Scrapper with standard IOs/SOs

Hello

I want a scrapper that is good in Pve (no AV soloing, can do that with my Ill/Rad), no PvP, just running standard mission on unyielding with standard IOs or SOs.

I just purpled out my Ill/Rad and IOd out a SD/WM tank (thank Garthalus for the great guide!), so I don't have the funds and the patience to do it again.

I currently have a Claws/SR and a Fire/Regen, which of those both would be better? Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance for the advice.

Both of them should have similar survivability, honestly, The Fire/Regen is going to have better damage and worse survivability simply because it's Fire/*. The Claws/SR shouldn't really have any endurance woes simply because of Claws/* endurance efficiency. It's really just a matter of which playstyle you prefer. Fire/Regen will be more actively involved in using */Regen's cooldowns to survive whereas the Claws/SR will be more focused on using Claws/*'s mitigation tools to stay up.

Short answer: all scrapper pri/sec combinations should do well in normal missions set to unyeilding.

Claws/SR and Fire/Regen should both be up to the task.

Another suggestion: leveling up my Kat/WP with SOs has been loleasy. It's almost as if your green and blue bars are so pegged out that it's impossible for either of them to drop below 100%. Not quite exactly like that, but almost.

Thanks Umbral for your answer. Was a bit concerned that /SR won't work with just standard IOs, because I won't be anywhere near the softcap. Might get inf anway while leveling up and IO her out later.

I dont like SR with commons anymore, having played it at the Def cap on two toons it doesn't feel right being below it.

Fire/regen should be alright but I think with fire you get more out of a secondary with a damage/agro aura personally. Fire/WP is fun, Fire/SD is pretty good. Fire/Fire is insanely fun when it goes well.

Edit: I levelled my DM/SR to 50 after I5 and before defence got "fixed" and it was still fine, for most of the levelling I didn't even have the passives and I just used Elude when things got tough. SR is fine not at the softcap until you've played one that's there

That's why I am concerned, since the last char I leveled to 50 (just yesterday) was my softcapped SD Tank.

Well I decided to give the Claws/SR a try though. Thanks for the help.

Of all my scrappers, the most fun with basic IO's or SO's is my claws/wp. Basically /wp by itself is the most suited to a non-IO'd build as it has good layered protection and another end management tool. For primary, I'd say any would work, but as is noted above, Kat/BS has Divine Av/Parry which just adds a ton of survivability to any scrapper secondary. I too would have a really hard time playing a /SR on SO's after having one softcapped. It is just too awesome. Just as an aside, with your SR, if you fully slot 50 basic IO's into all toggles and passives, grab weave, Combat Jumping and Maneuvers, you will be at 43.4 def to all positions, or about 1.6 points below the cap, with no IO's at all. With claws, you may be able to run all the toggles and still have end. Grab Conserve Power just in case.

I softcapped my Claws/SR by level 36 using only SOs and a single IO. There were a lot of compromises (mostly to offense) to get there that early, so I don't suggest doing what I did, but the build was perfectly playable, even strong, at least once I got past the terrible teens.

Unless you're doing a personal challenge by going all SOs and standard IOs, frankenslotting and a Steadfast Protection unique should give you a very high level of performance at a very cheap price, and you should be able to softcap fairly painlessly in the 40s with the influence earned to that point. Having a low budget doesn't doom you to being way below the soft cap on a Super Reflexes.

Thanks for all the responses, I really appreciate it. I got 162 Mill on my tanker. Guess if I go with cheap sets it's not that hard to get to the softcap.

Thanks again.