Wanting to Roll Another Scrapper with Good PBAoE and AoE Attacks
Well if you are looking for a set that has some decent ranged attacks you might outta take a look at Claws
Elec/SD has good AOE and lightning bolt can be fired from range to bring you into melee. Have you tried that one?
Not a whole lot of ranged attacks for Scrappers except in the later pool powers.
We don' need no stinkin' signatures!
I recommend Dual Blades. Both of it's big hitters are cones and it has a nice PBAoE. Secondary with the most damage potential would be /FA but it can have durability issues until you IO it out. For jumping into big groups I could see SR, invuln or willpower working without a ton on IOs. It depends on what you're willing to spend.
If ranged attacks include epics, then that opens things up. If not, then you are really looking at Claws, or DB. If PBAoE can come from the secondary, then that also opens up options.
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Originally Posted by Suspicious_Pkg
Elec/SD has good AOE and lightning bolt can be fired from range to bring you into melee. Have you tried that one?
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Shield Charge works the same way.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
In the event you aren't opposed to doing spines again, here's my not exactly very well made, entirely too reliant on Ageless ranged scrapper, but still the build goal I have in mind: spines/dark/blaze. In game doesn't have all of the spendier pieces, but still pretty awesome to play. The thread itself has some of the thought process and a couple earlier versions.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...7&postcount=12
Active attacks are fireblast, fireball, ripper, throw spines, spine burst, and void judgement. 1 "melee" attack in the whole lot. Lunge is merely a mule. Toss on the paired awesomeness of quills and death shroud and commence operation SeaOfOrangeNumbers.
I dig impale, and kinda wish I still had it in there someplace - but I have tons of fun throwing a couple blasts in the time I could drop an impale, so you know, whatever. 
A more sensible person than I would be using Cardiac instead of musculature, then leveraging a different destiny power, but I just can't get over the buffed judgement damage. Silly reason, but I love it.
I think there was another ranged scrapper thread around here somplace as well.
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Since when did Dual Blades get a ranged attack?
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Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
If ranged attacks include epics, then that opens things up. If not, then you are really looking at Claws, or DB. If PBAoE can come from the secondary, then that also opens up options.
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Your character does not have capped defense. Depending on your AT the cap is between 175% - 225%. Your defense is not teal in the combat window, it can go higher. STOP SAYING IT IS CAPPED! The correct term is Soft Cap.
I enjoy playing in Mids. I specialize in Melee Characters, other AT's usually bore me.
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Poor wording on my part. Claws and DB both have AoEs with a PBAoE, which is what the person was looking for.
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Originally Posted by _Pine_
Since when did Dual Blades get a ranged attack?
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Ah ok. Thought I missed something 
Your character does not have capped defense. Depending on your AT the cap is between 175% - 225%. Your defense is not teal in the combat window, it can go higher. STOP SAYING IT IS CAPPED! The correct term is Soft Cap.
I enjoy playing in Mids. I specialize in Melee Characters, other AT's usually bore me.
Having rolled about 3 Scrappers so far, I had to ask myself what I like so much about being a Scrapper. My play style is more of a Blaster, being that I have a few of those, but getting slaughtered all the time as a Blaster got me thinking about rolling Scrappers for the first time more than a year ago. Now, I have a level 50 Kinetic Melee/Shield Defense, a level 50 Fiery Melee/Fiery Aura and a level 50 Spines/Regeneration. Out of those three, I would say my Spines/Reg seems to have the best PBAoE and AoE attacks though my Fiery/Fiery also has some good ranged attacks.
I ask this because part of my play style as a Scrapper is to jump into large groups and go-to-town. I love the fact that my Spines can rip through large groups rather smoothly as opposed to "cherry pick" my way through. That's one reason I love Blasters with their wide and varied ranged attacks that deal so much damage to large groups. So, with that being said, I want to roll another Scrapper that has some decent ranged attacks, even if its a few powers, but just need help in picking the right combo for my Primary and Secondary Power Sets. In all likelihood, I'll probably end up experimenting like I did with my first three but if anyone has some good suggestive builds, please throw them my way.