You're in no danger of hitting the damage enhancement cap using set bonuses; the largest damage bonus available on sets is 4%, and that's on only a few purple sets. You can put as much +damage on there as you can stand, subject of course to the Rule of Five.
Recharge is a particularly good bonus to slot for on your powerset combo, since it increases your offense but also brings your great Healing Flames power back up faster. Here's a list of sets that improve recharge.
It wouldn't hurt if you got some defense; it'll make you somewhat tougher. But for several reasons, I wouldn't make a lot of effort to slot for defense; you start out with zero and you have no protection against defense debuffs taking away the defense you would have paid so much to acquire.
Speaking of protecting yourself from debuffs, if you're going for recharge in Healing Flames, you might want to consider the Temperature Protection power (which resists recharge debuffs, also known as slows). You can also buy a Winter's Gift unique IO that adds more slow resistance.
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I have the resist slow IO from winter's gift. Not sure if I was going to bother with Temp protection as most /fire's I see don't have it at all.
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I'm still levelling my MA/Fire, but I'm planning to go for +Recharge with set bonuses. Get HF and Consume up more often, and get a smooth attack chain. DT`s mitigation is immense, and I can only imagine it getting better when it`s up more often.
Temp Protection I might pick up late for the slow resists, in addition to the Winter's Gift unique. Also a decent spot for the Steadfast uniques. People generally don't take it because before the debuff resistance, all it provided was a little cold res since you`re pretty much already capped versus fire..
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Ok, so I just got my scrapper to 50 and, like all my others toons, it's time to IO her out. Problem is, I'm not sure what I should be shooting for. I was considering going high damage to maximize the focus chi/ firey embrace idea but I'm not sure if there is a max damage amount a scrapper's attacks can do. Cause if there is, how close am I to it with FC/FE up?
Someone told me to try to max out recharge/ HPs and I haven't tried that yet. I can see that helping as it boosts up the recharge of Chi, Embrace, and Healing. So I would assume that would boost damage provided I remembered to use those powers. Before I go spending millions on that though, I want to be sure of the direction I am heading. Any opinions please?
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