Uses for Burnout

I was wondering if my fellow Scrapper lovers came up with any cool and unusual uses for Burnout. I haven't transferred any scraps over to Beta yet, but when I do I intend to try out Burnout on my FM/SD.

Obviously I will double up on Shield Charge, FSC and see how awesome that is. I might even throw Spring Attack. OC can be slotted for recharge so with just ED slotting you can get it down to 15 minutes. With some more +recharge slotting and spiritual you could easily get it to sub 10 minutes.

Off the top of my head I'm thinking:

Double Soul Drain
Double Build Up
Double Fiery Embrace?
God-Mode *Wait for it to wear off* -OC-God-Mode
Build Up>FE>Burn>Lightning Rod>Spring Attack -OC- Build Up>FE>Burn>Lightning Rod>Fire Ball>Judgement (OMFG!)
Instant Healing *wait till it wears off* -OC- Instant Healing

These combos aren't something you can do all the time, but when you can do them it's gonna make you feel like a total badass. *not a scrapper* but I just thought of dropping two Acid Mortars and 2 Poison Traps and 2 Triage Beacons on my /traps

What I want to know is if the debuff will persist through defeat. If not, I'm thinking use long recharge powers->Burnout->Self Destruct->rez, and you get all your powers recharged without the debuff.

One with the Shield is going to be great for this. I will love it!

I thought Burnout couldn't be enhanced for recharge? Was it changed?

Seems like if alpha slotting and recharge enhancements work then the global bonus issue sounds more like a bug. Either that or it's setting a new precedent.

I've made a Youtube video that I captured with Fraps from beta with my Elec/Fire/Pyre Scrapper using the combo I mentioned above. It's uploading now so I'll post the link when it goes live. I'll give you all a teaser. It's pretty nasty.

Edit: OK here's the link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0oljtXO9B8

It's still processing as of this moment but when it's done you'll be able to watch it in full 1080p

It should like like Mario's A jump from Super Mario World.

Perma elude with my kat/SR scrapper is what I am thinking with burnout and double build up sounds nice not to mention i can do something like this.

BU-GD-BO-BU-GD

Obviousliy this is a combo only when burnout is up and probably I will need to put conserve power before first build-up and elude after second GD but putting double build up on second GD which has a higher critical chance......priceless. Ofcourse this requires testing and I should see if I can put another one or two attack before first BU expires into chain.

With perma elude I will aim for different focus on SR's usual powers (higher acc, to-hit, damage, end mod, regen etc) instead of trying to reach soft cap.

How are people saying things like "perma elude" with reference to Burnout?
Just how fast can you get Burnout recharging exactly? Wouldn't a power need to have a duration as long as the recharge on Burnout to use it to get something perma?

It will be interesting; no doubt there.

My DM/SR already hase about 195% global (with hasten), and I can stack Soul Drain but the count only goes up to 11 - no matter how many targets I hit. I think Castle capped that.

Strength of Will, One with the Shield: I thought they had *fixed* recharge times that couldnt be modified.

If that is true, /Shield and /WP are big winners for survivability bonuses. And if you take body mastery, the -end would be covered well by CP. I'll seriously consider it on my /regen for all the tools including shadow meld. Interesting times ahead for a lot of secondaries.

INV and SR, hmm.... they still have pretty bad crashes, my DM/SR will cope with dark consumption, but the -health on INV may still really suck. Wish they'd change that, but I dont see it happening at all.

I think it can be nice on an invul brute, despite the HP crash. You'd activate Burnout right before the first Unstoppable drops, could click Unstop again (still having 90% res during the crash) and DP as soon as you get a tick of end.

Scrappers are admittedly a whole other story, chances are whatever you're against that required Unstop use would be hard to survive with only 75% res and part of your defense...

They're looking at the possibility of lessening the crash on blaster nukes these days. Maybe someday down the line they'll look at the possibility of thinking about perhaps doing something that could be like that on armor T9s.

Has anyone tested to see if using a crashing power (such as Unstoppable) again before it crashes cancels the crash? For instance, rage has a big defense crash that is stopped by using it before the crash. If so, Burnout is much more useful

I remember well the days of perma-Elude (which, by the way, was more powerful than the soft-cap today because of the defense mechanics), I also joined in May of '04. Kids now-a-days don't understand what it was like back in the good old days. Back when Hamis were 50%/50% enhancers, a character could hit the damage cap just through enhancements, scrappers and tankers could get better survivability than today even without perma-T9s, etc. Oh, and perma-hasten could be had very easily (just 6 slot it, and that's if it wasn't a toggle at the time!). But the best thing was the aggro cap. Cheap, yes, but herding all of Perez Park on my D3 was a great feeling.

Anyway, it's too bad that the crash still impacts, though I guess it still follows the rage model (-def canceled, but health/endurance hits still apply). I guess Unstoppable is still not a power I'll use, but this is great for those with just end crashes or smaller crashes like SoW.