How does the scrapper ATO set compare?

The ATO sets seem to be live and sorta working now.

Has anyone tried the scrapper set yet? How does it work?

I do not see them at the reward merit vendor like on beta. Maybe they are only active as drops?

From the posts I've seen of pre-beta info on the sets, the scrapper set is far and away the best of the AT sets. I personally expect it to cost twelve billion on the market and take a while to obtain through that route. 5% s/l defense, 10% recharge, and it enhances your critical chances across the board, making one of the best inherents better still. I'm glad I can afford some super packs!

You can get the ATO's from the A-Merit vendor in Ouro.

I don't know (or especially care) how exactly it compares to the other ATO sets, but the scrapper set compares very favorably to IO sets. Every set bonus is useful, and it lets you get both recharge and S/L defense from the same power, even in an AoE. It doesn't even have Obliteration's severe endredux problem. The crit bonus is gravy on top of all that.

Well okay, I suppose I'd be safer if I called it the best AT set in terms of quality times AT popularity since I didn't actually check every single other AT set before making that determination. What I do know is that I play a lot of scrappers and this set is good for every single one of them*, with the critical chance boost standing out. You can look at it as 2% or you can look at it as 40% but any way you slice it it raises scrapper damage in a multiplicative way that never existed before. I'll take it!

* Oh and when I use the word good there I mean better than any purple set.

We're also being a little modest here: the 2% crit chance increase is against minions. Against anything higher it's 4% higher crit chance, and with certain powers you can bump that up to 6%. That starts looking pretty beastly pretty fast.

I wonder if this ramps up CS' chance to crit appropriately. Could be pretty interesting if so, considering it has a much higher than normal chance. +40%, right? So 28% chance to instantly recharge PS instead of 20%? Yum.

Well if that's the case it sounds like beta scrappers need to be lobbying for fixes so it works as advertised. My internet isn't really up to getting it myself.

I could be misunderstanding. I thought it modified the crit rate on a per-attack basis? As in, attacks with higher base crit rates will be improved more. I assumed that mauk was informing me that no! Such is not the case. It only improves by the basic minion scale.

I don't know who to believe anymore! What is it doing, and which behavior is working as intended?

Honestly though, even if it is only 2% across the board I'll still happily buy tons of these sets.

Makes sense. After crowing about how this is by far the best AT set I can hardly complain when it is slightly less overpowered than I thought it would be, hah.

I have to say that ceteris paribus, s/l defense is the most valuable kind. By "kind" here I mean "type pair or position." Not only do the AT sets give a purple bonus worth of s/l in some cases, they're the only way to get that. Not only are they the only way to get a purple bonus worth of s/l, as far as I'm aware the only ultimate defense bonuses remain the ranged defense bonus from coercive persuasion and the various s/l 5% bonuses from the AT sets. This puts the most valuable kind of defense bonus into a class of its own, as if it weren't already. The fact that you can double up on them by going half orange half purple is just kind of silly if you ask me.