Griffin

Bingo. This is the way.

In the other thread asking about water vs storm people are going crazy with the water jet slander. Saying to skip it, it isn't good, it's disappointing, etc. it's the best single target damage in the set and has an insta recast feature. If you don't take it your single target damage is severely gimped. To each their own, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

My mids wont let me increase the level of my IOs using the shift + or whatever the shortcut is. I have to set them all to +5 with the drop down menu haha. I don't have them all like that in game, just hasten and the end reduction in against all odds. This is a fair point. I got those last two purple sets and have been playing the toon and he definitely performs better with those sets. I really underestimated those set bonuses and procs. that said, any feedback on incarnates would be welcome. I currently have a t3 cardiac but not sure if that is the best route.

This is good feedback. I updated the build to match what you said, and added two pieces of blessing of the zypher to super speed at level 50 to give more ranged defense. I was teamed with a marine defender the other day and they said their shifting tides was doing almost 100 damage a tick 6 slotted for damage. I am not sure if anyone has played with this, but that seems like it may be worth re-arranging slots to get that damage cranked up on a toggle power.

I made my first tanker ever and i went with shield/fire. I have him nearly IO'd out - i am still missing the Armageddon set in combustion. I searched the forums pretty heavily and could not find a build for this combo (i am sure one exists but i couldnt find it). I have been running +4/x8 content and still struggle. I feel like i lack damage. I can fight for a while but then i start taking hits eventually and just get worn down over time. From what i have read, i should be able to handle this content pretty easily. Looking for feedback on this build and what could be changed to make it better. For incarnates, i figured Cardiac for the alpha, but not sure past that. Tanker (Shield Defense - Fiery Melee)- forum updates.mbd

Hi everyone, I just completed my first tanker and have him mostly IO'd out (i am missing two purple sets). He is a shiled/fire tank and i am looking for some feedback. I understand that i should be able to pretty easily do +4/x8 content, but i seem to struggle a bit. Here is the build. I do not have any incarnate slots built yet. The two sets i am missing are the set in combustion and shield charge. I feel like i probably need more procs in but then i am giving up good set bonuses. Any feedback would be appreciated. Tanker (Shield Defense - Fiery Melee)- forum updates.mbd

@HellsFury here is the build. Hope it performs for you! Corruptor (Water Blast - Marine Affinity).mbd

Primaries, I would say ice, fire, and water are all very good damage sets. Secondaries of course there is kin for very high damage buffs. More debuff focused sets I would say cold, rad and dark (I am a bit biased, I have 3 lvl 50 /cold corrs). Honestly, pretty much anything is serviceable. Play around with some sets and find something fun.

Good point. You can't tell which set pieces I actually use from the picture. I left this morning going out of town and won't be home till Monday, but I will definitely post it for you.

Could you post the downloadable file? I can't get this to open in mids.

i threw this together this morning. I haven't played this set yet, so keep that in mind. Some powers i am not sure if they are worth it. For example, Brine seems pretty lackluster to me. I would probably replace it with a travel power. I am sure a lot of people will take the Levithan for theme reasons. I tried one with Dark but didnt have enough room to get dark consumption and spirit drain and make everything else work together. With all the force feedback procs you should see that going off a lot (i have a water/cold that makes use of a lot of the +recharge procs and they go off very frequently). Shoal Rush, though kind of lack luster on the surface, reminds me of infrigidate in the sense it is an absolute proc monster and will hit hard, especially since the base recharge is 15 seconds. I wish i had an extra slot to get an accuracy in there but it should still connect most of the time. Anyway, just another idea on how you could build.

I will try to throw one together tomorrow. I just got the mids update today and was looking at the set. I have been leveling my first tanker (all 50s I have are corruptors) and have played with a lot of /marine affinity toons since the update. They seem very strong while leveling. Great team buffs. Idk how they will perform at 50 since they seem to lack heavy debuffs but definitely seem fun. Made leveling a breeze.

Did some retooling this morning. I still don't think it is as good as what i posted in my most recent post. Tried getting the most out of spirit drain and moving some stuff around, but it just isn't nearly as good across the board. I think i am going to build toward this and then can tweak once i am 50 and see how it feels. I have most of this already except for the two purple sets. I can use some lesser sets in the mean time to get a feel for it. I did move some slotting around to maximize resistance. I think it should be pretty sturdy.

Great suggestions. I tried to work in sorcery to get rune of protection but needed to take too many powers to get to rune to make it work. I will try redoing some of the slots to get more slots into spirit drain and post an updated build.

what would you replace the fighting pool with? Only thing i could really get that seemed worth while was the self rez from the epic pool and taking acrobatics.