protector_knight

Originally Posted by Torrynt

It's not quite how I would go about things...

You loose a lot of global recharge with your slotting which you could get in with some minor changes. I want flashfires up as much as possible as well as my AOE epics and AOE holds.

There is no accuracy slotting in Transfusion, and even with your defense you'll get hit. Missing on a heal would really stink. I'd find some way to get Hasten another slot. You want to be fast if you are going to be a farmer. Speed is what defines a good farmer from an average to poor one.

You seem to be slotting for +rec which is good, but leave Hot Feet, your main +END hog with not enough -END. I'd slot for better effects in your powers and try to lesen your main end drag and you'll actually come out better for it.

In heal I'd take the +regen/+recovery over just the +regen. You have a brilliant heal, regen should not be much of a factor for you.

If you are a farming build, you have no reason to take ID or SB. However, you do farm with another toon there is some use for it. Still I'd never take ID on any farming toon ever. I'm much rather have the AOE hold.

Your flashfire is only up every 33 seconds, that should be your opener on every mob. I think you are going to be rather slow if you have to wait for that every time. It goes back to you global recharge being rather low. When hasten is down (abou 20% of the time, and if you haven't hit on Siphon Speed you have a long wait for your main alpha mitigation.

At level 50 I don't know that I'd bother with Siphon Power. It's kind of redundant for a farmer and over slotted for a character with Fulcrum Shift. You can use those slots to gain much more effect for your character.

Originally Posted by Gaidin

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Originally Posted by Werner

AVs like to mix up their attacks, so you'll be pounded by melee, ranged and AoE. So you'll want soft-capped melee, ranged and AoE. Now, 40.5% AoE defense might seem close enough to the soft cap of 45%. But actually, it will have you taking almost twice as much AoE damage as you'd otherwise take. Now, if everything else is solid, you can probably weather that storm. But it's much easier to just think of soft-capping all positions as being a requirement. Have a look at Blessing of the Zephyr for one easy boost.

Resistance is decent. You've taken and slotted Tough for actual use. Good.

Hit points, as long as she has the accolades, are passable at 1750. I'd want more, but it should do.

Very high passive regeneration at 29 hit points per second (assuming you have the hit point accolades). Good.

No Aid Self. This may or may not be something you want to address. People can and do solo AVs without a self heal, and high passive regeneration like you have is the name of the game with that approach. Also, unless I'm specifically going for no temps no insps, I'd rather have a few greens than Aid Self. But if your wife specifically wants to solo AVs no temps no insps, OR if she finds it nerve wracking waiting for passive regeneration to do its thing, all the while hoping desperately not to get hit again, then you'll probably want to add Aid Self to the build.

Endurance use - assuming you have the endurance accolades, it looks MORE than sufficient on the surface, with a net recovery of 3.47 EPS before factoring in the attack chain, and with an average Claws attack chain probably taking less than 3 EPS. While I can't say for sure without doing a lot of calculation, you could probably trade some endurance recovery for other things you need.

Attack Chain. On the surface, the attacks look a bit of a mess to me, like you haven't really chosen what you're after. With the global recharge you're already packing, I'd probably grab Hasten, drop an attack or two, and use one of the high end attack chains. While not THE top, my favorite is Follow Up -> Eviscerate -> Focus because it includes an AoE. Not needed for AVs, but more practical for tearing apart most normal content. Hmmm, that takes +274% recharge in Eviscerate. Even with Hasten and the purple set in Eviscerate, that's only +254%. Might still be the best chain for you, but it might also be nice to scrounge up another 20% recharge. I'd probably try to get the recharge myself. Shockwave with five Ragnaroks would be 10%.

So if we go for that chain, Strike doesn't get slotted, and Slash is replaced by Hasten. That frees up a LOT of slots, so that's going to cause a giant cascade in the build, so it's hard to make recommendations past that point.

I can at least suggest how I'd slot the three attacks, though. In Follow Up, five Hecatombs (all but damage/recharge), and if your endurance is under control, the Mako proc. In Eviscerate, five Armageddon (all but damage) and the Fury of the Gladiator proc. In Focus, five Apocalypse (all but damage/recharge) and if your endurance is under control, Gladiator's Javelin proc. If endurance isn't under control, do something else with the final slot in Eviscerate and Focus, up to and including slotting a mere common endurance IO.

