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Not to mention that leave DEbuffing defenders behind.

Have you LOOKED at Spin?

Heh. Another dramatic difference of opinion.

What's the other character you're dual-boxing with?

Don't let it deter you -- the Internet is like Mos Eisley; you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

You've been scrupulously polite so far. Unless the negative rep was accompanied by a comment, you'll never know why you got it, if there even was a rational reason (or a rationalization, heh). Brush it off.

If all your posts are as complete and polite as those in this thread, any negative rep you get in the future will just be lost in the sea of positive comments.

Well, here's what I settled on.


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Level: 50
Archetype: Scrapper
Primary: Spines
Secondary: Dark Armor
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01 => Dark Embrace
01 => Lunge
02 => Spine Burst
04 => Murky Cloud
06 => Combat Jumping
08 => Impale
10 => Obsidian Shield
12 => Hurdle
14 => Super Jump
16 => Dark Regeneration
18 => Health
20 => Stamina
22 => Quills
24 => Death Shroud
26 => Ripper
28 => Build Up
30 => Kick
32 => Throw Spines
35 => Oppressive Gloom
38 => Tough
41 => Conserve Power
44 => Laser Beam Eyes or Physical Perfection
47 => Energy Torrent
49 => Hasten (this will have to be unslotted if I six-slot Energy Torrent)
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Some thoughts:

For leveling, one end reduction and 3 resists into Dark Embrace and Murky Cloud and Tough; Obsidian Shield gets only one end reduction for now, as its resistance is only Psi and fairly rare, and you're hard up for slots. When you plan out the final IO build you can throw 4 slots into Obsidian Shield for set bonuses (all four resisitance shields should get Reactive Armor if you're going for defense, Impervium Armor if you're going for endurance, or you could stick in a 5th slot and go Impervious Skin for recharge or Aegis for defense and more Psi res). Don't forget one of the res armors gets another slot for Steadfast unique if you're pumping defense.

Attacks I would simply frankenslot for best values. Six slot all the attacks you can (although I carried four slots on Lunge for a long time so I could concentrate on the area attacks). Later you can throw 3-4 Obliterations or Eradications or Sciroccos into the PBAoEs for set bonuses, but watch your end consumption, some of those sets have poor endurance reduction.

Slot dark Regen for end and recharge mostly. Failing to slot end reduction in this power will KILL your blue bar; failing to have it available often will kill YOU. It'll heal you 90% from three enemies, so it doesn't really need heal enhancement except for single AV fights; it can also to an extent work without much accuracy enhancement, since you only need to hit three out of a crowd. The TOE +end proc is game-changing but very hard to acquire (I think people simply aren't letting them out of their own hands, mostly).

Like its Claws analog, Eviscerate, Ripper is a slow flip -- slow enough some players don't like it. But you're short on single-target attacks in the set, and Ripper can be used like one (although it's a melee cone that can hit five) and it's your hardest-hitting attack. It also does knockdown, which is very nice. So take it.

My build puts the all-important PBAoE damage auras right after Stamina, when you can afford to run them. Which one first doesn't matter, but Quills crits and Death Shroud does not, so I chose that order. Slot those babies up -- conventional wisdom is right in saying they do a huge chunk of your overall damage output, and they never take any of your attention or precious animation time. You'll be lethal to approach.

Conserve Power is a good insurance policy for this build, since end is always a possible concern. You could get Weave instead of investing heavily in the Ancillary pools, if you are building for defense.

If you can fit in a Winter's Gift slow protection IO it's probably smart, since you depend on recharge to bring your big heal back up. Any travel power will do of course; I picked SJ for my character, but Teleport is sort of an attacker's power (good at bypassing ranged fire and going right into melee, harder to use when running away). It can be funny if you hit Build Up, T-port into the crowd, and Spine Burst.

Enjoy!

No. Dark Regen is the best heal in the game and your primary tool for staying alive. It's already doing several things that benefit from slotting: it costs a metric ton of endurance, and you want it back as soon as possible, and it has to hit, and it heals (this last is the least important value to slot for). Plus if you're of a mind to spend, there's a fantastic porc IO for it: the Theft of Essence chance for +end.

Exactly how to slot it is the subject of some debate, but it's too valuable as a heal to slot damage procs into it, especially considering you already do oodles of damage.

I've extensively studied what IOs exemplar down like this (I do a lot of exemplaring) but I always forget or get mixed up after a few days. :P


Yeah, I was looking at Rad/Rad, of all things...Irradiate and Electron haze plus a little bit of end and damage help from Accelerate Metabolism, and a self-heal.

What about Dark/Regen Scrapper? Shadow Maul also gets 5 targets and the debuffs might help. And Siphon Life would be available at 10, with one slot.

Concur with these -- especially earlier Taunt if you're taking so few attacks. And Brimstone is beautiful at decent graphics settings; it flows.

Furthermore I wouldn't skip Incinerate, one of your two big hitters and surprisingly endurance-efficient, to take Char or Fireblast.


That's a legitimate choice. I am having trouble wrapping my head around a Granite Tanker feeling any need at all "to pick the enemy off one at a time," however.

Isn't the purpose of Granite to wade right into the biggest seething mass of death-dealing evil you can find?

I love a good Invuln build, but I'm a little confused by this. Are you saying DEFENSE is soft-capped and S/L RESISTANCE is hard-capped? That would make sense.

I'd like to see that build; I've gotten to the soft-cap on everything but Fire/Cold defense which is high but not soft-capped, but it took most of my powers and slots to do it without crippling my offense.

Shields gets the global damage bonus from AAO.

Super Reflexes gets the global recharge bonus from Quickness.

Damage is great, and it's also new, which makes it feel fresher. But 20% global recharge before slotting a single IO isn't trash either.

It's worth noting that there's a set called Kinetic Crash AND a set called Kinetic Combat. You want Kinetic COMBAT for typed defense.

You can get almost the equivalent of that with 5 slots and the right 5 Doctored Wounds at level 50 -- counting the set bonus to recharge, it comes in at 97.5% healing and hit point boost, 93% recharge (88% enhancement plus the 5% set bonus), and 47.7% end reduction, plus other small set bonuses. AND you save a slot. And you get that 5% recharge bonus globally.

Because of the ED cap, you could add 2% to 5% more recharge with that sixth slot, if you can't think of anything better to do with it.