Death_Badger

Its down to playstyles really. If you want to concentrate on your primary then empathy allows you to do that as you just fire off your buffs and you are ready. TA/Kin/Rad require you to use your secondary much more actively.

However my point is that empathy is not a secondary to avoid.

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Ill or Fire primary

Kin, Rad, TA, Storm or Sonic secondary

Avoid: Empathy

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why avoid empathy?

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It's a bit of a waste when soloing (meaning you could get a lot more out of other secondaries) and in many cases it will be hard to take all the powers you want given what you need from your primary/pools. So unless you PvP, I agree with PRAF.

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Yeah its a waste buffing your phantasm with AB and Fort and yourself with Recovery and regen aura....

Unfortunately some people think that empathy is only good for heals apparently. It has some of the most powerful buffs in the game

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Ill or Fire primary

Kin, Rad, TA, Storm or Sonic secondary

Avoid: Empathy

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why avoid empathy?

I'd take whirling hands as soon as its available

I eould not use that build..Dark Consumption sucks without SOs...Stamina needs to be asap

I personally never take fly pre SOs due to end drain and speed

Air sup is not the be all and end all of existence which many people on this forum believe it to be....same with touch of fear

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Still, it's not that bad, I just make sure to have a healer in the group, greens in my tray and let the tank go first while I hop around slicing everything to ribbons.

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Empaths won't help you that much. As an SR, you would be much better off with an FF to boost your defence, or a dark miasma to debuff their accuracy. Either way, you're far better off than with a "healer"

Take aid self at some point, but stack up on purples. Work with what you have, and improve it.

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Empaths have a little thing called fortitude...

Anyway SR on teams makes survival tough...the more mobs the more chances of being hit. Solo you should be able to do just about athing on invincible post SOs

neither air superiority or Touch of Fear are needed to solo anything in the game, and in a team you will presumably be there for damage...so controlling mobs isn't needed

in fact the power you need in order to solo EBs/GMs that are impervious to AS and ToF is MoG

Sirens Song...is it really worth putting damage slots in an attack with virtually no damage?

Sonics..Even with tactics I personally would be slotting 2 acc as it has a -5 penalty

Slotting no damages in my Parry massively reduces DPS which in turn means i need to survive longer and expend more end to dispatch foes, there is no point as far as i can see in boosting recharge of parry. As it is it double stacks and I'd do nothing else but parry if it recharged any quicker

Hasten - I simply can't run hasten without burning end in vast amounts...no doubt some bs/sr will pipe up saying 'I can run hasten and attack constantly and never run out of end'

Recharge in attacks - use end quicker = more downtime... plus my attack chain works fine as is

My current build is

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Name:
Level: 32
Archetype: Scrapper
Primary: Broad Sword
Secondary: Super Reflexes
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01) --> Hack==> Acc(1) Acc(3) Dmg(3) Dmg(5) Dmg(5) EndRdx(7)
01) --> Focused Fighting==> DefBuf(1) DefBuf(7) DefBuf(9) EndRdx(9)
02) --> Slice==> Acc(2) Acc(15) Dmg(17) Dmg(17) Dmg(19) EndRdx(19)
04) --> Focused Senses==> DefBuf(4) DefBuf(11) DefBuf(11) EndRdx(13)
06) --> Swift==> Run(6)
08) --> Parry==> Acc(8) Acc(15) Dmg(23) Dmg(23) Dmg(25) EndRdx(25)
10) --> Practiced Brawler==> Rechg(10) Rechg(13)
12) --> Combat Jumping==> DefBuf(12)
14) --> Super Jump==> Jump(14)
16) --> Health==> Heal(16)
18) --> Dodge==> DefBuf(18)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20) EndMod(21) EndMod(21)
22) --> Quickness==> Run(22)
24) --> Build Up==> Rechg(24) Rechg(31) Rechg(31)
26) --> Disembowel==> Acc(26) Dmg(27) Acc(27) Dmg(29) Dmg(29) EndRdx(31)
28) --> Lucky==> DefBuf(28)
30) --> Agile==> DefBuf(30)
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01) --> Sprint==> Empty(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Empty(1)
01) --> Critical Hit==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Empty(2)
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Obviously I'll be taking Evade and Elude as my next two powers

Just a few questions...

