Destiny buffs for Scrappers

Ok, obvious benefits of Barrier are obvious what with "the new softcap" on trials and the +res, but for regular content my old stale softcap is just fine and I don't plan on grinding trials until my eyes bleed anyway. Plus, so many other people are taking Barrier.

I don't need extra mez protection and already have a spammable self-heal in Siphon Life. Although my self-healless /SR Scrapper will (eventually) be all over Rebirth like a cheap prom dress.

On the other hand +recharge is always nice and the debuff resistance looks pretty sweet, and I'm not seeing it used much. Can anyone comment on its usefulness? It immediately made me think of ACU "all your powers are tiny dots" patches, KoA caltrop spam, dual Master Illusionists both popping Fluffies and those annoying seers with their annoying Drain Psyche, and being able to tell all those things to suck tentacles, but how useful is it in practice?

I took Ageless on my ma/regen because regen loves recharge, and buffing the recharge of everybody around me in the process is almost just a perk. It does have a noticeable effect.
However, what I really noticed/liked is that the +recovery in the T2 will completely fill the blue bar of everybody it hits, and then keep it full for a bit. I'm not sure how it interacts with recovery debuffs yet, but some squishies on an ITF who were sucking wind pretty hard loved me by the time we finished.

My suggestion would be, to get various T3s from the destiny line and slot the one that will be most beneficial before whatever Trial/TF you're about to do.

The T3 does not require an ultra-rare salvage, and can be had over a weekend of dedicated trial running, maybe less if you get lucky with rare drops (I seem to get uncommon success rewards often, so I break them down for threads to get commons - its pretty quick work) - at worst it will take you a few days.

Even if it takes you longer, look at it as a long term goal, picking up X Destiny power for now, and then Y and Z at a later date.

Destiny has so many interesting choices, that I will most likely be grabbing multiple T3s for my main character.


This is one of the aspects of the Incarnate system I don't think most people are taking advantage of, its time consuming and it requires more focus on fewer characters vs. lots of characters - but if you're that kind of player it adds an amazing element of adaptability.

The best part is, these are league wide buffs. You can, as a Scrapper, literally save the day and turn the tide of a bad fight your team is having on an STF or LGTF or something with a well-planned and well-timed Destiny buff.

Well, if you can only take just one then it would really depend on the build.

You've mentioned Rebirth for your SR, what is the other Scrapper you're talking about?

DM/SD. It's already a high-recharge build with Hasten and Soul Drain close to perma, sitting at 49% melee defense and 47% ranged and AoE, and about 93% DDR with three level 50+ Membranes in Active Defense (I'll be making them 50++ once I scrounge up the inf). With Conserve Power and Dark Consumption I don't really have end problems either, barring Mu Guardians, lucky Sappers and those stupid Seers.

I just raised a similar point w/tanks on the tanker forum, but, I was also thinking SR & Shields scrappers w/Rebirth Radial Epiphany would be pretty sick. High def layered w/a massive heal & regen.

I considered getting Barrier since I have the high regen/heal from being a /regen, but I already have enough melee defense that a small purple puts me up over 45% which is more than enough solo. In any of the trials that would make me want to reach the defense cap for them, somebody else will almost certainly be running barrier, so it would become a bit superfluous for me to have it as well. With that thought it boiled down to clarion or ageless which wasn't a difficult decision to make at all. I can however see where Rebirth would be very good for Defense sets without access to a heal outside of the medicine pool.

I have the t3 regen destiny on my BS/SD, and it's pretty amazing. The first few seconds are basically a full heal, followed by over a minute of much-improved regen. Not to mention that you can use it to save teammates!

I took Barrier on my DM/Regen, and plan it, honestly, for all of my Regens. In general, when I get in trouble on them, even the top tier for Ageless wouldn't save them except in specific circumstances, such as the danger being due to defense debuffs or because I can almost heal in time, but not quite. In the vast majority of practical cases I can come up with, having a second MoG (on sterioids) would deal with with either issue in most cases. In fact, Barrier deals with cases that MoG does not, such as Psi damage.

Now I plan on Rebirth for my BS/Invuln. This is a character that's at or nearly at the typed damage cap for most damage types. Extreme psi is certainly bad news, but most of the situations where it is a serious issue (Psi-wielrding AVs, surrounded by high-con Psi bosses) wouldn't really be rectified by the relatively short duration of the higher mitigation levels Barrier would offer to Psi damage. Instead, on that character I am going for the Core Rebirth, which is able to be perma outside of its activation time, and its smallest, longest-lasting +regen benefit is +200%. (!)

By the way, anyone looked at Radial Rebirth on something like a Willpower Tanker?

I took rebirth on my DM/SD since I'm set on defense and I have archmage and one with the shield for resistances. Ran an Apex today and was able to solo a pylon with all 5 hydra beating on me with all that popped which I hadn't been able to do before after the team got gibbed by those stupid toxic-spewing hydra. Capped defense/resistances plus 10 percent hp/sec regen is like a warm fuzzy bubble <3

I went with the rebirth + regen Destiny on my kat/da. I like layering defenses, and a permanent 200% (once I get my t3->t4) regen stacked on top of my defense and resist seems like a nice filler while Dark Regen is down.

If I had end issues, I would be sorely tempted to take Ageless for the +rech with the +end as a bonus. But I don't... so... Hmm.