FireKitty

It's definately 25%.

Your hit points go down to 25%, not 10% - and this is negated by the 75% (if slotted with 1xDamRes SO) resistance. In essence you have a high amount of defence against all damage except Psi but can't be healed.

As long as you use it intelligently and wisely it's a great power.

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well, it doesnt compliments regen well (not part of a regen, cause regens heal and dont avoid damage). But you can indeed survive a bit longer in fights. And in that bit longer time you can click a healing power.

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On the contrary, it complements regen extremely well as having different defensive methods (regen buffs, resistance buffs and defence buffs) stack better than just increasing one type of defence. This is why Stone tanks in Granite are so effective - combining defence, resistance and high regen (with Rooted).

I've got Tough on my Claws/Regen but not on my MA/Regen and to be honest I haven't noticed a difference between their survivability on the way up to level 50. If you've got a load of spare power choices, go for it - but don't sacrifice other powers for the Fighting pool.

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DO NOT DROP RESILIANCE, an auto mez protect is always a good thing as even if you are held your hold time is much reduced. Only put one slot in resiliance as the damage res it gives is nominal to say the least.

I would lose mog, its not a great tier 9 power imo, I would lose mog, get ss in, and use the free slots to put 2 more end reds in fa

revive is pretty useless, it takes no time to get anywhere anyway with travel powers and its not hard to carry a wakie.

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MoG is far more useful than Revive, I suggest dropping that and getting ss or whatever MaX thinks it's best for you to get and keep MoG. That would gain one more slot for FA, the other I'd probably take out of Swift as an extra EndRed in FA is far more useful than a small bit of extra run speed.

Is it needed? No. Is it useful? Definately.

With Stamina there is no need to slot any end reducers (except in Focussed Accuracy), enabling you to slot your attacks with an extra recharge or accuracy which is definately worth it, in my opinion.

My Claws/Regen has Tough but my MA/Regen doesn't - and to be honest, I haven't really noticed any difference in survivability.

And this is why I think it's a bad idea for people to make builds without any experience of actually playing the set (forgive me if I am wrong, but I'm pretty sure you haven't got a high level Claws Scrapper).

With 1xRecharge in each attack you can chain Strike, Slash, Focus and Eviscerate with a bit of Follow Up (which I see isn't there either - it does increase your DPS). Swipe, although better than pre-I7, still isn't that great a power at higher levels.

Not 6-slotting your main attacks is never a great idea, imo.

Reconstruction needs 3xHeal and 3xRecharge - it's one of Regen's main survival tools these days.

No recharges in your attacks? What kind of attack chain do you have?

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Also IMHO MoG is a worst lvl 38 power among all scrappers secondaries so I'm going to get it at lvl 49 just in-case IH wont be enough to negate all the DMG taken.

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In your opinion, even though you haven't tried it? MoG is a good power if slotted well and used wisely.

Grats, it's good to see you finally made it!

Not to mention the huge -res, which would mean that most people could kill you in a couple of shots.

If you stop playing at level 30/31 you probably wouldn't have some of your powers fully slotted, especially ones you get in the late 20s. I'd much rather have the large difference fully slotted powers make than the pretty small difference the exemp system gives to your SOs.

You'll find that the Fitness pool will be far more useful than the Presence pool.

Yeah, the damage was alright and I do admit it was useful to have from 18-32, but with my standard chain of Storm Kick, Thunder Kick, Eagles Claw/Crane Kick it just didn't get a look in.

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Im guessing the 1 Dmg Resist SO in Resilience is because theres no point slotting it more than that? Dmg Res cap or something similar?

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The reason most people don't slot Resiliance is because the res it gives is so low it's not really worth enhancing.

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Why do I see cripple kick nowhere..its pretty high damage and lots better then dragon tail..

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I found Crippling Axe Kick pretty useless, especially when I got to 32 and Eagles Claw. The animation is just far too long and stupid. I'd definately prefer to have Dragons Tail as although it's not as high damage as CAK it hits multiple foes, has a quicker animation and has a high chance of Knockdown - something which will definately help increase survivability.


My MA/Regen build is as follows (it's a respec build so ignore the slotting levels):


