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A*/Regen with melee attacks. Self healing is one of the only things that is actually successful and melee attacks are the primary use for Scrappers.
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Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
What would be the "best" Scrapper for blue side Hamidon raids?
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Aye. Agree with this.
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Originally Posted by Umbral
A*/Regen with melee attacks. Self healing is one of the only things that is actually successful and melee attacks are the primary use for Scrappers.
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Originally Posted by Umbral
A*/Regen with melee attacks. Self healing is one of the only things that is actually successful and melee attacks are the primary use for Scrappers.
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WP is a decent option as well, but lacking a self heal and a lot of foes nearby to drive your +regen up means you may have to rely on green inspirations for burst healing. If you have recently been pegged by a green mito, green inspirations may do little or even nothing.
Another decent choice is /Firey Aura. While it lacks the +HP and passive +Regen of /Regen, like /Regen its heal does not to degrade due to the heal resistance that green mitos apply. The extra burst damage from FE doesn't hurt if you're on mito beatdown duty (which is what most Scrappers are doing at any raid I've been to).
Regen is at the top of my list, though, speaking from experience taking several powersets to raids. Bottom of the list is anything relying primarily on defense or resistance. These can work if you have sufficient regen buffs (preferably external, such as Empathy/Regen Aura or Empathy/Adrenaline Boost) or if you use an EoE (not recommended for blue-side raids - look for more +Regen).
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
Also agree with Regen. Regen is especially good when raids do a "no-retreat" strategy. I've led a few yellow groups and it's typically my regen players who most easily are able to recover from the mito storm.
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Hrm. Okie. Now I just need to decide on a primary...
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Ooh, that reminds me, a /Regen with Resilience has an extra 5.19 points of Stun protection. This can be a big deal for fighting yellow mitos, who apply stacking mag 6 stuns. Extra stun prot most frequently comes into play during "blooms", when the mitos reappear and (depending on how organized the raid is) splatter their AoE blasts all over everyone.
Of course, the best Regen can only take so many simultaneous 500+ overlapping splashes, but surviving the splash and being stunned so you can't get away before they pick you off ... now that's depressing. 
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
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How about Any/*. Honestly, the outright "best" is going to be Fire Melee because the only thing that really matters is ST damage, but they'll all do fine.
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Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
Hrm. Okie. Now I just need to decide on a primary...
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Just about anything will be fine. Mitos don't have any special vulnerabilities or resistances that would guide your primary damage type, and I've seen IO'd out Scrappers of just about every primary take out a yellow mito solo as long as the yellow didn't get too much healing attention from its green buddies. I'd say pick something you enjoy and think works well with /Regen, and it'll do what you need it to do at a raid.
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Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
Hrm. Okie. Now I just need to decide on a primary...
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Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
For the same reason /regen is good as a secondary, I find DM/ good as a primary on my shielder, since it provides that heal that I need after getting hit once or twice.
If you're a /regen then fire/ will probably still be best, but DM's 3 primary ST attacks are also quite the ST powerhouse.
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A DM/Reg would be the most survivable due to siphon life and the rest of your regen firing off. Fire/Reg would have better DPS. But any attack set would be fine. Only reason I like my WP on hami is for the added mez protection and I have my max HP pretty beefy on it.
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Fire/Fire
also unless yer going the hover/fly route, dont forget a jetpack ... also haveing a range power or two (useually from yer epic pool) will help some with the blues, but in general the self heal power of regen is the best reccommendation, as for primary, any will do just fine
I'd say spine/regen. The others already covered regen so I won't go over that. But a Spines scrapper would be good because it could obviously help with the yellows, but in addition it could help the ranged team take out the blues
What would be the "best" Scrapper for blue side Hamidon raids?
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