Help With Spine Scrapper.

I am sort of new to all of the farming and all, I have a fire/kin lvl 50, and plant/kin 50, but they are my only ones with unfinished builds. (That doesn't matter though) Anyway, I was planning on making a solo farmer scrapper character, planning on spine for the most AoE, but what secondary should I have? I have heard about fire,dark,ele,and even regen being great. I just want one who never runs outta end, that is my most hated thing about the game, lol. I need some advice on a secondary power to use for it, which would be better for end control and made for solo? And why so?

People at least used to team spine with /Dark for some good AoE. I don't know if this is very farmy or not. It would work, but I don't know what is considered fast farming.

If your main concern is endurance, then you should look for the power sets with some sort of endurance management, for example electric armor has power sink, fiery aura has consume (although the recharge is a little long), regeneration and willpower both have quick recovery.

For the other power sets, you can take body mastery as your ancillary power pool, then you can have access to conserve power and physical perfection. On top of physical perfection, you can optimize your character for more recovery using IO set bonus. Dark armor is known to be pretty heavy in endurance usage.

Two good secondaries would be Regen and Willpower. Both have Quick Recovery that will stack with Stamina, that'll make sure you never run out of endurance, and just in case you do, you can always grab Physical Perfection in the Body Mastery APP. Don't go with /Dark or /Fire simply because their damage aura uses a lot of endurance and doesn't give you that much dps in return.

I have a 50 Spine/Regen that I do farm and solo farm with that works extremely well. I would say that /WP is great as well, except it doesn't have its own self heal. With /WP, you'll have to keep jumping back into the middle of mobs for RTTC to do its thing, I prefer kiting around with /Regen better.

For a spines farmer I would suggest ElA over regen or WP 100% of the time because regen and WP don't have any offensive capabilities such as damage auras, damage/recharge enhancing powers etc. Fire and dark work too, but require IO investment to compensate for reduced endurance management capability compared to ElA.

Wit ElA, you just don't run outta endurance, ever.

So why does Death Shroud get bad DPS? In missions it gets great damage.

Damage auras of course will be helpful, but won't be as good as with primaries you just spam PBAoE's since you'll be moving in and out of melee range for Throw Spines. Spines/Fire will get you the best mileage, but you'll have to invest a little more into it.

So I'm guessing ELA would be the best rather than regen/willpower endurance wise? But what other reason would it be better? The self-defense buffs I'd guess?

For farming I would suggest either /dark or /fire. Dark is a whole lot sturdier due to having dark regeneration which is the best heal in the game bar none. Fire will increase your damage out put due to having Firey Embrace. And for farming you definitely want to have a damage aura.

Honestly, I know fire and dark are all that great. But I want something that doesn't eat my end like a cookie crumb (Ya I just said that.)

/Fire isn't that bad with endurance because you get Consume and run few toggles. The only reason I run into end problems ever once in a while on my Spines/Fire is because a lot of my attacks don't have great end reduction values. I slotted Obliterations and such in a lot of my attacks for the defense.

Spines/Fire. All you need, and can be made great! Go with it!

Spine/fire it is! Thx everyone!