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That sounds awesome..... fire/MA.... (totally not opening mids right now)

Is that with healing flames on auto or burn? I suppose if you built for regen its doable on +4 as well, but ideally you would have burn on not healing flames.

2 of my friends and I randomly saw a petless mastermind, he was necro/kin I think? It was terrible, I asked him why and he said because it sounded horrible... We then thought it would be a good idea to PICK terrible builds for each other. I gave my buddy an Assault Rifle/TA defender. I told him to name him Redraw McGraw haha. He played it for like 4 levels and quit.

If you have 20% defense on a fire farm you will die, unless you rely on greens/purples, which would be less efficient than only needing reds... But to your point, I'm all for only getting what you need. I definitely feel like most people tunnel on obtaining certain stats and end up going overboard. When it comes to tanks, it gets tricky... I personally build mine to be more than just taunt bots but you will definitely find those people that literally just want to stand there and taunt. I completely ignore defenses on my rad/ss because it doesn't NEED defense, I have hard capped resists to all besides cold, absorbs, heals, like you said, the defense isn't needed. A lot of people try to also get defense and it makes their character nothing more than a meat shield. It's 3:41 am here in Hawaii, I'm stuck in a work call, pardon my wordy response.

Rad/ss can do all of those with only Hamidon being an issue. +4/8 Any mob type. Literally any! (Rularuu made me edit this post, not sure how that would turn out tbh)

I also saw your comment that stated Blasters < Scrappers.... You referenced you playing a Fire/time blaster and immediately wrote off the entire AT based on that. My Fire/Fire blaster does a pylon about a minute faster than your scrapper, and only dies if I decide to be an idiot. I can solo +4/8 scanner missions of any type in PI. I'm not going to pretend like I'm tankier than you, but to say that scrappers are better than blasters is just wrong. They're just different. What criteria are you basing the whole better thing on? Survivability?

Hey that reminds me of the +4/8 no deaths, no temps, no inspirations, 6 man blaster ITF I ran... in 25:25. Blasters are great, you just cant stand in melee range like you can on your scrapper. Clarion fixes Mez issue so that's a non issue, and content where I don't have claron is typically easy content.