Power set pairings that are optimal on a Scrapper?

[Lazarus]

Crits are the only thing scrappers get that only advantage they get to leverage.

 

With that in mind stone melee is great,..Seismic Smash has a base 20% crit. +6% (ato global)= 26%, put the +50% crit proc in SS and fallow with both hammers for major dam.

 

The secondary is ur choice.

[aethereal]

Scrapper Primary powers with non-standard Crit Chances:

 

Broadsword > Head Splitter: 15%

Claws > Eviscerate: 15%

Dual Blades > Sweeping Strike: 15%

Electrical Melee > Lightning Rod: No crit

Energy Melee > Total Focus: flat 10% instead of 5% chance for minions/10% for LTs or higher.  Note also reduced crit damage

Energy Melee > Energy Transfer: flat 10% instead of 5% chance for minions/10% for LTs or higher.  Note also reduced crit damage

Katana > Golden Dragonfly: 15%

Kinetic Melee > Concentrated Strike: No crit (20% chance to recharge Power Siphon, but note that this is not tagged as a crit, so it won't be affected by Scrapper ATOs etc.)

Martial Arts > Storm Kick: 10% minions/15% LTs and higher

Martial Arts > Eagle's Claw: 15% chance to crit, plus applies a +33% chance to crit for 2 seconds

Radiation Melee > Irradiated Ground: 10% chance to "crit," regardless of enemy rank, but not actually tagged for crits so will ignore crit chance modifiers

Stone Melee > Seismic Smash: 20% chance to crit, note reduced crit damage but raising the Mag of the hold to 6 (this is a real crit, it's affected by crit modifiers)

Titan Weapons > Arc of Destruction: 15%

 

I think that's an exhaustive list, though it's based on a manual scan of City of Data and it's possible I missed things.  Note that there are other powers with non-standard critical damages, this is just non-standard critical chances.

 

This is pure theory-crafting, but I think that if you put the ATO2 into Eagle's Claw and it went off, then you stacked two of either Cobra Strike, Crippling Axe Kick, or Crane kick so that they fired with zero delay after Eagle's Claw and each other, you would have a 99% crit chance for the two secondary attacks (assuming you're attacking an LT or higher, and that you have the superior ATO1 (10% base, +50% for ATO2, +33% for Eagle's Claw, +6% for ATO1).  I'm not totally sure that you can actually get both of the follow-up attacks into the window of the Eagle's Claw and ATO2 effects, though.

 

Edited Tuesday at 03:14 AM by aethereal