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gonna be a real bear to balance everything.. gl devs 🙂

lol you sound like me a couple of months ago.. look, they not gonna change it, your not the first to rage and rant about it, hell i was posting stuff b4 the changes.. i almost quit the game cause i was so bummed (soto kept me interested tbh).. but hell because i was forced to pay attention to combo fields, its kinda changed how i play the game now.. my healers are more effective because of it.. and i'm more aware of whats happening during a fight.. there are subjectively worse quick /dps options than engineer.. imo (catalyst. berserker, deadeye, untamed all have drawbacks) i'm sorry you haven't adjusted to the change, pfft all i can say is give it an honest go, or move on to herald 🙂 peace 🖖

lol funny as hell!.. umm yeah i raged and ranted about the scrapper changes when they came out, created a couple of threads and was very cheesed off. rage quit scrapper, systematically went through each class, then came back to engineer (didn't like any of them that much). and kinda love the new scrapper now.. believe me when i say.. i understand how you feel, but the new scrapper makes you plan and think about how and when to do your combos, its far more interesting to play now... and oh boy! here we go.... i don't use grenades! i use blast gyro, mine and shredder gyro (plus the heal and stealth gyro) ... and my dps is very very good. i always have arcdps on and i do fractals every day.. (fractal god).. sooo i do know what good dps looks like for EVERY fractal. i would take some vids for your disbelief, but i like that nobody plays scrapper now.. its potent. just try it.. i dare u 🙂

they are the kings of silent surf atm. like almost double the dps of other classes.

i last time i seen an alac willbender in my fractal dailys, was when i tried oh so very hard to make it work. (many many moons ago) absolutely no-one uses it.. as a boon build for group content it might as well not exist, pretty rare to see dps will benders as well. i really wanted it to work, especially the heal willbender side. guard has some very nice utility skills for it. but again flowing resolve relies on the mob not moving. its kitten.

(mace/shield) for (heal/quick) scrapper. herald shortbow (condi/quick) might be op

apparently i know nothing john snow

crap, ahem disregard everything i said.. sorry re-checked my build, i had about 500 concentration with my old alac mech. again very sorry.. mb

depends on you, alac mech is a group dps multiplier. alac / pulsing barrier (for a little sustain) full 25 might and fury for 5 peeps, good for meta maps and group content.. solo is fine, just boring.. hit 1 ftw! 🙂 decentish ez dps. you wanna solo open world bosses with your metal meat shield. np 😜

same

scrapper ftw, you can reuse your deadeyes medium armor, the knee jerk reaction is necro, but its kinda dull to play. scrapper is fun to play. tanky! 5% of your damage gets converted to personal barrier. (more damage more barrier) bursty! great for boss phases, great for stun locked mob annihilation. stun locked mobs and 1000 cc break bar damage, makes your healers life much easier when the mobs cant attack. solo destroy boss bars. super speed, invisibility for mob skips. change one trait and your now a quick dps scrapper can use the same beserkers gear for multiple roles (alac-dps/quick-dps/dps) or you can add harriers gear for quick heal or alac heal. in summary no other class has the scope that engineer has.

im a fractal god, i dont use grenades. i dont use it on quick scrapper or my dps scrapper. i use blast gyro, adds to my burst in a fairly substantial way. my utility's are heal gyro, blast gyro , mine, shredder gyro with the elite skill of sneak gyro. i can burst 100k+ dps on 5 mobs at once while keeping them stun locked, i can solo break a bosses bar, i have invis for running past mobs. my dps doesn't suffer because of the missing grenades. damage is often done in burst phases and for those bosses that don't have movement phases.. i can get up to 40k with a good group, its rare for someone to out dps's me. don't forget super speed makes all movement impairments (except immobilize) mote. blast gyro is a nice 11 might group boost before singularity's , 22 might as i precast it into the encounter. on paper grenades look good, i found them to be awkward and unrewarding compared to blast gyro. after running what feels like thousands of fractals. i never equip grenade. i will situation-ally switch out shredder gyro if the group needs the extra stability from bulwark gyro. i don't like to do that, as it hurts my dps. but sometimes pugs will be pugs. and most of all, i don't use grenades cause they aren't fun! use whats fun for you. o/

yeah its a bit clunky, but it's very much stronger now. mia trin can be frustrating when it goes wrong, that's the tradeoff i guess.. scrapper comes with banana levels of passive barrier. paired with its ability to stun lock mobs or break defiance bars like they don't exist, its still my favourite all rounder.

