Psyonico

I may be wrong, but I believe all of the DDR in SR is in the passives, so you don't want to skip them.

They do not give a bonus.

there's also the sorcery pool and Rune of Protection.

I'm still waiting on my always asked question on "should scrappers/brutes ignore their armor because it's their secondary and therefore not good enough"

another possibility is Ageless Radial, the idea being to give yourself the Defense Debuff Resistance that you lack in Rad. With MA, I'm assuming you've built at least some defense, so the DDR can be helpful.

Traps is thematic and you can easily make a build that caps Ranged/AoE defense with it while doing good debuffs. Dark is an awesome debuff set that plays at range, going well with AR being all about the cones. TA is a great choice as well, again, playing at range and having very solid debuffs.

I think we've all done that at some point.

You have rest toggled on

The servers go down for routine maintenance every Tuesday, you can see if they are up or not on the main forum (left right side of the page in web view, button of the page on phones/tablets)

If it was above the cap it would show in blue as 75%

I suspect you have 74.995 resistance or something like that

All patches like that create a sphere of effect, so yes, it's working as intended.

What about a level 15 scrapper banned Bob?

I guess the question becomes "do I want to play a controller or not?" Affinity is really good and Fade/Soul Absorption are awesome, but so is Fearsome Stare...

Some people like clicky sets. I enjoy EA in its current form and would be sad if it were changed.