With out some sort of official or organized survey, I doubt we'd ever know. Truth is I haven't noticed any primary to be scarce or overly popular. Seems spread fairly evenly to me.
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If I'm representative of the entire scrapper population, then the most popular primaries are Katana and Broad Sword, with 22% of the scrapper population each, and the least popular primary is Martial Arts, which not a single person plays, despite forum claims to the contrary. 
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The problem with scrapper primaries and secondaries is that none of them suck.
Same question on just about any other AT board would get you some decent answers.
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I've found katana to be the most popular and fire melee the least.
How would you judge it? I'd say just mine for all Scrappers with more than 50 hours of patrol time.
My guess? The swords are most popular. I'd bet that MA is in the middle or toward the top, despite the forums -- the forum users know about its actual performance relative to other primaries, casual players just know it looks fantastic.
My guess is that Spines is probably the least popular, again, because of its appearance and that it's hard to understand. DM is also hard to understand, but it'll have a lot of people that play it because they'll play anything called "dark".
I'm gonna guess MA being the least popular, or perhaps fire. Mostly because the swords get to be customized and that's a huge draw for them.
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The problem with scrapper primaries and secondaries is that none of them suck.
Same question on just about any other AT board would get you some decent answers.
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Edit - now if they would just give us a bit more selection in Epics, Scrappers would go from gold to platinum.
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If I remember correctly the last time the devs did the things you want to know things like richest player types etc.
The scrapper primaries where all within +or - a few % points spines was at the low end but the difference between top and bottom was like 5% at most the overall spread was even
The secondaries where also spread pretty evenly
That was like a year or two ago when they did that
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The problem with scrapper primaries and secondaries is that none of them suck.
Same question on just about any other AT board would get you some decent answers.
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Troof. Scrapper Primaries and Secondaries (especially the secondaries) are the best balanced they have ever been in the history of the game.
Edit - now if they would just give us a bit more selection in Epics, Scrappers would go from gold to platinum.
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Now when I look at other Scrappers builds in game I see Spines the least and Fire melee the most. What does that say, nothing at all because that is only my experience.
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My honest guess would be Spines. I rarely see it among my PuG travels. Swords are likely most popular, yet my least favourites. MA, my favourite set is likely somewhere in the middle: enjoyed by casual players, avoided by the min/max crowd.
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Swords or Spines = Most common
Fire Melee or MA = Least Common
Regen or WP = Most Common
Invuln or FA = Least Common
At least IMO from what i've noticed.
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just from my experience
/dark armor is the least common secondary.
/fiery aura I see all the time, but then i'm the one playing it.
/shield is gaining in popularity
/inv is uncommon
/sr is rare
/wp is pretty common
/regen is also pretty common
kat/ medium to common
bs/ medium to common
Dark melee/ rare
spines/ pretty rare
fire melee/ uncommon
MA/ uncommon
DB/ uncommon to medium
claws/ medium
I think that covers everything. like i said that's just my experience with the whole thing. hardly indicative of any sort of trend. If you want to start a pole here are all my scrappers
MA/WP
DB/reg
kat/reg
fm/FA
3 of those are lvl50 db is stopped at 31.
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I've seen a spike in claws/sr lately. I doubt most of them will see 50 because I know SR gets frustrating before SOs.
I don't see a lot of fiery melee and I'm unsure why this would be.
I probably see less invul on scrappers than any of the other secondaries.
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My active scrappers:
Fire/Regen - 50
Martial Arts / Shields - next on the list
Broadsword/Willpower - on my second server, fairly old character
Dark Melee / Reflexes - created for MA, solo survivability project
Spines / Willpower - newest, long weekend project, currently 24, team survivability and light tanking project.
I think that as a secondary, Invulnerability is of mostly historical interest - i.e. you'd be daft or a completist to make one when Willpower and Shields are available. I know that my Invuln brute is semi-retired, and my old Invuln scrappers never went anywhere and all have been rerolled Willpower.
I am a big fan of some relatively rare primaries, especially Dark Melee, which works so well with Willpower, Shields, and Reflexes that I'm surprised there ain't more of them.
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My list of scrappers is nearly similar to Heraclea's.
Fire/Regen - 43
Martial Arts/Shields - 42
Katana/Willpower - 42
Dual Blades/Super Reflexes - 33
I've had trouble sticking with one until 50 
What scrappers do I have? hmm
Claws/SR 50
DB/WP 27
FM/Reg 15
Brutes
EM/FA 50
SM/WP 50
FM/SD 28
Can't think of any others.
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Well lets see Scrapper I have
BS/SR 50
Fire/fire 50
BS/WP 50
MA/SD 50
Fire/SR 50
DB/Regen 35
Spine/Fire 30
Fire/Dark 25
DM/SD 23
and more lower lvls ones
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I think Fire might be uncommon due to being relatively new. Dual Blades, likewise.
Martial Arts fits a lot of character concepts and has style, I'm pretty sure it's a go-to for a lot of new players.
Hmm, well my stable of Scrappers goes something like:
BS/Regen - 50
Spine/Regen - 50
BS/Shield - 45
BS/Regen - 25
Claw/SR - 18
Spine/Dark - 15
Kat/WP - 9
So from that we can deduce that BS is the most common attribute of Scrapperdom Whodathunkit?
In seriousness I've noticed that Regen is probably the most common secondary and DA seems to be the least common. Primary wise the Swords seem very common with DM being fairly rare... the others seem to fit in between. This is, of course, a totally unscientific and anecdotal listing based largely on my perception.
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My scrappers.
Spine/invlun - 50
Kat/Invlun - 50
Claws/SR - 50
MA/Regen - 50
Kat/SR - 50
BS/Shield - 40 atm. Fast tracked to 50 cause he's a freaking blast to play.
That's me. When pugging, which i do alot...
I see more swords then anything else. BS and Kat, and even DB. I think the reason is customisible.
I almost never see Spines anymore, and MA is a rearity. Come to think of it, haven't seen claws in a while either. Them 3 are lacking. DM and Fire is see, but not as much as the swords.
Secondarys, Regen and WP... easily. Then SR. Never see invluns... Fires and Darks are around more then invluns, but still not a common sight.
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Here's mine.
BS/Inv - 50
Kat/Regen - 50
Kat/FA - 50
Claws/Regen - 50
Claws/SR - 50
Claws/Inv - 50
Claws/WP /FA - 40
Claws/DA - 25
Claws/Shields - Don't I wish...
Fire/SR and Fire/Shields - 40
And a lot of failed attemtps on Spines, MA, Dark and DB. Just can not get into those sets...
So from that Claws takes it by a wide margin...
Dunno if this will help or not but:
MA/SR - 50
Kat/Reg - 50
DM/WP - 50
Spines/Reg - 25
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Which primaries are the most and least commonly used? I'm just curious because I'm rolling a MA Scrapper because I like how it looks.