Making a DM/SR scrapper

[diefree]

What are the must have powers while leveling? Probably going super jump for travel. Thanks for any advice!

[StrikerFox]

Smite, Siphon Life, Soul Drain and Midnight Grasp for DM; everything, except for Elude, for SR.

 

Try to get enough recharge to make Soul Drain perma. Also enough rech to run MG-Sm-SL-Sm-repeat attack chain.

[Nightmarer]

Before going for recharge, you should make sure you hit the defense softcap (45%) to all positions. The best attack chain is indeed MG-Sm-SL-Sm and with the 20% extra rchg from quickness plus the LoTG 7.5% rchg you can easily allocate should be doable plus you can also get some decent S/L resistance as well. I would also recommend getting more AoE dmg from Pool Powers (Cross Punch, Spring Attack...) and from Epic Pools (Fire Ball, Ball Lightning...). Also, I know many people are against Shadow Maul but if you use it correctly and well positioned, is a decent cone despite its long animation.

[diefree]

Hmm thinking on it how would you change for dm/bio?

[Nightmarer]

My DM/Bio is softcapped to Nrg/Neg/Fire/Cold instead of S/L, for whish I am dmg res cap (75%) and performs suprisingly good for such a cheap build (only 1 attuned set). He's not the best char for an ITF but he does great pretty much anyhwere else.

Edited August 19, 2019 by Nightmarer
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[MunkiLord]

On 8/17/2019 at 3:05 PM, Nightmarer said:

 Also, I know many people are against Shadow Maul but if you use it correctly and well positioned, is a decent cone despite its long animation.

I second this. DM will never be an AoE beast, but this at least helps some. 

[Heraclea]

I generally don't make hitting soft caps a total priority for a Dark Melee character.  All of your single target attacks and Shadow Maul do -tohit on the mobs, which is the moral equivalent to defense against those mobs.  But if you are /SR softcapping is so easy that there's no reason not to.

I would also consider Touch of Fear a must take power for similar reasons.  It has the biggest debuff of all of your attacks and is reliable control.

Edited August 20, 2019 by Heraclea
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[Riverdusk]

On 8/19/2019 at 3:19 PM, MunkiLord said:

I second this. DM will never be an AoE beast, but this at least helps some. 

Yep, I always consider that as long as you hit at least 2, which isn't hard, it is worth using.