You won't be soloing Giant Monsters on a Scrapper except on some of the highest DPS builds chugging reds or using nukes. Not sure the reds are enough, actually. If that's the goal, I think you're looking at Dark Melee, Fire or Kinetic Melee with Shield Defense. I think. (Edit: Oh, wait. Envenomed Dagger. I pretty much never use temps, so I don't keep very good track of what they can do for you.)
If you're not concerned with time required, and just want a massively survivable build that can take down AVs and almost anything else, it's hard to go wrong with Dark Melee/Invuln.
My favorite is Katana/Dark, actually. You can hit 45% to all positions, have very good resistance, and have a full heal every fifteen seconds or so. But really, it's still not as solid as Dark Melee/Invuln when it comes to surviving multiple AVs. Heck, I haven't even tried multiple AVs with mine. No wait, I did once a year ago and face planted. I'm pretty sure it could do it just fine, though, just not as well as Dark Melee/Invuln.
So... Dark Melee/Shield Defense and nukes if you want to solo Giant Monsters, Dark Melee/Invulnerability if you want to solo multiple AVs at once. Those are my suggestions.
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Good to know I can count on you, Werner. Heh. DM/Inv it is.
Hello my fellow scrappers,
Running in to that all-too-familiar altitis and it's hitting me hard with scrappers. I know what I want him be able to do, and I damn well want him to do it well. I recently rolled a DM/Inv, and am quite pleased- however, I'm like a damn kid on Christmas. I see something, and I get this idea in my head, and I go "Hey!" and then go "Crap!"... I develop an idea in my head, but can't seem to think of a powerset to back it up. I love Invul, and I love SR... I love Shields, but they've been done.. Though, that doesn't mean I'm ruling them out if it's a must. For the love of- I want him to represent power! I want him to be the Chuck Norris of Scrappers! ...but not actually Chuck Norris, he's aging.
So, I started considering DB/Elec. Seems nice, yeah- but I feel as though it would be a bit on the squishy side. Broad Sword is nice too. I have a BS/Shield, but have lost my motivation to play him. Oh, to answer a valuable question ahead of time- Yes, I want him to be able to solo AV's, and if possible, GM's. Though, I also want him to be able to run in to a group, get wailed on to **** and go "That all you got, you panzies?!"
So... What are my options, because I'm overly hyper and altified to think rationally on this...