I have a 45 scrapper SM/SD. Not sure why but I can't stop trying to ( Fix ) it. I want to love SM and I do love SM...Just not sure how to make it work. I feel SM needs decent IO's maybe even ATO's?
I am not sure as I am still coming back to the game and to be honest I was not great at it in the first place. Just followed builds, I rerolled SM/Bio to maybe see how it works.
The only thing I can say about SM/SD is, in my head I wanted to savage leap and then do shield charge and follow up rending fury. SL seems to miss randomly or not do dmg at all. Which I have never encountered with LR. LR+SC will be a better combo but something about bleeds just makes me feel like it...should...be...good? or fun? idk. Dmg feels ok for what it is never really had a problem at all until I tried to do a couple AE's and my low SD came into play and I died.
Hemo I feel like is a great attack though. when it crits it does a lot of damage the DoT seems nice but it does feel like getting exhausted makes the set feel clunky and you are not rewarded for doing what you do best...dmg..this may not have helped at all just my 2 cents. Im gonna try SM/Bio maybe the dmg aura will help some...we will see! Guess I could roll stalker and just hemo crit everything lol.