good secondary for Kat/

I've played scrappers for a while but never got use to playing a Katana scrapper.
What is a good secondary that pairs great with Katana?

Everything goes well with Katana. Find a concept that fits and go for it.

Willpower is awesome. It's very "toggle and go", which diminishes redraw. Also, Divine Avalanche couldn't be more amazing with WP. You'll find yourself outliving some tanks and pumping out decent damage. You'll also have more than sufficient endurance thanks to QR. I've played a Broadsword/Willpower Scrapper extensively, and it's nothing short of awesome. I wouldn't imagine Kat/WP would be that different.

Here's a schocker... Go with Regen

I pulled the trigger after we finished with that thread.
It was the best idea evar.

My only concern now is how good that scrapper specific IO set will be, and where it will go when we get access to it.

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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but Willpower sucks!!! you're better off rolling a regen

I'm looking forward to Energy Aura, personally.

Well my Katana/Regen is still under the dps build and my Claws /regen is probably a bit more survivable.

The clicky part of Regen is probably what drives me to play them

Can u post ur build iggy or is it too much to ask?

It's an old build. Before Alpha came in the picture...

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So you're probably better off with Elegost's build

I'd forgotten another scenario I did try: That survivability test thing Mauk had made in AE a little while back.
I did try that a few times. I wanted to see if I could do it without dying without lore pets.

It was *possible,* I got through the first few mobs (literally ~3ish mobs), before dying (multiple times). I reset it every time I died, but to survive something like that you had to be absolutely perfect in both your clicky cycling, and your target choosing. I've honestly never done anything harder than that test. That's a place other sets can shine with more ease.

In normal/incarnate content, however, it's awesome.
I'll try it against some regular +4/x8 missions today and see how it feels. I haven't honestly been playing much myself

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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but Willpower sucks!!! you're better off rolling a regen

Elegost, How's the endurance profile on that build ? Which Alpha did you use ?

With my variant, with all the toggles running and going full bore offense I was looking at about 110 seconds burn time. Plenty for regular fighting, but not enough for long term or taking out an AV or Pylon without blues. Combining my endurance concerns with durability concerns in extreme difficulty situations and I just haven't pulled the trigger myself yet.

And yes, Mauk's Arc is brutal if you let them buff themselves. When I did it +4x8 with my crab I had to keep 70 defense minimum for every alpha and the first minute of each engagement, if not for the entirety of the engagement. In a few situations I needed even greater defense and resistance and only managed to punch through with inspirations, demonic, and rebirth stacked.

spiritual paragon core, naturally.
I should also mention that I didn't use any inspirations on that mauk mission <.< Which is probably why I died
Also I didn't read his wall of text explaining the differences in all the enemies, I grabbed a few that were noticeable more problematic than the others, but that was just from running it a few times, rather than reading, so I very likely could have erred.

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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but Willpower sucks!!! you're better off rolling a regen

My Katana/Regen is pretty durable. I respec'd him recently to join in some PvP fun and in virtually all PvE content I don't have to use more than my reconstruction to heal. If you mix Divine Avalanche and Dull Pain you're pretty much unstoppable.

I tried other scrapper builds before this guy and other buids after, but none seem as fun. It's a good choice to play because you actually have to play it, as Elegost said earlier. Almost as fun as riding the old defiance wave sometimes :P

This is making me want to give Kat/Regen a try, but I'm not sure if I want to do it now or wait for i21 and roll it as a Brute. Gamblers' Cut should be awesome for fury as well as procs, and a brutes higher hit points should really boost the health healed via regen.

Regen on Brutes could have close to 3000 HP.... 3000!!!!!!

Ive been playing kat/Inv for 6 years now and think its a good set.

I love my kat/dark.. actually after reading one of Werners post on his i built one too. Built it with 40% ranged/aoe def and let Divine Aval. do its thing with melee. Took barrier for the last 5% and cardiac for endurance.

Darks got some good debuff resistance and fear protection(im looking at you Riders) as well as great psi resist and decent s/l/neg/f/c resist too.

I have 10 toggles on mine with foc accuracy and such but cardiac handles that and i have Conserve Power.

I rarely ever die and can tank things better than some brutes, so kat/da can be great.