Soft capping a Shield Defense Scrapper is going to be expensive (~500 mil, minimum). Look at other /SD builds to get an idea of how to do it, then try to adapt those builds for MA.
500 Mil I can scrape up, I have looked at other builds but as I said I don't know which recipes are best, how many slots I should have etc.
You'd probably have more luck if you got a rough build together and asked for feedback.
To get you started, here are some general pointers:
You can 6 slot Touch of Death or Makos Bite in a few melee attacks for Melee or Ranged defense respectively.
Stick a Steadfast 3% def IO in True Grit for defense to all positions.
You can 6 slot Gaussian's Fire Control in Focus Chi for 2.5% def to Melee/Ranged/AoE.
Dragons Tail and Shield Charge can be 6 slotted with Obliterations for Melee defense, 5 slotted with Sciroccos for AoE defense or 6 slotted with Multi-Strikes for a bit of both.
If you take a Patron/APP ranged attack, Thunderstrikes will get you good ranged defense.
You can 6 slot Red Fortunes in your defense toggles to get some recharge and 2.5% ranged defense.
Pick up Tough and Weave, Weave being the more important of the two to stack for more defense to all positions.
Hope that helps 
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Why not just put the steadfast in tough, thats what i do. I know it is not the most efficient use of numi's/miracle uniques but i have 6 slotted one of those 2 sets in true grit on my shieldies
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Originally Posted by Silas
Stick a Steadfast 3% def IO in True Grit for defense to all positions.
Pick up Tough and Weave, Weave being the more important of the two to stack for more defense to all positions. |
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It's not necessarily that bad. I managed to do it with ~200 million over about a week's time and that was during the recent market inflation. I only spent 125 merits on some recipe I didn't want to pay for.|
Originally Posted by Syntax42
Soft capping a Shield Defense Scrapper is going to be expensive (~500 mil, minimum). Look at other /SD builds to get an idea of how to do it, then try to adapt those builds for MA.
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Now mind you this is just the softcapping part. I used alignment and reward merits for Numina/Miracle uniques and am still working on my LoTG recharges, but the actual softcapping was managed with about 200 million or so.
Edit: Oh yeah and I got my 3% global def using AE tickets, months ago before the recent AE farming trend. The rolls for it are pretty cheap and you can still make some bank on the other recipes you get. Sometimes.
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My price estimate was going by purely purchasing everything from the market, and not during this price spike while everyone respecs.|
Originally Posted by Heisenberg
It's not necessarily that bad. I managed to do it with ~200 million over about a week's time and that was during the recent market inflation. I only spent 125 merits on some recipe I didn't want to pay for.
Now mind you this is just the softcapping part. I used alignment and reward merits for Numina/Miracle uniques and am still working on my LoTG recharges, but the actual softcapping was managed with about 200 million or so. Edit: Oh yeah and I got my 3% global def using AE tickets, months ago before the recent AE farming trend. The rolls for it are pretty cheap and you can still make some bank on the other recipes you get. Sometimes. |
Merit rewards can save you a lot of inf, and they can make you a lot for putting your builds together. I saw LOTG global recharges selling for 300 mil. Two of those can more than pay for an entire build if you wait for the market to cool down after everyone is done respeccing. Patience is the key to not wasting influence on the market.
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I've been using my hero merits to buy LotG +recharge and Numina's IO's, then selling them to bankroll my characters.|
Originally Posted by Syntax42
My price estimate was going by purely purchasing everything from the market, and not during this price spike while everyone respecs.
Merit rewards can save you a lot of inf, and they can make you a lot for putting your builds together. I saw LOTG global recharges selling for 300 mil. Two of those can more than pay for an entire build if you wait for the market to cool down after everyone is done respeccing. Patience is the key to not wasting influence on the market. |
1 week of farming a couple hours a night and I'm pretty much set on everything.
here is my build for a dm/sd scrapper, if it helps. if you are patient you can probably get it for ~250 mill (this one was funded by 2 LotG global rech enhancements i sold for 110mill each plus what i had already)
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melee defence is 44.93% so its not perfect but it works i cant solo avs and gms but i can "tank" them pretty easily
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I've posted for this problem before and I just want to see if anyone could post or make a build for my MA/SD scrapper, I've gotten suggestions but when I started IOing everything just became a disaster, I'm number challenged. I'm not taking a travel power because ninja run is fine for his concept and I'm open to the rest of the build, can someone help. I don't have a lot of money at my disposal so the cheaper the build to get to softcap the better.