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I hate the non taunt aura scrappers I wish Provoke was a taunt aura yes one can dream but as of right now it's not I am just curious how it performs on a scrapper. Just trying gauge is it good enough to make due with out the aura

Thanks for the reply I have a Titian/Bio armor he is now just a level 50 marketeer just not a fan of the play style. I wish Fire would get a buff but why play a set that is suppose to be all about damage and all these other sets with Knockup knock down stuns etc do more damage hence my retired Fire/Rad. My favorite katana pairing has been Rad man it goes together like peanut butter and chocolate. My mace the primary feels all right is sitting at 40 one day one day but man me and Will Power have issues not sure what it is because the set is very survivable and has a taunt aura. KM issue is the first three attacks are fast fluid but man does it feel like it takes for ever to kill something I feel like that guy that pounds on the same spot a 1000 times and then the boulder cracks. I tried to love Jazz hands I wanted to love Jazz hands. Ice melee I have really taken to this primary I have an Ice/SD and Ice/Bio I prefer my Ice/SD but I just like SD more than Bio I don't need munch i would love to get a Greater Ice sword tweak to help and I could drop Frozen Fist I may move back to up my dps some but it always seems kind of clunky. Maybe you can confirm but looking at the numbers Boxing + Kick in the build gives boxing a slight DPA over FF but Smashing is more resisted than the FF large cold % I have a Rad/SD but Devastating Blow animation is so brutal and it gives the guaranteed contamination but trying to follow up with siphon to heal in a group yea beyond frustrating or have creatures just die before animation finishes because you had to freaking take a smoke break in the middle of the fight .

I know KM sucks it sucked on live I tried it died at 40+ I tried to force it haha

So Bottom barrels are in what order for the below ? Street Justice Battle Axe Broad Sword Electric Staff Psionic Kinetic On ice melee I think a fix of Greater Ice Sword alone would help it a ton I currently use Frozen Fist since GIS feels so clunky Sorry forgot my 2nd question are they changing procs and I missed that part in the patch notes or we are expecting it here in the near future

Wait you been stalking me on my taunt rants and scrappers lol

Ok My current build I am sitting at 105% global recharge 75% resistance to S/L and Fire/cold and 70% resistance to Eng 40% s/l defense. 40HP regen max HP 1957 with accolades. When I hit radiation therapy I am sitting at about 56HP per second with no mobs but all my other defense is 17% and I have DA when desperate very rare. I have Particle shielding on auto fire Now with the changes with type damage and defense coming I trying to bring up my other defenses to round it out how end games works on some mobs. Hey adapt or become obsolete I guess at this point. So far the changes would keep the top three resistances the same a boost to some of the other resistances. I would gain about 2HP per second regen Defense would drop to 31% s/l but bring F/C/E/N to 25% and drop my global recharge to 97.5% and my Max HP 1973 Here are my builds current vs changes any suggestions are welcomed Scrapper - Katana - Radiation Armor_Change.mxd Scrapper - Katana - Radiation Armor_current.mxd

Thank You

I mainly play scrappers and the other troller I play is Fire/Dark and plays more like a scrapper. I am not worried about IO cost etc (I have that covered) I just need a build to use as a guide line for that pairing

Of course I am a scrapper at heart I had 7 at 50 on live I have 7 at level 50 6 are IO out to the gills. I finally got a tank to 50 with DB/Dark Armor always loved DA but lack of taunt aura on scrapper just forced me over to tank

I never got a Will power to 50 on live I not managed it on here either I tried Katana.wp but stopped and retired it at the same level of 28 was such a yawn fest I tried katana.rad and man now that i loved. Now I need a primary with really really good Single target and at least good Aoe to pair with willpower Off the Tables are Ice I have two level 50 Ice melee with /bio and /shield and Katana been there done that I have a mace sitting in early 30's but so far meh I may just need to push through but looking for suggestions

Rad has been one of the best secondaries for survive ability for me as a scrapper hands down easy pease I originally did fire/rad but I prefer my Katana/rad Sorry Rad is a house if done right as a scrapper

Haha I am the same and I don't like playing brutes tried heck I finally got a tank to 50 last month first time ever never got one on live

Take this from a guy who got Fire Melee/Shield in the top 10 of Pylons pre-incarntes on live then leveled a Fire/Rad scrapper all the way to 50 full top of the line IO build on homecoming (yes those1 billion influence style of pimpout) retired him soon after. Some of the issues I see currently Fire Breath is an utter garbage of an attack one of the worse in the game from a scrapper side. This from a person who was able to line up the triangle in the old days with Shadow Maul and I could not make Firebreath worth using and I tried here on homecoming. The animation time is for ever the cone is so narrow even when you jump back you are lucky to hit two mobs and the damage is hot garbage. To much of the damage is in dot form in the old days that was fine in today's coh yea it hurts. They need to reduce the amount of dots and put in more burst damage they could make them like Midnight grasp 3-5 ticks at most and move more damage up front Next all you get from fire is damage is nothing not even top damage Katana you get -def + defense and you can put a proc in to do -resistance , Martial Arts,Axe, Mace etc get things like Knockdown , Knock-up; disorient etc etc so all these other sets have mitigation better or similar damage. Whats the point of playing fire when other sets can out perform Fire plus give mitigation or be c lose enough in performance by giving you tools or mitigation. The question becomes why play fire the only answer I have is it is still better than Kinetic melee I would love to pull my Fire/Rad out of retirement but there is no point right now my Katana/Rad is so far above my Fire/Rad including damage. Things that need to happen reduce make Fire Breath in line with Frost on distance cone, range, activation times ; up the damage and reduce the # of dots Then boost the dps; reduced the amount of dots and clean up animations

