Questions about the Scrapper ATO Proc


Hopeling

 

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I have a Scrapper's Strike proc, but I don't have room in my build for it right now, so I can't test how it works. I'm working on a new build, and I want to make sure it works like I expect.

1. It boosts the crit chance of all attacks, not just the attack it's slotted in, right?
2. I assume it functions as a set bonus, and I keep it as long as I don't exemplar too low for the set? (below 7 for the regular, any level for the purple)

The build I'm planning right now has all my attacks 6-slotted. I can't remove any of these slots, because they're all needed for set bonuses that I want to keep. I wasn't planning on slotting the full Scrapper's Strike set, and I currently have one power selection left, so I was considering picking one of the attacks I skipped at 49, and just using it as a mule for the SS proc. I just want to make sure that it will work as I'm expecting. If so, my build's ready to go. If not, I've got some re-planning to do.


@Roderick

 

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You've got Brawl, right?


 

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Brawl does not take ATO sets. Nor Boxing, nor epic pools.

The answer to question 1 is yes. I'm not certain on question 2, but presumably it works like a global bonus, so it will function down to level 7, or at any level for the purple version. It might conceivably work at any level; it would be very strange, and almost certainly a bug, for it to work in a narrower level range.


 

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Originally Posted by Hopeling View Post
Brawl does not take ATO sets. Nor Boxing, nor epic pools.
First things I checked were Brawl and Boxing, followed closely by Energy Torrent (which I could slip an extra slot into). As Hopeling says, none of them would accept it.

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The answer to question 1 is yes. I'm not certain on question 2, but presumably it works like a global bonus, so it will function down to level 7, or at any level for the purple version. It might conceivably work at any level; it would be very strange, and almost certainly a bug, for it to work in a narrower level range.
Great! That's what I thought. I'll grab a throwaway power at 49 and stick it in there then.

Does it give any feedback to let you know if it's working, such as showing the chance to crit rolls in a chat channel? I don't recall seeing the rolls for crits before, but if they do show, it would be possible to see how it works while exemplared.


@Roderick

 

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Originally Posted by Roderick View Post
Does it give any feedback to let you know if it's working, such as showing the chance to crit rolls in a chat channel? I don't recall seeing the rolls for crits before, but if they do show, it would be possible to see how it works while exemplared.
Not that I know of, other than getting more crits. In principle, this increase can be measured; in practice, since it's a fairly small change (1-2% for the non-superior version), you need a lot of attacks to say with any confidence whether it's working. As far as I know, nobody has gathered sufficient data on that yet (or at least, they haven't posted it). The Superior version is currently broken and not increasing crit chance at all, but that will be fixed in i22.


 

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Currently purple scrapper critical bonus is bugged and not working as intended (i think it does not give porper critical hit chance) if you are going to put it as one slotter than don't upgrade it until i22 comes live.

With i22 the scrapper ATO will give a set number of bonus which is +%2 for minions and +%4 for others for normal set and +%3 for minions and +%6 for others for purple set. (which is an increase from what current set is doing actually)

For your second question I just tried to exempler down to level 7 in an ouro mission and I can see both set bonuses (eventhough it was on a power that is not active at level 7) in combat attribute window and large critical bonus icon under my characters Health bar.