Unless you're planning on teaming up with a bunch of ranged toons. Taunting the oppositions blasters etc as well as nading them and all other sorts of disruption I would consider re rolling. No melee toon is going to be helpful to anyone getting on a spike, if thats your goal then re roll.
@Psycho Jas
I always did fine on my fire melee/regen scrap until KM was released and was just better but since that's no longer an option I still think Fire or MA is a nice choice for casual zone though for fight club I would say SS brute/tank or claws/kat scrapper.
As for epics; with the fire epics for a scrapper you can do quite a bit of ranged dmg, char and fire blast hit hard and char opens a nice opportunity to hit with your biggest attack easily. Also like Jas said, web nades and taunt are ridiculously annoying, even in zone. You could still dish out 'damage' and web and taunt people. Fossilise on tanks is still great also.
As for secondary, energy aura is pretty damn amazing.
Goodluck with your toon .
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Mortilance - Elec/WP Stalker
I quite fancy a melee toon for Rv, something very survivable and will still manage to get kills...
What would you suggest, influence is no object.
I have looked into;
Wp/Ss Tank
Invul/Dm Tank
EnergyA/Dm Scrapper
Elec/Spines Scrapper
Ss/Elec Brute
Ss/Ea Brute
I am unsure what would be most effective or enjoyable, I am also considering Street Justice as the numbers on mids look good... so, ye em suggestions and thoughts please??
p.s - I am trying to avoid regen and the flack that comes along with having one.
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