scrapper quandry, what to play?

I really enjoy my Claws/SR and am having great fun with him. But I would like to start up another one but so far I am not enjoying them as much.

Tried DM/elec and petered out at 17
DM/Inv(made long ago pre-I3) who is 37 now, but boring
Kat/regen stopped at 27, it was enh.

So what is a good clean fun combo?

Thinking of Fire/Will or spine/Will.

especially now that spines have real graphics now(not the bananas of lethality)

Everything has better ST dmg than spines.

And Id actually vote for Spines, its classically fun, and I can vouch for Spines/SR if you chose that route.

I've been playing a Spines/Elec...it's up to level 28 right now...very fun...tons of damage.

Spines/Dark
Spines/Fire
Spines/Elec

Would all be AOE joy if you want something along those lines.

I've been thinking of going elec/fire, but I have a couple other projects going right now. I know it would not be the most powerful, but could be a bunch of fun.

Personally, i hate /fire on a scrapper. I felt way to squishy with a few hundred mil in my spines/fire. Atm, i'm doin respecs and getting my sets off of him to delete him. (50 btw)

Spines is a really fun scrapper, but it feels alot weaker than my Kat and my wifes Fire scrappers. Although the post talking about a spines/elec sounds terribly fun.

To the OP, if i were to start a new scrapper, i'd probably want to try a Fire/Electric or Katana/Inv. I have a 50 Katana and he does AWESOME damage.

If I correctly understand City of Data's tables (an iffy proposition with a pseudo-pet power) it looks like Burn ticks every 0.2 seconds -- that's 5 times a second -- for 10.25 seconds. That's 51 ticks of damage, which is 3.34 fire damage at 50. That's 6.5 fire damage per tick when enhanced to the ED cap.

Burn can affect 5 targets; a well-enhanced Tenebrous Tentacles will almost certainly immobilize at least 5 if used right after clumping the enemies.

6.5 x 51 tics is 332 damage. Scrapper Burn recharges in 25 seconds base; it's not unreasonable to assume you could get it down to 10 seconds (my English-major's math skills say you'd need 55% global recharge, so hasten would more than do it while it's active).

By contrast, using the same enhancement assumptions, Headsplitter is 317 damage every 6 seconds, but harder to line up to hit all 5 possible targets, and a more resisted damage type.

So Burn -- IF you can hold them in the patch somehow -- is roughly competitive with the very hardest-hitting Scrapper attacks.

Edit: You can use Build Up with both -- but only Fiery Aura gets a "second Build Up," Fiery Embrace, which gives its best bonus (+125% damage) with...Fire powers. Stacked up, that's impressive.

Well like many others have pointed out any/SD is pretty good. So, my vote for any/SD.

swords/SD are great,parry is wonderful in early levels.nice mix of single target and aoe.only real drawback is that their are so many custom costume combos,that even with 5 slote,s you can not do all that you want to.

dark/sd is great also.dark gives sd the heal it is missing.sd helps darks lack of aoe a lot.

currently working up a electric/sd.two nukes in the later levels is a beautiful thing let me tell you.i just ripped through two levels nuking groups of freaks in crey's.

of course with scrappers there are tons of fun combos,i am just a bit SD obsessed at the moment.