Nice to have the french players here (for us, the french playing on the NA servers^^). As well as the JoL posters. This merge is definitely the best thing happening with those new boards.
Nice to have you here Celidya 
Dark armor lover ? Well you can't have all the qualities 
(kidding^^)
(Next time he's around ask Nihilii what he thinks about MA/DA^^)
PS : very nice guide, I liked it much. Kiting is less my type of gameplay on a scrapper, but it definitely gave me some motivation for a Kat/DA toon.
Claws/da very nice combo deleted mine years ago after reaching 50. Needed room and at that time server transfers and slots weren't available. I also played mine right before claws got a major overhaul and became much improved...my goal was to play it partially up to 50 and then complete the trip with the advent of the patch that would fix many of claw's problem as a set. However it was so much fun I was 50 before the patch went through.
I enjoyed playing claws/da, its combination of range and melee abilities along with added mitigation with knock down and knockback made it my third favorite dark armor combo (katana 1st, broadsword 2nd...yeah I know so much variety there).
Now to what you really want to hear about...your guide.
In my opinion too much info is always better than not enough info. In most cases that I saw you did a very good job of explaining why you didn't like the power...stating many times that it was your opinion (such as in the instance of weave). As long as people read it and realize that the guide is based on your playstyle it should be of some use. Obviously you can't make a guide that covers every build possible...theres just too many options with IOs now. I mean I can think of 5 ways of slotting dark regen just off the top of my head...and all that means is all of them carry different benefits.
Its nice to see another person who just likes what dark armor can bring...its one of the rare sets that become stronger exponentially when ran together (stacking og or cof). When I first was leveling my kat/da. I actually ran into 3 other dark armor characters during that time (I think that was the total of DA scrappers on my server at that time)...we had every mob that we came into OG's range stunned. It was pretty easy times then.
I do disagree with your assestment of DA's capabilties though. I think if I wanted to I would be able to turn dark armor into a capable AV soloing machine. I soloed countess crey as an av prior to IO's so with IO's I should be capable of taking on the same feat now. Though it would require a very specific build and getting rid of some powers that I just have grown accustomed to having...ie either the body pool (energy torrent is the only reason I take this epic anymore) or hasten (which I use for slow protection mostly)...either way it would require me to pick up weave and remove 2 of my purple sets and reslot all my attacks for defensive bonuses. Its weird to say but my old io build was actually stronger than my current purpled out build because the purples offer no defensive bonuses.
Yep for AV i was talking mostly about the combo itself (claws/dark). I can solo AV on my kat/dark with a soft capped build, claws could probably do it with a defensive build against some specifics AV, although it would probably be a lot harder and not as effective as the dedicated AV soloing builds involving dark or katana primary. Dark is not that bad (and can even be very good, i think kat/dark is one of the top tier AV soloing builds) but all by itself it doesn't offer nearly enough to survive an AV, unlike defensive secondaries. So it's down to the slotting and primary.
Now i'm thinking mainly of lvl 50 AVs, i tried some of the supposed "easy" AV like Marauder and Chimera and even with a few mobs around to fill for Dark regen, i couldn't keep up with the lack of defense i had on my offensive build. Chimera could hit me for like 2/3 of my life with a single katana attack.
I was hoping i could have Dark regen up fast enough to keep it up with some fillers around to make sure i could get endurance and full life, but there's no way i can survive 8-9sec with no defense. Investing on defensive IO sets would lower my recharge as well, so it's hard to think about the real benefit, it would probably be somewhat of a survivability curve, going from high recharge with low defense to high defense with low recharge.
Dark armor lover.
The Claws/DA Scrapper guide.
At first I though I just read the shortest guide evah...then I realized your link goes to the last page/post of your guide. Might consider changing it to the first...just saying.
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Whoops ! Fixed, i wonder how i came up with the link to the last post instead of the whole thread. Thanks, i didn't pay attention to that
Dark armor lover.
The Claws/DA Scrapper guide.
Well i've been waiting for a long time for the forum merge to post that here, so here's a new guide for scrappers out there
I'm not sure if i should post that here or if the guide forum is enough, but i thought some peoples might be interested and with the double exp and stuff a little bit of advertisement doesn't hurt i guess. It took me quite a long time to write it, so any feedback and comments are welcome, as i have no experience when it comes to... huh, how to write a guide.
I hope it will be useful and worth your time.
Dark armor lover.
The Claws/DA Scrapper guide.