Awesome your reply was what I was hoping for seig, I'll do the suggested changes.
Warlawk, I'll read that link and appreciate the info about farming. I wanted a scrapper mostly because I don't really like tanking in groups and I found that on my katana electric brute I ended up as the engager and tank which sucked because of my lack of experience not knowing how the TFs/missions work are played out etc. So I really hope the tradeoff for defense and taunt is worth the playability tradeoff for me. I guess I can always make another character lol... hopefully be ok once I get the enhancements to cover them like you said.