Aracknight

I like the MSR for a number of reasons. Influence, and Experience when levelling characters up, but most importantly are the Vanguard Merits. I've found converting them and buying enhancements with them the most efficient and cost-effective way of equipping my characters, especially when it's time for ATOs and Winter-Os. I also enjoy them because once the battle in the bowl starts, you can chat amongst each other, drop puns, and that stuff is sometimes more enjoyable than the actual fighting and grinding. For me, the MSR raid is a far better experience than standing about listening to people beg for farms.

That's a lot of pap.

Dual Blades/Dual Pistols Super Strength / any Scrapper

I will never not hear that name like this:

Shut your filthy pancaking mouths.

Hmm Not excited to see Dr Druid, but if we got a boisterous Hercules to carouse with Thor that'd be pretty awesome. She-hulk is on deck too, so maybe you're on to something.

I'm a pretty hardcore marvel guy with a pretty good knowledge off comics and an ability to shrug of most adaptational changes....but I didn't dig this one. I fell asleep in the theatre during the first act. I'll give it another try on D+ but I'm not sold. I actually always kinda liked the Black Knight, with the Ebony Blade and the winged horse and such, but it was just a glorified cameo, which may be what turned me off.

Guess you gotta be Ladyballsy.

I'll quote my apology from my original post and reiterate that I'm sorry. I had a quick draw reaction on an off day. I hope you find what you are looking for and enjoy your Scrapper.

Practiced Brawler would disagree. Elude too, if we're being 100% accurate 😛

It never ceases to amaze me that as people post their long lists of accomplishments and level 50 characters, they directly follow it with another day, another "build it for me" post. I wonder if there is a level of cause and effect between people complaining about others not knowing how to play their characters and people coming here and asking others to build it for them. There's another string on these boards asking for a "beast" build. Truth is, any Scrapper can be a beast, and anything you build can be effective, fun, and awesome, if you know the ins and outs of it, what it can do, what it can't, and how to push it to your limits. I roll an old school MA/SR that I put into ridiculous situations every day. It has no taunt aura. It doesn't do Big Orange Numbers. But I'll take it into any situation any single day and twice on Sundays because I know what it can do and what it can't. If BillZ handed me his Scrapper build, I wouldn't know dick about how to use it because I didn't test it, I didn't put it through its paces, and all I did was trust that he knew what he was doing based on his (amazing and earned) reputation. But to get to that place, you gotta do the work to try to see what works and what doesn't. on your own, and then maybe ask for some feedback and tweaking after you do the work. Sorry guys, I'm usually a lot more positive than this. Sorry to OP and anyone else I ruffle with this. I must be having an off day.

Give Scrappers a Taunt aura. Nerf Regen.

My MA/SR Scrapper

"Streamers" believing they deserve free stuff or special treatment in games, to me, is no different than "Influencers" believing they deserve free stuff or special treatment out in the world. I hate this entire generation.

With mace mastery.

It resets all your power cooldowns. ALL of them, including accolade and incarnates, if I'm not mistaken. Unless you're asking if there's a time lockout between changing builds. I know when I change at a trainer It tells me I have to wait if I try to change too soon or pick the wrong one. Maybe 60 seconds, not 100% sure. Edit: wiki says Builds can be changed once every 15 minutes. So maybe not as meta as I had envisioned, if true.

I sort of meant to have build three specifically for PVP, but I never really got too interested in that after the changes in i13 made PVP such a different animal. Currently build one is my "master" top of the line build. I tend to lean towards roleplay, so a lot of themes blend together. For example, my Scrapper has Mu Mastery and Ion Judgment. If I wanted, I could do Blaze Mastery and Pyronic. Or Mace Mastery and Arachnos Lore. I could use build two to expand to a different theme or even a different role. I could build it to be a little beefier for off-tanking, or I could use build two in a "Scraptinel" fashion and max out some ranged attacks from the epic pool and hover around blasting in large groups where my melee DPS isn't vital. I just think it's awesome to have options. And although I haven't ever gotten to it yet, I always considered playing a Kheldian, with Build 1 being Human, Build 2 being Nova, and Build 3 being Dwarf. I figure with the ability to swap builds with a macro, that'd be some meta-level tri-forming.

Not really interested in a day where people spend it regurgitating someone else's thoughts that they found on the internet. There's enough parrots in the world already.

Not the type of purge I was thinking of.

If you'd have said Cap'n Mako, you would have won the day.

I love our devs, and I love Homecoming, but this is a set of awesome options. I suggested non-sword options for fiery and icy melee after the stone melee changes, but all swords is actually pretty cool too.

So you could use this with Fly and sort of mimic jump pack? Set it to your jump button and when you hold it down you go up, and when you let it go you drop. Or a bunch of other things. Nice. Or your forward button turns on a movement power, and when you let it go to stop moving it turns off. Dope. Dope as in "That is" not as in "You are a"

For me, the Aracknight is really the only role I can slip into. On the surface, he's just an old school MA/SR Scrapper doing MA/SR Scrapper things. But his eyes were the first eyes to see Atlas Park back in I8. His eyes were my last eyes to see sunset. And his were the first eyes to see the sun rise over Atlas Park once more with Homecoming. At over 1500 badges he's done so much, and with each issue there's more for him to do. With each new power set or pool modification and easy respec access, there's more for him to try. With each new invention set comes endless tweaking, pushing him to the absolute edge of performance. With so many costumes and builds available, he can carry around an Arachnos mace and summon Arachnos pets to fight alongside him, or he can toss lightning and ion judgment, or various sized fireballs around. I can create three different builds with different concepts or specializations, like PVP, if I ever actually become interested in it. I think Bill Z framed it best, that Aracknight's love and contributions to the game are the best version of Me that I can bring to Paragon. I can tweak for pylon times. I can tweak for taking on AV's. I don't need to post all my results, because it's really just Aracknight vs Aracknight, which is the most Scrapper thing I can even conceptualize. I've tried the alt game, but I could never slip my mind inside any other toon for more than a little while. The best I've been able to manage is various MA/SR ported archetypes: Tank, Brute, and Stalker, and they're all pretty similar but give me options. I haven't been fortunate or personally vulnerable enough to make actual friends in the game that might need the Aracknight to serve more than one purpose on the regular, but please don't think that's about the population, that's about me. I'm not even in a supergroup, I just PUG or solo my @$$ off and it's let him earn all those badges I mentioned earlier just fine, Including several Mo's (even Keyes!) One day I might get into AE, and create an Aracknight origin story, or an Aracknight Task Force, and that's cool to have as an option too. Regrettably someone nicked his name on the roleplay server and seems to have vanished, so he hangs out on Excelsior and gets into whatever nonsense he can there, but roleplaying would be ideal. I'm endlessly grateful that he can continue his adventures. Thanks for letting me wax nostalgic and poetical about this, and sorry it went so long.

Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her abdomen. She looks like one of Black Scorpion's' girlfriends. They only talk to her, because, she looks like a total doorsitter, 'kay? I mean, her spinnerettes, are just so...big.

Have we considered putting this in "Ears" instead? This way we don't lose Detail 1 OR Detail 2?