While it may not be necessary, dropping Super Jump is one way to free up a power pick. Hurdle + Ninja Run seems fast enough to me for a travel power, and Hurdle + Combat Jumping is good unsuppressed speed.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

Something to remember, Werner, is that you're long past most of the conditions I describe. Your Scrappers all have very high +Def by design, and you mostly know your target build early on, barring tweaks and adjustments. You skip straight past all the conditions I mentioned where Scrappers might find the power useful.

That's fine, I think we should remembver that not everyone is going to be as advanced as some of the regulars here; in particular they may not play on very high virtual team size settings or plan on soloing AVs. At least not at first. IMO ToF is a strong power for people in those settings.

Hell, I sometimes miss the control aspects even on my IO'd out Scrappers. My DM/Regen would like to be able to terrorize +3 Cim bosses - it'd actually make the fights faster. It's just not worth what I'd have to lose to put it back in the build, which I think is where you're at, based on your comments.

Originally Posted by Werner

It's certainly harder to hold aggro with a Willpower Tank. But I was a Blaster on a dedicated leveling team of Fire Blaster, Fire Blaster and Willpower Tank. Granted, we gave the Tank a head start to get the aggro, but he could very reliably hold it up to +4s, and hold it well enough that we could usually handle +5s as well.

I can see it being an issue on a normal team, though. Who wants to give the Tank time to make sure they have solid control? But I suppose normal teams don't grind on +4s and +5s, and there's no reason to anyway since the XP probably flows faster from +3s or below. Well slotted, I'd think a Willpower Tank would be fine for normal play.

But I'll also agree that if you leave it unslotted for taunt on a Scrapper, you're not going to be stealing any Tank aggro unless the Tank isn't in control of the situation, and you're mopping up leftovers. And I think it's nice having a taunt aura to help keep bad guys on me. And for team play, if the Tank IS having a hard time, grabbing some spare aggro will help the team.

Originally Posted by Amy_Amp

WP's taunt aura is so weak I don't think you'll have any issue stealing too much aggro. It's the biggest reason I don't play WP tanks.

Originally Posted by LISAR

I wouldn't mind seeing a melee effect swap set i it came with a ranged combo set.

The issue with a multi weapon set is the animations and weapons aren't linked so it would be damn near impossible to animate right.

Also Dominators and Masterminds really need more love before we go into more melee sets.

Originally Posted by BrokenPrey

Well for a good mix of ST and AoE damage Fire would be the best.

Now Fire/SD would give you great ST damage and With FCS and SC will have really good AoE.

For the three you said /DA would give you the more help with AoE with Death Shroud.

Any of the three you said would be good but I like Fire/WP the most. It just non-stop killing which I like a lot

Originally Posted by BlueBattler

It was on the final Croatoa arc. I was level 32. Setting at level 2, probably. As I recall, the end usage even with stamina was horrendous which could have been part of the problem with it right there: I was running out of juice. And also, the Redcaps do -defense with their attacks and are fairly large mobs on that map, so it was probably more the guys hitting me at a distance than the ones in melee who were hurting me.

It isn't to say that you'd have the same trouble I did. Everyone has their own play style and tactics. I mean, I could probably PM you my build and you could try to exemp, but given that you still get an extra 5 levels when you do exemp it wouldn't be an exact match to what I was facing.

Originally Posted by BlueBattler

To be fair, my BS/SD stalled out in Croatoa when I got into the Redcaps, and that's a bad foe to face with a defense set.

And I don't deny that BS is a heavy hitter.

Originally Posted by BlueBattler

I just got my Electric/Electric Scrapper to 50 this weekend during Double XP, and I have to say that it's a real blast.

For a Scrapper, it seems to be a really tough set. It does wonderfully well against Rikti, Freakshow, Carnies (except for those cursed Strongmen).

I've got several Regen Scrappers, a Fire Armor Brute, a WP Scrapper, and a couple of WP Brutes.

Is there any set that gives the same rush that Elec/Elec does? (I love my other Brutes and Scrappers, but the Elec seems to really do well against the things that they crumble against.)

I've thought doing a Shield Scrapper or Tank with Electric Melee as well, but I'm not sure how much fun that would be compared to Electric Armor ...

Anyone done both who has some input for me?

My BS/Shield Scrapper is stuck at 32 because the set just seemed so slow to me...