Warlawk

I've been wanting to try Rad Melee since I came back but couldn't find anything that felt great. I feel like Bio could be a good fit and potentially hit VERY hard with offensive adaptation, -res aura and Rad having high base damage. I've put together a build but it feels like it's just mediocre all around. Doesn't have softcap or massive rech or anything. I'm worried about pumping resources into it just to have it turn out very 'meh'. Crunching builds is often hard for me as I have chronic vertigo from a medical condition and it makes it very difficult to focus my eyes sometimes, much less concentrate for long periods of time to really iron things out. Any help would really be appreciated. Was also considering a rad/SD which I think would be considerably more straightforward but have a lower performance ceiling. Thoughts? Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.962 http://www.cohplanner.com/ Click this DataLink to open the build! Level 50 Magic Scrapper Primary Power Set: Radiation Melee Secondary Power Set: Bio Armor Power Pool: Fighting Power Pool: Leaping Power Pool: Leadership Power Pool: Speed Ancillary Pool: Soul Mastery Hero Profile: Level 1: Radioactive Smash (A) Superior Scrapper's Strike - Accuracy/Damage (3) Superior Scrapper's Strike - Recharge/Critical Hit Bonus (3) Superior Scrapper's Strike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (5) Superior Scrapper's Strike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge (5) Superior Scrapper's Strike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge (7) Achilles' Heel - Chance for Res Debuff Level 1: Hardened Carapace (A) Gladiator's Armor - TP Protection +3% Def (All) (7) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3% (9) Unbreakable Guard - +Max HP (9) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (11) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (11) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime Level 2: Inexhaustible (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End Level 4: Environmental Modification (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed (13) Luck of the Gambler - Defense (13) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance Level 6: Boxing (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage (15) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance (15) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge (17) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge Level 8: Radiation Siphon (A) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage (17) Superior Blistering Cold - Damage/Endurance (19) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (19) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (21) Superior Blistering Cold - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime Level 10: Adaptation Level 12: Combat Jumping (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed (21) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All) (25) Reactive Defenses - Scaling Resist Damage Level 14: Tough (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (23) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (23) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime (25) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance Level 16: Ablative Carapace (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge Level 18: Irradiated Ground (A) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage (27) Superior Avalanche - Recharge/Chance for Knockdown (27) Superior Avalanche - Damage/Endurance (29) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (29) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge Level 20: Weave (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed (31) Luck of the Gambler - Defense (31) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance Level 22: Super Jump (A) Jumping IO Level 24: Evolving Armor (A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance (33) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge (33) Reactive Armor - Resistance (33) Reactive Armor - Endurance Level 26: Devastating Blow (A) Superior Critical Strikes - Accuracy/Damage (34) Superior Critical Strikes - Damage/RechargeTime (34) Superior Critical Strikes - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime (34) Superior Critical Strikes - Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (36) Superior Critical Strikes - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (36) Superior Critical Strikes - RechargeTime/+50% Crit Proc Level 28: DNA Siphon (A) Preventive Medicine - Heal/RechargeTime/Endurance (50) Preventive Medicine - Heal/RechargeTime Level 30: Maneuvers (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense (37) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance Level 32: Atom Smasher (A) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge (37) Armageddon - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (37) Armageddon - Accuracy/Recharge (39) Armageddon - Damage/Endurance (39) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage (39) Fury of the Gladiator - Chance for Res Debuff Level 35: Genetic Contamination (A) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (40) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge (40) Eradication - Chance for Energy Damage (40) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Damage (42) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Endurance (42) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Recharge Level 38: Moonbeam (A) Apocalypse - Damage (42) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge (43) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (43) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Recharge (43) Apocalypse - Damage/Endurance Level 41: Confront (A) Mocking Beratement - Taunt (45) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Recharge (48) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Recharge/Range (48) Mocking Beratement - Accuracy/Recharge (50) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Range (50) Mocking Beratement - Recharge Level 44: Fusion (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff (45) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge (45) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance (46) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance (46) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance (46) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up Level 47: Hasten (A) Recharge Reduction IO (48) Recharge Reduction IO Level 49: Shadow Meld (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed Level 1: Brawl (A) Empty Level 1: Critical Hit Level 1: Prestige Power Dash (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Slide (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Quick (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Rush (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Surge (A) Empty Level 1: Sprint (A) Celerity - +Stealth Level 2: Rest (A) Endurance Modification IO Level 4: Ninja Run Level 2: Swift (A) Run Speed IO Level 2: Health (A) Miracle - +Recovery (31) Numina's Convalesence - +Regeneration/+Recovery Level 2: Hurdle (A) Jumping IO Level 2: Stamina (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End Level 10: Defensive Adaptation Level 10: Efficient Adaptation Level 10: Offensive Adaptation ------------

