Vitality

Originally Posted by dave_p

The tank really has no business helping to mop up the last boss or two on a halfway decent team. The tank should just soak the alpha, establish initial aggro, get a tight grouping for AoEs, then determine when the battle is well in hand and go onto the next group.

Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze

ahhh... hmmm... ok so stupid question here... what do I need for AV combo...




totally dislike DB...

Originally Posted by DaveMebs

You also dont need more than 3 in instant healing. it pretty much gets you to hardcap without any heal enhancements in it. maybe throw one in but best use 3 recharge IOs. You do want to 6 slot dull pain and reconstruction. Also, only need three each in tough/weave.

Originally Posted by Kurugi

I've never really played a Regen scrapper, mainly because everytime I try to throw a build together in mids' it always gives me a headache. My problem is Regen seems to want a considerable amount of slots compared to other scrapper secondaries, to the point that I can't effectively slot my attacks. It seems I almost have to choose between having the strongest attacks, or having the strongest heals, but I can't have both.

I've read several guides on Regen, and I swear one of them had suggested slotting that used more slots than are available, or at least enough suggested slotting for your primary/secondary to where good luck if you need some slots for your pools/epic powers.

From my understanding in general you need to 5-6 slot your click heals, 3-5 slot Fast Healing, 3-4 slot Integration, 3-4 slot Quick Recovery, and 3-4 slot MoG. That's anywhere from 27-36 slots used. Given with most scrapper primaries you'll have 5-6 attacks that you'll definitely want at least 5-slotted and Build Up then you're spending 28-39 slots on your primary. At best that leaves you with 12 slots for pools and epics. If you take Tough/Weave there's at least 6 slots gone there. Hasten gobbles up another 2 and that leaves 4 left over slots for Epic powers. Dunno about you but that doesn't seem like enough to me.

It seems if I ever want to play a Regen scrapper I'm always going to have to choose whether I want to have my cake or eat it, and I hate making those kinds of decisions

Originally Posted by Donna_

Hey Finduilas, that's some nice tweaking thanks.


By the wat will I suffer from a lack of a heal ?
Otherwise this looks like the one that i'll go with...

Wanted super tankability for high level max difficulty
TF's etc, like lvl54 ITF's etc etc.

Originally Posted by Unitron

I had Hasten on auto thinking I had time to click Active Defense due to it overlapping and ended up Stunned... changed my auto power

Originally Posted by Umbral

You're asking me to choose between getting to use my all important clickies more often (and be able to use the Mg>Smite>Siphon>Smite attack string) and the ability to have to use those clickies less. I'd rather have both of those, especially since it's not hard, in the least, to have access to both. What build are you attempting to put together that you can't afford both?

Originally Posted by Agent_717

Hey all,

I'm thinking of making a new tank, so I figured I'd go ahead and give Elec/ a try. My only "problem" is figuring out which secondary to go with.

I've narrowed it down to /SS, /Elec, or /Energy. Any thoughts/ideas on which one I should try?

Any suggestions/advice is welcome.

Thanks,

Agent

Originally Posted by Umbral

I would look for another path that would allow me to take both of them.

Originally Posted by Aragain

I tried to research this in mids and elsewhere but I can't find any info on whether /fire attacks cause runaway, which is obviously counter-productive to grabbing aggro.

Anyone know how it works or can point me to a link?

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Sailboat

Based on a cursory glancing-over, Airhammer's build looks pretty good.

High recharge will let you bring up Shield Charge and Footstomp and Knockout Blow more often -- these are all hard-hitters that include substantial mitigation. Note that Airhammer's point is you can still soft-cap and have good recharge.

One thing about Perma-Hasten -- as a Shielder, you'll already have Active Defense, your status protection clicky, on auto. So you won't be able to put Hasten on auto anyway. So I wouldn't bust a gut trying to get it exactly perma, since you'll be clicking it manually anyway. But more recharge is still nice, of course.

Originally Posted by JohnX

I would never use an additional slot for the purpose of increasing movement speed. I don't have to go faster that bad. Thats someone else cup-o-tea right there.

Originally Posted by Xandez

Hmm, theres something odd about that quite high recharge values... have to check

Originally Posted by GibberingLunatic

ahh I noted the PvP IO thats in there and alot of run speed boosts (run-and-smash) thats why I made the assumption

Originally Posted by GibberingLunatic

If I'm not mistaken, thats a PvP build aint it?
Correction, a Run-And-Smash PvP build. lol

Originally Posted by vinque

I'm finally looking at IO sets and have a build I want to try for my Kat/SR. The build gives me 3.56s recharge in GD. I know 3.4s recharge is required for the highest DPS Kat attack chain. To me, this seems close enough. Would that be correct? I can easily get below 3.4s with a purple (Armageddon), but not sure it's worth it. The purple would be nice, and who knows.....someday.