Scrapper

This article is about the elite specialization for engineer. For the article about warband members, see Scrapper (warband).

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"I'll patch you right on up."

Scrappers are support-oriented engineers with access to gyros and a plethora of other cleansing abilities. You can aid multiple allies in large-scale battles with massive area-of-effect skills, healing and providing superspeed and other necessary boons. They are also adept at crowd control.

— In-game description

Scrapper is an elite specialization for the engineer unlocked with the Heart of Thorns expansion. The resourceful scrappers are expert tinkerers, and their best invention yet is their Function Gyro. This tiny hovering drone performs menial tasks for the busy scrappers, who use it for reviving allies and finishing downed foes.

Scrappers also employ gyros to create well skills that support nearby allies and damage enemies. They can wield hammers, bashing both their enemies and scrap for the next invention. Scrappers focus on damage dealing and control with a bruiser playstyle, and can opt to provide important boons to their allies.

List of scrapper skills

See also: List of engineer skills

Profession mechanic

The Scrapper's profession mechanic is the Function Gyro, which replaces the elite tool belt skill and allows the Scrapper to revive allies or finish foes from a distance.

#	Skill			Description
F5	Function Gyro		25	Create a lightning field at the specified point. Then summon gyros to finish foes and revive allies within the field. The recharge of this skill is increased for each gyro created beyond the first. Interrupted gyros are destroyed.

Weapon skills

#	Skill			Description
Hammer
1	Positive Strike	0.5½		Chain. Smack your hammer into your foe while empowering yourself.
1	Negative Bash	0.5½		Chain. Slam your hammer into your foe to leave them vulnerable.
1	Equalizing Blow	0.5½		Chain. Bring down your hammer on your foe.
2	Electro-whirl	1	6	Spin around, reflecting missiles and hitting enemies.
3	Rocket Charge	10.75¾	12	Dash forward with a rocket-charged hammer to damage enemies.
4	Shock Shield	10.75¾	18	Block attacks while striking foes in front of you, gaining barrier with each enemy you hit.
5	Thunderclap	0.75¾	20	Ionize an area, bringing down the power of lightning to stun foes and damage them over its duration.

Slot skills

Healing

Skill				Description
Medic Gyro		0.5½	20	Well. Deploy a medic gyro to heal yourself and nearby allies.
Reconstruction Field		0.5½	25	Establish a defensive field, granting protection to allies in its area.

Utility

Skill				Description
Blast Gyro		0.25¼	15	Well. Unleash a blast gyro to begin a countdown to a tremendous blast.
Bypass Coating			20	Splash a hypercoating on nearby allies, granting superspeed.
Bulwark Gyro			20	Well. Deploy a bulwark gyro to grant barrier to allies in the area.
Defense Field			25	Project a defensive dome around yourself and grant stability to nearby allies.
Purge Gyro			20	Well. Deploy a purge gyro to remove conditions from you and your nearby allies.
Chemical Field		0.25¼	20	Generate a poison cloud.
Shredder Gyro		0.5½	20	Well. Deploy a shredder gyro to attack foes near you and repeatedly use whirl finishers.
Spare Capacitor		0.5½	24	Set down a lightning capacitor to daze and damage foes near it.

Elite

Skill				Description
Sneak Gyro		0.75¾	45	Well. Deploy a sneak gyro to provide stealth to nearby allies.