Seconded, bumping for great justice!

I know the code is a mess and it's likely far more complicated than it seems it should be. That said, I would LOVE to see more autofire powers available. Hell, limit them to self only and it would be fine by me! With the addition of 100% uptime incarnate destiny clickies and things like SD/SR mez protection being clickie it would be really great to have more available.

As someone who is just starting out farming, and not quite ready to break into the high end builds, any chance I could convince you to share your cheaper build? I've just got my rad/fire up and running on a budget build. I also have a budget spines/fire since I'm far more interested in funding my alts than I am with creating profit or selling runs or anything. I just used the budget spines/fire from the discord sticky and ported it straight over to rad/fire. I still need to take the rad to red side for a patron arc and clean up the build but it seems like a pretty much straight sidegrade to me, very close in effectiveness at the budget build level.

I really appreciate the discussion and insight guys. I was looking over the rad melee set and it just seemed that it could probably come very close to matching spines/fire and I never see any discussion about it. Will have to throw some IOs in mine and give it a run. I'm almost done funding a very expensive tw/bio so I should have some funds available for it soon. Thank you!

I am far too much of a noob to help refine a build like that, but I did want to ask... how do you find Rad/Fire? I actually powerleveled one to 50 but haven't IOd it yet. I thought it looked like it might be able to at very least match the traditional spines/fire for farming. What's your experience with it like?

Thank you, I appreciate the insight here. Doesn't seem to be a combination that gets much attention, can't seem to find anyone that's got a build for it and I go crosseyed digging through pines for too long, lol.

So I tinkered with a EM/SD Stalker and it just wasn't tickling my pickle. The whole stealth and managing stacks mini game isn't terrible but not what I want out of my core game play so I'm going to be rolling up a scrapper for similar play. I haven't gotten around to playing savage melee yet and figured this might be a good time to try it out, I know EM single target damage is a bit lackluster outside of stalkers so that would be a gain in switching the combo to SM. Pines and the character creation screen both don't seem to list the damage for savage leap so I can't compare directly to Lightning Rod. I assume with the much lower cooldown the damage will be lower but I tend to prefer attacks I can use more often anyways. With rending flurry I imagine the AOE will be fairly comparable to EM for clearing packs while having better single target damage than EM would. I continually hear that Hemorrhage is terrible on scrappers but no information as to why. Is it just a matter of heavy dot damage not critting and competing for your frenzy stacks? If anyone has a defense capped build they wouldn't mind sharing I would appreciate it. I plan to pull the IOs from my stalker and transfer them. I imagine the IO build will be quite similar but seeing the build itself would be great. I'm just not rich enough yet to have two very expensive builds, lol. Thanks in advance!

I feel like I'm missing something important here... Grant cover on stalkers doesn't grant defense to self. According to the power and according to the combat attributes window. Has this been changed since the OP or is this just something that doesn't display properly or something?

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My first post on the forums (I tend to lurk a lot) is to quote this. All of my This. Would it be nice to have something in the announcements forum? Yeah, but it's not a big deal at all and certainly not enough to fling angst at the amazing volunteers who brought this game back and allowed me to share it with my kids who are now old enough to play. Thank you.