Fire/Shield Aspiration

Hello Forumites. My Fire/Shield scrap is my favorite toon and I've had him in his current incarnation for a very long time. Once tip mishes opened up the possibility of PVP IOs (I don't PVP normally) and Fitness became inherent, it became obvious that my favored son needed an update.

Via this new build, he's still softcapped to all positions though the Melee is exactly at 45% (no wiggle room). I borrowed HEAVILY from Fury_Flechette's excellent master guide on FM/SD for this and I'm hoping that some of the buildcrafters in the scrapper forum will have some suggestions on how to improve this further. It adds three new purple sets for 30% more recharge than what I had and I'm using the Spiritual Alpha.

Also, my mastery of Mids is mildly mitteny- I can't seem to find where it tells me my DDR? I know I've built towards it, but I can't find any totals?

One last thing, with the amount of +recharge this build now has, would I be better served by a different ST attack chain than Incinerate-Scorch-Cremate-Scorch?

Thanks in advance for any and all help.


Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.90
http://www.cohplanner.com/

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Helltech1: Level 50 Technology Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Fiery Melee
Secondary Power Set: Shield Defense
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Medicine
Ancillary Pool: Blaze Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Scorch -- T'Death-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(A), T'Death-Dmg/Rchg(3), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx(5), T'Death-Acc/Dmg(9), T'Death-Dam%(11), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(13)
Level 1: Deflection -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(23), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(23), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(40), GA-3defTpProc(42)
Level 2: Cremate -- Mako-Acc/Dmg(A), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx(3), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(5), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(9), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(11), Mako-Dam%(13)
Level 4: Battle Agility -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(34), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(43)
Level 6: Build Up -- GSFC-ToHit(A), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg(7), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg/EndRdx(7), GSFC-Rchg/EndRdx(15), GSFC-ToHit/EndRdx(15), GSFC-Build%(17)
Level 8: True Grit -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Numna-Heal(39), Numna-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(39), Numna-Heal/Rchg(39), Numna-EndRdx/Rchg(40), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(40)
Level 10: Active Defense -- HO:Membr(A), HO:Membr(17), HO:Membr(46)
Level 12: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), Ksmt-ToHit+(34)
Level 14: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(37)
Level 16: Against All Odds -- EndRdx-I(A)
Level 18: Fire Sword Circle -- Armgdn-Dmg/Rchg(A), Armgdn-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(19), Armgdn-Acc/Rchg(19), Armgdn-Dmg/EndRdx(31), Armgdn-Dam%(31)
Level 20: Super Speed -- Winter-ResSlow(A)
Level 22: Boxing -- Empty(A)
Level 24: Tough -- Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(A), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(42), Aegis-Psi/Status(42), Aegis-ResDam(43), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(43)
Level 26: Incinerate -- Hectmb-Dmg/Rchg(A), Hectmb-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(27), Hectmb-Acc/Rchg(27), Hectmb-Dmg/EndRdx(31), Hectmb-Dam%(33)
Level 28: Weave -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(29), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(29)
Level 30: Phalanx Fighting -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 32: Aid Other -- Heal-I(A)
Level 35: Shield Charge -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(36), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(36), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(36), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(37), Oblit-%Dam(37)
Level 38: Aid Self -- Heal-I(A)
Level 41: Char -- BasGaze-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(A), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(46), BasGaze-Acc/Hold(50), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(50)
Level 44: Fire Blast -- Apoc-Dmg/Rchg(A), Apoc-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(45), Apoc-Acc/Rchg(45), Apoc-Dmg/EndRdx(45), Apoc-Dam%(46)
Level 47: Fire Ball -- Ragnrk-Dmg/Rchg(A), Ragnrk-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(48), Ragnrk-Acc/Rchg(48), Ragnrk-Dmg/EndRdx(48), Ragnrk-Knock%(50)
Level 49: Grant Cover -- EndRdx-I(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Critical Hit
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 2: Health -- Mrcl-Rcvry+(A), RgnTis-Regen+(21), Mrcl-Heal(21)
Level 2: Stamina -- P'Shift-EndMod(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(25), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc/Rchg(25), P'Shift-Acc/Rchg(33), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(33), P'Shift-End%(34)

Any chance you could post the datachunk? Forgot to add, the DDR is in "View Totals" in the "Status" totals part down at the bottom.

At your level of recharge you can run the top chain, Incinerate -> Greater Fire Sword -> Cremate. You should probably have Hecatomb in Greater Fire Sword for that, but it'll probably only matter when your recharge is debuffed if you're taking the Spiritual alpha. However, that requires one more power pick. You can do almost as much DPS at lower recharge and save a pick by running Incinerate -> Cremate -> Fire Sword. Incinerate keeps the Hecatomb in that case, and your attack chain is more resistant to recharge debuffs. That's what I'd do unless you're shooting for a top Pylon soloing time.

You can't really see total DDR for Shield Defense for a couple reasons. First, Mids' doesn't let you stack Active Defense the way you can in the game. Second, Mids' applies ED to the defense enhancement in the debuff, except that the game currently does not... or didn't last time I checked. There have been a couple patches since I checked. I assume that's a bug, though, and will get patched, so Mids' is probably reporting the number you can count on. So just look at the powers individually and add them up, including Active Defense twice because of your recharge. You can see the DDR numbers for each power as the "Res(Def)" number in the Effects tab. Looks like for Grant Cover it's "Res(Multi)".

Data chunk of your build for Sweetcake and others that need it:

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Thanks for the info, Werner and Sweetcake. I found that DDR ranking in mids at last and now I know what's going on with it. Happy Scrapper.

One other thing Werner- would I be able to run the Incinerate-GFS-Cremate combo with 20% less recharge than the build currently shows? I'm missing 2 of the purple sets, but I'm itching to revamp the toon immediately.

Do you have a link to Fury's guide? I can't seem to find it in either the scrapper guides or Fury's sig. Thanks!

prolly this one

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=216944