Got my butt kicked by Carnies....

I figured a da/stone tanker could be fun OG + Fault stacked mag 2 stuns if we had stone on a scrapper I so build a stone/da scrapper

I am sure da/mace go together well with the disorients and OG

I tried this on a brute. End-consumption to rival fire/storm corrs and trollers. And that was after shifter, miracle, and numina procs. It was just attrocious. Perhaps I'll revisit the concept now with the alphas... but it's gruelingly end-heavy without.

Wish there were indeed more smash damage sets on scrappers though.

I know a guy who did this with a Brute. I think he slotted everything resist-based with Impervium Armor. He had some really extreme recovery for a set without a QR clone. If I remember right, it was around 4 EPS. He loved it, because it was sort of ridiculous against normal content. He used to go hang out in the Fab and juggle multiple Arachnos Bane Spider executioners.

I don't think he really built it for +defense at all, but for what he was doing with it, that wasn't a problem. It'd be interesting to see how a build like that would do against something like the RWZ challenge, granting the ability to corner pull or something to get everything in the stun radii. DA's low energy resist would make it brutal, but I'm betting it could be pulled off with a fair tolerance for failed runs. Clearly it wouldn't be all that against something that had sufficient mez protection.

Dark/Stone scrankers are fun, but by god they are heavy on the endurance. They're also not as good against Carnies as a non-Granite stone tanker with a similar level of investment in the build IME/O.

(please note, neither my Stone/Fire nor Dark/Stone tankers have uber builds, they both have a few IO's here and there, usually to fill annoyances while they were levelling and that's about it : -KB and +recovery IO's for the Dark, +move speed for the Stone and Steadfast Res/Def for both)

The main difference being that while Dark Armour resists end drains, so does Stone Armour, but Stone also dodges most of the [Psychic Visage] End Drains if you've got Minerals running and well slotted.

Dark Armour can keep coming back from next to no health through generous application of Dark Regeneration. Stone has to do with Earths Embrace when it's recharged. Dark can also easily deal with coming back from zero health via Soul Transfer with just a recharge in the basic slot.

All that being said, I vastly prefer my Stone/Fire to my Dark/Stone against Carnies, because I've never been held on my Stone/Fire versus carnies due to high Psi defence, whereas I've been held pretty easily by a large spawn including two MI's who sprogged their Illusionist pets and then all hit Flash/Blind, which was enough to burn through my mez protection... Bye bye damage mitigation toggles, hello there floor, I wonder what you taste like today?

QFT. Getting a lucky 4th mag on an MI before the DS summons is very helpful too. I just get in the habit of manually targeting any smoky cloud I see. The DS just makes everything harder. After they are clear, Phantasms go down or the MI if they are unphased and targeted first.

I have a slightly different approach to MI's.

1) Dark Servants are terminated with extreme prejudice. Immediately, if not sooner.
2) The Master Illusionist herself is next on the hit list. She does far more damage than the Phantasm can, and as soon as you take her out, any Illusionists she summoned go away, too.
3) the Phantasm is way down the bottom of the list, after any other mobs in the spawn, I've never found the Phantasm (or it's Decoy) to do enough damage to worry about. Seneschals, non-summoned Illusionists, Steel Strongmen and Fencers are all more dangerous than a Phantasm, IMO.

It all depends on personal tastes, preferences and what you're playing, though.

On my Katana/Regen, MoG is a major part of dealing with Dark Servants and Dark Ring Mistresses. Because Twilight Grasp is NE typed, MoG gives me enough time to take out a Dark Servant while Focused Accuracy and Build up make sure I hit it. Against DRM's, it's slightly different. Run in with Build up firing off, and then hit Soaring Dragon and Golden Dragonfly, hopefully one of them will knock the DRM down, giving me time to hit MoG, which means that by the time she's back on her feet, she can't hit me with Twilight Grasp OR (and this is the important bit) Mask of Vitiation, which is also NE typed.

Without TG or Mask of Vitiation, DRM's are a walkover for a lethal damage typed scrapper, given the Carnies oh so pleasant weakness to lethal damage.

Please note, I'm not saying that my way is the only way or best way, it's just what works for me.

Silly Werner, don't you know the new DPS tanker is Fire/SS...

... Or whatever Iggy chooses to play at the moment. Best to just drop everything and follow suit.