Cant Decide on Alpha slot

[Kralizon]

I have a dual Blades/willpower scrapper and i'm torn between either Musculature or Resilience alpha, I cant remember what I did from live and this one is my first homecoming 50, obviously I need to do a lot of farming to obtain all the inventions sets ill need so Im a little confused what to go with..What do you all think I should go for?

[Doomguide2005]

Depends on your build.  Posting it would be a good next step.

[Kralizon]

Whoops I forgot to add this is the build Im going for

http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1436&c=677&a=1354&f=HEX&dc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

[Hirumakai]

Of the two you're thinking about, take Musculature.  You'll see a noticeable increase in damage (~15-20% or so depending on other damage buffs going on).  Given the mids you posted, you already are hitting the Scrapper L/S cap of 75% resistance, so Resilience doesn't help that.  The 1-2% extra resistance F/C/E/N/T are getting isn't worth it, going from 22 or 26 to 23 or 28 isn't a significant reduction in damage.  If it was a tanker going from 85 to 90 that'd be another story (i.e. 33% less damage), but we're talking basically about 2-3% less damage to F/C/E/N/T.  Psyhic damage is about a 10% shift (45%->50% resistance) in terms of damage taken, but that strikes me as niche.  I'd prefer to defeat enemies 15-20% faster in that case as well.

 

You might want to consider Agility Core though.  Since your defenses aren't at soft cap yet, but are significant (i.e. ~30%), a T4 Agility Core would increase your defenses by about 2.9%.  Going from say, 32.7% to 35.6% is a much larger change in number of hits landing than a 2.9% resistance boost at 25% resistance.  50-32.7=17.3% of hits land (ignoring accuracy).  50-35.6=14.4% of hits land.  17.3/14.4 = 1.20.  Roughly a 20% difference, which would probably be noticeable.  The endurance modification applies to two powers, as well as the recharge potentially helping your damage output as you get your big hitters recharged faster.

[Kralizon]

Thank you, you have given me much to think about it. Appreciate you taking the time ;)