Swift_Frost

Originally Posted by Siolfir

No, because having to skip a power to fit a theme is apparently horrendously unacceptable to some people. Every power should be incredibly useful and fit the exact theme that they have in their heads and they should never have to ever compromise either the theme or performance because that's completely wrong and limiting, so we should get more power picks or free powers and more slots because they can't take all of the primary AND all of the secondary AND all of the power pool picks that they want to fit their theme, and while the devs are at it why don't we all get free ponies just for having an account too?

Originally Posted by Spatch

Obligatory wiki link:

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Archetype_Enhancements

Originally Posted by Shard_Warrior

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Does your thinking that preclude other people responding to your posts?

There are some areas where SR just shines, particularly in places like the ITF. However, you mentioned soft-capping "destroys any chance of you trying to play anything else." Soft-capping is not actually all that strong by itself. *Keeping* the soft cap under extreme debuffing like in the ITF can be impressive. But if *all* you have is the soft cap, an Invuln will tend to outperform you. It also can get very high defense *and* it has dull pain and resistances. The combination is simply numerically stronger, period, so it will always look better. My Katana/Invuln strolled through the last Ramiel mission and she has an incredibly cheap build: common IOs and some cheap sets. My MA/SR can also do that, but at much higher cost.

You put a lot of stuff *inside* soft-capping, and now its a different story. Stick in heals, a lot of regeneration through inventions, and particularly aid self and now SR starts to become a monster on par with other monsters. But given other powersets can reach similar levels of defense while also possessing other protections SR cannot as easily acquire, I believe SR will never be able to hold claim to the best performing scrapper secondary *except* in the specific case of high-order debuffing situations, like the ITF or even things like Tin Mage.

Which is not bad. Its just not everything. And if nothing else, rather than spoiling me for other powersets I find playing other sets makes me appreciate SR more, and vice versa.