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Exported from Ver: 1.7.6.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder - (http://sherksilver.coldfront.net/index.php)
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Name: Loathing
Level: 50
Archetype: Scrapper
Primary: Martial Arts
Secondary: Regeneration
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01) --> Storm Kick==> Acc(1) EndRdx(3) Dmg(3) Dmg(5) Dmg(5) Rechg(7)
01) --> Fast Healing==> Heal(1) Heal(43) Heal(46)
02) --> Thunder Kick==> Acc(2) EndRdx(7) Dmg(9) Dmg(9) Dmg(11) Rechg(11)
04) --> Quick Recovery==> EndMod(4) EndMod(13) EndMod(13)
06) --> Swift==> Run(6)
08) --> Crane Kick==> Acc(8) EndRdx(15) Dmg(15) Dmg(17) Dmg(17) Rechg(19)
10) --> Dull Pain==> Rechg(10) Rechg(19) Rechg(21) Heal(21) Heal(23) Heal(23)
12) --> Hasten==> Rechg(12) Rechg(25) Rechg(25)
14) --> Super Speed==> Run(14)
16) --> Integration==> Heal(16) Heal(27) Heal(27)
18) --> Health==> Heal(18) Heal(50) Heal(50)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20) EndMod(29) EndMod(29)
22) --> Focus Chi==> Rechg(22) Rechg(48) Rechg(50)
24) --> Reconstruction==> Rechg(24) Rechg(31) Rechg(31) Heal(31) Heal(33) Heal(33)
26) --> Dragon's Tail==> Acc(26) EndRdx(40) Dmg(42) Dmg(42) Dmg(43) Rechg(43)
28) --> Instant Healing==> Rechg(28) Rechg(33) Rechg(34) Heal(34) Heal(34) Heal(36)
30) --> Combat Jumping==> EndRdx(30)
32) --> Eagle's Claw==> Acc(32) EndRdx(36) Dmg(36) Dmg(37) Dmg(37) Rechg(37)
35) --> Super Jump==> Jump(35)
38) --> Moment Of Glory==> DefBuf(38) DefBuf(39) DefBuf(39) DmgRes(39) Rechg(40) Rechg(40)
41) --> Focused Accuracy==> EndRdx(41) EndRdx(42) EndRdx(45) TH_Buf(45) TH_Buf(45) TH_Buf(46)
44) --> Laser Beam Eyes==> Acc(44) Dmg(46) Dmg(48) Dmg(48)
47) --> Resilience==> DmgRes(47)
49) --> Revive==> Heal(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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Where's Storm Kick?

Also, Integration at 16 is a must.

I'd do something like this:

01) --> Storm Kick==> Empty(1)
01) --> Fast Healing==> Empty(1)
02) --> Thunder Kick==> Empty(2)
04) --> Quick Recovery==> Empty(4)
06) --> Reconstruction==> Empty(6)
08) --> Crane Kick==> Empty(8)
10) --> Swift==> Empty(10)
12) --> Combat Jumping==> Empty(12)
14) --> Super Jump==> Empty(14)
16) --> Integration==> Empty(16)
18) --> Dull Pain==> Empty(18)
20) --> Health==> Empty(20)
22) --> Stamina==> Empty(22)
24) --> Focus Chi==> Empty(24)
26) --> Dragon's Tail==> Empty(26)
28) --> Instant Healing==> Empty(28)
30) --> Resilience==> Empty(30)
32) --> Eagle's Claw==> Empty(32)

End was awful on my Ice/Elec up until 22 when I got Stamina and SOs. From there I rarely have any problems.

The best thing to do is have lots of CABs in your tray and use rest whenever it's up, as well as the usual things like not running Sprint.

Keep going with it, it's worth it in the end.

Yeah, Nofuture also has the tick rate of 5 seconds - they assume that people are able to work it out but evidently not

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Thanks for the pointers people!

I have played a /regen scrapper before but was quite interested in the DM side of things.

Intersing thing about reconstruction was when I used it last time it never saw the light of day after level 20 (once integration was available and slotted) so I didnt see a need for it here.

Anyway, I wont redo the build but I will take all your advice on board! Thanks again

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Regen isn't the same as it used to be, the emphasis is now much further towards the click heals than the actual +regen.

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Oh and if I were you, I wouldn't slot IH with 3 heal SOs. IH base regen rate is about 600% (IIRC) and slotting it with 3 SOs isn't necessary.

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IH has a base regen rate of 800%, of which 200% is enhanceable. Heals are by no means essential, but they are still pretty useful, giving ~1000% regen.

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Eviscerate is teh uber, if it's anything like Ripper. If you want AoE, go spines!

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Not really, the animation is horribly long and it actually decreases your DPS. The damage is hardly any higher than Focus either.

Get Focus above anything else.

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Psydock does have aid self, i believe he even mentions this (aimed at the post that makes little sense, the one before mesmers)

Personally I think the powerboost/aid self combo gives energy blappers yet another advantage they dont need.

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What, nerf Aid Self because it is overpowered when used with Power Boost? Right...

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1. I am going to get Air Superiority at lvl 6 as I figure it will pack a nice wallop on contained targets. However I've noticed the both Brawl and Mutagen don't get the damage bonus from Containment. Will AS get the Containment damage buff?

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Nope, a Blaster's defiance works on inherent powers such as Brawl.

...amazing.

Got my Ice/Elec up to level 22 last night, with SOs and Stamina it is the best character ever. I can't get over how quickly it kills things, people who say that Scrappers do the same amount as damage as a Blaster are wrong. Very wrong.

Can you add Loathing - MA/Regen Scrapper