SinisterDirge

I'll put your build together if you file my TPS reports.

This is my current live build:

First. Its a pretty good looking build if you are planing on running in Granite full time. I probably would have advised the same thing a few years ago. However, I no longer believe it is the best way.

Yes Granite is godly, but it has some hefty penalties for that godliness. If grantite is only nessessary in 3% of the situations in the game, why live with the penalties for the other 97%. Without granite I am sitting at 59.4% def to smashing and lethal(the new softcap for incarnate content) Psi is at 49%, and energies are at 42%. A small purple softcaps me for new content no problem. In mish, I dont even turn rooted on until I know I am about to be hit with tons of mez. I have a botz kb prot so I dont get juggled when not in rooted. I keep a few BF's handy just in case. With perma EE, I have never died to mez. I still have granite, so if I am in an actual situation where I need softcap def and hardcap resistance, on it goes. Darkest night pulls me through the resistance hardcap.

I assume however, that you want to stay in Granite all the time, so I will give advice with that in mind.

I would take the miracle unique out of rooted. It will serve you better in Health. If it is there for the Psi defence, I really wouldnt bother. Unless it tips you over the 32% mark, then at least you could softcap it with a small purple. right now, it really isnt doing much for you.

I would take a slot out of Heavy Mallet, and put it elsewhere. That way you keep the recharge bonus.The psi resistance it not worth the slot. Same thing with Seismic Smash.

I would put another recharge slot in hasten. Granite already slows it down enough and you cannot honestly expect the force feedback proc to proc all the time to leave you with 177% recharge while in granite.

Teleport is overslotted in my opinion, but if you need it for the speed bonus, I can understand that...

If you can fit a few more slots in tough, I would slot it with 4 reactive armors for the defence. You can switch out tactics for stone skin, and slot the steadfast unique in that... You will be getting enough accuracy incedentally through set bonus's. and plenty of to hit from focused accuracy. You can also slot the kismit unique in any of your defence powers...

I would recommend tossing in another slot and putting a force feedback chance to recharge in fault.

Granite... you might as well turn those 3 resist io's into some sort of frankenslotting to get some bonus out of it. I would actually throw another 4 reactives into it, and switch out the generic def IO.

I would probably go with Entrophic chaos in Mace blast, to get extra recharge out of 5 slots.

Web envelope, I would try to get another slot into it, and complete the set for an extra chunk of defence.

Also, if you are going through the trouble of side switching, I recommend you take a good look at Soul Mastery. Darkest night helps both your defence and resistance, and is a hell of an aggro tool.

Sorry if all this sounds like nit picking... not trying to at all. If you want to take a look at my build, let me know, and I can pm it, or post it here.

Would you ever consider an Mastermind? Bots/Storm is a ridiculously powerfull combination, if you can get used to the chaos. Alternately, a Bots/traps can handle just about anything the game can throw at it.

Other that that, maybe I should ask you if you prefer to solo, or team. Do you like to see a cloud of oranges numbers after you light off an AOE, or rather put some serious hurt on a hard target? Do you want something that will run +3/8 reliably, or happy to run at +0/1?

I have the opposite problem. Altitis can be a problem, too many interesting combinations that can do whatever it is you want to do... Maybe you want a jack of all trades... In such a case, perhaps an ill/rad would serve you well... Between illusions PA, and rads debuffs, you are actually quite sturdy... Either way, if you give me a better idea of your playstyle, I might be able to pin something suitable down for you.

Also, pretty sure I have mentioned it before, but love your SG name.

No synergy to speak of, but watching a granite tank tai chi the hell out of rikti at a mothership raid made my night.

I was going to roll a Grav/Sonic. Sonic Repulsion is such a great power to put on tankers to help with survivability. Although they both help in similar ways, I chose force field because of the extra knockback. Scrappers really appreciate having to chase mobs down. Otherwise they often get bored and try to solo the next spawn.

Sometimes, if it is a particularly feral scrapper, you can toss that mob into the next spawn for the scrapper as a kind of reward.

Don't even get me started on brutes, they are always chasing after the next spawn, never stopping for a breath. I like to keep the mobs just out of the brutes reach because they are a little squishier than tanks and need the extra mitigation.

Grav/FF Troller.

Dimension Shift(be sure to use it as often as possible, preferably as alpha for every spawn), Wormhole(only use it when mobs are bunched up by tank. Make sure to blow em out to where the blasters are chilling). Repulsion Field and Force Bubble. Naturally all should be Power Boosted.

In before Dechs recommends a MFing Warshade.

Years ago I had it on my regen scrapper. I used to juggle mobs with it and hit them as they came down. Was a neat trick, but not overly useful.