What makes Regeneration competitive with the other Scrapper defenses?
Regeneration is a late-blooming powerset. Until you reach level 20, it has no damage reduction, and its only defense in combat is Reconstruction. While other powersets have damage reduction that reduces damage by a percentage, Regeneration recovers a set amount of Hit Points with its “defenses” (Reconstruction and Instant Healing). This makes it scale poorly versus higher-level attackers. Furthermore, attacks that inflict large amounts of damage in a short time can kill a Regeneration scrapper before he has time to activate Reconstruction or let Instant Healing take care of the damage. Despite these drawbacks, Regeneration has many advantages. While other powersets have weaknesses versus certain attack types, Regeneration treats most attacks equally because the powerset repairs damage instead of avoiding it. At level 28, Regeneration gets access to the second-best Scrapper defense in the game – Instant Healing (Invincibility from the Invulnerability powerset is the only better defense
