Lost Ninja

I once played with a Stone/Stone tank that used it, for the most part it was quite fun, TPing the whole (all the melee types) right next to the next Hydra to feel our wrath.

Oh and if the build is for helping others I'm surprised you have no Healing or Leadership pools.

Personally I found the best way I learned how to play a scrapper was watching others, or at the very least playing regularly with other scrappers. That way the mistakes you learn by are not always your own.

The other thing I personally found as long aas you treat the game as an experience of itself and don't try and power through the levels you will learn how to play. My first scrapper was well and truly gimped, DM/DA with no fitness, I took powers that were worthless (In I3) over and above the powers that would have made my life easier, much to my regret I deleted her sometime ago.

On positioning again speaking from the Dark Melee perspective, I find that I want to have the majority of enemies in view, this is good as shadow maul is a cone attack thus hopefully hitting more than one target. But it also means that in a team I can see what allies are doing, letting me respond to attacks on the squishies before they happen.

Targeting, as a rule of thumb I target three ways, first I have 'Q' (or for me W) bound to nearest enemy, Tab (for me Q) bound to next enemy. Lastly in big spawns or before attacking I use the mouse to pick out bosses or AVs. I have follow bound to the middle mouse button, with the further use of CTRL+Middle button bound to face target, making quick turns useful.

Above and beyond anything else enjoy yourself so that in a years time you can come here and advise the newest crop of scrappers on how to make the best of their builds.

Fair enough could have sworn that when I had it ages ago (i3/i4) it did do knockback sometimes. Still wouldn't take it if I have AS, from the point of if I can survive 40 levels without a mass knockdown I don't really need it at 41+. I'd say the same for laserbeam eyes, I don't normally take that either.

But as I say I've tried it didn't find it that special.

Ah just checked with Sherksilver's planner...

BS/Kat both get +5% ACC
MA gets +10% - Why the hell does it get such a big +ACC???????
Everything else is +0%

Still don't understand the +ACC on MA

True, and its very situational, I personally wouldn't take it. (Or revive)

ToF: Get it, use it, Love it. Even at high levels its a brilliant power, if an AV is trembling in fear it isn't hitting you, plus it has a ACC debuff making it useful even when they do try to hit. It doesn't suffer from DMs normal poor accuracy. I slot 2x ACC 2x Recharge 2x ToHitDebuff (Recharge is overkil perhaps )
SS: Not my favorite travel power, but okay with flight.
Conserve Power: If you have stamina pointless, and I don't think its particularly useful without stamina, that said 3x recharge and its at the same slotting as stamina without two prerequisits, so okay.
Focused Accuarcy: The pool defining power, 3x ToHit 2x EndRdx. Get it Slot it etc.
Laser Beam Eyes: Gives you a bit of range, which is nice and it looks cool.
Energy Torrent: Knockdown and back, essentially same as the blasters (Energy Primary) less damage. IMO Not worth it if you have Arial Superiority (Flight pool), but thats down to personal choice.

Okay I understand why the weapons gain a +5% but why does MA? The weapons gain it due to the slight amount of time that it takes to physically draw the weapon (from sheath) yet MA gains 10%? However DM is -15%(IIRC) how does this all work out? Claws (which need to be drawn) gain no +ACC:

MA +10%
BS +5%
KAT +5%
Claws +0%
DM -15%???

Sorry this has me confused.

Could be wrong but IIRC Kat has a +5% ACC bonus over MA due to the drawing of a weapon. So does BS which would be my pick

Anyone likely to run a villain respec today, either of the first two. PM me here or in game handle in sig.

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Secondly you should be able to pick this up yourself from Maren MacGregor in founders falls...

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Not at level 50 he won't.

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Surely it'll just auto-exemp him?

I would take it from the fact you have posted on the defiant forum that you are playing on Defiant? If so that could be the problem, while there are some RP SGs and platyers on Defiant, to find the rabid RPers you really need to be on Union. As it is the un-official RP server.

Brawl doesn't work with any of the AT inherants. So Tankers don't get gauntlet on it, scrappers can't Crit with it etc. WAI.

Try looking for some older posts in Scrappers...
Here is one...

There are others.

Question on trip mine. As far as I know it has no inherrant accuracy, ie it doesn't take its accuracy from you when you lay it. So without sticking accuracies in there how well does it hit? Or is that wrong and the accuracy bonus from targetting drone do the business?

As for AR just delete it post ED its way underpowered.

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[ Once again remember the PvP zone is for conflicts, large scale one. If the intention was for duelling in pvp zones a flag system like WoW would have been created so that duels go on unhassled.

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No offence TG but where does it say that PvP zones are for large scale conflicts - its for any size from 1 v 1 to 100 v 100 (or however many the zone can hold).

I do agree, as the end of my post said, that those dueling are gona have to accept that folks will attack them no matter what but to give the picture that 1v1 is not allowed or wanted in pvp zones goes against the post you did saying that you did not want players imposing rules on other players.

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There is nothing that says that 1vs1 should happen in PvP zones and there is nothing that says 1vs1 duels shouldnt be harassed in pvp zones.

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FYI, SS + Stealth makes you completely invisible as well, by your definition.

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Only in PvE, SS has no stealth component in PvP

Anyone have any advice for a new brute, not into PvP but am enjoying it so far. Only real problem I have is generating rage in teams. Any tips?

And are damage auras worth the END?

Revive is pretty sucky.

Dark Melee, even with the poor accuracy is my all time favorite, followed by Claws. MA is okay but not mad keen on the knockbacks. BS/Kat not mad keen on possibly as the run animation while holding the sword is horrible. And spines while I like the concept I hate the look.

Regen, especially now when I have only one toggle, still would love my I3 scrapper back, but one toggle that does everything. Plus a smorgasbord of clickies that make very hard to kill. (unless its a controller.)

Dark Amour is my other favorite, though I've never got much beyond 20 with it, I like the looks, I like the concpets, I don't like the lack of end.

SR too many toggles, and Invlunerability never tried with a scrapper.

Same here, I dropped stamin from my DM/Rgn with the I6 respec, biggest mistake. Solo no problems small teams the same but once I'm in a big team I'm always running low on END. And thats bearing in mind the I have Dark Consumption (DM end recovery power). Next time I have a little cash I'm going to try sticking an END RDX into all my attacks and see if that helps, but next respec I'm taking stamina again.

I assume you mean Claws as the second of those?

Reason I asked was my Regen scrapper while not even slightly built for PvP is pretty damn good, can take a hell of a lot of damage before anything breaks. With one toggle (Integration) I need to be toggle dropped and held before I get close to death. (Or I need to be coming out of battle so having used all my clickies. )

So because I know the regen set well I was thinking it'd be quite good, shows what I know huh?

How good are they? What primary is good to go with them? And what powers are good, besides integration?

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Every one runs its a valid tactic apart from regens they should have there legs removed or some thing.

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Nah we'd just grow another or two, then we'd have four legs to kick the stalker with.

I don't RP, I'd ike to, but having cast my oar into Defiant at a very early stage its difficult to bridge the gap, though in beta I always swore I'd try RP when the game went live.

99% of the time I play female characters, seemingly enough for some to wonder at my surprisingly deep voice, both when joining a new TS server and also when I did a brief stint of DJing.

I nearly always creat female characters because that what I emphazize with, male characters mean nothing to me.