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I find OG very good on scrappers because it allows you to ignore minions and even help teh squishies/off-tank in the case of problematic minions (like, when the ice/invul tanker is getting pwned by psi-using mobs, or tons of defdebuff in the case of ice). Plus OG is a one-slot power (1 acc and you're fine) and the rest of DA is kinda demanding.

But my main DA is DM so she isn't the AoE knockdown powerhouse TW is - I'd say toggle it off and give it a try if you already have it.

Edit: Dechs already answered it but Cloak of Darkness hides your entire toon no matter if she has a weapon or not so use the no fx option.

Yup the slows makes mobs run too, I forgot about that because I couldn't get into spines.

But mostly the complainers were people who used their spines/da, /elec or /fa for farming. The /FA users complained more because I think fire naturally causes a little more running, but that's a guess because my only /fa is a brute and the spines/fa were the ones who complained more even before Burn was a decrnt power (I remember now, scrappers got fa before the FA buff, I took a break so I was in doubt). That's why scrapper farmers switched to fm or elec/shields since it has a great taunt aura.

I love ranged attacks too and that's one of the reasons I'm leveling my DM/DA again, this time as a brute - I can't make a build the way I want (Cloak of Fear, defense) that has ranged epic attacks so I figured I'd just reroll my beloved scrapper into a brute to keeps mobs close (although when she's high enough I'll ask for advice because Gloom is too good).

And damn this thread is making me wanna roll a db/da but I have a db/elec scrapper who just got power sink and now she's unstoppable, very fun combo

Missed attack from mobs also generate fury just like a landed attack or else the defensive sets would be way suckier for that.

Nope. Footstomp has 0.67 kb too. And Tremor. And Crowd Control - of these three only CC has 100% chance. Lighting Rod and Shield Charge have 0.64.

0.67 kb = KnockDOWN, and KB to lower level foes and weak to kb like clockwork.

If you slot for more than 1, Footstomp, Spring Attack and all the 100 attacks with 0.67 kb turn into KnockBACK. For example the Peacebringer Footstomp which causes KB and people complain has a mag 4 KB.

Energy Torrent on Blasters has 4.99 KB. The same power on scrapper epics, which does knock down unlike the blaster one, has 0.67 like footstomp and spring attack and whatever.

SA has 66% chance to KD and SC has 80% so it's not 1/4. Also, SA like SC does KD, not KU, if you enhance SA you'll end up with KB unlike enhancing Levitate or KO Blow (those two are KU powers) where you'll just get more KU and targets will fly up higher.

The weird thing is that me and 5-7 other kept repeating that in the feedback thread...

And some of them told me they complained a lot about StJ's sounds (I didn't beta test it) and nothing was done. I eventually got a level bumped 50 stj/wp some weeks ago and found the sounds so lackluster, my DM toons' Smite is what sounds like a PUNCH to me.

Who said it's uber?

It does expected damage now for a 16 sec rech/15 end cost attack, meaning it's still less than KO Blow/Seismic Smash/Total Focus and a little bit more than Headsplitter which has a 14 sec recharge and costs a bit less end. Headsplitter is a cone but Clobber has a mez, like KO Blow, TF and SS (SS is a mag 4 hold on a 1.5 sec cast time btw, that's why I got upset with the Total Focus Nerf to the stun).

Mace was underperforming and is now a good set, that's all. It completely eclipsed Battle Axe but then again Katana eclipses BS in basically every way.

Cloak of Fear is mag 2 across all ATs, perhaps it was fixed during the time I stopped playing but it's no longer mag 2 on brutes and scrappers. Didn't get it yet on my broot but CoData and Mids show it as mag 2 for all ATs.

Anyway, sure not a discussion that will change anyone's minds, but in normal gameplay you'll be using your damage aura basically all the time, which puts DA in second place after Stone.

Well I'll play my DM/DA more later and see if I can get her out of than stupid Praetoria (I hate soloing but even if there were people there - and this on freedom lol - I'd still want to check the storyline because I know I'll never roll a Praetorian again), and since I'm going the CoF route I'm thinking about doing different stuff like slotting just one recharge and three endreds on DR and skipping Cloak of Darkness for now since I already have CJ and will have Tough soon. When I get to 32 I'll frankenslot her and see how it goes.

