Thraxen

Seems neat I guess. Why though? Seems like it is just encouraging you to proc it out, right? Is this a buff? I’m just really confused. Does it do more damage than before? I tested it out on a copied character. All the attacks were within 2 points of each other. It is fully slotted so makes sense. I’m just confused by an auto hit ranged attack. I love it though. Always gonna get that runner now though.

What in the world is going on with laser beam eyes? It’s auto hit? And the damage is random? Is it based on if would have hit or not? Or just how high the roll? If it is auto hit, just throw all the procs you can? Does slotting damage matter? I’m so confused.

Sr is my general favorite. My beam rifle sent is invul but it was made when the mandalorian came out and I realized they can be cool. So inv made more sense with the armor I though.

My poor nature defender gets turned down at least once a month for pug star level ITFs. I get why cold is so good but I find nature to be good on those as well.

Anybody running this combo already? Playing it now in anticipation of being able to have ice armor from new ancillary coming out. Any cool tricks? Doesn't look like sleet stacks with itself right? From same caster anyway? Looked at city of data and that seems to be the case. Thanks in advance.

Yeah prove me wrong. Better dos than fire when not proc’d out. Laugh emoji.

It only does top tier when proc’d out.

I just think it’s weird scrappers get better ranged powers than blasters. And I mostly scrap. Just an observation. Don’t really care that much.

Why? Not at computer now, but the super long animation I think bitter ice blast? I like the hold powers. Or replace ice storm.

Tried ice spear a few times. Enemies died waaaaay before anything hit them.

Why two sleep powers though? Maybe beanbag shot instead? Or a single target glue grenad that immobs?

How does a scrapper have an ice snipe but blasters do not???

Yeah two sleeps is only thing I don’t like really. I’d try and switch something so you can skip the sleeps. I’ll try it out still. Maybe a beanbag shot that stuns one? Single target sleep seems pretty worthless teaming.

Oh sorry. Was thinking tank question. Hands down rad armor then.

I much prefer rad over fire but that’s just cause I don’t like fire swords.

You could easily play each to 20 and see which is more fun. The xp buff helps a lot. Play whatever is the most fun. They will all be good on teams.

Sr is crazy tanky. Any super easy. And does the same with one enemy in melee or a dozen. Doesn’t directly boost damage but the 20% recharge bonus helps save tons of slots elsewhere if chasing perma hasten.

Stone/stone.

Anything is good with /ta.

Stone is tankiest but without IOs for run speed I wouldn’t bother. Run sr/ma. With the defense bonus from storm kick you can likely get to 45% without weave. I always take combat jumping on every toon just cause I hate playing without it because of the movement bonus. I’d still get tough though. It isn’t required but helps against most stuff that does hit. And you can put the two plus defense procs in it. Even if you only SO everything else still take those procs.

Spines/stone

I just prefer the animation. End is fine. Mids doesn’t account for the performance shifters and panacea proc.

Here is mine, it's a spiderverse homage. Spider-Thrax - Scrapper (Street Justice).mxd Spider-Thrax - Scrapper (Street Justice).mxd

Here is what I'd run on a budget. Accolades are turned on as they are free and help with end. End still looks high on paper, but mids doesn't take into account the three performance shifter procs or the end from the panacea proc. You're end should be fine. Have musculature t4 turned on as well. Could always switch to other T4 musculature and sacrifice a lil dps for end mod. Probably more expensive than your build but still no purple or snow sets. Having a couple snow sets would really change the ease of soft capping defense, but they are super expensive, of course. Would also likely get fire/cold to soft cap too. Forum suggestion - Scrapper (Spines - Stone Armor) 2.mbd