With last night's hitting of 50 on my Ill/Rad, I need a new project. I've decided on taking up my Claws/DA Scrapper again, but he's historically posed some challenges, and not necessarily because of the one non-standard build item I've given him. Anyway, I thought I'd turn to you all for build and/or powerset advice as this guy kinda needs it.

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Me and the wife have rolled a pair of DB/SR scrappers and the official boards have f*ckall for guides on SR. Anyone have experience in the set, know what to take and what to avoid?

Scrappers only have a paltry three epic pools. What's good about each one, and what sucks about each one?

My main, a kat/inv solo deathmonkey, just hit 41 and I'd like to broaden out into an epic pool, I'm just not seeing one that I care about. Being at the For conceptual reasons, I'm mostly looking at Body Mastery and Weapon Mastery (ninja robots don't use Darkness). For reference, I've just got the 45 month Veteran Reward, and I've been using the Nemmy Staff for when I need a ranged finisher on a fool who runs (or indeed, in place of a taunt to snag a whole spawn).

I missed the 'what ATs do you just not like/not play' thread, but I just read it. Interesting.

But I must ask all my fellow players afflicted with altitis - what do you find yourself rolling up over and over, and what have you told yourself 'okay, this time I'm gonna roll this and actually PLAY it'?

Hi, I'm A2K, and I'm a kinetics FREAK. I have more played more kinetics than anything else - it's a swiss army set of FUN. Everything I need but defense. I've been trying to get off my kin jag and let other people play it - so now I'm hooked on my TA/A...and I now have four varieties of TA running around! Sheesh!

Next!

Why should AT's be confined to one side or the other?

Discuss.

So here's the deal. I have characters for team play, with my SG. I also have a solo character, for those times when nobody's on or I just feel like playing for 20 minutes. For some time now, that solo character has been my DM/Regen scrapper. But he's at 49.5 and when I'm done playing him, I'll be semi-retiring him, as badge hunting doesn't hold much thrill for me.

Therefore, I need a new solo character. This is for pure soloing, not PUGs. I don't join PUGs except for TFs or on double XP weekends. This is why the /regen scrapper worked out so well for me. I could just wade in and he could handle himself pretty well in battles - not always, but often enough to be fun. :)

What I currently play heroside are the DM/Regen scrapper and a fire/elec blaster (I also played a storm defender for some time). Villainside, I play my fire/thermal corruptor almost exclusively, but I have a thug/dark MM I bring out once in a while. I haven't created new alts in ages because I wanted to concentrate on my mains. The blaster, defender and corruptor are all "team players" for my SGs.

I don't mind creating another /regen scrapper if that's the best pure solo option, but I'd also like to try something different. What recommendations are there on either red or blue side for a pure solo AT?

ETA: Wow, so many suggestions! Thanks to everyone, I'll try to respond individually as time allows, you've all given me lots of great ideas. Thank you!

Fact: All my best tanks are scrappers.

Especially love the regen pool. Healing 600hps every 30 seconds is CRAZY. On top of that Weave + Tough, and DULL PAIN, plus regening 25hps/sec.

I just wish I could get a good GROUP taunt on my scrapper.

Is someone keeping track of a list of completely useless powers?

I made the mistake of picking up "Provoke" out of the Presence pool on my scrapper, because the Challenge power listed in my primary power is single target only.

Provoke is 'pose to hit multiple targets AND taunt them.

Well even with -3- SO accuracy AND a yellow insp activated it STILL misses the vast majority of targets selected. Ontop of always missing, in the ultra rare case it actually hits the taunt is useless. Virtually has not effect.

Unlike the tank taunt power, when I "Provoke" with my scrapper the target of my taunt does not even turn to me to change targets. So I can't even use it to help protect the squishies.

