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I remember when they ported /sr to brutes and gave you guys a taunt aura I started begging the devs to add the taunt to scrapper /sr and I also thought /da and /fire should get at least some KB protection

Yes I wish we had a way to make it optional in every secondary after playing shield; I can no longer play a secondary that does not have a taunt aura. I wish they could put it as an option for every scrapper but the only way I can think of that is being possible is turning every single target taunt in the primaries into an aura or just give every secondary a power that is a toggle when turn on a taunt or give us an option some how to turn taunt on or off in the build. Maybe somebody else has a better suggestion on how to make it possible but I would love love for that to be the case

Since the game came back I got a dm/shield to 50 (io ti the gills etc etc) and his alpha slot and I played a lot of DM in the previous COH life. I even respeced recently out of spring attack into cross punch which I actually like better than Shadow Maul and Spring Attack but something was still lacking. I love Shield a lot probably my favorite secondary since it was introduced into the COH world it is the reason I can no longer play scrappers secondaries without a taunt aura. I have always enjoyed DM play had two toons in the previous coh life at 50 and it is not like I did not know what I was getting with the set; yet something was still lacking and then I figured out what it was yesterday. II have been testing scrappers power sets the last month trying to find something that I wanted to get to 50 and this weekend I was able to get a fire/rad to 22 and when I hit 18 I knew what I had been missing in my scrapper play Fire Sword Circle. The sheer joy of burning a group of mobs to ash and there was the reason after shield came out that my main toon from that day until shut down was my Fire/SD scrapper. I thought it was because of shield but I guess what I did not realize it was really because of Fire Melee. Long Live Fire Sword Circle

Question I started a fire/rad gotten him to 21 in mids says 3 second activation for Ground Zero which would be spine burst times which is fine it just lets me know how I need to play the power on a team vs solo Just wanted to verify that 3 seconds is correct

Entropic Aura weaker than shield

Looking for the optimal attack chains for Rad Melee I think I want to give it a shot try something new

To be fair the pylon test started of pre incarnate days as a way to check our ST damage for soling AV's it just morphed into something else; it was great for testing while what we originally where testing against ; but I love the idea of testing things with normal slotting.

Shadow Maul crits I can tell you from the old days I got good at lining up enemies for multiple hits when solo. Yes i skip it now days

I am now a body only guy none of the others make sense I mean conserve power and Physical Perfection default slots. The issue with fireball and ball lighting is how long I have to wait for the aoe and for my dm/sd it was easier to take spring attack and get it at level 16 vs level 41 and i have it when i sidekick down. Most builds I have I could use more slots on my core powers so body it will be I guess.

Can you post your current build; from mids that would help

You need to define old school i mean back in the day dark armor cof had mag3 fear but hey also had not stacking armor; regen was so powerful they would tank hami bahaha that is a trick question for us old timers

Thanks a lot that is the info I was looking for

Ok back when shields first came out I created a fire/sd and I so fell in love with shields damage boost and taunt aura. Does anyone know the strength ratings of the taunt auras I know shields and Invulnerability are strong and most say willpower is really weak Where does energy aura stand and Bio armor never came out and I have not played it yet so not sure where it rad or ice stand If anyone has the information I would love for you to post any information you have

I loved the 1k and sweep combo when soloing and taking out minions it is fun. I could never run attack vitals combo I hate the vengeful slice animation with a vengeance so I ran sub optimal back in the day and will do so again since I plan on my next toon to revive db/ea but I do love the DB overall feel and play alot.

I was one of the 8 not in that picture; I was Melted Copper Fire/SD and I remember us doing that and Werner was running his katana/regen scrapper. We killed every single mob

Back in the day on my fire/sd I had aid self but I was do soloing AV challenge. That means soloing the AV's with no temp powers, no inspirations, no alpha etc Just IO's and your powers and I had aidself and it worked great for that purpose. It kind of depends on why you are taking aidself

Shield with double stacked rage it will never happen but one can dream

Scrapper speed /sr can run real fast with swift. sprint and quickness with just standard IO's in fact it was great in missions I would not even need sprint because of swift and quickness made it fun and fast Note /sr scrappers do not have a taunt aura but they are real easy to soft cap

I finally got to start playing again here after real life got in the way and I was only able to play like twice in the last 4 weeks. Anyways I been farming for IO's trying to finish up my S IO's on my dm/shield build and I started working on my critical strike IO's and have 3 of them in place including critical strike proc. Now the weird when I have critical strike proc if I use my soul drain or dark consumption right after every hit from the aoe crits; but shield charge and spring attack do not has any one else tested this on other normal aoe attacks or noticed this on normal aoe attacks (shield charge is a pseudo pet).

