Farewell.
It's so weird to think of having no more scrapper play soon.
My first 50 was a spines/regen scrapper on Justice, before I relocated to Freedom for teaming.
Scrappers are always nice to have at least a couple of on teams.
-BurnSucka.
"Melt 'em like butters!"
I started in CoV and played lots of brutes and stalkers. I looked at Scrappers but they didn't have anything close to Super Strength so I didn't take to them. Then they brought out Street Justice. My StJ/Will Scrapper called Wrong. (as in the wrong guy to mess with) became my favourite toon for a few months. I took him through the Trials, the new DA content and SSA1. I'm gald I got to experience the nonstop, madcap action of high level Scrapperage before the end.
The Scrapper boards changed the way I saw this game. I mean, I always liked scrappers. My first alt to 50 was a dark/regen scrapper that did a respec for every new issue trying out different powers. It wasnt until I started checking out the scrapper boards that I learnedd the true goodness of IOing. Stuff like soft cap def and the regen rule of recharge, recharge, recharge, def, and more recharge became common place in my build midset.
The stories of AV hunts, pylon times, RWZ challenge, soloing ITFs entertained me douring long hours at work and made me get the idea of building and trying that stuff too. This midset even carried over to other ATs I played.
The videos ive seen on youtube are legedary and I hope none you that posted them ever take them down. Im sure I will need a COH fix one day and the only thing ill be able to do is look at personal screen shots and You tube vids.
Ill never forget the all scrapper ITF, STF, and 8 man scrapper mothership raid that I was a part of a few years back. I regreat that I was able to do any of the incarnate trials and missed out on the apex and tin mage run.
I will miss all of this. I will miss the number debates, the build advice, the different build styles. I will even miss the regen haters and the nay sayers that said regen didnt need fixing even though some of the issues were fixed when it was ported to brutes. And they said stuff only got fixed when ported to scrappers. Ill miss all of the dead horse threads about giving scrappers SS and Nin. Now we will never get them. Or Em *sobs*
I hate that i24 will not go live. I24 was going to be IO greatness. I was looking forward to seeing how people were going to alter their builds in order to get the good stuff.
The thing im going to miss the most are my scrappers. The hours of work leveling and hours offline in Mids putting together builds. Im going to miss doing all of that. I dont think ill ever remove Mids. Ill talk about this game to somebody one day and ill need some sort of visual to help explain. I'll also tell them of great things that scrappers have done. Then ill pull up youtube to show vids.
Its time I say goodbye to all my scrapper friends. Ive had the honor of actually scrapping side by side with some of you. Those were good times I wont soon forget. What ever game you play next, make at one character that just flip out and kills and has the "You are not obligated to save me" attitude. When people ask what the hell you are doing? Just say "Scrapperlock".
Its a shame that the game shutting down is the one problem that cant be solved by throwing scrappers at. Or can it? Hmm...
"All problems can be solved by throwing enough scrappers at it."
@Riez on Virtue, Protector, Champion, and Exalted server.