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Oh yeah, claw/inv.

Mine is 50, setted up, and my fastest slayer on +2x8 by a wide margin.

Followup/focus/spin until nothing is left but bosses, then wittle them down with mah pathetic ST damages, on to next spawn.

It is...nice.

Be warned though, invuln is a tough slog to level, but holy moly, is it worth it once you get there.

If you want an easer ride up, /wp is way easier and plenty tough, at the expense of no aggro aura at all.

I was poking about in mids, and got to wondering:

How many "flavors" of scrappers are there?

I mean, how many primary/secondary combo's are there if we include the new Kinetic melee(KM)?

I thinkered around a bit, and assuming I can do math (not a good assumption) I came up with 76 different combos.


Here's a list:

I do not play blasters very much, but recently on Infinity we decided to have an all-blaster ITF race between various chat channels. The League of Debt, the pinks, and Architect Entertainment Anonymous all fielded one or more teams.

All four teams that tried were able to complete the ITF with nothing but blasters, and the winning team ripped through it like a hot poker in a snowbank:




Yep, 32:55, with only 14 deaths.

Has anyone else ever done an all-blaster ITF faster? If so, I'd be impressed!

Congrats to all who played and had fun! AEA did send a team, and they successfully finished the all-blaster ITF, which is in itself quite a feat! Congrats!

The Pinks and the League 2 teams were in a neck-and-neck race, and finally finished barely a few minutes apart. Good work, guys! The League2 team edged the Pinks, but it was a hard-fought race!

The best overall time was posted by the mighty League1 team! Amazingly enough, that team of all blaster 'squishies' smashed through the Imperious task Force in the astonishing time of 32:55, and did it with only 14 defeats along the way.

Wow! Impressive work guys! How are we going to keep up our "League of Debt" mantra with thoese hinds of pergormances?

Many thanks to nightbabe for organizing the fun event, and many more thanks to the hard-playing heroes of Infinity for turning out in such great numbers to make this all happen.

Here's the screenshot of the winning team:



Congrats, guys!

Tex, dude, that toon is AWESOME.

She wants to speak to the President, omg! I'd much rather have a toon like this one than a dozen generic "fotm" ultra-builds with names like 'Electric McShieldy'.

Come on, we've all seen them.

Play what you like, man. For a bs/fire/pyre, that second build would serve admirably as a long-term goal. Stick on teams, and let the buffers have their fun by keeping you alive. As a teaming scrapper, with fiery embrace and all that ranged damage, she would kick some serious butt, too. And heck, she IS a scrapper, she'd solo like a machine, too.

In no way, shape, or form is ANY toon you enjoy a waste, ever, in any way. Your fun is YOUR FUN.

LOL, Joan of Arkansas, that is AWESOME!


EDIT: Darn it Fury, stop being so fast!

The version of the build he posted would also serve well. And yes, would be fairly inexpensive, which would be perfect considering she used to work at Walmart. LOL, she's got all Walmart IO's, that's HILARIOUS. And while not as awesome as it might be, it'd still be WAY zestier than nothing but SO's.

My advice would be to take Conserve Power, Weave, and Physical Perfection. Put at least a performance shifter proc in both Stamina and Physical Perfection. It makes a huge difference.


For the last power....maybe Hasten, maybe Manuevers for a change of pace, or maybe energy torrent for the whole "EM' thing.

Also, you have a lot of attacks, maybe cut down by one or two when you respec.

There are lots of good inv slotting guides. Energy Melee... it's been a long time since I played one, so I'll defer to folks with more recent experience.

Man, another one of these?

Ok, mace vs axe is more complicated than just damage. On a pure damage numbers basis, axe is slightly ahead. To balance that mace gets better AOE from crowd control.

But, axe has MUCH better secondary effects especially in it's lower level attacks. Axe has 40 to 50 percent chance for knockdown, minimum, while mace does 10 to 20 percent chance for stuns.

In higher level attacks, mace catches up a lot, but you throw the low level 'bread and butter' attacks a LOT. The better secondary effects add up fast.

Also, axe has only one secondary effect: Knockdown. It tends to stack up nicely. You can often fire two, three, four attacks in a row, and 'jugggle' a bad guy, keeping him pinned helpless. Mace does not get that sort of chaining effect very often, in my experience. If you do, it's usually stuns, and the guy wanders away from you. I HATE chasing victims.

On pure damage, counting AOE's, mace is ahead a smidge. On mitigation, axe is quite a bit stronger (although mace is far from weak!).

For doing a brutes job, both are excellent tools. Mace matures a bit later, axe is solid from the get-go.

Note: Both are weapon sets, and so get a 5 percent accuracy boost. It's like getting a free Kismet! Come on, that's a big deal!

Now, one oddity: Cleave in axe has a ten target max: I firmly believe this is a typo, or simply an error. I suspect pendulum should have ten targets max (why not? It's EXACTLY the same arc as crowd control and does less mtigation to boot) and the change got put on cleave in error.

Give Pendulum it's higher target max, Dev's!

Hay, Dechs and anybody else who may have it:

Are there any builds out there for a dark/dark tank? It seems to me that (on paper at least) a Dark/Dark should be among the toughest builds possible in the current mechanics, but I can't seem to get the hang of it. Any guides?