Aid Self isn't very useful on a Regen - you almost always have a better click available, plus you get hit a lot, so it can be easily interrupted. Weave may or may not be very useful depending on how much other defense you have in the build. Weave is probably least useful in PvP. Tough is an important power in my opinion, and I would stack it with Resilience, though likely not slot Resilience.
Generally speaking, for pools I recommend Fitness, Fighting, Leaping and Speed for a Regen.
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I'm with Werner on this one. Those 4 pools are probably the best all around choices for a Regen.
Aid Self on a Regen is like taking Provoke on a Tank. Completely overshadowed by the powers already available to you.
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Hasten, Super Speed, Combat Jumping, Kick, Tough, Weave, Fitness
Always. IF you ever have a question about picking a pool I just summarize the 90% of the content I play into what the power actually does. If I have any doubt that I won't use it I wont. Med pool fits into this perfectly. Sure there may be times when you could use an aid self, like almost rarely to never ever in my case but yea, skip that. CJ is a must for me for the lotg and the control. Everything else is pretty standard or personal, IE ss vs sj. swift vs. hurdle.
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Seeing as Aid Self was a bad idea...
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Alright, the problem with that is... I am a Dual Blader, and have to select all the powers for my chains to work. I only have SO many power options between getting all of those and my Regen powers.|
Originally Posted by Possible
Hasten, Super Speed, Combat Jumping, Kick, Tough, Weave, Fitness.
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I currently have:
Power Slice, Ablating Strike, Typhoon's Edge, Blinding Feint, Vengeful Slice, Sweeping Strike, and One Thousand Cuts for DB. I have every power available for Regeneration.
I have Swift, Health, and Stamina; Kick, Tough, and Weave; Hasten; and Caltrops.
NOTE!: During the respec, I plan to get SS instead of Caltrops.
So, is there anything I should replace?
Revive. You shouldn't need it often at all, and why would you pick a power that does the same thing as a wakie? The only advantage it has is it is always available. If you pop Revive in combat, chances are whatever just killed you will kill you again.
The only rezzes I would ever take on a scrapper are Soul Transfer or Rise of the Phoenix, because they actually have a beneficial effect. Revive roots you until it's animation is done, you can't turn on toggles, heal yourself, pop inspirations, nothing. You are a sitting duck for 3 seconds where you can do nothing at all to defend yourself. In combat, that will get you killed.
The only scrappers that should take Aid Self are SR, Shield, and Willpower.
I would seriously consider trying to fit Physical Perfection into your build. It's an awesome power that adds regen and recovery on top of your already ridiculous amounts.
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First off, don't take Revive. It's pretty much worthless because it's just an awaken on a 5 minute cooldown. It's not even a viable combat rez because there's no period of invincibility.|
Originally Posted by Legend_Light
So, is there anything I should replace?
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Secondly, you may want to think about taking Body Mastery rather than Weapon Mastery when you respec. Focused Acc is an excellent set mule for Gaussian's and Physical Perfection can actually allow you to get rid of the Fitness pool.
If you're not running an IO build, don't bother getting the +def powers. You can't get enough +def without sets to really make it worthwhile. I generally don't recommend getting defense type benefits unless you're going to have at least 15-20% +def, even with IOs. CJ + Weave isn't really going to do much of anything for your survivability (the reason being that Regen operates in small periods of increased spike survivability; small amounts of defense do almost nothing except decrease damage over incredibly long periods of time).
Something else to think about is that you may want to think about opting out of using both Attack Vitals and Sweep. You're definitely going to want BF and pulling another 6 attacks from your primary is going to be incredibly restrictive. You may want to consider getting rid of Sweep. I realize that it's a decent increase to your survivability and has more targets hit than Attack Vitals, but, thanks to the animation times and recharges on Typhoon's Edge and One Thousand Cuts, it's pretty +rech intensive to get to BF>Sweep (170% +rech in 1k Cuts). BF>Attack Vitals isn't nearly as hard to get to (the most recharge intensive power is BF, requiring 128% +rech) and is still pretty good at AoE.
If you take every Regen power except Revive, Boxing/Kick and Tough, Hurdle/Swift, Health, and Stamina, Hasten, CJ and SJ/SS, you'd still have 9 powers to pick from. If you still want to take all 7 of the DB attacks, you could then take FA and PhysPer with Body Mastery. If you don't, you could go with either Body Mastery (FA, PP, and Energy Torrent for some AoE and mitigation) or Blaze Mastery (RoF/Char, Melt Armor, and Fire Ball for AoE) depending on your preference and still have 2 power selections left over (maybe for Typhoon's Edge for some additional AoE, Revive if you feel like you're going to be dying a lot, whichever of SS/SJ you didn't take before to make zone PvP easier, etc.).
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Revive. You shouldn't need it often at all, and why would you pick a power that does the same thing as a wakie?
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First off, don't take Revive. It's pretty much worthless because it's just an awaken on a 5 minute cooldown. It's not even a viable combat rez because there's no period of invincibility.
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I replaced Revive, just as you both recommended, with CBJ. As of now, I don't have Body Mastery, however... I might respec once again furtherdown the line if my current build isn't working well enough, but for now it's doing pretty good.
Thanks for all the help, everyone!
I am new to the scrapper ordeal. I have a level 50 Dual Blades/Regen scrapper, and am wondering about my pool choice...
If I were to respec, should I replace the Fighting set (I now have Kick, Tough, and Weave) with Aid Other and Aid Self?
I currently have the Weapon Mastery power, Caltrops. I would get Aid Self and Aid other along with Kick and Tough at the cost of Caltrops and Weave. Is this a GOOD trade off, or should I keep my build as it is now?
I primarily am focused at farming, but PvP every now and then.
Thanks.