The Trouble

False, @Glacier Peak. Just perma-Hasten your softcap defenses to multibox your proc-bomb.

Donate today. Don't be responsible for robbing the world for what could be... Snarky. Not gone, but not forgotten.

I absolutely love Ninjitsu with Street Justice. There's no better pairing if you want to feel like a Dark Knight of your own making. I took every power from the secondary due to the Rule of Cool, but I agree that many powers are skippable if you wish to chase other concepts and stats. I got my guy to 100% slow resist, 7 knockback protection, and soft-capped all positionals (although I did include the Fighting pool). I also got Spinning Strike and Crushing Uppercut both decently proc-bombed. There's a lot of wiggle room with Ninjitsu!

So Energy Blast is even easier than I recall. I appreciate the correction, thank you! For what it's worth, I only ever put the +Recharge proc in Explosive Blast. Nova is the only power I ever bothered to convert to knockdown. SuddenlyI want to dust this character off and resume knocking back for justice.

Slot a Knockback to Knockdown in Explosive Blast, and Nova. The KB/KD tax is trivial because those are the only two that truly scatter enemies. Everything else let fly. Use Energy Torrent to send clusters back into debuff patches. With this method you are primarily only knocking a singular target back. Aim them towards a wall or a corner. Then you'll find other situations where sending an opponent sailing over an edge, or rolling down a hill a great benefit. I haven't seen a single complaint when sending an Immunes Surgeon screaming over a cliff. Why are people bad at knockback? Because they're never given the opportunity to practice because of the widespread hate, and forum reputation. The cycle just repeats.

I'm waiting for you to be struck with the irony of claiming to be a part of a counter-culture, yet demanding people to conform to your myopic and empirically incorrect definition of what a word means. Yes, language changes. But we still call paper notebooks "notebooks" even though we call a specific computer the same thing. Just because a modern subculture has decided to use the word "Goth" to describe themselves doesn't erase two thousand years of history. Peoples, language, architecture and literature have all been described as Goth/Gothic. That's why it was such a good pick for a costume contest!

Firstly, welcome home! I'm addicted to alts, but I have stuck with a handful of them all the way through 50 and beyond. As for your questions: I do solo and teaming with all of my characters. I usually turn to Tankers (no specific build) when I want to survive everything. The best thing to see in a group is someone who pays attention to what the leader says... I rarely celebrate seeing powersets, but players. I have a handful of builds that do exactly what I wanted them to do: ultra-high recharge, immunity to slow, capped res/def, permanent this-and-that. I realize most of these answers aren't helpful in guiding you to a concept that speaks to you. What makes or breaks a character for me is the concept. I'll come up with a name, theme, or costume first. I'm already excited about the character by the time they're running around in the game. So I don't see any harm in you making multiple characters because eventually one is going to be just right. You'll discover some kind of synergy that'll motivate you to log in as them every time you look at the character selection screen.

Hey. Those chainsaw swords we have are really cool. I'd love to see an adaptation of them for Claws.

...and if it was just limited to "Goth" and not "Gothic", you'd see the same uproar from this user if someone dressed like Conan the Barbarian justifiably won. Thanks to everyone who make these contests possible! Please know the community as a whole loves this stuff far beyond words' paltry shortcomings. I say this even though my mummified John Travolta didn't even place in the "Ancient Greece" contest. Maybe someday the parody-musical subculture will find the right representation in this online superhero videogame's community-run events, but until then, I'll keep fighting for our rights! ✊

@BrandX hit the nail on the head. I've omitted toggles because it makes predicting your Crit Window impossible, and the goal of this post was to steer Scrappers towards the most efficient placement for their personal build(s). By all means, put it in a toggle if you'd like! I'm not the Build Police. 🙂 I think that method would work best with extremely fast recharge attacks, so you could just go on your merry little berserk fury and randomly get a boost here and there. You don't need to be "efficient" to have fun. I'm sure most of us agree that a successful build is whatever leaves you standing while your enemies are in piles upon the floor.

If it procs (24% chance on standard, 46% for Superior), then you have 4.118 seconds of critical strikes, not just the next attack. A short animation or a long one doesn't matter as much as the Time After Effect, which you want to be as short as possible. Once Total Focus has activated, you'll get 3.326 seconds of crits, and the ATO has a very high proc rate in this power (65% chance on standard, 90% for Superior). On paper, it looks like a pretty good spot to slot this. Tables will include proc rates Soon(TM)! Tables updated!

Well, crap. You are correct. I'll update the tables to include regular and superior Critical Strikes proc chances as soon as my brain will allow. Thank you.

This is close to my experience. I used to have a ton of stuff stashed away, but I've been tearing down, giving away, and selling lately. After fully kitting out two pages of 50's, a handful of my wife's 50's, buying WAY too many booster packs, and giving away a ton of inf, I don't have a lot of liquid wealth at all. I still consider myself "rich" because there's literally nothing I can't afford. Sometimes I have to wait 45 minutes to an hour to make the inf for the new shiny thing, but playing the market is still quite fun for me. So that's my answer: Rich=everything you could want is readily available. In the past, I haven't considered slotted enhancements as part of a person's wealth, but this thread changed my mind. Reward Merits absolutely count!

