Question: Is there a pri/secondary synergy guide?

Hello, I have been trying to find a guide that would kinda tell the story of the primary and secondary powerset synergies. Ya know, like in what way do each of these complement each other and what holes are in each set and how might one even fill these holes if possible. I would do this myself, but I am no true knowledge base on this. Any help? Quick tips?

Such a guide would be a tall order. With 9 primaries and 8 secondaries, that's 68 possible choices (Shield doesn't work with DB, Claws, Katana and Spines) and even more different synergies than that seeing as there's so many ways to build a character.

Well, if you're looking for synergies then you want to take a given primary or secondary and think about what it's weak points and strong points are, then choose something that complements it.

For example, Shield is defense based with good damage potential and a great AOE. Now, how about pairing it with Broadsword? You get to add melee defense with Parry and you're pairing a very high damage primary with a secondary that boosts your damage.

Or there's Spines, which is high AOE damage and thus benefits from being surrounded by mobs. Now Shield would be the ideal complement but we can't use shield with spines so we look further. Regen works quite well to overcome end problems but it has some issues with large alpha strikes. Invulnerability however also works best when surrounded by a big group so it might be a good choice.

That's the kind of thought process I would use to figure out how to best pair up a primary/secondary.

Of my three level 50 scrappers my first was Broadsword/Regen; the recovery of Regen nicely offset the end use of Broadsword while the defense of Parry added nicely to the survivability of Regen. This is still a very viable and powerful build; it's been somewhat overshadowed by the BS/Shield combination in recent issues.

My second 50 scrapper was Spine/Regen... an absolute AOE killing machine who never has to pause for health or endurance. Some caution was required with alpha strikes but the two sets worked well together.

My latest 50 is a BS/Shield and once you've gotten the endurance issues under control via IO slotting and end reduction it's a phenomenal killing machine with tanker level durability. Excellent synergy with the primary/secondary leaving only the hole of endurance to be taken care of.

I was under the impression that this was a little bit unnecessary, 'cause all you really need to know is that "Primary/Secondary" wins.

Scrapper Synergy 101:

Step 1) Choose primary.
Step 2) Choose secondary.
Step 3) Kill Stuff.

Well, let's see...

Dark Melee syngerizes with EVERYTHING! There is no secondary that won't benefit from what Dark Melee has to offer. Even Regen. Who can use Dark Melee's self heal to help keep Regen's click heals to an even more back up use. The -to hit will also help Regen's lack of defense.

Broadsword & Katana's Parry/DA pairs well with the sets that can't cap their defense on their own...or lack any defense at all.

The other sets offer less on mitigation. But what they lack on mitigation, they make up with style, concept, whatever.

Knockdowns are handy, if you don't want to go the IO defenses route.

But in the end any combo will work nicely.