Why does my Claws/Willpower feel like a second class scrapper?

Needs more E/N defense.

With only 8.9% resistance to it, you're going to want to get hit less with it.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

Not that much pure E/N out there in the game. Most attacks have at least some S/L component and you get the highest of your applicable defenses. If it is pure E/N, then 32% defense will help significantly and you can pop a single small purple to end up just a hair below the softcap (a hair above if it happens to be pure E/N melee)

Mu do pure energy. If you skimp on Energy defense when you don't necessarily have to you'll find yourself getting drained with alarming frequency.

It's not so much the damage that is the issue, a WP heals fast enough you'd have to have 6 or 7 hitting you at once to really be a threat. It's the secondary effects that concern me. WP doesn't have any end drain resistance, a couple Mu hitting you will hit your blue bar pretty hard if you're not in a position to take them out right away.

Clockwork and Freakshow use pure energy attacks too. As well as anything using Radiation Blast, that will not only suck, but it'll strip away the REST of your defenses too.

I don't really bother with recharge on a Claws/WP. Only one power in the secondary is even affected by it, and if you need it back any faster your build has bigger problems. And Claws doesn't need a whole lot of recharge unless you're dead set on running the top DPS chain.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.