Build:Scrapper - Power Scrapper

Part of the current metagame

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage and Defense

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on August 21, 2025 and is up to date for the August 19, 2025 patch.

Overview

Power Scrapper is a well rounded build with great damage, defense, and boon generation. It's very tanky since dealing damage generates barrier from Impact Savant, and it provides permanent Quickness to itself and nearby allies, some Might, permanent personal Fury, and has access to plenty of utility and Crowd Control.

Scrapper has a very unique way of providing Quickness. Kinetic Accelerators provides Quickness and Might in an area around you whenever you make a blast or leap combo finisher, or every 3 seconds with a whirl finisher (See: Guide:What are Combo Fields). This provides permanet Quickness with 0 boon duration.

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Skill Bar

Hammer

Utility

Weapon variants

We recommend to always use hammer, which has a double leap finisher on Rocket Charge for Quickness generation. If you need range, you can simply use Elite Mortar Kit.

Skill Variants

Heal

The choice of heal skill is very open. We recommend Healing Turret as it is simple to use, provides very high healing, and cleanses 2 conditions when first deployed while creating a water field where you can detonate the turret to provide even more healing and Quickness (See: Guide:What are Combo Fields). Always pick up the turret or detonate it, as it will provide more healing over time than the super weak regeneration that leaving the turret deployed provides. Other options can be considered:

• Med Kit provides a blast finisher with Infusion Bomb to generate more Quickness, condition cleanse and water field with Cleansing Field, and good healing with the toolbelt skill Bandage Self (Bandage Self counts as "using your heal skill" for all purposes such as Speed of Synergy).
• A.E.D. - helpful to negate a big attack or a oneshot, but poor healing if it doesn't, and has a helpful 2 second stun on the toolbelt skill Static Shock. Does not have access to combo finishers for quickness generation.

Utility

Throw Mine has great damage and crowd control, plus a blast finisher to help provide Quickness, never replace it.
Blast Gyro has good damage but, most importantly, creates a fire field and a blast finisher which helps provide Quickness and some Might. Should not be replaced unless really needed.
Shredder Gyro provides great damage, can be replaced if needed.

• Grenade Kit - great damage from the toolbelt skill Grenade Barrage and the grenades from the kit.
• Purge Gyro - for condi cleanse.
• Rocket Boots - mobility.
• Personal Battering Ram - more crowd control.
• Elixir C - massive condition removal and heals per existing boon.
• Elixir U - offensive boons.

Elite

The elite skill is not particularly impactful in this build. Elite Mortar Kit provides easy access to combo fields for Quickness generation, including a water field for minor extra healing, but you can consider other options.

• Supply Crate - area CC; can be detonated for blast finishers.
• Sneak Gyro - long duration mobile stealth field which can be used to avoid mob aggro in various situations.

Specializations

Variants

• Equal and Opposite Reaction - trades damage for extra quickness and stability, can be considered for solo play since you will not apply too many conditions on enemies to truly benefit from Modified Ammunition.
• System Shocker - more barrier but less mobility, and less damage from Object in Motion.

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required.

Standard Equipment

This build uses the same equipment as power mechanist and power holosmith.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Dragon

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Dragon

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Hammer
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Nika" armor. Then search for the weapons you want to use: "Ironfist" hamer, "Exterminator" rifle. Upgrade to ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.

• You require 0 boon duration to maintain permanent Quickness.
• You can use Relic of Zakiros to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain, Relic of the Cavalier to start combat with boons, or Relic of Durability for a little extra defense.
• For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food or skills if required.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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Farming

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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• (and variants)

Usage

General

• Use leap, blast, and whirl finishers on combo fields for Quickness and Might generation from Kinetic Accelerators. See Guide:What are Combo Fields. You require 0 boon duration to maintain permanent Quickness.
  • Your main Finishers are Electro-whirl, Rocket Charge, Blast Gyro, Shredder Gyro and Throw Mine, use them on a combo field such as Thunderclap, or fields from nearby allies.
  • Remember that whirl finishers can only provide quickness every 3 seconds, but blast and leap finishers will always provide quickness.
• After generating quickess and might, continue dealing damage with Electro-whirl, Shredder Gyro and fill with hammer basic attacks.
• Don't interrupt your hammer auto-attack chain, the final hit deals significantly higher damage.
• Having superspeed is a damage increase due to Object in Motion, you can grant yourself superspeed via Bypass Coating, Gyroscopic Acceleration, and Speed of Synergy.
• Always stay in melee range to benefit from High Caliber.

Defense

• You generate lots of barrier due to Impact Savant.
• Shock Shield is both a block and gives you barrier, it can be used to generate barrier while blocking a high damage attack.
• You can use Elite Mortar Kit's Elixir Shell to create a water field then use blast or leap finishers on it to receive a bit of healing. Or use Flash Shell to blind trash mobs.

CC

• Rocket Charge inside a lightning field.
• Thunderclap doubles as both a lightning field and a hard CC option.
• Blast Gyro.

Video Examples

Masel's Scrapper Guide