Need some help reaching the softcap, build inside. Fire/Shield Scrapper.

Hey guys,

After a lot of reading (but apparently not enough), I've finally put together a build I kinda like.

After a crazy 10h playing session yesterday I almost reached 50, so I NEED to finish my scrapper build NOW.

Please help!

The budget is 1-2Bil. If someone stop ******* with the respec recipes market it might reach 4Bil. :P

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Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1,942
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Level 50 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Fiery Melee
Secondary Power Set: Shield Defense
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Blaze Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Scorch

• (A) Accuracy IO

Thanks to Eden Wolf for pointing out I had combat jumping toggled off...
Lol.
It's now softcapped with maneuvers instead of assault.
Gotta optimize endurance now...

Something I noticed, If I take out phalanx fighting def drops by ALOT. When it's toggled on in MIDS does it consider 7 ppl around me? If so I'm far from softcapped solo...

New build:

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1,942
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t me: Level 50 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Fiery Melee
Secondary Power Set: Shield Defense
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Blaze Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Scorch

• (A) Accuracy IO

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
• (27) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/Endurance
• (40) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
• (40) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
• (40) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
• (50) Steadfast Protection - Knockback Protection

• (A) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage
• (34) Mako's Bite - Damage/Endurance
• (37) Mako's Bite - Damage/Recharge
• (39) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
• (39) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
• (39) Mako's Bite - Chance of Damage(Lethal)

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
• (33) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
• (34) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
• (34) Luck of the Gambler - Defense

• (A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance
• (17) Numina's Convalescence - Endurance/Recharge
• (17) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Recharge
• (31) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
• (33) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
• (33) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery

• (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff
• (9) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance
• (9) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance
• (11) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge
• (11) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up
• (13) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
• (15) Recharge Reduction IO

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed

• (A) Accuracy IO

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO

• (A) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge
• (19) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance
• (19) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge
• (25) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage
• (31) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance

• (A) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
• (21) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
• (21) Aegis - Endurance/Recharge

• (A) Gift of the Ancients - Defense
• (23) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Endurance
• (23) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Recharge
• (25) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Endurance/Recharge

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed

• (A) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage
• (27) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
• (29) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
• (31) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance/Recharge

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
• (29) Recharge Reduction IO

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO

• (A) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage
• (43) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance
• (43) Touch of Death - Damage/Recharge
• (43) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
• (46) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
• (50) Touch of Death - Chance of Damage(Negative)

• (A) Obliteration - Damage
• (36) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
• (36) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
• (36) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
• (37) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
• (37) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge

• (A) Steadfast Protection - Knockback Protection

• (A) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Hold
• (42) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Recharge
• (42) Basilisk's Gaze - Recharge/Hold
• (42) Basilisk's Gaze - Endurance/Recharge/Hold

• (A) Shield Breaker - Defense Debuff
• (45) Shield Breaker - Accuracy/Defense Debuff
• (45) Shield Breaker - Accuracy/Recharge
• (45) Shield Breaker - Defense Debuff/Endurance/Recharge
• (46) Shield Breaker - Chance for Lethal Damage
• (46) Shield Breaker - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge

• (A) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
• (48) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
• (48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
• (48) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
• (50) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance

• (A) Accuracy IO

• (A) Run Speed IO

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO

• (A) Run Speed IO

• (A) Miracle - Heal
• (7) Miracle - +Recovery
• (13) Miracle - Heal/Endurance
• (15) Regenerative Tissue - +Regeneration

• (A) Jumping IO

• (A) Performance Shifter - Accuracy/Recharge
• (3) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge
• (3) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
• (5) Performance Shifter - EndMod
• (5) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
• (7) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy

Please use short forum export with data chunks in the future. Long forum export is annoying to scroll past and most people use Mids to look at the build anyways. The data chunk is needed because the link doesn't work for everyone.

You will need to be close to perma-Hasten if you want to run the top attack chains for most power sets. I'm guessing the top attack chain is going to be GFS -> Incinerate -> Cremate. Slot Maneuvers better and you can change some of your defense bonus sets to recharge bonus sets.

Gift of the Ancients is not doing much for you in this build. You don't have 5 LOTG global recharges, so Weave should be slotted with 3-4 of the LOTG set. I would also move the one out of Phalanx Fighting and slot Maneuvers with a LOTG set. Put a Kismet 6% to-hit unique in Phalanx Fighting.

Steadfast Protection is a horrible set. You don't need the knockback protection because you get that from Active Defense. Just put the 3% defense unique in OWTS. Enhancing the resistance in Deflection is a secondary priority.

Phalanx Fighting gives 3.75% defense to all positions with no allies nearby and that portion of the power is not enhanceable. As long as you don't move the slider your build will be fine. Don't try to rely on allies nearby to soft-cap because you might be solo.

Grant Cover should be in your 49th power slot. One endurance reduction is fine. You will only need to run it for the defense debuff resistance. Also, leave Active Defense on auto-fire and try to slot 3 Membranes in it so you can reach 90% defense debuff resistance.

Crushing Impact is not a very useful set until you get it to the 5th slot. The recharge bonus is important.

Melt Armor is not worth the time it takes to cast. You could just continue using your attack chain and end up doing more damage. Even on teams, your damage debuff is going to be insignificant compared to a debuffer or even a Tanker.



Here is the build with suggested changes.

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I forgot to mention...
The build I posted requires the Spiritual tier 4 Alpha for the recharge bonus, and it is still .2 seconds away from running the attack chain seamlessly. However, if you move the Mako's Bite from Cremate to Greater Fire Sword (and ToD to Cremate), that fixes the gap in the attack chain.

As I near the build completion (I'm only missing the 3 Hami's and 2 or 3 LotG recharges) I realize how awesome it is.
Sure, I've just reached T4 alpha, T3 reactive and T3 judgement, but even without Ageless, end is not that big of an issue.

Yesterday I did some AE farming with a friend and geeze....this build is AWESOME.
I've not done the fire farm map, but I can max tickets in around 5minutes (yep) in another farm I'm using.

Atm I have 47%+ def to all, can fight +2/x8 with bosses NO PROBLEM (though I'd rather do +1 for easiness), always on aggro cap (around 30 mobs I think), AoE'ing everything to death.
OBVIOUSLY I'm using insps, why shouldn't I? they drop like MAD when AoE'ing.

Plus this build is FUN in groups, I can do my hero tips in like 20 mins per day and only gets ***** by Victorias in Trials and when trying to solo Elite Golhiats without insps.

I just realized that my DB/SR scrapper, which I enjoy very much, PALES in comparison to this FM/SD.

I think that with WAY more recharge (expensive) this would be a joke build. FSC, Fireball and Shield Charge non-stop. Maybe when I get ageless and all the LotGs...