KM: Scrapper or Brute
By
AnElfCalledMack,
Posted on: 2010-10-04 02:30 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
Especially without team buffs, Scrapper KM outperforms Brute KM. Yes, random crits cause a lot of overkill on Scrappers, but we can ignore them for a bit.
Power Siphon is one of the best self-damage buffs in the game (after Rage and Soul Drain). Fully stacked, it's something like a +150% damage buff. On a Scrapper, this will increase a power slotted for +95% damage (three damage SOs or equivalent) by 77%. On a Brute with around 70% fury (what a good attack chain will maintain, and close to the break-even point with Scrappers damage-wise), the same stack will give just 44% more damage because the brute's base is lower, but boosted by fury. Also, the Concentrated Strike "chance for Power Siphon" instead of crits mechanic is a great way to avoid massive overkill. How often do you think a CS crit would be overkill? Well, it isn't - it's a big damage boost for the next 25 seconds, instead.
Look at the level disparity between the two and then ponder just how much different the two are before SOs. The brute gets to run around with 100-150% damage buff from level 1 all the way to level 50. The scrapper doesn't get that kind of love until much later. Crits are the only time big numbers show up until you get your attacks slotted up with damage enhancements.
Get the scrapper past 22. Get some damage SOs or basic IOs slotted into his attacks. Then see how different they feel.
KM, especially due to the way Siphon Power is functioning, is going to dish out higher damage on the scrapper but you're not going to feel it until around 25 or so.
Be well, people of CoH.
Maybe just my poor perception, but I felt that at low level my scrapper felt like it was dishing out more damamge than my brute at the same low level. So much so, that I stopped leveling the brute in the teens and ran the scrapper all the way to 50 and still love to play him over most of my other brutes that I have had for a while.
I have two KM toons one a km/fA brute an the other a km/elc scrapper,
Now the Scrapper is trapped in preatoria at lvl 14 and the random crits are
getting on my nerves !
The brute meanwhile is steamrolling on his way to lvl 35.
now i know that brutes nolonger can out-damage scrappers but.
why does it feel like the brute hits harder .
my fear is that ill go with the brute an team on a ITF an see a scrapper hitting for 600's an ill be like "dang" i shoulda kept the scrapper .
So Really! which AT really gets the most out of KM an im talking with out team buffs