woah harsh!!!.. but true 😛

nvm its back

just go full zerkers and run the barrier signet for the extra alac. max dps is always the way to go. or ls3 and living story 4 maps all have trinkets, rings and amulets with selectable stats

this might be controversial, but i recommend scrapper dps, it's solid. has more versatility, more fun than mech or holosmith (imo), you'll still hit that sweet spot of 30k on t4 bosses. its also very bursty. super speed, long duration invisibility, stability, godlike levels of cc. (Thunderclap 100 / Blast Gyro 300 / Spare Capacitor 200 / Throw Mine 200 / rocket charge through a lightning field for more cc! about 1000 break bar damage. ) the thing i like most about scrapper though is it's very very tanky 🙂 the more damage you can pump out the more passively generated barrier you give yourself. holosmith annoys me tbh 😛

nvm i done it a few more times, once the aspects are killed, it triggers the world cleaver early for a bunch less damage.. i think? im stuck on the island when it triggers, so im assuming its early. also the numeral mechanic is block-able, but not dodgable. strange choice there.

was wondering how were supposed to deal with this.. we get a phastasm for each of us, we jump over and kill it?.. then were immune to the big insta kill? and whats with the undodgable numeral mechanic? why is everything suddenly undodgable? the only reason we got through the t4 daily was because we had revive orbs. lol

haha i know right!.. just came from a bit of a run through t4's and then went and done a winter berry run on quick herald (full zerks), my goodness it's ez. decent dps. quickness is overcapped with no alac. when i was soloing the winter berrys, i was mostly capped at 29 sec quickness. i guess they will nerf that at some point as it seems the 1 sec tic has exploded the quick uptime now. umm not that i hate the new quick herald. i'm all for new people having access to useful ez to play builds. so yeah not scrapper 😛

hmm well after playing the new scrapper quick, then going to herald quick, must say there not much to complain about.. descent ez dps, while over capping quickness to the limit, hell i just finished a winterberry run on my herald (with full zerks) and quick uptime was mostly at the 29 sec limit. just me in open world (no alac). so yeah this is like the entry level newbie class now.. like mech is really.. which takes me to my point.. i don't hate this 🙂 useful entry level builds should be part of the game. just my 2 cents worth.

like the title says, is there a viable alac/dps for ranger now?

yeah i'm glad your happy noah, but you keep saying skill issue? have you even used hammer before? to be fair i have grown used to the leap finisher (hammer 3) rocket charge now, whirl finishers would have had more synergy, but what can you do? p.s. every healer uses rune of the monk..

i like the blast gyro cool down reduction.. 25s to 20s tips the benchmark closer to where everyone is. sigh have had to accept the gyro changes and start working the blast/leap finishers for quick and.... it's growing on me 🙂 been pulling some good numbers while on quick/dps, rocket charge still frustrates me, but quick is fairly easy to generate when things go right. i also dps on scrapper, and all that blast/leap finisher stuff has forced me to include rocket charge into the rotation, i rocket charge in lightning fields for the additional cc and maybe (extra damage? not sure.) previously hammer 3 was never touched unless we were running past mobs. just finished fast 5 strikes with a good group.. 24k on bone skinner is an improvement. reaper still had me beat for top dps though 😕 after doing the rounds on all the other classes, I have come full circle and still like engineers lineup the best. pfft, rambling.. quick scrapper ftw.

yup i second this. its straight forward and easy to get the bench mark.. condi mech.. i never see good ones. just finished a t4 fractal run with my alac mech. was top dps on a few of them. and they weren't a bad group. so yeah with a bench mark of 26k on alac mech on snow crows.. looks crap, but it's always hitting. dont go condi.. its awful.