Bs/ ?, ma/ ?

Hey, I have been thinking about making a new scrapper and have pretty much narrowed it down to two primaries, Broad Sword and Martial Arts (although I am open to other suggestions (: ). Does one generally do better than the other ? And what secondaries generally go with these sets ? Any input is appreciated !

BS with anything non-def based although /sr and /sd work. You can sub out Parry after you soft cap on those two. MA works with a number of things, but /dark gives stacking stuns. Any of the secondaries with a damage aura helps fill in for MA's general lack of AoE.

Hmm MA/DA seems intresting because I'm pretty much burnt out on /SD :P How about MA/SR ? I've heard good things about that but never seem to see any around lol

MA/sr is more stylistic synergy versus actual synergy between the sets. It's as classic of a pairing as this game has though.

EDIT: For BS, BS/dark with be a tough scrapper due to a number of mitigation tools even if on the end heavy side. Getting IOs and being incarnate only adds to the build. BS/elec would be good as well. High resist, end management, and +recharge to help with BS's slower recharges.

I love my MA/SR, one-because she's a ton of fun to play, and two, because her costume is to me one of the sexiest costumes I've seen on any toon.

But, one of the reasons you may not see too many around in PuGs ect, just guessing here, is because she's so appealing solo. I have much better scrappers, other toons for PuGs, but my MA/SR is alot more appealing to me solo. She does just a ton of damage alone, generally one shotting alot of mobs or close to it, and she moves rapidly. In a PuG she kind of, at least to me, she losses some of her sexiness. Might be just a mis-conception on my part, or prejudice.

Only comment on the BS/ is it just isnt for me. I have one, I like his theme, but I'm saving his theme until I find another scrapper I wish to level up/try. Just didnt move the way I wanted. I like them like against Warriors or say on a team, I think they look great, but I pull him out, play him for like 30mins-an hour, and I'm like.. "bah, lets get something else going here". I guess if I'm driving him I dont like him, he's like driving a diesel, but when he's against me or w/me, I like him because I'm like, "ya, he rawks, glad I'm not looking thru his windshield".

ma/fire is combo I've been considering, even though /fire is a tad on the less durable end of scrapper secondaries. Lends itself to some nice things thematically. Add /blaze to shore up AoE and more firey thematic goodness, perhaps?

Boy I dont know about that combo, but it could be fun I suppose. I eat blues not only like they're going outta style but like they're providing minty breath freshness as well. I'm not expert on any of the groupings so dont take this as gospel, but I would think FA is even more END hungry then SR is.

I've been trying to come up with a build for MA/Elec, the combo seems nice

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MA/FA is a great comb; currently working on my second. The end issues aren't too bad, although early (pre SO's on you may want to take your blue bar out behind the shed and put it out of it's misery. The best part is that most of that endurance is going to Blazing Aura which pumps out an obscene amount of damage over time. Consume helps, as does Burn which is crazy cheap for the damage it puts out.

It'll never be overly sturdy compared with...anything else, but it is a lot of fun.