Due Regard

Folks who say they're in Closed Beta, usually aren't... Or won't be for much longer.

Toss one up, and you'll get better results.

Using SO's or Level 25 common IO's for enhancing: Has to Hit? 1-2 Acc Deals Damage? 3 Dam Heals Damage? 3 Heal Resists Damage? 3 Res Dodges Damage? 3 Def Costs Endurance? 1-2 EndRed Gives Endurance? 3 EndRec Status Effect? 3 of the appropriate Mez These are good baselines for ANY build. If using set IO's, making sure that you're enhancing to roughly those equivalencies will be solid, and you get the benefit of set bonuses (potentially). Specific to /DA - Make sure you have -KB protection in there, at least 4 points, preferably 10-12, best case overall is 20. You can get these from IO's, set bonuses, or Acrobatics from the Leaping pool.

Yes. And the Core Paragon.

Siphon Life - Slot it as an attack and spam it. VERY very useful for maintenance HP. And now recall the Buzzsaw better... Midnight Grasp > Smite > Siphon Life > Smite > repeat. VERY tasty.

I've ran a DM/EnA Brute on Legacy, and a DM/Inv Stalk here on HC. Haven't rolled a DM Scrap, yet. However, I can say that both EnA and Inv appreciate the maintenance of SL and -ToHit of all dark attacks. Also, the Brute was an ST only buzzsaw build - MG > SP > Smite > SP repeat. The Stalker has VERY much enjoyed the changes to ToF. I still hate Shadow Maul, tho. Refuse to take it. My only caution AGAINST DM/DA is my inherent bias against "matched" Pri/Sec. It'll also be perfectly functional.

I've been using Unrelenting to great effect on my WM/EnA Scrapper. The AoE Taunt is useful to start the fight and gather folks for draining, and then I grabbed the Fear for concept and why not? I'm used to taking a dead pick for Fighting, what's another?

Nope, 4 Power Pools, 1 Epic/Ancillary/Patron Pool.

Those two uniques are odd, as they're useful, but you get a similar benefit from 3 slotting Numi's...

Whelp, I dunno what happened to his build in my Mids... gonna have to rejigger it, anyhow.

Low effort posts get low effort responses. I meant either/or as needed.

1 Acc, 3 Dam, 1 EndRed in all attacks. 1 EndRed, 3 Def/Res in all toggles that take Def/Res 3 Rech in Energy Drain/Build Up/Energize 3 Heal in Energize. Salt with pool powers to taste.

Tangent - What were/was the position of the OG team/Rednames on Tribute toons? I know (recall?) the official position was verboten/3 degrees or more of separation - But what was/were the individual thoughts on them?

All Scrapper Primaries are viable... However, some of them are going to be worse than others, and Staff is near the bottom. Still perfectly useful at flipping out and killing stuff.

Wouldn't that be UNHOLY?