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I'd say it's not as strong as it could be with more defense, but it's not weak either. Looks like it could be fun to play. I'm worried about your endurance, though. Haven't done any calculations, but it looks unsustainable to me. Might be enough for normal play, though, with inspirations and pauses between enemies and groups.

I agree with taking Gambler's Cut instead of Sting of the Wasp.

I HAVE actually just wandered around and let my damage auras kill things as they flail away uselessly at me. It makes me chuckle. But yeah, I can't see ONLY doing that. That'd be painful. Main problem, as Celidya says, is that procs only get a chance to fire every 10 seconds, which makes them contribute very little average damage.

Cloak of Fear should still be hitting the boss, so yes, it should allow procs to fire on bosses.

For the percentages, I'm reporting what Mids' reports, which is based on the idea that a character's base rate of regeneration is 100%. I never taught myself the "real numbers" version of it.

In very vague terms, Brute damage is comparable, and Brutes are more survivable. But while I have a go-go-go play style that works well with fury, I still prefer the Scrapper damage mechanic. Also, I prefer blue side. Also, I like Katana. Also, lots of people will disagree with my initial sweeping generalization. And "numerically superior" is very dependent on the situations you commonly find yourself in.

I like Brutes. Just not as much as Scrappers.

All IMHO of course, and of these, I've only played Claws/SR, and only to 37.

Smoothest 1-50 leveling: Willpower, Regen
Best using SOs or common IOs: Willpower, Super Reflexes
Best mission running: Willpower, Super Reflexes
Best AV running using less than 1 billion inf build: Super Reflexes
Most fun: Super Reflexes
Best Farmer: Fire (for damage), Invuln (good taunt aura, massive survivability on smashing/lethal farms), Willpower (taunt aura, good survivability)

Well, I pretty much agree with je saist's answer, which is why I hadn't given my own. I didn't mean to be evasive. I apologize.

I'd say that your average Regen scrapper is going to at least three slot the regeneration powers and pick up most of the hit point accolades. That puts you at 500%, and healing 32 hit points per second. Most will pick up and slot Health as well, and you're at 580% regeneration and 37 hit points per second. You might also grab Physical Perfection, and while you wouldn't actually do this, you could three slot for health, and be at 620% and heal 40 hit points per second. While Dull Pain is up, that climbs to 60 hit points per second. Click Instant Healing at the same time and you're at 1620% regeneration and 158 hit points per second.

Now, your average /Regen probably isn't going to three slot everything with health that way, and might not grab Physical Perfection. But your average IO'd /Regen is going to pick up a few hit point bonuses and regeneration bonuses, even when that's not the target. So I'm going to say that an average IO'd Regen is probably healing between 40 and 60 hit points per second full time, with bursts over 150 depending on use of click powers.

You say "nowhere have I seen hard numbers for the regen and recovery ideal rates... which is weird, since.. they're right there, and easy to compare." Well, what do we MEAN by ideal? What's an ideal build? That's very, very difficult to answer, and no answer is going to be "hard" data, it's just going to be someone's opinion on what the best build is. Best build I've examined closely was a Katana/Regen build that Umbral put together and Val Blademaster played that beat four AVs (edit: at the same time) with no temps, no inspirations. It regenerates 55 hit points per second with Dull Pain up (Dull Pain is perma), and 135 hit points per second (edit: with Instant Healing). For recovery, it's recovering 3.97 endurance per second. So I could reasonably argue that those are "ideal" numbers, though people could just as reasonably argue for other numbers.

Ideal recovery, I think, is at least a little easier to close in on than ideal regeneration. To me, ideal recovery is just enough that you never run out of endurance. If you know your attack chain, and your slotting, and how frequently you use certain powers, you can get a pretty good idea how much recovery is enough. As a ballpark figure, I'd shoot for about 3 EPS higher than your toggles, but that's very rough. Some attack chains use less than that, some use more.

Edit: Oh, sorry, didn't say what my own numbers were. I'm at 58 hit points per second with Dull Pain down, 74 hit points per second with it up, and 154 hit points per second with Instant Healing running as well. That's with an I12 build IO'd to the gills... with I12 powers and IOs.

Also, if you're trying to improve your /Regen, about the last thing you need to worry about is your regeneration and recovery. The name of the game is recharge, recharge, recharge and defense. If this is just intellectual curiosity, of course, then never mind.

I'm with Dechs Kaison on this one. Dark Armor Sucks!

OK, yes, fine. It's not the easiest set to build right. It plays "funny". It relies heavily on a heal. It burns through endurance. Still, Claws/Dark should be a decent combination if for no other reason than Claws gets an endurance discount. Plus Follow Up buffs the damage from Death Shroud for extra AoE goodness. There are other good combinations as well, not just Dark/Dark. My Katana/Dark was very solid for leveling. I did use a Steadfast Protection unique and a Kismet unique, and I frankenslotted in the mid 30s, but that's easily affordable on what you earn as you level. No sets required. I think Dark Armor has overtaken Regeneration as my favorite secondary, actually. But hey, if it doesn't work for you, it doesn't work for you. Turns out I hate the Spines primary. I know there's nothing wrong with it, and that people do great things with it, but it just doesn't work for me. It happens.