I've found this power to be completely useless.... :(

I was talking to a RL friend that plays the game and we were discussing ATs that we didn't like. His was Kheldians and mine was Defenders -- he was surprised by that because he knows my game play history. When I first started playing CoH, I used to play defenders mostly. With all of the changes that have come down since the early days of the game, I now shy away from them, it's almost as if they don't exist for me now. I haven't played a defender in years. I tend to solo more these days and defenders are not solo friendly at all now -- IMO. On some level, I really don't see the point to playing them. If I want to a be a team support I just play a controller. Are there ATs that you guys don't play and why?

So, I was looking at my characters and their relative levels and got curious. I have a hard time playing any AT with a buff/debuff powerset (and stalkers), and I'm curious if other people have patterns of ATs as well (don't play meleers, etc.).

So, I'd like get some info about the highest level you've reached with each AT (excluding EATs). I'm going to graph it and see if anything interesting pops up.

Check my comment for the format I'd like to see used (for ease of data entry). If you have no characters of that AT, enter "0".

Current Mood: curious

First, let me start off by saying that I'm back on CoH, after an extended hiatus (money, school) and am back on for a month in between semesters.  I started Fri. around noon and have gotten my fire/regen scrapper Mr. Witherspoon up to nearly 21st level.  I think I've finally slaked my thirst somewhat and can start entertaining notions of alts (or newer alts than my old ones).  A couple of questions.

1) Can you make emotes into buttons you can put into your button bar at the bottom of the screen.  Links to faq's are also appreciated.  Mostly, I'm too lazy to actually click the little speech bubble thingy and was wondering if I could put an emote next to my powers.

2) Are there any up to date regen faq's out there?  I'm a little math dumb and so builds or sheets of numbers won't quite do it for my little monkey brain.  I haven't played since IO's so this is all a bit new to me and the only faq's I can find are on the scrapper forum and they're from I7 and 8.

Tanx and splosions
-Crow

P.S. You can mssg me in game if you want, but I'm pretty strictly solo and not prone to chattieness.

Cat Agro (Virtue) hit 41 last night and I just took the last power from his primary and secondaries that is of any use whatsoever: Eviscerate. Now, what to do about Epics.

He has Body Mastery, Dark Mastery, and Weapon Mastery available.
Body Mastery would give him another way to deal with the Endurance Issues that still crop up.
Weapon Mastery would give him Calthrops, which are a world of funny.
Dark Mastery only gives ranged Dark attacks, which ... I dunno.

Any suggestions?

I have a lvl 50 MA/SR pvp scrap and heard of making powers perma, i want to make elude perma but im not sure on some things. i have it six slotted with 5 defencebuff's and 1 recharge redux. but im not sure if i really need the 5 buffs on elude. i have body mastery because of  how much END i suck in a small amount of time. 

I have the fighting pool power for the extra attack and the extra shield's.
but im wondering if i should trade the fighting pool in for the fitness pool power set, so i have the END redux powers and the extra health power.

Now i ask you good people to help me out on this choice sense it makes it easyer. so pls if you will be so kind to tell me what i should do. and also how i could make elude perma.

or I'm very tired. Either way I can't figure it out.

After a relatively successful dxp weekend I manged to get my major toon to lvl 40 but I also managed to get both my minor toons to a decent level including my spine/regen scrapper to a level where I can replace all his nasty horrible AO, SO & DO with shiny new IO. And with the aid of my major hero and an inf injection this is possible.

Now I'm trying to map this using the mids' hero designer so I can see what I need to buy in recipes and salvage. But for the life of me I can't figure it out. I can remember what order the power choices went in but not the slots and I can't figure out how to apply lvl 20 IOs to those powers

Any experienced Mids' users want to lend a hand to someone who is completely lost.

If I wake up and still can't figure it out then I'm doing a manual planning on paper!! And no one wants that!!

