Mr. Vee

Ouch, that's about the worst i've seen. And most of that will probably literally be down the drain as the person on the other end isn't likely to be looking for that before hitting claim all inf.

I generally go ahead and get the explore accolade for cap on every toon as I'm already touring the better part of it to get the plaques for the accolade powers. If you go to the plaque in the southwest after you pop in at the globe one it's a pretty straightforward path around to wind up at the helicopter for the trip to nerva north and the badge you need there for accolades.

Hmm, so it is. Idk where I got that stalkers don't get it but had I known I'd definitely have done stalker on it. Though I'm not convinced as much as I like my scrap that it'd be worth rolling a stalker to compare. It's not like my elec/shield scrap where it was annoying me and made me roll stalker. Oh and on the subject of elec/shield stalker and the discussion above - skip thunderstrike. It's way too slow for its meh damage.

I have atlas explorer on everyone since there seemed little point to me to get the ones you need for the medallion and not just grab the rest of the low hanging fruit. So tonight I started the process of getting an explore in every zone on every toon. Because obviously all my finished alts, many of whom I have no intention of actually playing again, need a full LRT menu. One down, 47 to go and I've already decided I don't need the shard or praetoria zones. It's not so bad but I certainly wouldn't want to do it on my full stable once the changes go live and I can't chain the base macro. New toons after that will just have to cope.

Elec/shield is much better on stalker. My elec/shield scrapper is now my unslotted idler and renamed 'wishiwasastalker'.

Oh it is, and the ATO takes it up a notch. But stalkers get crits out of hide, fast AS crit chances buffed by their other attacks up to a guaranteed one, and increased crit chances depending on team size. it really adds up.

Sure you don't mean better ATOs and more crits? Seriously a stalker on a full team with the hide proc in AS is a crit machine. And with the other ATO most of those crits have one or more build ups buffing them too. It doesn't even cross my mind to take placate or use slow AS anymore, it's just not as fun to me as the mad target hopping crit machine style the changes made possible. That said, you asked about scrappers which is why we mentioned war mace and ice - stalker doesn't have those and they're worth a go (someone would've said titan weapons too were it not for the beta changes coming and the general PITA-ness of the set when fighting mobs that move rather than pylons). I've not personally tried battle axe on scrap but that might be a possibility for the same reason.

My thought was TAoE just to cut out some of the cone positioning the set's already heavy with but the damage would still be DoT to simulate that not everyone's getting hit at the same time. Not a ground TAoE like archery, just a regular one where you could target the center of the mob and not worry about your nuke only hitting 2 targets.

I've not run specifically for merits in a loooong time but did it early on HC since that was my main concern on live. If you're solo I'd say old posi in ouro in addition to the arcs mentioned above. on teams Lady Grey, Terra volta 1 and Morty Kal are great merit/minute assuming speed runs, in addition to those mentioned above. Manticore and the three treespecs are decent. Mantis is good m/m but it's probably too annoying to do too often. Faathim was pretty good on live so I'd imagine with TT etc. it'd be better here.

Is there some reason it needs to be a 25 degree cone? Can't it be thematically ok as a TAoE or a wider cone with the gun being moved side to side?

I like the idea of a to-hit debuff from full auto being suppressing fire, but at least make it a TAoE instead of a terrible cone that requires perfect placement to hit half a mob. Meanwhile an archer is hitting full mobs from around a corner.

2 words - Defensive Amplifier

My frozen aura recharges in about 5 seconds and i'm bio so i have the 2 auras helping it. That plus crits and I don't even really bother trying to line frost up for multiple targets. Ice patch won't take any procs (or any sets for that matter) but it's such a long animation I rarely use it anyway.

I rather like my ice/bio scrapper.

I like that folks thought I didn't intentionally call it ass rifle. It's fought hard to earn that name.

I second mercs. Ass rifle as well - if the tier 9 roots you for more seconds than enemies you hit with it, there's issues 😛 There are several sets that could use an overall activation time pass.

Pocket D doesn't have an explore accolade, so probably working as intended at least on that front.

The statistics are neat but i'd also like some lies and damned lies if possible.

I'd go look at the beta changes before rolling a blaster of any kind right now as almost all of the secondaries won't be the same soon.

I do Atlas and PJ blue and HPT, Invader, Demonic on red (though my hordeling kills are done in KR). Usually done by 32 with all of them. Really if you're doing all of them on one side there's some suffering either way. If forced to do them all on one side I'd take damage farming over synapse/citadel/numina and fake nem hunts in a second.

Being able to use one power to get to PD 3 times in 30 mins doesn't make a power that'd give you a 4th visit in those 30 minutes redundant, especially if the former power is also your way of travelling to everywhere else.

It's not redundant when there's cooldowns or charges involved in the other powers. Since there are it'd be a nice extra way to get to an sg base without burning a rapid response charge when the other powers are on cooldown. And since PD is the only place with a P2W contact that will talk to you during a TF/Ouro and Null lives there I think it warrants its own special power. And we also either paid for or earned it. Please, leave it in even if it doesn't get the activation time fix of mish/base tp.

QuiJon answered this pretty clearly after the "once again".

Spotify had that in my release radar yesterday and even with this external confirmation I'm still not 100% sure I'm not hallucinating.

I took flares over blast and like it but fire ball also has the 1 sec activation and might save you the respec.