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Katana i also a good set and yes fire is sweet as well

it has two aoe's to use in flashing and lotus fire is pure damage

and is not all lethal like swords but katana also has the advantage of DA and -defense when you hit the target making them easier to hit next time

Anyways pick what sounds good and run with it

When it comes to scrappers if my choice is to slot secondary or more damage my priory in the early levels is more damage

If it is dead it can't hurt me

That is how I approach it. I am not saying to ignore you secondary but when it is tight and I have to choose I am going offense

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I'm not certain, but I know my /SR brute FEELS more survivable than my /SR scrapper.

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Brutes have a Tanker's level of Health. So yeah, your /SR brute is more survivable than the /SR scrapper.

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Scrappers have ~1338 base hp.
Brutes have ~1500 base hp.
Tankers have ~1875 base hp.

So yeah, Brutes have more, but nowhere near Tanker levels.

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Hunh. I always thought tanks and brutes had the same Hp. Learn something new everyday.

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Scrapper HP base still needs to be nerfed by 1 HP to 1337

It is the only proper thing to do devs

Never mind I found the tab I was not on

I am working on a different story arc so I wanted to purge some characters no longer being utilized and I see no way to right click or left click and delete

My fire/sd did well on one this weekend but we had buffs man those beuffs hurt shield a lot more than when I ran it on my dm/sr in the past he is not as while built IO wise and does quite have the damage output of my fire/shield

If you run it on test I will see if I can make it with my fire/shield just because he is fun to play

Though I also have my katana/sr with aidself softcapped he may do better for an itf

katana/wp is also a nice steady leveler right out of the box with Divine Avalanche for extra defense

The thing I like about katana for new people it has good single target and aoe with flashing and lotus

Overall Fire is my new favorite but that is pure damage and nothing else

But any set is good but WP is nice because it is steady all the wy from go.

/sr is a great set ut is a late bloomer set

/da is awesome but more complicated set

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Thx Hej, ya the smashing haymakers im using till i can afford kinetics, this is what i'm running right now, solo'd Bobcat no problems. Just took 10+ minutes, i figured the two 2 set imperviums would help with my regen, sense im worried about going 0/100 end before conserve power is up again.

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I kept all the powers the same and moved some slots around to get you more endurance and a little more defense

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Maybe someone can do better but this is what I tweaked by just moving slots and changing a few IO's

While on the Katana side you need to replace Sting of Wasp with Gamblers cut and add a -resistance Achilles proc in it

I am not a Invulnerability expert but I will look over the build and see anything glaring but right off the glance make that change on your attack.

I am also sure more people will pipe in with some good data as well

Ok looked at it further 1st if you can afford it I go with 4 kentic combat in da over you current slotting if not that you might as well 6 slot touch of death and get more from the sets bonus of + damage and health and same return in melee defense as your current set

Why 6 slot resist energy at the end pull 1 slot to health and add a miracle more return on your IO Most Impervium are pretty expensive might as well go with a miracle for a better return on endurance

Pull the extra endurance slot from tough move it to weave and use the 6th slot for another 2.5 defense in ranged or 1.25 energy defense

More to come later

You want more like this and you will have no endurance quickly with that much recharge and no endurance recovery

This is a more expensive build but softcaps you in two of them and melee at 44.3 so it is darn close

If you add in Maneuvers you can gain a little more flexibility

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I wouldn't mind going without tough and weave, but what would i replace them with?

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Maneuvers and combat jumping and IO sets

Here is one I am running with aidself and no true travel power because I can you can fit one in I just chose not to. I can here is my build though you can move things around like dropping tatics putting the sots in buildup and choosing different IO's I would get Mids it is really the best way to go with IO's and to see the options


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Just curious on what sets I should be looking for with my kat/sr. As well as best possible slotting.

I'm planning to not use divine avalanche, and depending on whether i can afford it or not soft cap def without the use of weave. Perhaps a build with weave and without weave would be good. Thx for the help.

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You can soft cap with out tough or weave without DA I done it on mine

/sr has a lot of flexibility in the build

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Need some help. He's gunna be comedy and have a variety of 'Atomic' powers.

Which primary do you think will work best?

I'm thinking either fiery or darkness.

Which primary overall would work best with SR?

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Treelo goes postal oh know

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For the last year and a half I have mainly played spine/wp in Sirens and she is an alt I feel most comfortable playing now.

However, over the last few months I feel I am now being forced to 'hang up spines' due the the increasing amount of nerfs and the changes to damage that Spines has when in PVP. I find it ironic that if I want to deal any real damage, I have to use a tier 1 pool power from Speed or Kick from Fighting pool. I will not do this out of principle.

I would like to ask Castle how he can justify they low amount of damage thats Spine does now and considering 'Doms' even with their tier 1 powers can out damage a Spines tier 8?

I'm not asking for a massive increase to Spines, but just to have the PVE damage in PVP would be good enough for many spine users and many of those who have been forced into using FOTM alts, just do some damage.

Castle, it is really sad when you're forcing spine users into temps and power pools to do some decent damage. Care to explain why please?

Thanks,

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That is what you get when you shoehorn in PVP four issues after release have dad mechanics for pvp because you never designed it ground up for it.

