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With how easy it is to get EA to the cap on Defenses, why SMeld?
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Originally Posted by StormDevil
For shame, Scrapper forum...no thread on this proliferation yet?
In my head, a Kat(BS)/EA/Soul, with SMeld in the back pocket (pre-Barrier), is looking pretty nice. |
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I will be going with DM, yes it is easy to get to the soft cap, but there is no such thing as overkill here.
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On one hand, finally a defense-based scrapper with an aggro aura that doesn't force you into a narrow concept range or lock out of certain primaries. Cool.
On the other hand, psi hole and Energy Cloak hiding your costume ; plus, specifically for scrappers, Overload being nowhere near as useful with the lower HP cap. Not so good.
To be fair, the other changes make the set look appealing nonetheless, but I'll pass until the GFX issue with Energy Cloak is fixed.
so you can sit at 60-80 defense before throwing overload? Why would you do that to yourself?
The set will probably function like ice armor without a gaping hole (negative still has some pretty high defense)
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This means, like ice, you can be at 45% normally, but can stack energy drain (just like energy absorption) to get up even higher, or even overload (with a healthy 40% hp boost), if needed (plus the DDR in overload is nice). | Energy Drain no longer has a healing component, instead it offers a small defense boost per target hit. |
Why even get barrier or Shmeld? I'm thinking nerve or spiritual, rebirth,
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I will be going with DM, yes it is easy to get to the soft cap, but there is no such thing as overkill here.
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That aside. Just seems to me, one is free to pick any Epic Pool that fits the concept with the changes to EA. Or one can go with min/max in mind, and I would think there's better pool for that.
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Seems like the defense numbers could be high enough you could skip the stealth cloak if you really wanted.
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Yes, especially since Energy Drain will give you defense now instead of heal.|
Originally Posted by Hai Jinx
Seems like the defense numbers could be high enough you could skip the stealth cloak if you really wanted.
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I did a s/l/e/n/f/c capped at 25 brute build without even using Kinect Combats. It uses the cloak but you can surely cap at higher levels without it.
On another note, with the changes it might give /SR a run for its money. Taunt aura, heal, end management, rech bonus (maybe as high as sr with 10 mobs around you? I don't think it will be less than 2% per mob) and when I made builds ignoring f/c defense I could get 60% s/l/e and 45% neg easily, that would allow you to shrug off some defense debuffs since /EA only has 51% DDR
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If the consensual assumption about new Energy Drain is true--that it's an Absorption copy--then yeah, forget Shadow Meld. I was initially thinking of a new-fangled "bridge" type of defense tricks, like the ones over in Werner's Kat/Regen thread.
EDIT: although some Def overkill is probably not a bad idea, since EA's DDR is...about 52%, I think.
45% defense doesn't cut it for me, and even if it did, the minmaxer on my shoulder wouldn't want to skip 6% def. That's a significant amount of slots that could be used for other things.
Plus, there's really no reason Energy Cloak shouldn't have a no/low FX option, like Cloak of Darkness does. My guess is so few people played/play EA and even fewer care about that specific thing, they didn't get enough complaints about it. The logical step is for me to whine twice as loud!
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Originally Posted by Nihilii
Plus, there's really no reason Energy Cloak shouldn't have a no/low FX option, like Cloak of Darkness does. My guess is so few people played/play EA and even fewer care about that specific thing, they didn't get enough complaints about it. The logical step is for me to whine twice as loud!
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Originally Posted by Nihilii
45% defense doesn't cut it for me, and even if it did, the minmaxer on my shoulder wouldn't want to skip 6% def. That's a significant amount of slots that could be used for other things.
Plus, there's really no reason Energy Cloak shouldn't have a no/low FX option, like Cloak of Darkness does. My guess is so few people played/play EA and even fewer care about that specific thing, they didn't get enough complaints about it. The logical step is for me to whine twice as loud! |
I just wouldn't let it stop me from playing the set. Didnt let it stop me on my /DA. /EA will be no different.
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I'm thinking I'll go for perma-Energize and stack that with Rebirth. Can't wait to play a KM/EA Scrapper! 
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Spines/EA seems promising. With a taunt aura to (hopefully) keep runners to a minimum and an endurance recovery power to allow nonstop fighting, it looks like it'll have to be my next Scrapper project.
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+1 Built in +recharge toggle, endless endurance and softcap s/l/e/n. Might replace my spines/wp.
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Originally Posted by TBoxer
Spines/EA seems promising. With a taunt aura to (hopefully) keep runners to a minimum and an endurance recovery power to allow nonstop fighting, it looks like it'll have to be my next Scrapper project.
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For shame, Scrapper forum...no thread on this proliferation yet?
In my head, a Kat(BS)/EA/Soul, with SMeld in the back pocket (pre-Barrier), is looking pretty nice.