Need some Dark/Regen advice

How about Maneuvers, FA, Phys Perf?

Firstly, you can't get Pet Gaze and FA at the same time. I'm going to assume you meant Tactics (which you could get and it will do roughly the same thing). Petrifying Gaze is largely useless because it's a mag 3 hold that deals no damage with a 9.5 second duration and a 32 second base recharge. If you want to use it on anything more than a lt. (honestly, why would you bother using any kind of mez effect on an enemy you could kill in 2-3 hits?), you're going to have to devote a lot of slots to it and it will kill your DPS. The only "use" is for PvP and, even then, it would be better to just go with Web Grenade.

If you really wanted to get some kind of mez tool, I'd say go with Touch of Fear, but, even then, I would be reluctant to do so. Touch of Fear is another one of those powers that will reduce your outgoing damage by a fair margin, though, unlike Pet Gaze, you can actually get some use out of it on hard targets and with single applications. Still, it's not really high up on my list of powers to take on DM: you rolled a Scrapper to deal damage, not try to be an ST Controller.

Laser Beam Eyes is yet another power that I, honestly, wouldn't take. Ever. It's an attack that will actually lower your DPS, even in the best of situations. The only time it's really useful is when you're trying to take down a runner and you've already got MG's immob for preventing that (or, if you don't mind it, just running after the guy and punching him like most do).

Honestly, the APP attacks and mez effects do so little thanks to APP penalties and crappy Scrapper mods that I wouldn't ever bother with them. Even the in set control powers are avoidable because damage is, in a vast majority of situations, more important than keeping a single target mezzed (especially since that mezzed target could just as easily be simply dead). I would go with the passive self buff rather than trying to cram more functionality into a build/AT that's already pressed for animation time as it is. You're better off playing to your strengths than attempting to diversify heavily.

Something I've said pretty much since the beginning. Scrappers (and all of the melee ATs, in fact) get hosed by APP design. Rather than contributing to their effectiveness, they're largely a joke because they're attempts at using up animation time that melee ATs are already saturating with use in a less efficient manner than simply attacking (because, unlike support ATs, apparently melee ATs aren't allowed to have decent mods for anything but the stuff in their prim/sec).

Umbral, thank you. I can't believe I said FA and PET Gaze....actually I can...I just got home from the Eye Doctor. I have an eye infection, and my thinking is a tad loopy.

Physical Perfection, I never considered that for a Regen. But yes, yes, now that I ponder it a bit, I can see how it would help with FA.

However, I did not take a travel power as I find Ninja Run is fast enough. Perfect Perfection or Siper Jump...hmm...

Well I can try PP, and if I hate it I can respec out of it

And I sort of figured Laser Beam eyes is a dog of a power,but, I do get a lot of enjoyment out of it. It makes a good puller, and when a critter is almost dead and runs, Laser Beam eyes will take him down--even when he is up in a tree, or flying....and the power looks cool


Thanks so very much

Lisa-Will never take good vision for granted again.