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The only reason i take t9 on my scrapper is for an IO mule and it never gets put in my tray and never gets used. they are terrible and the crashs are just terrible

Yes Frost would be a filler at the lower levels for any gaps in the attack chain and lining up stuff I am old school DM the triangle was are jam and I got two of them to 50 pre-IOs ok so I am a masochist when it comes to early COH years.

MY plan is a ice/shield scrapper hence the question I know high end you want like Moonbeam or zap if you want lightning ball for high end attack chains for ST. Mine is more about the lower and middle levels. I sidekick down with a group that does not build like I do for TF's etc. Looking at that level am I better off in the lower range using Crosspunch after taking boxing & kick for ST attack chains on AV's over Greater Ice Sword I lose the crit but the dpa seems to be better with the boxing and kick taken. In theory at the lower levels I use like FT>IS>CP Am i crazy with that thought process

It maybe I think mids shows 1339 been to long for my brain

Yes but it is always better to be 1337 (LEET) ok i am old

My favorite on live was EA it pairs real while together and you get +recharge from the aura to help with attack chains

I brought it back up here That's right Scrapper starting hit points should be nerfed from 1339 to 1337

That's right Scrapper starting hit points should be nerfed from 1339 to 1337

I have not used elude since the days of perma elude worthless power like most tier 9s are

Yes but it allowed me to kill infernal no temps, no inspiration as a fire/sd which was a slog 50% fire and smashing resistance so the minor dps loss a the time was worth it yes that was a hour long fight.

Back on live I ran aidself on my fire/sd for the av no inspiration fight way before incarnates

That 3 second animation is why I never take it I always think of how bad it is for my damage output and can't make my self take the power.

On Live I farmed with my fire/sd back in the day I farmed werewolves for fun in AE but yes it farms better than DM if you are going to do av's you will need greens or if you are doing the old challenge no temps or inspiration we did back in the day I went medicine pool which allowed me to kill over 20 different av's that way per-incarante.

This was the thing we did pre-incarntes solo av's all the time Most can generate enough dps some better than others with enough recharge and survival ability soling an av is very possible Lighting melee being an exception it is terrible Single target; spines was in the same boat until the barb swipe change but it is slower than a lot of other sets Staff I have no clue on On secondaries the worse ones are probably Lightning and Fire the others generally have better survival capabilities and buffs but again some are better than others and some excel even more with maxed IO builds. The question not if they can that is the easy question because the majority of the sets is a simple yes with the correct IO's the question becomes what do you like to play and then we can get you there a lot easier

I am running eradication in mine for set bonuses

Resistance but I have it IO tot he gills so my s/l without DA is 47% 43% melee capped s/l resistance then you get the =tohit debuff from your aura and -def and +recharge so it kind of stacks up nicely

I did Katana/Rad and it works real while together

Katana/Rad are great together I enjoy it more than Katana/WP which is also rock solid. DB/EA pair up great dm/sd as mentioned there are a lot of great pairings depending on what you want out of the build

One can dream I would love that type of update to Fire Breath

I don;t take travel powers I rely on sprint always on and combat jumping or hover and for in between missions ninja run/athletic, steam jump ad temp travel powers like packs

I don't think FE is holding Fire Melee back from being fixed. Fire Armor on scrappers is trash and is probably the worse armor set we have available to scrappers. Shield is superior and it buffs fire melee really while so FE is irrelevant imo to any conversation on fixing fire melee. My first wish for fire melee is Fire Breath to be usable just because of how cool it is but the cone is so narrow and animation time so long for so little results. This from a person who tried to make it worked because he use to be able to do the old triangle on the original shadow maul and hit three targets.

As a scrapper Mez protection is something you just should no worry about; I have only seen it matter with Ghost Widow on the STF and those buff does not solve ghost widow. Damage, recharge, defense , HP, regen and resistance are things you chase as a scrapper depending on your build.

I like to reply about fire to understand I played a lot of fire attack on live my main became my fire/shield I also got a fire/reg to 35 and before incarnates when we first started the pylon test I was top 10 with fire shield; I currently have a fire/rad retired for katana/rad like that paring better but now working on fire/wp. Here is the thing I learned palying all that fire attack and leveling. Breath of fire is terrible so it is worthless and does not help with aoe I tried to make it work maneuvering my toon to maximize the cone yep better off taking scorch. The other thing I learned with the dots you need to switch targets a lot to leverage the dots and speed up taking out groups while you cycle in fire circle sword. The only thing i can come up with to help fire is Fix Fire Breath to make it's aoe better and reduced the dots on the attacks for scorch and incinerate and give them the midnight grasp treatment a base damage with some extra dot damage.

Yep my dm/shield use athletic run, jump pack and jet packs because of my super tight build

I put both in my build shadow maul and tof so when in groups and we are running tons of mobs I can cycle those two aoe attacks it been nice on hami raids