Thank you very much for all this lovely info. I have recently started my 1st scrapper ever, an MA/SR, and when looking for a guide at first all I could find were guides with references to 'perma-elude' and other now impossible things. Lo and behold, this appears right when I needed it.
A friend in my SG who made 50 with his actually suggested to me that the passives are worthless, but with those Defiance-like res buffs I just don't see how that could be the case, as well as adding an extra %5 to def.
Looking forward to getting this toon going, thanks again for all your hard work.