Dual Blade/Rad any suggestions or experience

I started a dual blade/FA scrapper. Anyone have any experience with this build? I'm new to the game and thought it looked like a good combo. Any advice for which powers to take would be appreciated.

I'm not sure which powerset you're talking about exactly. In any case, every scrapper combo is good.

As Nihilii said, not sure what a /Rad scrapper is.

The secondaries are:
Dark Armor (/DA)
Fiery Aura (/FA)
Invulnerability (/Inv)
Regeneration (/Regen)
Shield Defense (/SD)
Super Reflexes (/SR)
Willpower (/WP)

All scrapper configurations are great.

What are you looking for? More single target power or AoE power? Damage output, survivability?

My bad, I meant Dual Blade/Fiery Aura. I think I was confusing him with a corruptor I have.

DB/FA should be rather good on damage, with great AoE capabilities as well. FA is considered to be one of the weakest secondaries defense wise (which means it still has much more than enough to get the job done, so you don't need to worry about that really) but on the other hand you get to do more damage.

The core powers are, in my opinion :

Dual Blades :
Ablating Strike
Blinding Feint
Vengeful Slice
Sweeping Strike

Either Power Slice or Nimble Slash to fill out gaps, too, as you have to pick one of the two.

Typhoon's Edge and One Thousand Cuts are also cool if you want to do AoE damage. I'd avoid Confront.

Fiery Aura :
Fire Shield
Plasma Shield
Healing Flames
Blazing Aura - while it might seem like it does little damage, that damage adds up over time and on top of your attacks, it's also very end efficient if you fight more than one foe at a time.

Consume and Fiery Embrace are great powers, one refills your end every few minutes and the other gives a good damage boost for a few seconds. Not musthaves, but good to get.

Temperature Protection is so-so, in my opinion. It offers minor resistance to slows and some res to fire/cold, but your fire res should be capped with the 2 other shields. That said, it's an auto, so it doesn't hurt to pick it if you haven't any better choice.

Burn is a PBAoE that does very high damage, but makes your foes run away. Some like it, some hate it, it's a power you have to try to know if you want it.

Rise of the Phoenix is a self ressurection power that also damages and knockback your enemies when you use it. The biggest downside is, well, you have to be dead to use it, and some argue they'd rather spend the power pick on something else and use an awaken inspiration instead. That said, it does have a cool animation...


As for pool powers, it's usually recommended to grab the Fitness pool (for Stamina), although it's possible to do without. Another popular pick for Fire Armor is the leaping pool, Combat Jumping adds immobilize protection FA lacks (except in Burn), and Acrobatics adds KB protection that is also lacking - another option is to slot a KB protection IO somewhere.

Other good to get options include speed for Hasten (brings your attacks and your heal up more often), fighting for Tough and Weave (increases your resistance and your defense by a bit) ; nothing is necessary though, you can really go with what you want, what you find fun and what fits most your toon.

I've tried a few DB/Fire heroes, both Scrappers and Tankers, to various levels. Lot of fun on both counts. Damage is great, survivability not so much, but still okay. If I were to make a DB/Fire guide it would likely be titled: Making the Undead your *****: A Guide to DB/Fire. Zombies are the devs gift to DB/Fire characters.