What to choose as secondary?

Dark Armor in PvP?

You're insane. Speaking from extensive experience with a softcapped Broadsword/Dark Armor....DA is just about the WORST set you could take into PvP.

Look at the powers. Cloak of Fear and Oppressive Gloom, do you really think any PvPer that has ANY clue what they're doing is going to let you keep these toggles up? If you're mezzed, even for a 1/4 of a second, they drop. Almost every possible character has SOME kind of mez to hit you with, you WILL have those toggles dropped almost instantly upon engaging in combat.

Dark Regeneration. Mine is slotted to heal well off one target. You'll be lucky if you GET one target to heal from. And the huge end cost is gonna hurt, since you're not going to be in a big enough group to get any real benefit from a Theft of Essence proc.

Don't get me wrong, I love Dark Armor, but it's the last thing I would choose for a PvP character.

Also, in response to another poster, skipping Death Shroud is a mistake.

Edit: I just noticed the necropost. Well done, well done. You revived a thread and got a serious reply to it 4 years later.

4 years ago Dark Armor was actually a viable PvP set, not the case any longer.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

Um....

Woohoooo! Awesome necropost. But I'm game.

The secondaries are pretty well balanced these days. SR and Regen do have very good survivability, though you have to work for it on Regen. Other secondaries have good survivability as well.

And to turn things around, "If you're dying with your Regen, you're just horrible at being a scrapper and should go back to being a blaster. Regen is meant to live. That's why it has so very many tools to keep you alive." (OK, OK, you'll probably die a lot on Regen while you learn the ropes. It's a school of hard knocks. I'd probably die a lot if I played it now because I'm out of practice.)

There are two schools of thought in regards to taking your rez. I'm firmly in the school that the power choice could have been devoted to keeping me alive, and that wakies and the hospital are good enough options for those rare times that I DO die. On the other side are people who apparently die way too often.

Oh, and I point and laugh at you now for falling for the necropost, ClawsandEffect.

And yeah, Amy, I think someone has a definition of "survivable" that doesn't match mine if it includes being meant to die often enough that a rez becomes a reasonable power pick. *chuckle*

Anyway, welcome to the Scrapper forum, Lord Of Gravity! Sorry if we're poking a little fun. We're actually pretty nice folks around here. And if you have difficult questions, the Scrapper forum has a lot of very experienced people, number crunchers, min/maxers, powergamers, anything you need to get solid answers.

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cause been there done that

Is that because you double post rather than editing in stuff?

Nah. The empty can rattles the most.

I think I'm a can filled with concrete so that I'm good for bashing people upside the head...

It could have just as easily have been you Werner, can you seriously say you would have remembered seeing this thread 4 years ago?

And in my defense, I wasn't even playing yet when the original post in this thread was made. Well, I was, but I had just started and hadn't found the forums yet, as my reg date illustrates.

That said, this one wins the necropost crown in my book. It is the farthest back I have ever seen one dredged up that recieved a legitimate serious reply (from myself in this case)

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

it certainly helps but I don't double post every time. editing a post is the easy way out.

that is stupid. if it was truly empty it wouldn't rattle at all.

I'd suggest waiting 3 to 4 years and then taking either Willpower or Shield Defense.

I was playing at the time, but I wasn't on the forums. In this case, several people including you had already noticed it was a necropost, so I was able to pretend to be all superior even though I probably wouldn't have noticed it at first either. Wasn't trying to insult you for reals. Just found it humorous.

And yeah, this is the oldest thread I've seen dredged up. There have probably been older. I just haven't seen them.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

This is an EU post originally, but I still don't see how it survived our occasional Boards purge (unlike the old US boards the EU boards only purged occasionally)

Golden Girl disproves this theory regularly