The comprise I have is that we remove the taunt from the secondary and move it to all the primary. My suggestion is since no one really ever takes the garbage single target taunt on scrappers we turn it into a taunt aura. That way anyone that wants a taunt aura takes it from the primary since we already have a taunt power it just now an aoe toggle and anyone that does not want one can skip the taunt.

Six sets with a taunt aura the original being invulnerability all the way back to I1 Shield Will Power Bio armor Invulnerability Energy Aura Radiation Armor and if they pull it from the old sets I just quit the game or move to one of the other Free to play games My only suggestion is to remove it and turn the single taunt in the primaries as a taunt aura then anyone can have one and it is no longer based on secondary and is skippable

They did not even realize the other sets had a taunt if I remember correctly and they think it is a bad idea. The issue it just makes the sets worse and there is no reason to play the sets without a taunt aura. That is fine I will just skip them and stick to inv, Bio, Shield, WP, Rad and EA. Basically Bio, and shield will always be top dogs with Rad third

See all this talk about brawl reminds me before we had all the real numbers available we calculated damage on attacks with the Brawl Index which was basically go punch a minion at even level see how much damage your brawl does and there was a formula for it from there. Brawl index for the Brawl master

my dm/sd solos most AV's no issue stupid psi My katana/Rad solos AV's and solos ITFs kata/wp can cruise through a lot of av'S On live my main AV killer was fire/sd and fire has fallen to the wayside in today's coh On live my DB/EA chewed up a lot of av's A lot of scrappers sets with the right type of build can solo av's

I took my Katana/Rad solo on the ITF and it was fun only had my alpha slot and it was level 1 when I decided why not since it is my favorite TF. I crushed it and it was so much fun taking out the computer with all the robots on me and I just ignored them and took down the computer pretty sure that was my favorite part.

Ice melee/pick one I did shield but now you are a scrap troller laying down ice patch and doing what ever you want

You should so go Kinetic melee bahaha I jest I jest. I have not played EM yet but I do have a mace/wp and it is very crunchy with big hits

My issue with Ice armor is I am mainly a scrapper and no taunt aura on it so I am limited to all the better sets than ice armor /bio, /sd andf Rad are still miles better than ice armor on scrappers. Ice does not really come off any better than EA or Invul or WP my other options with taunt aura so no reason for me to go outside those sets as a scapper ever. I built a tank recently but Dark Armor pulled me in I played two /da's on live before ED, IO's or incarnates I know crazy. On ice melee I can see a lot of people quit with the early levels it can be rough going with GIS being kind of clunky compared to other sets in fact the only reason I played Ice melee was the change to ice patch

If you bid an honest price you probably get IO's cheaper heck I became a marketer about 2.5 weeks ago and I have amassed 4 billion influence in that time. I am not in the habitat of losing money. Depending on how my conversion go I list all my rares at 500k and 1mil and they sell for what they sell for but I have had tons of rares never sell at 500k a fair price for a rare when it cost you 500k for a orange salvage so is it us greedy bastards or people not bidding a fair price. I don't let things sit forever I am a high volume guy; if it does not sale I pull it converter it to a high ticket high demand and make the big easy money. I try to help the little guys but it is funny when I post something for 500k it should sell right away nope sits there until people bid millions because you were to cheap and only bid 300k

Look in the last three pages were all the updated builds are listed

I soloed the entire ITF with a Katana/Rad scrapper with only my alpha slot and it was at first level agility boost. Now my IO build at the time would be around a billion he was level 50. My global recharge from IO without hasten was roughly 73-75% (I don't use hasten in this build). Rad also has -regen in it's heal Radiation Therapy. I run the achilies proc in Gambler's cut and in beta decay and no they don't stack just better odds of having -res. Now if I was fully optimized when I ran the itf I should have ran a purple set in Golden Dragon fly and put the Gladiator -res proc in that set. I tweaked the build a couple times since then for the better but I cruised through that ITF and right through Romulus just make sure not to forget your breakfrees for when he rezes. I did that the first time I killed him and I was at full health dumb me was my only death the entire TF. I want to add before Incarnates on live Iggy of the scrapper forum soloed an itf with katana/wp so scrappers have been doing this for a long time we called it stupid scrapper tricks. Basically there are enough top end scrapper builds that can survive and put out the dps to solo the entire itf without incarnates