The Most Durable Scrapper?

On the subject of durability, do you think there is now more of a need to softcap Energy Defense these days? I don't believe softcapping S/L defense is enough anymore now that we are in the phase of iTrials and Praetorian enemies.

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Yeah, I used to think my dm/sr scrapper was the tops and impossible to beat. Then I rolled up a well-built dm/inv scrapper and realized how much nicer life is when defense is backed up by resistance and a fat heal on demand. Given equal inf investment, I found dm/inv is much tougher.

Tossing my vote in for dm/inv. Mine just plain doesn't die. Someone upthread was talking about killspeed as a survival mechanism; I didn't find it to be that important. My dm/inv gets hit rarely, takes less damage when he does get hit, and heals most or all of it back with a fast-recharging Siphon Life. If I take a mean hit, Dull Pain is there for me. I spend some time moving around, lining up SM, I find things die more than fast enough.

The forums are a great place for information.

Also a great place to run into people that like to argue just for the sake of it.

Best thing you can do is admit when you're wrong, be humble when you're right, and skip posts that simply look like they're in it for a fight rather than information. Most of the time, but not all of the time, you can tell the difference.

Now if they'd just make another primary that had a self heal in it, I'd be happy.

I hate dark melee. The lack of AoE is something I don't like. Furthermore, I have an intense dislike for shadowmaul.

Don’t try to frighten us with your mathematician's ways, Arcanaville… you sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped us conjure up those stolen DPS charts, or given you clairvoyance enough to beat down the giant mon-*GAGGGHH*

You know, I thought I could put that in perspective though.

I love dark melee as a single target set. It has incredible single target damage a wonderful self heal, an endurance recovery power, and all kinds of -tohit debuffs with a little AoE added in.

I still don't "like" dark melee though.

Doesn't mean I won't play the heck out of it either :P

DM was always my favourite melee set until the animation changes hit claws, for some reason I'd never really invested in claws before. I know DM doesn't have the AoE of other sets but I've always liked being the one to run up to the biggest and toughest looking foe and have at it when I play melee.

That's not to say I don't AoE melee sets, but if a TF or Trial is looming and I decide to pull out a scrapper it's always DM or Claws I go for. I know my Fire/Shield could do just as good a job but I don't see many other DM/WP or Claw/Invs on trials (on my home sever of defiant read Claw/WP and DM/SR which I did see plenty of others of cause pre-ios DM/SR was good for standing toe to toe with AVs and Claw/WP was simply the most fun thing I levelled.)

If I thought I could afford another Invul build I'd probably make a DM/Inv but my cheapest inv came out at 2billion. For some reason it isn't a set I can build a cheap version, it can start of cheap but by the time I end up actually making it happen a lot more cost has seeped in some how.

Hell I'd love a Fire or Elec melee invul scrapper too, its just a set that can cover lots of holes well and you don't need to worry about synergy as much as others, DA can be good but I find I need something to break the alpha or my endurance dies fast. SR works really well with the top up heal from DM but without it I feel weak. Obviously they're gaps that can be filled but its nice to have a secondary that doesn't need that to make it powerful.

For primaries I just tend to dislike sets I find ugly and Broad Sword. I dont find broad sword ugly but it was my test for solo levelling speed during a double XP weekend a while back and while I found it levelled quickly it was the dullest 16 hours I've spent in game. This was pre AE which kinda changed that with being able to build maps to suit your alt.......... I've really wandered off topic now, you shouldn't let me do that

Elec on a tank is a lot of fun if you had considered a tank, and just softcapped to S&L is good enough for most of the game. Something like Elec/Mace would be a good balance of survivability and damage.

Not tried elec armour on a scrapper yet, only on a tank and brute I do think the lack of +HP is my main turn off in the set. With sets I can get more regen on an Invul with DP up than I can on an Elec with Energise running thanks to the higher HP.

Rikti on an Elec are stupidly easy, from past experience. My Elec/Fire tank without any IOs found the LGTF a walk in the park.

Will be looking for ideas on a new alt once my Mace/DA hits 50 and am thinking of trying Energy Armour or Elec Armour as they're the only secondaries that I've yet to 50 on a scrapper maybe I can put aside the HP worries and give it a go