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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

Make sure you passives and your main are properly slotted first. You do not need to 3 slot your passives by any means but they need some slotting.

/sr should have no issues with -def it has the highest DDR should be at 95% if properly slotted. SR should only be struggling with attacks that are type only and no positional defense cough cough PSI and I think a few toxic attacks have the same thing

I used Frost in my single target along with GIS and IS when I was leveling.

I only run, Shield, Rad, Inv, WP,EA or BIO for a reason they all have a taunt aura

I enjoyed the set even with the issues and had a lot of fun with Ice patch in groups and solo. Sometimes it was frustrating leveling with GIS and it be nice to smooth that out. I am fine with a minor buff to either GIF or FF to help smooth out leveling not looking for an all world buff. Any future change will only help me when I exemplar down now that I hit 50 this weekend and other people that will level one in the future. On the top end with my purples etc it is doing a lot better and yes it is a little underrated after playing the set.

I have no complaints about Frost and Frozen aura with ice patch and the damage at the top end is all find and dandy. My issue was leveling I went from 1 to 49 without using any double xp I grinded it out all fashion style mission, teaming and TF's no farms etc etc. The issue was Frozen Fist is terrible at lower levels for leveling and while I used GIS starting at 18 it was clunky while leveling from 18 to 49.

Whats your ice melee chain for attacks

Thanks about the acc tip went back and rebuilt again lost some of my hp per sec but squeezed another 5% recharge defense is pretty on par with previous and I got smash/lethal resistance to 64.89%. I will probably try to squeeze more out of the build later

I knew hasten would help I just don't want it in every build so kind of a goal in this build plus I generally put hasten on auto fire and with Active Defense gerr. The Status IO is slotted for the big regeneration buff. Did not realize I was at acc cap thanks I can probably change some IO's up a little. Yep knew assault was weak it is a filler; it was that or super jump with -slow resistance IO; I decided on small damage buff. I can live with 48% I found with shield not having full ddr on defense a little extra overcap can help. I always looking for ways to squeeze out more from IO's Thanks for the reply I always welcome feedback

Unless something changed /SR is pretty straight forward take everything except the T9 it does have scaling resistance once your health bar hits a threshold do not remember at what point I not played /sr since shield dropped in i13 and then EA was converted over later . The set is very easy to soft cap I would recommend taking tough and after soft cap if we are talking IO stack resistance and regen as much as possible. Street Justice I have not played yet someone else that knows the set will need to chime in on that subject hope that helps some

I started playing my DM/SD a little more again and I noticed I wanted more dps than i was getting it was fine and I could do what ever I needed but I was not happy. The issue how do i maintain my survivability i need when I duo with my buddy or group up weekly with a group of weaker toons. Lets just say most the group does not make builds like I do or play the game at a high level. I met them through my buddy that is friends with them and they are a nice and I still have fun that is the beauty of COH as an MMO. With that in mind I had a project make my global recharge higher and still be close to what I had. I been playing in mids and a few respecs later I was able to add 19% global recharge and add about 2HPS regen and only give up about 4.5% S/L resistance I went from 61 to 57 roughly but man is my attack chain so much tighter and I have 2 damage procs in smite since I was able to drop a purple set in that attack. Just to clarify the defense numbers where all super close or a little higher than the previous build. This has been my project since last week along with leveling my ice/sd scrapper. I am a happier dm/sd than I was last week and wanted to share my build in case anyone else is in similar build constraints or hey maybe it can give you ideas in your build Scrapper - Dark Melee - Shield Defense-1.mxd

I would not complain if they made FF the same as shadow punch or Barb swipe on damage an animation times

Cross punch is so hard to fit in my tight build and I can make it happen even at 18 but it is also not an ice attack I want to be on theme to slot I guess I just keep GIS for leveling and when I SK down because it helps when in the lower TF's but I I put the chance to proc in freezing touch. Maybe we will get lucky and they give Ice melee some love like they did DA with the shadow maul changes

We have been talking Ice melee in other threads and i want to bring up the early attacks around Frozen Fist and Greater Ice Sword a lot of people skip these attacks i took GIS and it is very clunky and mediocre but my other option is FF. My question is has anyone tried Frozen Fist since it does have -res vs GIS or does everyone else just skip them and I am the only one that punishes myself with GIS Going by mids Numbers FF is 1.33 68.82 for a 51.74 DPA and GIS is 2.33 134.9 for 57.90DPA does the -res make up for the higher DPA on GIS My other options are skip these attacks makes it hard when leveling and side kicking hence why i took GIS other option if you can squeeze in boxing early use that and its a set mule just as bad we force in early cross punch

I am running a different pairing Ice/SD so very different build but yes the single aoe is sad while unless you count frost which I kicked myself for not figurging this out sooner. The nuts and bolts I recently in my 40's have reworked my final build about 100 times and finally settled on one which I put artillery IO's in Frost; if I been smart and done that way earlier it makes frost better by increasing its range roughly 2 ft, Yea you think that is no big deal but the results have been amazing on how many more mobs I now hit with that power. My advice slot those in Frost at least while leveling and you can thank me later. In my build I just 6 slotted FT with the full cirticial strikes from the start I want that 10% recharge lol just made way to much sense

I can just use my scrapper to run x4+8 and I am pretty sure my fire/dark controller I have right now probably could. I settled on trying plant/TA the av questions was sometimes me and my friend duo TF's and we don't always have melee toons to tank the AV.

On live I ran this attack chain see link below for reference Blinding Feint -> Ablative Strike -> Sweeping Strike -> Power Slice is the compromise choice if you're sub 300% recharge in Ablative Strike I hate the vengeful slice animation so on my DB/EA I was shy of 300% so i ran that one and could mow down AV solo with no issues. I also ran Typhoon for extra aoe when needed and early leveling it is gold and also great for when i side kicked down for TF's