when will scrappers get makeover

Anecdote:

I have a claw/inv scrapper that I rolled up prior to issue one. I have played that toon to death, even through the debacles of all the nerfs. (tele-scrapping. bleaaahh)

I rolled up a claw/inv brute when the games got merged. I have since leveled it to 50 and got a good build on it.

I've run them both a LOT, both with good to great builds, and the brute is the better toon.

If you don't believe my obviously unscientific methods, do it for yourself. There's lots of combos to choose from. The only scrappers that have any noticeable edge over any brute build are the ones that gain lots of pseudopet damage. I love me my elec/elec, for example.

I dont understand this "scrappers suck now, fix scrappers" sort of thinking. If you think brutes and stalkers are better than scrappers, play them. You are not stuck playing the one AT that you hate. I prefer scrappers because they are the no BS, no gimmicks AT that just kicks *** right out of the box. If you disagree, just go chase your brute fury and STFU.

Well racism is just an American tradition, like apple pie and baseball. Don't mind stoners myself although they get boring after a while...can definitely use some porn in here. The rest? Meh, take it back.

I just can't imagine 4chan going on a crusade to get scrappers buffed. Nothing in this thread indicates that they are here, and the lack of gore and child porn is pretty strong evidence that this is not some 4chan conspiracy. Yeah people that play this game also post on 4chan, but more of them use Facebook so we should probably just rant about the Facebook crusaders.

Scrappers have something of their own: the highest no caveat damage and the durability to deliever it safely. By "no caveat", I meant they don't have to worry about Fury like Brutes do or hop through the hoops Stalkers have to jump through to achieve that high ST DPS (not AoE, ST). They might not have shiny mechanisms, but I see a ton of them on teams. I understand there might be a certain envy of Stalkers getting something shiny, but there're people who like Scrappers' simplicity (at least some've already posted in this thread).

In short, scrappers are workhorse melee DPS characters and that's essentially their role in the game. And it seems like they're doing just fine at that role.

If that's not interesting enough, you might want to try out the more 'fancy' melee ATs. I'm personally not really playing scrappers, but that's in large part because I play far more support ATs than melee ATs (controllers being in the largest majority, but with other support ATs following them in numbers). And my current favorite melee character's a Dark/Stone Tanker both because I like mezzes and knockdowns, and because I enjoy helping keeping the team going smoothly. What I'm saying is that we all have different tastes and you might be finding that the Scrapper AT isn't as much to your taste as you had thought.

Alternatively, you might want to try the newer melee sets, which seem to be tending toward more fancy mechanisms like the one Stalkers just got. Heck, I recently tried a Street Justice Stalker on the test server and it was a little too much for me juggling both the mechanisms of StJ combos and Assassin Focus. Seems like I can only really comfortably manage one such mechanism at a time.

As for "what could it hurt"?, it's a matter of dev prioritization. Not just the time to code (which for some of the suggestions might be trival), but the time to decide what to code (i.e. design time). I'd rather see the attention paid to archetypes and powersets with real issues - the Blaster threads having convinced me they need real help, for one.