Current Mood: sleepy

well i need some help with my level 50 claws/da scrapper. i love the concept, hes possesed by a demon that takes over his body when in combat, however when not in combat he thinks he's a rad defender (had to sneak him into the old sg super team some how). the problem is he's no fun. seems to do very little damage, bwe not too survivable and eat endurance.

so what i hope to get from you guys is a fun build. some thing that little bit differant. i dont need him to be a huge damage dealer, i've go a level 50 fire/fire/fire blapper for that (and that toon gives me all the smiles). i've got a level 42 regen scraper so i've got survivability.

please help me out guys, i love the character, just hate playing him

When Dual Bladers and Willpower came out, I created a scrapper with those powersets, like everyone else. But it didn't take, somehow. I triedanother, and another, and none of them fired my imagination. I wasn't enjoying playing them, so they all ended up deleted. I wondered if I just didn't like the powersets, or if it was the characters themselves that I didn't care enough about. Turns out to be the latter.
Late on saturday, I was playing CoH and listening to music on shuffle, when it threw up a bit of Telemann. I somehow started thinking how cool it would be to play someone from that period. I rushed to character creator, and had a look at what I could do with costume generator. Not too far off what I wanted, and even with duelling scars.
Mein Herrs, please allow me to introduce you to the Graf von Telemann. He stepped out of the tutorial straight into a Rikti invasion, and hasn't looked back. And at last, I'm enjoying dual-bladey scrapperness!
En garde, sir!

 I have a lvl 50 MR/SR scrapper and i made him just for pvp, and im thinking of respecing but im not sure if i should or not, i need help with this, he is pretty good in pvp but i still have the problem with my endurance dropping, and also i have my defence slotted to the max, but no matter how much i try to stop this problem it doesent help, im not sure what i should do so i have come to you to give ur opinion. here is a low down on what i have,

all attacks are 5 slotted with 3 dam,1 acc, 1 end reduction

my defence is all 6 slotted with all defence buffs, with some powers having end reduction and recharge speed.

i have SUPER JUMP,
BODY MASTERY with 4 slotted end reduction and accuracy with 2 end reduction and 2 to-hit buffs

INVISIBILITY
 

and FIGHTING with 4 slots on each all with defence buffs

im trying to find out what i need to improve or change, this is my pvp scrapp,so please help me on what i need or dont need.

Ordo.malleus, champion server.

So... I rerolled Ex-calibur on Champion as a Broadsword/Fire scrapper (he was originally BS/Super Reflexes on Victory).

He's 17 now, and I've only just been able to bump the difficulty up one level. At 17, Okagi (Katana/Dark) was already running on the 2nd highest. Operative Rache was running on the second highest since he was a baby.

Broadsword is slow going until you can get some decent (SO or IO) END reducers slotted, but Fire seems to be the weak link here.

Am I missing something, or is Fire a really weak secondary? I've taken flight as my travel power, but it looks like I'm going to need to respec out of it and into super jumping for a bit of extra +DEF and knockback protection. There's almost no mez proctection in the set (you can break Immobilize and that seems to be it).

Any hints/suggestions from the /fire scrappers and fire/ tanks?

Well the story goes like this, about the time they introduce Thug MMs into the game I was having computer issues.  So I never got to try them when they went live.  A RL friend wanted to play a MM and he chose that powerset to play an told me to give it a try.  So, I did and It's been fun.  What surprised me was how much I like the pistol aspect of that set.   I remember folks asking for a Pistol Scrapper set on the forum.  I couldn't understand why anyone would want that in a game like this.  My thinking was that it would be similar to the AR Blaster set and a pistol set would be more of the same.  Well, I was way wrong about that!  I'm hoping that the Devs do make a pistol set because I'll be first in line to play it!  BTW, here a screenie of my MM on Champion -- mutant, pixie, demon thug  - STRYKUS

My DM/Regen scrapper just hit 47, and I'm trying to pick a power; looking over his available choices, there's Moment of Glory or Tenebrous Tentacles. Advice? Thanks in advance!

(I also realized he never took Health. Huh.)