List of scrapper traits

See also: List of engineer traits

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Hammer Proficiency		You can wield hammers.
Minor Adept	Function Gyro		You gain access to the function gyro, which replaces your tool belt skill 5. Gain access to Gyro skills.
Major Adept	Gyroscopic Acceleration		Well abilities have an increased area of effect and grant superspeed to nearby allies on their first pulse. Your function gyro also grants superspeed to allies when cast.
Major Adept	System Shocker		Disabling a foe grants barrier to nearby allies. Your function gyro dazes foes when cast. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
Major Adept	Mass Momentum		Gain might while you have stability. Your Function Gyro applies stability to allies when cast.
Minor Master	Speed of Synergy		Using a heal skill grants superspeed in a radius around you. Using a healing skill's associated tool-belt skill grants you personal superspeed.
Major Master	Rapid Regeneration		Regenerate health while affected by swiftness or superspeed.
Major Master	Expert Examination		Your function gyro grants protection to allies when cast. Using a healing skill's associated toolbelt grants protection to nearby allies.
Major Master	Object in Motion		Deal increased strike damage while you have stability, swiftness, or superspeed. This damage increase compounds for each boon you have.
Minor Grandmaster	Impact Savant		A percentage of the strike damage you deal is converted into barrier.
Major Grandmaster	Ex Machina		Function gyro has additional charges, no longer has a recharge penalty, and grants barrier to nearby allies.
Major Grandmaster	Kinetic Accelerators		Grant boons to nearby allies when you successfully combo a field with a blast or leap finisher. Your function gyro is now a blast finisher.
Major Grandmaster	Applied Force	10	Gain stability when you gain might at or above the threshold. Might grants bonus power.

Lore

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With Mordremoth’s awakening, engineers that discover the wreckage of the Pact fleet can choose to learn the ways of the resourceful scrappers. These masters of improvisation gain access to the mighty hammer while crafting utilitarian gyros to accomplish all manner of arduous tasks. A pinnacle of their craft is the function gyro, capable of restoring health to waning allies and dealing the coup de grâce to lingering foes. They bring a bruising style of lockdown and negation melee to the engineer.

— Scrapper release notes

Scrappers are resourceful engineers using advanced technology, scrapped from the wreckage of the Pact fleet, to dominate the battlefield. As the Tyrian technology has advanced, so did the inventions of engineers, allowing them to create useful gyros, tiny machines that have been crafted with specialised purposes, that would free their time to allow them to focus on other things.

Gallery

Promotional material

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  Fix-r-Upper, Scrapper's Mask, and the original version of Shredder Gyro before the gyro rework.

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  Gyros before their rework.

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  Thunderclap

Icons

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  Recolored official promotional icon (original in black and white)

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  Official icon

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  Official icon

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  Wiki icon

Associated items

• Scrapper's Hammer
• Fix-r-Upper
• Scrapper's Mask
• Superior Rune of the Scrapper

Related achievements

• Specializations: Adept Scrapper — Begin training the engineer's scrapper elite specialization. (5)
• Specializations: Master Scrapper — Completely train the engineer's scrapper elite specialization. (10)
• Specialization Collections: Fix-r-Upper — Collect these 14 items and skins to receive the scrapper's hammer, Fix-r-Upper. (3)

Notes

• The March 5, 2019 game update reworked gyros into wells. Originally, gyros were mobile summons that would move by hovering and try follow the engineer around casting their skill, or walk up to their target and explode. They had a limited life span represented by the Fuel Remaining effect, could be destroyed by damage, were susceptible to crowd control, and the Scrapper could command them to self destruct to end their effects earlier, do damage, and an explosion. However, like all other summons, gyros were limited by pathing, they could only reach their target if there were no elevations that would require jumping or falling in their path. This, coupled with their limited life span, vulnerability to crowd control, and relatively low movement speed, meant gyros could sometimes have a hard time reaching their target.
  • Gyros were reworked into mobile wells that surround the Scrapper. No longer limited by movement, the new well gyros can follow the Scrapper wherever they go, while also creating a combo field around them. For flavor, the Scrapper has a purely cosmetic gyro hovering over their heads whenever they cast any of their wells, with one gyro for each well.
    • The profession mechanic, Function Gyro, was left a gyro, vulnerable to crowd control and damage to allow for counterplay, but is now cast as a ground targetted skill, eliminating pathing issues. While this skill is available, a cosmetic small scale Function Gyro hovers over the Scrapper.

Trivia

• Scrapper is a title given to Charr, usually gladium, that work in scrapyards. Because of this, they are looked down upon in society.
• Scrappers used to have a different icon that was later changed due to its similarities with the tempest elementalist specialization. ^{[verification requested]}

External links

• Meet the Scrapper: Engineer's Elite Specialization
• Points of Interest: Scrapper spotlight on YouTube

References

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Engineer