I very passively addressed the issues like multiple targets when I said things like "probably be good candidates to slot this ATO (within reason)". My hope was to give folks a direction to look in, rather than recommend powers to use outright. Many thanks for addressing such a meaningful component missing from these tables! Directly related: Even though the Crit Window is pretty small for Broadsword's Slice, that's where I'm currently slotting the proc. So yeah, your observation is important enough that I should include it in the first post unambiguously. Including secondaries feels prohibitively daunting for now. Consolidating this data burned me out 🤷‍♂️

Me too! Updating my spreadsheet for that will take some noodle-scratching. I'm starting to feel like I jumped into the deep end of the pool with my boots on. 🙂

Thanks for linking that thread. I literally searched multiple ways to find similar topics, yet this one never showed up. I'll brush up my Search-Fu. Going to update my tables with this important feedback as soon as I have the mental capacity*, but at least they already help identify what powers should be considered for the ATO. Deeply appreciate the help! *Tables updated

...is not knowing what power to place it. I’d like to help in this quick guide. The goal with the tables below isn't to say "Slot your Critical Strikes HERE!". This is simply to make where you decide to slot your ATO an informed decision. What the Critical Strikes Proc Does When you fire off the power you slot it in, there's a chance to activate a brief window of time where each following attack scores a critical hit. What to Consider For a power to be a good candidate for this proc you'll want a high chance of it going off, and/or a large Crit Window. Note that while an AoE might only have a 40% chance of activating, more targets mean more 40% attempts at once. Explaining the Crit Window When the Critical Strikes enhancement goes off, you will have 3.25 4.25 seconds of guaranteed crits. So consider slotting this in a power where the effect activates as close to the end of the power’s animation as possible. By subtracting a power’s (A)Time Before Effect from (A)Cast Time, you’ll find how much time you have to wait before using your next attack. Subtract that number from the 4.25 seconds of Critical Strikes’ duration, and you'll find that power's "Crit Window". (A) means the seconds listed are adjusted for Arcanatime! Crit Windows have been calculated in the attached a tables for each Scrapper primary. They are sorted by largest Crit Window, so the top 2 or 3 powers in each set will probably be good candidates to slot this ATO (within reason, there's a good argument for putting it in AoE powers that don't necessarily have a large Crit Window) Battle Axe Broad Sword Claws Dark Melee Dual Blades Electrical Melee Energy Melee Fiery Melee Ice Melee Katana Kinetic Melee Martial Arts Psionic Melee Radiation Melee Savage Melee Spines Staff Fighting Stone Melee Street Justice Titan Weapons (Momentum excluded until my patience returns) War Mace Now that you know which powers will give you the most time out of Critical Strikes, it’s time to discover what attack chain you can use in that Crit Window. To calculate this, add the (A)Cast Time for every power but the last in your chain - that number should be the (A)Time Before Effect. Because no attacks follow this one, there is no need to account for it’s entire animation time. Examples: A two-power chain formula would be: (A)Cast Time for Power 1+ (A)Time Before Effect for Power 2. A three-power chain would be: (A)Cast Time for Power 1+ (A)Cast Time for Power 2+ (A)Time Before Effect on Power 3. If that total is less than the Crit Window, then your post-proc attack chain is likely maximizing the benefit of the Critical Strikes ATO! Adjust to DPS tastes, and you're golden.* *As Yomo Kimyata pointed out, don't be discouraged from slotting into an AoE, even if its Crit Window is small. Hitting multiple targets gives your proc another chance of activating. Even if you can only toss out one attack during your Crit Window, you could potentially have a lot more windows. More knowledgeable folks, feel free to chime in and correct me on any gaps or misconceptions. This little project started simply because I wanted to find the best place for the ATO on my Broadsword wielder. Then I realized this information would be really helpful organized like this. Enjoy! Edit: @Maelwys, I hope I used your feedback correctly. Frankly, I made these tables because all of this is deeply confusing for me. Gonna keep trying... Edit 2: @Yomo Kimyata noted that these tables don't tell the whole story because AoE's can be a good place for Critical Strikes. Edit 3: Effect Area added to tables. Proc percentages also added per @DarknessEternal's suggestion.

More than any other mob in the game: The one guy tucked behind a rock somewhere on a defeat all Oranbega map.

We gotta know your secondary powerset to have any clue if this is possible. Your current build would probably help even more, but sets will help a whole lot. To answer your question, I'm going with a very confidently solid "maybe".

Renegade Vanguard made a powered suit with a processing core made from a partial Rikti brain. Presenting Warcore:

Oh that magical moment when your Kheldian unlocks Dwarf! Suddenly getting to toggle on more sturdiness and mez protection changes every strategy used prior to this power. It feels as good as the best T9 primaries without nearly as long of a wait to unlock. White & Black Dwarf change everything.

Just a disclaimer: I'm not a Mastermind expert. I didn't used to like them. Then I started slotting endurance reducers in the pets. Here's my guess at what's happening: Pets don't actively consume your stamina, but your attacks are very costly. You have to fill in the gaps with expensive powers when your pets' DPS slows. Their DPS has slowed because they are low on endurance. Then they eat up their blue bar firing off their low-tier attacks, and don't fire off their heavy-hitters nearly as much. Slotting the pets with endredux will help because they'll be able to cycle more (and better) attacks, freeing you from taxing your own stamina bar so much.

Well guys, the meme clearly shows who the badguys are, so battlewraith has apparently won. 🤷‍♂️ My condolences to those that defended the notion that loot drops are rewards for playing the game, and for anyone that incorrectly believes that playing the market is fun. Anyway, I'm going to watch the end credits of my gaming backlog on YouTube so I can feel the exact same satisfaction as beating them.

If I find myself frustrated by the behavior in a thread, I stop reading it. Which stinks because some opposing opinions are stated so well that I find great interest in their reasoning. Then some folks show up with thoughts on this game so strong that they fire off posts with the heat of religious rage, and every attempt at actual discussion gets ruined.

I have a petless Mastermind that I only level from street sweeping - no missions, task forces, or trials. I can only equip enhancements I find. Not doing the Ironman/Hardcore thing because my insanity has a limit. It's fun in a completely ridiculous way. The other challenge that I'm utterly failing at is to have no more than 50 characters on my primary server.