Then you try to fix it with nerfs and ignore all feedback in beta testing because you think this will get casual players to play

Yet you make it worse when a pool power attack is better than you entire primary yep that helps out casual players.

That is why it is and will always be LOL COX PVP

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Both katana and dark melee look very fun and brutal for single target damage, which is what i need. I plan on doing pvp and pve and need a set that is fun and alright for both.

Dark Melee has -tohit which looks like it would do great stacked with maybe regeneration as a secondary. On the other hand....

Katana has -def if im correct, as well as divine avalanche allowing me to stack so defense which also may work with regeneration or resistance sets such as invuln or fire.

Any thoughts on which would be better are all welcome!

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PVE both work and work great; pvp I have no clue

Siphon Life gives you extra heal basically as well as great damage so bonuses.

katana is lethal but also has as you said defense and it is more flexible in also having solid aoe damage output with lotus and flashing when in large groups

It is just a matter of preference or you could just do both

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Mine wasn't too bad. I was doing a no temps no insps no deaths Mender Silos, and halfway through somehow forgot that I had click mez protection (Hasten is what I have on auto). Poof dead, challenge failed, start over from the beginning. I'd have been annoyed, but I was laughing too hard at my own stupidity.

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I use to do that back in the perma elude days I got tired of dying from forgetting to click my mez protection I switch it back to auto

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We'll find out sometime this month.

When? WHO KNOWS!

The Shadow knows.

...creepy [censored].

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Where oh where oh where is Shadow?
where can Shadow be?

Katana would work well with Divine Avalanche as well giving the melee/lethal defense bonus

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Fully slotted it's worth about ~40% heal; unslotted it's just a tiny bit under 20%. It has a base recharge of 20 seconds and it's interruptable in the first second of activation. It costs 13 end and takes 4.3 seconds to animate.

A secondary effect is a mez resistance (shortens mez duration) of 75% that lasts for 45 seconds.

As a tier 3 power in the Medicine pool you must have already taken either Aid Other or Stimulant and you must be level 14 or higher to take this power.

I'm reading all this info from Mid's Hero Designer ; it's also available on paragonwiki.com.

Slotting recommendations:
SO slotting - 3 heal/1 recharge (1 interrupt reduction if on a melee toon)
IO slotting - Frankenslot Heal/Recharge from various heal sets, interrupt reduction as needed.

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1 interrupt the heck with franking slotting you can get plenty of heal and recharge from dr wounds or harmonized healing both sets are cheap and have good set bonuses

DM/SR will be the better build late it is easy to soft cap I have one with tough weave and just a few IO's and he is softcapped

They can solo AV's easier and can do a lot more things you will need more + recharge in the dm/sr build but hey you get +20% from quickness

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Even though I was new to the game at the time, I don't know anyone who did this. On my first alt, I figured it was a good idea to get my prime and 2ndary powers first before I took a travel. Nor did I know anything about bank missions. I went 22 levels with only the good vs evil jump pack power. That's running threw the hollows, taking the fire escapes to get to upper levels in KR, sprinting down the streets of steel canyon, taking the freeway to get around skyway, falling down the cracks in faultline waiting for the jump pack to recharge. I don't even want to talk about boomtown and doing the cape mission. It wasn't until I actually got on a team and was clowned by everyone that what I was doing was just dumb logic.

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You experienced what us old timers had to deal with in the hollows but worse we did not have those jump packs

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Having searched and not found a guide for Fiery Melee / Shield Defense, I've been thinking about writing one myself. Then I realized that there aren't guides for Shield Defense at all.

So should I write one? I don't want to write one if someone else is writing one too. If I do write a guide should it be Fire/Shield or just Shields in general? Anyone have an opinion?

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I can give some advice but I am not much of a guide writer

The best one is when my cat jumped on my key board and i ran into a large set of mobs low level pre agro limit got the whole team wiped in the the Juils Troll cave in Hollows

You know the one back in the day when you got debt after level 5 and you hated that long [censored] cave and you had to run a mile to get back with no such thing as a temp travel power

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I guess we're full then... you're all crazy you know that?

Scraptastic Task Force Team Alpha-Awesome
Infatum
Rieze
Shawn Sage
Transhade
Shado-Strike
Soul Fane
Santorican
Willow the Wisp

Virtue
7 PM EST / 4 PM PST
Sunday, 7/5

We'll start forming up around 3:45, once 4 hits I'll start looking for replacements for anyone missing.

Anyone volunteering for camera duty? I'll try to setup fraps or something, but I've never tried running CoH with it before so I make no promises

We'll be leaving temps enabled, but lets try to run it without them first and only fall back on them if we have to.

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Good luck an make us Scrappers proud

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We could turn it into a multi server thing because even if you run it on test their may be too many people wanting in.
So we could get a Virtue TF, a freedom TF, and pinnacle and etc.
Have someone run a video recorder and then put them up for everyone to enjoy.

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That's a good idea. I still want to run on test as well. It allows people team with people they normaly wouldn't be able to. But the idea of an all scrapper TF on all servers sounds good. We should figure out a way to do both. An all server one and one on test. Someone from the other servers would have to set up the time and dates. As for virtue, my time is saturdays and sundays 6pm central time zone. It seems like people were leaning towards sunday.



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I am in for both test and pinnacle if my times and days match