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You can do 1 set of claws normal bladed claws and one set black/black vanguard blades or w/e they're called it will be very hard tosee especially in combat. Giving you that 1 hand claw look. Anyway I thought of a wolverine parody and went brute cause I already have a claws/Regen scrapper

With both those sets getting an update you can't really go wrong with either at this point. So just mess around in the characters creator and see what you end up liking the look of more, the axe or fire melee to go with your nice guy

Since we're assuming outside buffs to keep the whole fight at damage cap and recharge cap, does stone then out DMG bio with brimstone vs w/e that power is called in bio that gives tox DMG? I know brimstone can crit , not sure how the base DMG values of those abilities compare though

I run an AR / rad corr and it's fun. Rad lets me focus more on AR cause it's a pretty low effort support set. Not sure it's "the best" though.

I skip it on my scrappers until higher lvls when I have the end management under control. But yeah the control auras are usually first on the chopping block for me as well.

On some characters I either just make sure I run everything I want to run under 30, and load up on trash power picks for the journey to 30ish , then Respec, or I just set up a separate exemplar build.

I dropped gash if it came to dropping a power , so my st rotation is chop swoop cleave, and my aoe rotation is cyclone cleave pend.

I would say street justice over MA. But again irrelevant cause OP wants the weapon version.

For a scrapper bio is almost always "better" be a use scrappers job is damage and bio secondary offers more than others in that field. So if you want an absolute min max toon then bio is almost always the answer when it comes to scrappers. And so now that you know that, you also know to not ever worry about if bio is better and you can just focus on playing what you want. And energy aura is great secondary with lot of tools to survive. You got some good suggestions above to help with your endurance issues. You only need 1 min/max absolute best of the best character (or arguably 1 for each AT), then you have 999 slots for fun characters, so don't worry about what's "better". If someone tells you a power set is bad or won't work, or is bad on 1 AT over another and shouldn't be played, it's not because they are knowledgeable about the game, it's because they're really bad at the game, and can only make minimax meta bullshit work.

Or get carried through 1 SBB at 15 and sell that OWF for 4mil and buy your perf shifter that way.

I don't know about other ATs but it's a claws scrappers, because EM and TW are super boring and not fun to play, with horrible rotation. And claws and is super fun and amazing to play. And characters that never get played do 0 dps. My opinion anyway. Now if only the devs would give us claws/sd , that'd be great!

My claws/nrg is in a similar situation, feels very weak even with the incarnates. To the point that my claws wp with only t1 incarnates feels vastly superior. But it was also my first 50 so it's really just cobbled together with duct tape and hot glue. Maybe I'll strip and overhaul it this weekend if I have some time to flood Wentworth with iOS from my money maker this week.

If you're going fire armor I'd go brute for the higher resist cap, and higher hit points. Cause fire armor can be a pain in the ass to use, but it can also be very strong. Going brute will just help you out a little before you can invest in full IO sets trick it out. Now if you were setting yourself up with io sets from the get go, or teaming along the way it wouldn't matter and you couldn't either scrapper or brute as BD/Fire and do great. But as a solo project I'd go broot for that slight edge they have in hp/resist

I've been wanting a stalker , but nothing I tried was feeling very fun. I ran a few up to 20s or 30s and always ended up abandoned them. So after reading your post I made 2 new stalkers, staff/ice and staff/elec. I ran both through dfb posi 1/2 and yin and decided I'd stick with the elec armor. But am loving the staff on stalker. Yeah the numbers aren't massive , but it's super fun, and nice having the aoe attacks as well.

Claws is good from lvl 1 to 50+. And rad is real good on a scrapper too. It's hard to beat a good claws scrappers for a fun do it all character IMO. And what's the best 2ndary to go with it? Whatever one you want! It goes with them all (cept shield obv)