I want to figure out a way to drop hasten, I find that it makes the build too "clicky" and interrupts my attack chain. Also buying the Scrapper AIO's was the easiest way for me to get them. I'm currently in the process of attuning all of my enhancements and holy cow enhancement catalysts are expensive. I got a 100 merits in about 3.5 hours and that was not being as efficient as I should have been and bought my first scrapper IO today and that was going from zero merits to 1-4 . Yes I got 104 merits solo in ouroboros I tried a few The Freaklympics The Freakshow War I found those better than A Path Into Darkness

I killed AV's with DB/EA no incarnates without attack vitals I just can not run that combo because I hate the vengeful slice with a passion

for scrappers for just pure farming elec/sd can clear fodder all day long and my fire/sd was a better farmer than my dm/sd those are the shield ones I would also say elec/fire looks appealing

I'm having kind of the opposite experience. I've managed to get full IO / superior AIO sets and the build is definitely solid. However, it feels clunky for me even with perma hasten and plenty Luck of the Gambler slotted. The AoE clear just doesn't really compare to what I was getting on a Spines/Fire brute with equivalent investment. The single target is decent, but for that I felt my Illu/Rad controller outperformed it. What kind of end-game content should I be looking to do solo that this build excels at? So far, it feels like a jack of all trades master of none kind of deal. The best aoe clear for scrappers using shield is elec/shield and I would say my fire/sd was also a better balance of aoe + st over DM but I knew all that when making my DM/SD I had previously had a dm/sr and a dm/da at 50 and a fire/sd at 50 back in the day so i knew what I was getting with going dm/sd

Kaeladin - I want to thank you for your time and effort spent building and running things on test to get clean data, when most of us are just throwing 'what we have on live' at the nearest pylon, and especially for your very 'condition controlled' reports and multiple runs. Im not surprised to see Savage Melee showing brutally well on Stalker - especially as it is my understanding that its an underperformer on most ATs. However, I'll note that the Stalker ATOs radically improve the damage output of the class, such that BS, another underperformer on the other ATs that bear it - so it may simply be that Stalker ATO set + anything is going to be impressive. My current picks for 'that would be nice to see' (assuming you care to) 1.) StJ/Bioarmor Stalker in a high recharge build. Its my understanding that StJ/SR used to be the king of Melee Pylon testing, and I anticipate that offensive adaptation will provide more benefit than the recharge reduction in SR (I may be wrong). Im also curious as to how the transition from proc % to PPM will impact the old king, as I believe its old, live numbers reflect % procs rather than PPM (I may be wrong). Can Stalkers hold the crown for leet melee deeps in the face of the awesome might of the Biotitans? 2.) Is there any methodology that would let one reliably test with a crowd around you? Anything Bioarmor can do, Shield can do BETTER (at least for the sets it would take) and 'surrounded by minions to feed AAO' is a very common real-game case, though its hard to duplicate on a Pylon. Maybe we should plan to get a controller to bring a crowd to the DPS-test, and then keep that crowd locked down just to feed it. As such, Id be really interested in seeing the classic double-perma-buildup build DM/Shield or the current 'hot chick', Broadsword/Shield Stalker. 3.) What do we think other outliers, high and low, might be? Id be curious to get numbers for some cellar-dweller sets (Ice, Energy Melee, and their like) and also run a set or two with and without damage-buff defense sets, to get a better feel for the impact. If any of the above sounds like a demand for your further time and effort, please do not take it as such. I appreciate what youve done so far. I know in the old pylon test days some of the dm/sd did a just pylon test and then also did a test by going and rounding up minions to feed their soul drain +aao with he taunt aura from shields before starting the pylon test and yes it was a very nice boost to dps

While I am moving along slowly was not able to play for almost two weeks do to work and taking a trip with the wife to celebrate 25 years of putting up with me. I hit 48 I am one luck of the gambler + recharge away away for finishing up all but the really top tier IO's and I am soft capped on all three positions now. Now all I need to do is farm 1200 merits to get my 6 superior scrappers IO's and then 6 Superior Critical IO's and 1.2 levels from 50 then I can start my incarnate stuff One of the best leveling IO's I spent money on have been 3 pulverizing fisticuffs and 3 pounding slugfest I run that in my smite and midnight grasp and have for a long time made leveling better and did that for about 5 million. They are still in the attacks now until I collect my last 13 IO's I dropped hasten for now I may change my mind later but for the time being I am no longer have hasten