Ive been playing with spear on scrapper (specifically condi quick scrapper) and right now it is a mess. Ive managed 100% quick uptime at the golem but in strikes even if I swap to boon duration gear it sits at about 80% because the skill 2 isnt hitting. It is also just hard to play... (4 kits) The spear 2 is your main finisher and the finisher on it ONLY HAPPENS if you hit something/trigger the focused effect. So when that thing breaks and decides "nah you didnt hit it properly" you get no quickness. Which it breaks more than it works (especially for me with 300 ping and action cam) - ArcDPS lists it as cancelled 20 times on most of my golem tests (aka its not hitting). The boon falls off so fast that when that happens youre screwed and can't catch back up. And in instanced content you cant even see if it hit or not to realise thats the problem. From what I can tell you dont have enough finishers to keep up quickness without the spear 2 skill. Otherwise the other issue is the weapon has no fields... not a single one. So that means all your fields come from utility skills, and theres not many to pick from considering you also need more finishers AND something thatll still do condi damage. The answer to that? Grenade kit for dmg, Flamethrower kit (blast and field), Bomb kit (field), mortar kit (more fields) and constantly cycling through them like an elementalist to upkeep the bare minimum. Been feeling a bit rough lately trying to play it as I love the class so much and want to try out the new shiny thing, but scrapper is hard enough with how it applies quickness and now the weapon isnt working to do so, plus condi just doesnt really fit in on scrapper either D: Hoping the leap finisher on it can be changed to on press rather than if it hits something as while that wont fix the focused thing atleast itll fix the boons ._. Edit: Just to mention to, the skill 2 problem was an issue in the beta, especially for high ping players. It also isn't just engi spear, it happens for the revenant spear dash to (only drops 2 mines instead of 3 because it doesnt do the full distance)
Ive been playing with spear on scrapper (specifically condi quick scrapper) and right now it is a mess. Ive managed 100% quick uptime at the golem but in strikes even if I swap to boon duration gear it sits at about 80% because the skill 2 isnt hitting. It is also just hard to play... (4 kits)
The spear 2 is your main finisher and the finisher on it ONLY HAPPENS if you hit something/trigger the focused effect. So when that thing breaks and decides "nah you didnt hit it properly" you get no quickness. Which it breaks more than it works (especially for me with 300 ping and action cam) - ArcDPS lists it as cancelled 20 times on most of my golem tests (aka its not hitting). The boon falls off so fast that when that happens youre screwed and can't catch back up. And in instanced content you cant even see if it hit or not to realise thats the problem. From what I can tell you dont have enough finishers to keep up quickness without the spear 2 skill.
Otherwise the other issue is the weapon has no fields... not a single one. So that means all your fields come from utility skills, and theres not many to pick from considering you also need more finishers AND something thatll still do condi damage.
The answer to that?
Grenade kit for dmg, Flamethrower kit (blast and field), Bomb kit (field), mortar kit (more fields) and constantly cycling through them like an elementalist to upkeep the bare minimum.
Been feeling a bit rough lately trying to play it as I love the class so much and want to try out the new shiny thing, but scrapper is hard enough with how it applies quickness and now the weapon isnt working to do so, plus condi just doesnt really fit in on scrapper either D:
Hoping the leap finisher on it can be changed to on press rather than if it hits something as while that wont fix the focused thing atleast itll fix the boons ._.
Edit: Just to mention to, the skill 2 problem was an issue in the beta, especially for high ping players. It also isn't just engi spear, it happens for the revenant spear dash to (only drops 2 mines instead of 3 because it doesnt do the full distance)