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Why not replace Fire Breath with Combustion. I've never taken it on any of my 3 Fm toons, and even on teams where I have seen it on builds, I rarely see it used. But good lord, do I love me some Combustion. Just not as big of a fan of Tanks as I am of the other melee ATs. That's all I have to add. I'm not really a numbers guy.

So, in the mean time, what should I play on a scrapper instead to get a similar feel? I've been craving for it!! I already have a Fm/ a Dm/ and a Claws. I've been thinking Rad. Am I right?

Nevermind, I found it! Sorry, like I said, I'm dense. Back to your regularly scheduled, um, stuff. It may be because I'm tired, or it may be that I'm dense (I am), but I can't figure out how to do this. Would you mind pointing me in the right direction?

Indeed! Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus!!!

Love it! Captain Marvel is one of my favorites. I have a very similar costume from Genis-Vell, I used the star fiel pattern (can't think of actual name). Gives him that look from the comics.

Welcome! While all of your costumes were cool, I think these are absolutely amazing!

First, I'd like to thank everyone who has contributed to this project. It has been very informative, especially the SO only testing. The fact you started from the perspective of how the game should be balanced for the average player vs those who push their builds, myself included. Special shout out to BillZ though. It was your antics on the original that got me to roll two of my favorite toons, a claws/sr scrap and a ss/sr brute. I don't want to derail the thread, but I do have some questions. If asked, I'll happily remove them and start a new thread in the scrapper forums. This has actually made me want to get on Beta myself, though I am having some trouble at the moment. I was curious if you guys were having any issues either, or if I just don't kmow what the hell I'm doing. I was also curious if anyone had any experience regarding fire melee vs rad melee vs energy melee (yes, I'm aware scrappers do not have energy melee)? I have a Fm/Inv brute that I luvs, but I have a concept that dictates energy, so I was thinking substitating rad for energy? I know rad has better aoe vs em, but how does the st hold up? And how does it compare vs fm? One last thing, with all of this wonderful data is anyone planning on making any guides, like back in ye olden days? You know, with power description, breakdowns, detailed info and the like.

I realize I'm late to the party, but I wann join! My first toon was inspired by my favorite character. That's a lie, I totally ripped him off from Marvel. Can you guess who? Give you a clue, he was a Claws/Reg scrapper. I knew better than to mimic the name or costume though. It is my current screen name though. He was my favorite, until the great Regen nerf. My second second favorite toon I ever made, and one I am about to re-roll, oce I decide on a suitable alternative for energy melee, I drew inspiration from different areas. Having always been a fan of Superboy (Kon-El), I altered his origin a bit to make him the clone of Statesman. Of course, just like with Superboy, they couldn't completely replicate his D.N.A. as it had been effected by the well. They used the remaining genetic material from what they thought was a Portal Corp. lab, but actually turned out to be from a Paragon Protector.

No, cause you still look like you're leaking Staph with every step you take. As a medical professional, I can't use this powerset, at all.

You may have already seen this in the Scrapper forums, if not, here you go. It's all very informative. You may need to read the whole thread. Again, apologies if yo have read it. Further apologies if you are one of the contributors to the testing, and I just don't remember.

Thanks for this Sovera, while I'm not a new player, I have been gone from HC for close to six months, and been even longer since I rolled a new toon, so I'll be using this in the next week or so.

I'd be interested. I know I used to read one about beings that crashed on earth and were worshipped as gods, but I forgot what it was called.

I have your site pulled up, I'll check it out tomorrow.

Those were good for a quick laugh, thanks.

Been away from HC for a few months, where are the proposed changes posted again? I was thinking of coming back an rolling a DM toon. So I'd like to see these changes. Thanks for the help.

Not only is this an awesome costume, but I love the spin you put on the Batman concept. Amazing.

Thx Striker, this looks, intriguing. I wish they'd just make IH a toggle again. Does making DP a toggle still boost max HP, I wonder? Also, this says it's coxg, that's not the same as Homecoming, is it?

Follow Up boosts is basically Claws version of Build Up. If you hit with it, it makes it easier to hit with subsequent attacks, and of course, boosts your damage. It's fairly easy to stack it as well.

Maybe it's just that the heatwave is getting to me, but damn you are being a whiny, over-entitled, ungrateful little son of a bitch, aren't you? Every penny of which goes towards the game's hardware, hosting, and bandwidth costs ... and not one thin cent goes into any of the dev team's pockets. ... because the alternative is NO CITY OF X AT ALL, you insufferable little ingrate. >:( +1 inf for you, good sir.

I thought you meant like in Bleach. I was in a Bleach themed SG back on the live servers. One of the nice things about the Soul Reapers was they weren't all necessarily all just katana/ninja blade/dual weapons. Yoruichi doesn't even wield a Zanpaktou. Rukia uses more kido more than her sword. Sui-Feng (2nd squad captain) has that thing on her finger. Hell, you could go Fire Melee, it has 2 or 3 sword attacks and you could think of the others as kido.

Wait, Soul Reaper, or Soul Reaver?

I love the cce size swap, that's genius.

Thanks for the reply, I've been holding off until I was more clear on this. I appreciate it.

Why the focus on rotating around Shockwave? Is that for single target? It looks like the other t1/t2's in Claws do more damage. Thanks. This is talked about a couple of times back and forth in the thread already. Shockwave still has really good DPA despite being a cone, but the biggest reason is the fact that it can be slotted with a -20% Res Proc which gives the entire chain around it a significant boost. Otherwise the only option for optimal chain is Follow UP > Focus > Slash, and it takes a ridiculous amount of recharge to get there. Either way, Shockwave with the proc is worth it. It's *only* 313% recharge in Followup for it to work out without a pause. I did try out the shockwave chain instead but the end suckage was just too damn high. Best time so far with BZB claws/sr scrapper: 2:30 for around 380 DPS. I'll take it but I think it was an aberration. Looks like I'm averaging around 3 minutes per pylon. Can someone help me understand these stalker times of under a minute? Is it just assassin's strike doing this? It's the ATO's. One puts them back in hide. So they can crit with a heavy hitting attack from hide, be put back in hide and crit off of another heavy hitter, then hit AS for another fast heavy hitting attack. They can basically crit on demand now. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't happen 100% of the time, but frequently enough. The other recharges build up. If they happen to have the Gaussians chance for build up and that goes off to, well, double build up for them. So whatever attack they use next is gonna do a LOT of damage. Especially if it's a crit. (I just rolled my first stalker tonight to get a tste of it myself, lol.)

So what do I use Bioarmor on? :) The toilet