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Spine/Ice Scrapper is great. The slow stack and you can farm very good with it. Secondary effect are good if you can floor the mob. Sent get a 90 sec nuke that cap at 8 mob but with recharge u can get it to below 30 sec. You might think meh blaster better. That may be true but when you realise those nuke have massive debuff and you can spam it way faster than a blaster. Blackstar can go -55% to hit. That is simmilar to if you have 45% def. So you can make a strong survivability toon by flooring there -tohit. If you focus on secondary do it all the way or nothing in my opinion. Some secondaries do not need to go to 90%. I been out for awhile and explaining the hit mechanic might be off but going above -45% tohit does nothing but help counter + level so at -55% tohit you counter +2 and so forth mix in alittle Def and you are Def cap to +4 with one blackstar using -tohit and alittle Def.This was a toon I thought up to counter cascading Def failures.

I tried elec/ninja blapper but ended up going with Sonic/Ninja Blapper and reducing the cap to all def to 32-33% to focus on damage because a single target 3k+ damage in two hits is bonkers with no inps or teammates. You reduce your def cap to soft cap now you eat purples but the increase is to good. By far one of the most surprising builds, I ever had, and it was a theme build that suprised. Also, it is rated I think bottom 3 in least played combo. /ninja on blaster is the true blapper. One word CRITICAL DragonFly Second Word Critical KO Blow Third word Priceless FYI Critical is not full damage and it works like a proc but if feel great to play and different from any other blaster.

STALKER Elec MELEE/ Energy armor. Take that pulsating shield aura disrupt that is unique to stalkers and color it yellow. That is a great looking aura for energy theme .

Removing oneself from AT and armor and focuing DDR everything becomes more clear. No not Dance Dance Revolution but defenense debuff resistants The reason SR came out so consistent for you is because it has a built in 95%DDR which is the most important thing endgame because of cascading DDR failures built into end game. Some other armor set have less and some have no DDR. But all can compensate with incarnate that add DDR. Its is more of a balance some stonger than others but you now sacrafice the freedom of picking destiny incarnate to get ddr in ageless. When realizing other armor can cap DDR you now see how SR can be surpassed in survivability but again its all trade offs the other build has to sacrifice its destiny incarnate to do what is baked into SR. Also who ever said /ice armor is weak on scrappers might not realise the best T9 armor in game is Ice bastion and is a exclusive scrapper power. I agree with most others as well /reg is in a bad state for scrappers. Worst scrapper I ever made was --Kin melee and Fire Armor So fire armor on scrapper with no taunt baked in has to be up there on worst armor for scarppers.

Ding ding ding this guys got the right idea, Dark Armor/ Elec melee on Tank is by far one of the best mitigation toons in game. Besides stun locking everything with mag 5 stuns almost instantly. It can cap Def and Resistance and get DDR in incarnate it is fully rounded in survivability. IMO it's one of the best Tank combos end game that not many people talk about because it's not great leveling and you need massive investment into enhancment sets. Visa versa if you want offense Elec melee/ shield scrapper has been the norm for a great aoe damage nuke toon. With two mini nukes.

/time is great perma gang wars is cool and stuff /elec is just on another level when built perma gang wars and double gang war every other also the only power set that can handle healing all those pets because of chains and end recovery.

Capping defense on a cap resistant build is a perk Dark Tanks and few other can do. Attached is a melee cap def build 1 purp to full cap all Res cap excluding toxic Moderate proc good end + recharge Dark does not have DDR so ageless is a must for incarnates if you choose to cap def. This is a flexible build. Depending on damage,def,res alpha you choose you can make tweaks to the build. Tanker (Dark Armor - Electrical Melee).mbd

Two SO will get you to -52.4% every 22 sec with 20 sec duration while only loosing 94 damage very good trade off. With the layerd nature of def running solo +4x8 DA is a breeze even with debuffer because you only need to -30 to hit them and thats what you ususally get around after +4 levels. Now when it comes to AV your right but I would never build a /rad sent for solo AV fights and like maybe one sent build I can think of doing it. Build for whatever but Sent nuke secondary is one of the best kept secrets with the massive full debuff and short cooldown nukes best to build around those combos

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Dark/Rad -tohit is a great pair with blackstar dropping -55%tohit it becomes your def and you can build for res which /rad is. Plus multiple heals with life drain and Proton Therapy.

44% def soft cap proc out earsplitter and Def wave. You can take this as a template and add more procs. Rule of thumb 44% def is great 33% is livable with purps. Shoot for one or the other adding as many proc to your rotation. ill/Sonic for me was very fun leveling. Still fun and animations make it a fun play. IMO ill/Psi is the pinical of illusion because AV -reg sap but Sonic gives big numbers and is a lot more fun to play. So if your trying to go full control you have to know what content your building for. Some content people build for are solo AV builds that run long duration confuses. You might be able to pull off a hold build with a long duration, would be worth a fun test if echo and earsplitter proc. But in most content the long duration on hold over the damage in a big damage power is not worth the sacrafice in damage. Now for most content everything dies so fast magnitute of the holds matter more you need 4 to 6mags of hold consistantly this imo is more import than duration in normal content situations. In the end most content in this game is pretty chill and anyhing works just beaware with lack of damage , AV regen becomes your biggest weakness.

I do one every year. Spine/ ice scrapper with spine crystal texture to simulate ice color light blue and white. ice/stone scrapper that has stone with crystal texture to simulate ice. This year I am thinking of Ice/thorn dominator with thorns colored with crystal texture for ice look.

Sonic primary is not sub par if you want to be in melee the - res just makes your melee better. If you pare it with /ninja which was buffed a few patches ago which can critical a golden dragonfly for 1-2k damage and follow it is up with a 1-2k knockout blow critical. It’s pretty solid. You also have the option to go full def cap to all at 44% which very few can do. Still it’s best suited at 33% def and full damage. Pbaoe Nuke = massive - res = big number follow ups = fun.. Nothing is better than seeing critical even if it’s not double damage it still fun seeing the word pop up on your blaster.

I ran a similar concept a while back based off the damge buff on a Fire/ DB Tank Spamming Bind Feint and Sweaping strike to take advantage of sweeping strike being buffed on tanks to 180* degrees. To this day its been the closes in time to a spine/fire brute in farms I have made. Using a full recharge build and similiar concept you should be able to smudge out a ST 8% damage increase just based off of base stats using Blind Feint-->Sweeping Strike-->Ablating Strike. This is just a theory and procs and slotting could push claws past that 8% increase. Still DB could not do the aoe damage claws can on a scrapper. DB should be pretty close to claws on ST.

Icy Bastion is one of the best T9 powers in game and you can only get it with scrappers and stalkers. Both can also get hibernate in epic pool. One of my fav builds of all time and my main farmer was a spine/ice scrapper with the spines costume as crystal colored to look like ice that with the icicles made it gorgeous. Even though it was about a min behind a spine fire brute in farms it could run all content being very survivable and far more survivable than a spine/fire brute in normal content. I won’t digress further. Normally I would say it depend on build but Ice armor on scrappers get so much more than other AT . It gets one of the best T9 in game and it also get Icicles damage aura no other Ice armor AT gets both.