Anyone see any obvious flaws in my build?

I'm planning on taking medicine pool in the 40s...any thoughts on how best to slot aid self?

How do the sets cope with 3 toggles? so far I've been fine end wise

this is probably my final build

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Name:
Level: 50
Archetype: Scrapper
Primary: Broad Sword
Secondary: Super Reflexes
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01) --> Hack==> Acc(1) Acc(3) Dmg(3) Dmg(5) Dmg(5) EndRdx(7)
01) --> Focused Fighting==> DefBuf(1) DefBuf(7) DefBuf(9) EndRdx(9)
02) --> Slice==> Acc(2) Acc(15) Dmg(17) Dmg(17) Dmg(19) EndRdx(19)
04) --> Focused Senses==> DefBuf(4) DefBuf(11) DefBuf(11) EndRdx(13)
06) --> Swift==> Run(6)
08) --> Parry==> Acc(8) Acc(15) Dmg(23) Dmg(23) Dmg(25) EndRdx(25)
10) --> Practiced Brawler==> Rechg(10) Rechg(13)
12) --> Combat Jumping==> DefBuf(12) DefBuf(43) DefBuf(43)
14) --> Super Jump==> Jump(14)
16) --> Health==> Heal(16) Heal(42) Heal(42)
18) --> Dodge==> DefBuf(18) DefBuf(34) DefBuf(37)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20) EndMod(21) EndMod(21)
22) --> Quickness==> Run(22)
24) --> Build Up==> Rechg(24) Rechg(31) Rechg(31) TH_Buf(43) TH_Buf(46) TH_Buf(50)
26) --> Disembowel==> Acc(26) Dmg(27) Acc(27) Dmg(29) Dmg(29) EndRdx(31)
28) --> Lucky==> DefBuf(28) DefBuf(37) DefBuf(42)
30) --> Agile==> DefBuf(30) DefBuf(37) DefBuf(40)
32) --> Head Splitter==> Acc(32) Acc(33) Dmg(33) Dmg(33) Dmg(34) EndRdx(34)
35) --> Evasion==> DefBuf(35) DefBuf(36) DefBuf(36) EndRdx(36)
38) --> Elude==> DefBuf(38) DefBuf(39) DefBuf(39) Rechg(39) Rechg(40) Rechg(40)
41) --> Aid Other==> Heal(41)
44) --> Aid Self==> Heal(44) Heal(45) Heal(45) Rechg(45) IntRdx(46) IntRdx(46)
47) --> Focused Accuracy==> TH_Buf(47) TH_Buf(48) TH_Buf(48) EndRdx(48) EndRdx(50) EndRdx(50)
49) --> Conserve Power==> Rechg(49)
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01) --> Sprint==> Empty(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Empty(1)
01) --> Critical Hit==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Empty(2)
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FA is just there for PVP so keeping 2 acc in attacks

I have a spare 10m+ floating around on Defiant so can help out

L50 fire tank Emberwilde, all 3 hp accolades, 6 slotted taunt, 3 recharge slotted rise of the phoenix, 6 slotted heal but no epic hold

I'd be up for this with my L40 brute

gratz

gratz on your umpteenth 50

gratz

you don't actually need Conserve Power at all, as long as you slot an end recuder in attacks

When you enable it a 'pets' tab appears at the top of your team tab, click it to fetch pet window up

any miss builds a brutes fury (otherwise EA would be pretty sucks)

I use the pet window to buff my pets

Air sup/fly is best

SJ/Acro 2nd best

Hasten/ss 3rd best

Groundeds KB protection is pretty good in PVE against anything except AVs/EBs, but power surge has high KB protection. Grounded can only be slotted for damres, which nables you to reach res cap vs energy

With power sink and stamina, conserve power isn't needed

you need damage mitigation over and above armour and aid self, the best is air superiority

Aid self doesn't need 2 recharges, if you are using it that much you are losing fury, which is your best damage mitigation

Power surge can benefit from at least one dam res (capping most damage types) and possibly 3 (for tox resistance) which could help vs the later level snakes and other toxic stuff

well the TF level is 25-30 so you can't use your L23

i can fetch either my L39 fire/rad corruptor or L36+ elec/elec brute

I can help out too with whatever wilf can't do