The good thing about her being a brute now (reroll of my 2nd 50, a scrapper) is that I can slot all attacks for endred instead of damage for now, so I'm soloing at 0/x3 quite well at level 16 (just got there so didn't train to pick dark regen yet, tho siphon life and the occasional respite have been keeping me alive).

-10 mag immob protection so it's also good for some armor sets like dark armor and fiery aura (although these sets get their immob protection in later powers). I usually get it on all toons for at least a LOTG mule, and a -kb when I have to.

Yeah I forgot about that in my answer, Karma recipes were almost vendor trash last time I more active in agricultural stuff in the AE, they're very cheap nowadays, don't buy the crafted IO. I used to put the recipes at 5 infl because they sold for 10k-100k, the steadfast -kb is a bit pricier but not much.

That's obvious: because the devs wanted Burn to do more damage since it was a skippable power, the afraid component scared everyone. And that's why they frontloaded it too, which HELPS scrappers - the afraid effect (not fear) was worse than normal DoT running for all ATs.

The fact that DoT attacks makes mobs run away has nothing to do with anything else, and Burn is not the only power affected by it. See again - any spines/damage aura scrapper complaining about running mobs, actually any spines/ scrappers, I'm just used to hearing it from the farmers which are all /elec, /dark and /fire since Spines is the main source of running.

Blasters have to take a ST immob, most scrapper sets have some kind of mez that keeps mobs in burn better than a ST immob like tons of AoE KD in some sets (Mace, TW, Axe), fear (not afraid) in dark melee, immobs in Impale and M. Grasp, etc. Plus Scrappers can also take AoE and ST immobs and ST holds in the epics.

The fact that even with an AoE immob, scrappers and blasters can't make good use of Burn as much as Brutes and Tankers is just a characteristic of the ATs not having taunt on their powersets, not an 'issue'. And no, you're not gonna hear any Brute complain that their Concentrated strike doesn't have a chance to refresh Power Siphon and they'd be happy if there was a 'pool' that allowed that, like scrappers can do (without pools in a lot of primaries) to at least use Burn to the fullest in a single target and get very decent AoE mileage of it after a crowd control, 1kcuts, all the TW KDs, L. Rod, which is plenty good already. The removal of the afraid effect helps that a bit, ya know. Like the frontloaded damage.

Again, Scrappers get more mileage out of Shields and KM. Corrs are better than defenders with ice blast's Ice Storm and Blizzard because of Scourge, their inherent (fire blast actually has an REAL issue among those two because Corrs get Blaster Rain of Fire and Defs get a properly AT modded one).

I can go on and on.

Well, when it was released and the math people went over it, they got to the conclusion it was about the same level of Energy Blast's damage on standard ammo... But with longer cast times... And less reliable KB.

So with Fire ammo maybe it does a little more damage than Energy! This time with no mitigation and keeping longer cast times!

(suck on that Elec Blast!)

Yeah, SA doesn't get many complaints because either people play the not so fun toggle/untoggle mini game or live in Granite.

SR when it was very popular used to get a fair share of people asking about advice on end management, and Body Mastery is very popular with them for PP, so you might even say SR could be the borderline in what lots of players consider tolerable.

I may have to do some shenanigans like this on my DM/DA and my Claws/DA Brutes, I'm leveling them slowly but I plan on getting Cloak of Fear on both. The DM/DA is a reroll from my Ioed DM/DA scrapper (she has everything 'nice', meaning no purples/pvps) so she'll eventually have the goodies but since I'll be leveling her with Tough and CoF this time I see hard times ahead

Not really, it's just a pbaoe fire attack that happens to benefit from Taunt in the ATs that have it because enemies don't like DoT.

The fear was removed but it's still a DoT, that's why Spines/damage aura scrappers complain about mobs running too (because of Quills + the secondary damage aura, that's a lot of DoT) but they know they aren't getting a taunt in damage aura secondaries.

Blasters have Burn too btw. And the power got better for them without the fear in burn since mobs run because of the DoT so it takes longer than an auto afraid effect, but like scrappers, they can't use it the way brutes and tankers do (not sure scrappers had FA with the old Burn, if they did it wasn't for long).

Party time even if you're alone!

Only if you provide a screenshot with enhanced Ultra Pretty Mode like this one

This a thousand times, only one combo has the strong and the pretty! I remember I was flamed to oblivion in that thread when I foolishly dared saying that my DM/EA Stalker was quite strong and pretty... I learned my lesson that she was only pretty and nothing more