack chains.

Out of all the scrapper primaries what would be in your opinion the most solid attack chain using the least amount of attack powers?

-Arboris

Dark Melee for Midnight Grasp -> Smite -> Siphon Life -> Smite, just like Gaidin said.

With many primaries, you can get away with three attacks for a good attack chain, and often it's the top attack chain. Lots of secondaries benefit from defense, but you're going to be using four attacks for Katana or Broad Sword when doing that. Mind you, my Katana/Dark is only using three - Divine Avalanche -> Gambler's Cut -> Sting of the Wasp -> Gambler's Cut. But you'd have to be crazy (like me) to drop your two biggest attacks just to save a power pick. DPS suffers, plus no knockup/down. Other primaries have their good minimalist chains too, of course, but I find myself wanting either a heal or defense from my primary. Since Dark Melee's minimalist chain has a heal at the same time as being the top DPS chain for that primary, I think it wins the minimalist attack chain battle.

Thanks guys!

If I wanted to go Dark/SR what kind of recharge would I need for that chain to work.

Arboris

Has anyone figured out the best ST attack chain for a Spines/ scrapper?

Spines? I don't even have Spines in my spreadsheet. I have one stalled out in the 40s. I suppose I SHOULD figure out what single target chain I should be using, but I never have.

Spines and single target damage in the same sentence makes me laugh.

Went and made myself a Katana/Fire Armor...

What's the best DPS chain for Katana? Is it GC - SD - GD?

Is that chain even possible? GC - SD - GC - GD, perhaps?

What if I throw in 1 Divine Avalance per chain? 2 DA's per chain?

NP
But Werner did all the work


Would love to see how you go around on building your Katana/Fire. Getting a headache trying to come up with a new build for mine ...

Whenever I hear the words spine I just think "Okay, grab a ton of procs for quills and maybe another damage aura if I'm taking fire/dark/elec and whatever aoes I can get...so I basically just hop in Spine Burst->Fire Ball->Hop out->Throw spines->Ripper the nearest strong baddie, most minions and lieus are dead by this point, hop to the next mobs and let my team mates finish off whatever isn't dead."

"With great moustache comes great responsibility" - Zee Captain

Spines can get a lot of mileage out of fire blast from the epic and ripper is incredibly high damage, I'm not sure of any of the numbers, but fire blast has at least doubled the effectiveness of my spines vs single targets.

I actually did do some math this weekend on spines. (and then played a spines/elec to level 25... if you see Slag Monkey on Freedom... that's me).

My low level chain was:

Lunge>barb swipe>impale>barb swipe...

At level 30 I'll be able to slot and run:

Ripper>Lunge>impale>Lunge...


That's not an enourmous amount of damage but it takes very little recharge which makes it very competative with the chains from other sets at lower recharge levels.

Also, I have discovered something I hadn't anticpated in playing the spines/electric all weekend. Because of the long animations, I really use endurance very slowly. In fact at level 25 I can quite easily run my attack chain non-stop with both damage toggles, one resistance power, my status effect power and superjump turned on. I even dropped the endurance IO out of my toggles and was still OK on endurance. Energize helps a lot. I'm not sure how to best abuse this huge fuel of energy, but it gives me something to work with.