ClawsandEffect

D,oh! You're right. I had the patron pools mixed up, forgot tanks got brute pools instead of scrappers.

Oppressive Gloom is a great mitigation tool that requires little or no slotting to be effective. With my Dark Armor characters I find that slots are at a premium, so having a power pick that doesn't require slotting is nice for me. And you don't have to run it all the time, you can toggle it off when you find it's hindering fury building.

In contrast, Cloak of Fear needs at least 4 slots to be effective, since it has a high end cost and very low accuracy. If you have the slots to spare, it will take the Siphon Insight set, which gives you the same amount of smashing/lethal defense as Kinetic Combat for a LOT less money.

There's reasons to take both powers, but if you really just don't like them, there's nothing saying you HAVE to take either of them.

Well, Hail of Bullets DOES give you a little bit of defense when you use it. I don't think the devs would buy that as sound reasoning though

They look pretty good, I don't see anything obviously problematic.

The only one that strikes me as "why would you take this pool?" is Tanker Netherworld mastery. Why would you want that many cones on an AT that is designed to spend all it's time in the middle of a mob? Don't see anything overpowered about it, just doesn't seem like a pool that many people would necessarily want. I suppose the same could be said for the brute version.

Tsoo Sorcerers.

They aren't difficult, but they are annoying as hell. You hit them a couple times and they teleport away. Then, when you focus your attacks on other mobs they teleport back and heal them.

They're doubly annoying on a melee character.

Long travel times? Seriously?

I can get from any point in Paragon to any other point in Paragon in 5 minutes or less, without using anything more than the travel powers we're given and the trains.

I once went from Atlas Park to Peregrine in 3 minutes, using Super Speed and the zone gates. I didn't even use any trains, and I did it just to see if I could. I went from Atlas to Founders Falls in 8 minutes, at level 11, using just the trains and Sprint, AND I survived the entire journey.

Compared to some other MMOs where you don't get things like Super Speed or Super Jump, where I have heard of people traveling for an HOUR to get to their quest destination, our travel times are negligible.

Long travel times, indeed. If you don't want to actually go anywhere in the city, just stay in AE, where you don't have to travel at all.

If there were no need to actually travel to your mission, there would be no point in even having city zones. I imagine the devs would kind of like people to actually SEE the game they work so hard on, rather than teleporting directly to every mission.

Scrappers can get Gloom now too, so that's a non-issue.

I can't really argue with the higher survivability, but the fact that scrappers benefit more from Soul Drain kind of balances it out. Oppressive Gloom and Cloak of Fear hurting brutes fury generation also tips things toward scrappers (since Oppressive Gloom and Cloak of Fear add to survivability)

With the recent fury changes, it's really more of a case of which playstyle you prefer anymore.

I like putting 4 Eradications in PBAoEs. The 4th slot provides a fairly large max HP bonus, which is always nice for tanks to have. If I have the space to 6 slot I like to add 2 Scirocco's for the 10% regen bonus (I've found that adding the Acc/Rech and Dam/Rech will ED cap damage and recharge)

You're not stunned, but there is a slight delay before you can start fighting again (you have no choice but to wait through the standing up animation)

For what it's worth, Revive is the only power I consider skippable in Regen. I'd much rather use that power choice to take something that will help me not die in the first place. To me, taking Revive is the same as accepting death, which no self respecting scrapper should ever do.

I don't even consider Resilience skippable, but it's not a "take it as soon as it's available" power either.

There are a number of good sets that max out at levels below 50. I usually try to fit those in on my way up if I can.

Also, if you put set IOs in at lower levels, you keep the set bonuses when you exemp down as far as 3 levels below the level of the IOs. If you slot nothing but level 50 IOs you will lose those set bonuses any time you exemp blow 47. It really sucks when you exemp down for a task force and discover that your invincible blaster is squishy again because you lost all your set bonuses.

Edit, forgot something: If you slot level 30 or 35 generic IOs you will never have to replace them until you want to (they won't stop working when you outlevel them like SOs do)

Incorrect on one note.

Corruptors get Defender pools, and Masterminds get Blaster pools (sorta).

Otherwise you got it.

I don't think it crits, but I don't have an Electric Melee scrapper above 32 so I can't personally verify it.

Any time a scrapper's attack crits you should see a big orange CRITICAL float up. If you never see that, then it probably doesn't crit.

Yes, scrappers can crit with Epic attacks. They can also crit with any power pool attacks (Like Air Superiority or Boxing)

They cannot crit with vet attacks, temp powers or Brawl.

Also, you'll notice that Quills will land criticals, but things like Lightning Field and Death Shroud won't. That's because Quills is part of a scrapper primary and the others are in secondaries, and they wanted to change the secondaries as little as possible because they are shared across multiple ATs (there are probably other reasons too, that one just sprung to mind first)

Well, I was considering Fire Breath slotted with Posi's Blast to bring the recharge and global accuracy up, but after I looked at the build I didn't see any particular place to put it.

I can up damage output, but you'd lose the softcap, and I figured that was pretty important to you.

Yeah, mine suffers a little because I have my chance for build up slotted in Tactics because unlike your SR, I actually need the defense bonus from it. I can probably afford tyo slot one in Focus, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

There's also the fact that I have to stop attacking so I can heal occasionally too. I build for a lot of passive regen so I don't have to interrupt my chain as often, but I still have to heal once in a while.

Mine is Claws/Regen.

I use rolls to try and get recipes I'd rather not pay for. If I get an Eradication, I'm fine with that, I'll craft it and slot it on a character that needs it (quite a few of them do)

The only time it's ever a crap roll for me is in the rare occasions I get one that sells low that NONE of my characters can use. A lot of people would get annoyed at getting a Call of the Sandman, but I have 2 Sonic Attack characters that need full sets, so I won't be annoyed until AFTER they have all the ones they need

Only if the character's father is named Arc. Since Arcson or Arcsdottir literally means "son of Arc" and "daughter of Arc"

Generally speaking, Scandinavian surnames tend to become the male version as a family name, such as Jorgenson or Svensen. So, if Bjorn Svensen had a son and named him Jorgen, he would be Jorgen Svensen, not Jorgen Bjornson. Though, hundreds of years ago he WOULD have been Jorgen Bjornson.

You would be correct if the character were hundreds of years old, but changing the gender of the surname passed out of use a long time ago.

See, I actually kind of liked Cloverfield, because I got what they were doing with it. Usually, any "giant monster ravages the city" movie is told from the perspective of the people who are actively fighting the thing. That one was told from the perspective of the regular people that are just caught in the middle of the whole mess.

It had the net effect of causing me to empathize more with the characters being portrayed, because it was not much of a stretch at all to imagine myself in their position. A lot of people I know criticized it for the shaky camera, but to me that was part of the story. I mean, how much are YOU going to care how steady the camera is while you're running for your life?

I kind of got the impression that they all died from the very beginning when they dug the video camera out of the rubble, so it wasn't a shock. It was a good example of outside-the-box filmmaking that got panned way more than it deserved.

He's a /Kin. Siphon Speed + Ninja Run will easily put him at the runspeed cap.

I'd go Combat Jumping as well. Maybe try and fit Maneuvers in if you have room for another pool.

I wouldn't be at all concerned about endurance usage with Transference being available every 30 seconds or so.

The -res proc is a PBAoE set piece, so he couldn't slot it in Fireball anyway.

I'll take a look at it when I get home. If Iggy couldn't improve on it, I doubt I can either, but I'm good at thinking outside the box, so you never know.