Due Regard

So, my main is Spines/Ice (on Live it was Kat/Regen, loved the toon, but he was hamstrung in top end). Absolutely LUDICROUS what I can do with him. Was excited to see another Spines/Ice in this thread, it is NOT common. Shred said it best, though. Scrapper is not an AT. It is a play/lifestyle.

Feck, now I need to go read up, coulda swore iContent came first. C'est la vie. 7 years is a while. Edit: Yup, Piyerus remembered better than I did. I18 was Going Rogue, I19.5 introduced Tier 3/4 Alpha and the WST system.

No worries, it isn't the clearest, and IIRC, WST's came before side-switching, so there wasn't a lot of clarity on how it all worked on Live.

The area for credit on that is actually about 5' above the level of the platform. Sitting on TOP of the glowy portal will also work. There's been multiple threads created in the bug forum about this.

It has never been that way, Live or HC. Running ANY of the WST for a given week on a given toon nets the bonus rewards. Additional WST runs, of ANY of the options for that week on the same toon will net badge progress. So, if you're a Rogue/Vigilante, and looking to min/max, run the highest Merit one first in a week, then run the quickest one the rest of the week to earn helper progress. Also, the badge progress carries over from week to week, so you don't need to run 51 TF/SF's in one week to get all the badges.

Same here. I chose Percy. Not a major issue to me, as it was my badger, who's Rogue, and eventually going Blue for completion.

Eh, I see that. I just share the whole builds. Someone else might have a better perspective. And if they take my build and fail with it, when I've succeeded, that's player skill. If they eclipse my performance, either in build or gameplay, I'll ask to learn. There's little to nothing gained by obfuscating information, but you do you.

Hrm... DM/Rad... seems tasty.

Why hide your enhancements?

To third off of both these posts from May - the Mercy Island Base Portal is only giving day job credit at about 10' above the level of the portal. Standing on the same level as the platform is 0 credit, but hovering next to it and/or resting on top of the portal will grant credit. Other day job locations in zone work fine - Pilot, Pain Specialist, Architect, Smuggler.

Paging @Bill Z Bubba

This. I'd LOVE for Sentinel Regen to be backported to the melee AT's.

Murky Cloud provides EndDrain Resistance, which helps versus Carnies. Dark Armor's high end costs come from spamming the heal (33 end base) and running Cloak of Fear - Coupled with attacks, and not slotting appropriately, it'll kill anyone's bar.

Scrapper Damage > Brute Damage. Especially when self-contained +Dam is involved.

I offer a Spines/Ice for your perusal.

Can we get Regen back-ported, too? Sentinel Regen is DREAMY....

The best defense in this game is a good offence. This isn't playable up to level 25, nor going to be viable after 25 for a long time. You're advocating playing overworld (not DFB) and arcs with 3 attacks until level 20 (Brawl, Boxing/Kick, Defensive Sweep), finally getting more attacks at levels 20-24 (assuming you're taking mez protection at level 10) and zero slotting in said attacks for damage until level 27 (at the soonest). Oh, and doing this without 2xp, so it's even longer to get to said additional attacks (and slotting for defense, no exp gained for surviving). And you're relying on a click power for your melee defense, a power which has a 5% failure rate, minimum. Yes, theoretically, you can get to soft-cap Defenses by 25. But I'd love to see anyone play their Level 25 Hoverscrapper with 3 damaging attacks sharing a grand total of 5 slots (if you steal the EndReds from your toggles)... Let alone the climb to get there. And, toons have minimal issues running unslotted to level 22 because the game boosts offense for lowbies (Beginner's Luck), and it returns to the point that dead mobs don't deal damage. You can sit in a herd at 45% to all, but if you can't hurt them, you're going to die... Streakbreaker works for mobs as well as players. So, TL:DR, you've straw-manned the living FUCK out of this, to show that the powerset is bad because Ninjitsu is better than Super Reflexes... When none of your conclusions are true except for "it is possible to reach soft-cap on a Scrapper super-early" (22, since you don't need the EndRed, but do need level 25 IOs). Theoretically true, but definitely not viable. And, because you tweaked my curiosity on this, here's a different take, that doesn't completely sacrifice offense, and WOULD be viable to play up "overworld with arcs, from 1 to 22, without XP boost, and spend all your merits selling converters and boosters." Also, it's Primary neutral, and come online at level 19 with 20 commons and 42% all defenses... Frankly, this less highlights the OP/UP of a given defensive powerset, and more highlights just how ludicrously cost efficient to a build the 3% Defense all IO's are.

Both Jacob's Ladder and Chain Induction are good. Don't know why they told you to pass on JL, it's same range as Shadow Maul (7'), and actually 5 degrees wider (50 vs 45). Animates in 2 seconds vs 3.5... MUCH better, and useable as an ST attack.

That's Sally, with Believer.

Wow, and thank you.

Bumping this. While it is now an auto, and now can be slotted for Heal - Still can't take Heal Sets.

THANK YOU! I've been waiting for an update/fix to be able to slot heal sets into Power Armor for EnA Sentinels... Now I was able to change it myself!

So, Bitdefender informs me y'all's certificate has expired. I assume that's something ya wanna update?

I've actually got Melee Radial and Assault Core/Radial on my Spines/Ice - And, yes, Melee Radial is amazing when I'm duo'ing. When solo, though, since I don't have to worry about aggro overflow, I've found the faster clearing of Assault Core means less time spamming EA or Ageless... Yes, VERY end hungry, still. Just sustainable, now. Agree on the shitty APP's for Scrappers... I'm debating swapping Dark Blast to Moonbeam... But there's no AoE present to complement. Now, I realize that cottage may have the Brute pools locked... but I do feel that Scrappers should have some better options for Ranged AoE in APP's (or just make Throw Spines and Impale longer than 40'? And maybe swap their animations? Gods, Spines needs help in ST DPS.).

Red can access Echo: Dark Astoria from base TP. But, mid-20 mobs. I have made it from the TP to the Oro portal without any stealth... it took the Temp Run+Backpack and some paranoid tabbing, but doable by just flying as high as possible... then landing on an abandoned roof if needed.