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Eagle's Claws https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=scrapper_melee.martial_arts.eagles_claw&at=scrapper It gives a 33% increased chance to crit for the next MARTIAL ART's attacks in a 2s window. So if you slap the scrapper ATO2 in that attack, and it activates, you now have a 83% chance to crit for your next MA attack. If you can fit another attack in that window...lol. You can bump that up to 86% with the ATO1 somewhere. Enjoy!

Definitely agree on this. And you can get pretty close to scrapper HP cap with just your build and a few accolades. You can do this 6 slotting True Grit and slapping the preventive maintenance set in there. Slap the power transfer chance to heal proc in stamina, panacea and numina in health, and you'll be doing pretty good health wise for sure.

Just want to say HELL YEAH at DB/ENA for your sith. Mine is also. As for build advice? Vengeful Slice doing a SHORYUKEN with a sword is awesome looking as all get out, but it isn't exactly the most effective (for my playstyle at least). Something to note. ENA DOES have a taunt aura, but it is noticeably weaker then other sets that have one. You can get runners. Something to think about. Vorpal Judgement. Just seems to thematically go with a force user to me. Ion...actually that does too. Nice call. FORCE LIGHTNING RARR

This post is for real? I seriously thought this was a troll.

1. This got fixed on Live. Doesn't apply any more unless that bug snuck back in. 2. Try it. You can actually make DM viable AOE. 3. What. I'm familiar with SD.

It focuses your energy.

Pretty good. Other sets do the AOE thing a lot better, but EM has a pretty good feel for it. And it does really good ST DPS.

I'm guessing this is a brain washing joke. At least that's how I took it. I would have went with something crayon related.

Out of the secondaries in your OP, Rad and EA have a taunt aura. EA's is fairly weak, but it is there. Don't discount Inv (it has a taunt aura), and Inv is a pretty darn good secondary. Pretty easy to res cap S/L with inv, and get to HP cap with just activating Dull Pain. Also, not sure if Shield is an option too, but it also has a taunt aura. Slotting gets VERY tight with SD though. Or can be depending on how you build/play. But out of the ones in your OP that have a taunt aura, I personally would give the vote towards EA or Rad. Both are VERY sturdy. Your preference there would be on your playstyle for sure. Rad is a resist based set and EA a defense one. I've personally been able to get more DPS out of Rad then EA, but EA definitely has more wiggle room build wise. But I have, and very much enjoy, my BA/RAD. *if you go Rad, you most likely won't consider taking Ground Zero. It really is superfluous AOE at that point. BA already has a LOT of AOE just baked in to it's attacks. I personally only use three attacks in BA for ST stuff. Mileage may vary. Also, Bio Armor has a Taunt:

Two.

Average of 5+ runs. Hyrbid off. No temps. Scrapper SM/BIO 1:06 (Degen/Melt Armor/Enflame/Proc) Scrapper BA/BIO 1:10 (Degen/Melt Armor/Enflame/Proc) Seismic Smash is just wild. Battle Axe definitely got a big glow up with it's recent pass. You don't even need to spec for AOE and it poops out a lot of it.

Whatcha mean? Admittedly, I'm not always up to date keeping up with it. I tend to put stuff in there in spurts. Porn distracts me.

Thy an underscore (@XXX_YYY) connecting your name. edit: Disregard. This doesn't work. I'll also give someone 100mil inf if they can figure this out.

"We" did?

The "LFG Queue" doesn't seem to be working any more.

Same, I remember Uber telling me exactly that and it was followed up by a proverbial "shrug" of not sure if that's actually a thing. And for real. That is such a seriously nice QOL. Very underrated. Not sure when they start counting though. I'm guessing once the frst tick of damage hits? I have no clue. I need to see if the training dummies do the same thing.

I'm still shooketh this ball was thrown down a abyss. The people making content for this decades old game seem to be really understanding how important costumes are so I really had to scratch my head what was going on there. For me personally, even if Stone Armor had a taunt aura this oversight by itself would make me question rolling one. And Stone Armor is GOOD.

I solo. A lot. So a taunt aura is a must have for me. That's a personal thing to some. If Stone Armor didn't have it's...interesting...costume choices I'd go with that. It has really good toughness and gobs of damage. My fav kat combo? Depends on what I'm in the mood for. If I'm solo-ing, Kat/Inv. Legacy sets and all. If I do join a team, and based on their make up, I might drive my Kat/Bio. I haven't done Kat/Rad, but that HAS to be a really good option. I've done Rad on a lot of different characters and it's a solid darned choice.

For real. I normally ignore ridiculous threads, but the title on this one had me look. The first post has me even responding. There's a reason I have a full roster of scrappers and no brutes. I like to do damage to things. Scrappers do that better then brutes. I want to live forever and do damage? Tanker. I want to run the bleeding edge of life and death and deal gobs of damage? Scrapper. I want to not do either of those as well as a tanker or scrapper? Brute. Brutes used to out shine scrappers in every way. Then they were nerfed to fall in line damage wise to scraps. Then ATO1 hit. That was a blow to brutes in the damage department. Then ATO2...lol. Yeah. Brutes may as well have not even gotten an ATO that pass. Whereas scrappers got one of the best in the game. Before the tanker changes I'd feel differently, but here we are. I do remember City of Brutes. Very. Well.

Why does Inv get left out of the picture? I've done Katana with: EnA Bio Nin SR Inv Electric Armor As much as I really like Nin and SR, I can't handle them due to a lack of taunt aura. Same with Electric. I haven't done Stone, but it also doesn't have a taunt aura. In terms of squish, Bio is EASILY the squishiest out of all those. It also does gobs of damage. It's a trade-off. Do NOT sleep on Invincibility.

I skip the powers in Katana that are yellow. When Dull Pain is active it HP caps this character.

Yeah I have a Ele/TW tanker. I used to rock a TW/Ele Brute....but tanker changes. The only other armor set for tankers that I feel like get's a better survivability nod from me is Rad Armor. But I'm a big fan of Ele Armor and TW paired together. Performs REALLY well and it has some real nostalgia for me. For scrapper? I'm a big fan of TW on ENA, Rad, or Bio. Ena/Rad are both really sturdy and Bio is...well, a very glass cannon nuke. Also, they all three have taunt auras. Very important for me. I mostly solo so this matters a lot to me. I'm a really big fan of my TW/ENA Scrapper. Does really good damage and I can easily get the survivability numbers I want. I have to compromise a lot with resist/hybrid sets to do that.

With the TW? Easy really. Claws/Kat? Same rotation as a Snipe. Can't do it in an EM chain without including Energy Punch to keep things seamless. I need to go back and edit my MA build to include Char in the chain (to see if it works TBH). But my builds have a lot of recharge. Close to perma hasten. And I always go Ageless, so thats another 10% at the WEAKEST point of the buff. And I park my dudes in Cim for another 10% recharge. I do Cim over Oro cause I want the +res to all also. Oh. I don't do Char every rotation. That needs clarification. The Kat/Claws chain are good examples of that. Kat? Just another GC in it's place. Claws? Shockwave instead. And I've found Shockwave being better ST DPS then Strike. And it's way more versatile.

That's the thing. Only on two of my runs did the proc go off when I needed it to. I don't know WTF is going on. I'm monitoring my damage and everything to make sure I'm not getting some weird buff I'm not aware of. I know I've really gotten in to a flow of my build knowing when things are going to come off cooldown, And I use WS way more during my BM chain than the second AoD I want.

I got to see @Ratch_ do some wild stuff. Also, I can't figure out why the TW/ENA is doing as well as it is. I just did 5 more runs with no outside buffs, all build. Average on those runs was 1:15.