New Dawn

Lol you don't give people time do you? Best one I saw was someone post in the early hours on the EU forums, give it like 20 mins and then claim no one had the balls to answer. XD

Plus I am sure people have already addressed this so a little search fu might of helped. With builds, no one is going to want to completely make someone a Invuln/SS everyweek because they can't be bothered to research. Plus half the time you do a build for someone you have no idea if they even came back to look at it.

Right, on paper it should be up to the job. If not slap yourself. If its not you; it's everyone else; not allowing you to play to your strengths; or playing alongside you like you was a Icetank when you are not; or a Stonetank when you are not etc; then get a new set of friends because different tanks can mean different methods.

I'd prefer build up, SC, LR.

I'll try and get the guys on Defiant up for a Scrapper MoSTF and we should get a printscreenie of a super low deathcount for you to see just how close we can come.

Edit: All this is in aid of showing just how brilliant the Scrapper AT is.

Every kind of Tank can be made able to take on Recluse and live to tell about it with practically any team mix, in some really seemingly harsh mixes, the results could be very surprisingly successful if you play to eachothers strengths.

One could be amazed at the amount of stuff that isn't common knowledge so keep experimenting.

I'd have success with all Primaries.

I think having Medicine Pool is taking the bleeping bleep but as for anything else I couldn't care less. I like defenders prioritizing the defending part. Play what makes you happy and be marmite. People will either like your character or not.

I don't get elec mastery but you could have a nice concept that needs it. TA/A, being end friendly but for EMP can do with Powersink after EMP but only for some endurance. It is likely that whatever you have end drained is held anyway and by the time they're free from holds they'd have their endurance back. Or by the time they would of been free from the hold they're dead. I would swap the hold in EMP for an Endred. From experience that's basically what I needed more. Improving what I could do from an end bar but then again you got Powersink.

Poison Gas and Flash Arrow are sweet stackers to other peoples builds. Rain of Arrows was a nice tier 9 but groups disappeared too fast for me to get any real use from it. Either the fight was spent entirely defending the team or a team that didnt need defending defeated everything before the arrows landed despite it being my opener XD. The 4s cast time is such a long time. Explosive Arrow was a power that I never entertained. Slightly less AoE DPS than Fistful iirc with KB...KB can lower other peoples efficiency if your not careful. A time and place for RoA and Explosive would be too rare for me. So I would swap those attacks to complete the primary.

Slotwise, I balanced my build around a 20 second fight duration and travel time between groups. I ordered my powers in a way that means I basically almost use them all in a set order (does change in some instances) but it prevents me from overusing a power. Just because a power is recharged, doesn't mean you should use it straight away. So I set my tray so that I don't pointlessly stack the unstackable or stack powers needlessly. Waste not want not. Also if I was going to 3 IO anything, ie 3 Res IO I would consider looking at 3 Res SOs just to be tight on inf and not spend it. Gaining a percentage extra res I'd never notice, same with short rechargers. I might say 1 IO recharge and 2 SOs such is my tightness.

/macro T, "$$Targetname Sapper"

So I always pick them out fast, then it was Superspeed in and Knockout Blow (which made a nice hold) then chain them down.

Sometimes they'd be hovering and so in with flyby Hurl or flyby taunt to a low ceiling or behind something.

Sometimes they could be unseen and so I would taunt them out by taunting a group they maybe connected too before hiding, then as they come I pick the Sapper out and surprise them instead.

Worst kind of team to be on is those who are up a tankers butt, you may need to assess the situation but oh no too late someone has pulled and so you have to shoot in and gain control of off everything, potentially that can mean finding 3 sappers in a room that other players had to be in perception range of. So first move for those careless teams and that situation could be the tier 9 as you aim to make the recovery. Ofc once you have your build IO setted it could get easier.

Was usually: shoot in, knockout blow sapper, footstomp Malta group, taunt anything not grabbed and then chain down the sapper.

Never: Someone elses responsibility.

I have a Macro when doing Malta and it's

Macro T, "$$targetname Sapper"

That way I can pick them out instantly before one shotting them.

The multiquoting is to split things up in my mind and reply with what I am willing to give away. Bare in mind that I don't have any self unanswered questions on this topic.

I tend to simply act as point as a Tanker, this can mean leading the assault or aid the assault for non Scrappers (I really don't worry about them).

For me it's not quite leading because I still have to base my play around the powersets that other people have and it's quicker if you don't have to ask. Being that I have every powerset I don't ask how to play, I just play like I would want to see me play from the other characters perspective. Different people have different ideas on dynamics and sometimes what can be expected doesn't happen.

An all Kheld STF is something I have 4 other people for on Union, still need 3 more. I've worked it out. It just needs to be done. The trouble with Blasters is first: volunteers; and so when it comes to the team and method it's going to come down to who you can get and what they can offer. Most peoples Khelds are very similar.

An all Tanker STF that's been done, employed lots of temps. In its own way it would be smoother. Depending on team make up it could actually have more deaths if threat mechanics isn't taken into account. You guys would only be doing something that on scrappers you've already done, it'll be slower, that slowness means more of a fight duration to put up with, more streak breaks. I can get round all that but I'd sooner think on the Blaster one because its super crazy.

I feel like making a Kat/Fire all of a sudden.

If I had to drop 2 from the offense it would be Ice Sword and Ice Patch but I am not a Guru so take that info as a pinch of salt. Might I ask what you would be dropping the two powers for?

I'd love some competition, the only thing is I don't know if everyone I team with warms to competition. Some people do not like pressure or responsibility. For me having those two things to weigh you down is a bad thing. The objective is to be cautious, calculating and commited. Bad luck happens. It would just as easy for me to get something wrong as it would anyone else. Someones demise could be a result of something I didn't do right. One good day is what you can hope for as no matter what something can go wrong. One of the reasons why I'd love people just to work at it, or beat us to it, is because, it'll prove my point "It's doable". I would be right.