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Corruptors damage dealing is packaged with the need to do other things (buff/debuff/heal). As they neither come with status protection nor enough sturdiness/damage output to make the lack of status protection meaningless. So granting the above may be true in the realm of infinite planes and spherical cows I am not sure it holds in practical terms.

Was in a group with a Bio/Staff Tanker this past weekend and she seemed to be having a lot of fast, furious, fun.

In the first scenario you have five guys and in the second you have ten. Moreover in the second scenario, even without additional defenses, mobs have an inherent chance to miss so it is unlikely all 10 hit to begin with. Doesn't seem apples to apples...more apples to squids.

My dream of an Energy Aura Tanker goes unfulfilled. And let's not even think about a Ninjitsu Tanker--"Surprise! What are you going to do? Hit me?"

Pretty sure that last word should be immorality. 😁

Boggle being available 4.5 times as often as Concentration might argue for it over Concentration if one were considering single target only (which is what I am guessing is the the focus given Psi Blade Sweep was also not taken) given its 50% damage increase for Greater Psi Sword, but you'd still want to take it well before your last power slot, and its not like one could not have both (and Blinding Powder as you suggested). Taking Concentration would make it a natural choice for six-slotting Gaussian in, which on top of the set proc firing more reliable in than Tactics would also grant 2.5% Defense to all positional defenses. Not sure I'd use Kuji-In Retsu as anything other than a mule, in which case I would not dedicate slots to it. Notably, Gift of the Ancients: Run Speed has been taken 6 times, in violation of the Rule of Five, so one of them is not doing any good anyway and the benefits of three-slotting Luck of the Gambler is minor and likely recovered by spending the slots elsewhere. As you Recovery is dangerously low, even with Seishinteki Kyoyo and presuming Tactics is only activated when facing hard to hit targets. At a minimum I'd swap out the Panacea in Health in favor of Miracle: +Recovery.

Since English apparently is not your first language (or second, or third...or fifty-seventh), let me explain to you the basics of reading for comprhension--something people who learn English as a first language are typically taught in grade school.... Your post: My response: You draw a conclusion at the end of your post. My post rebuts that conclusion. It does not at any point refer to your experience. Indeed, the entire portion of my post spent doing calculations about how influence is gained and how long it would take to reach the cap clearly indicates that I was referring to your conclusion--a conclusion which is speculative on your part and not part of your experience (beyond perhaps not playing the game sufficiently). And with that, Basic Reading Comprension 101 is over. Welcome to ignore.

Not what I said. But if your habit is to twist people's words with snarky one-liners, please feel free to put me on ignore and neve respond to anything I post ever again.

Not sure this is true. I have only two characters who have ever pushed past 50 million (one of which I do not play any longer). One is at 190 million now, but that is after having shipped 70 million off to another character. I mostly play the character when I need a break from levelling up new characters or want to payback a group which has carried one of my lower level characters by bringing in someone who can carry his weight. A such, I do not play the character a lot and even so running a single ITF clear most was worth 20 million or so influence or so. Now imagine he were my "main" that I played daily and did a lot of TFs and missions on. 40 million per day would not require a ton of time to hit the cap. Of course that depends on what one defines a farming but doing TFs and playing on mission teams is not what is usually meant.

Was fooling around with a new costume for a character and came across a costume option I had never really felt a need to use, the Resistance Armor under Chest Detail. Decided the armor was not right for the character, so made a new controller and recycled the name of my go at a Fire/Dark blaster who did not turn out as I had hoped. So this is the all new Ebonblaze:

Was in a group with a pretty impressive Bio/Staff tanker earlier today. Quite impressive really.

Pretty sure in the Tanker forum the question relates to Tankers.

I am not sure its a good idea, but its perhaps something to inspire (further or avoidance I don't know): I did try to stay within the theme of Earth.

Occasionally I like to grab a screenshot of a posed character and so had on my most recent go at a stalker. I only wanted to grab him looking down from a building but as luck would have it day was fading and the night sky behind him was awesome. Then as I was review the various shots I took of him I noticed I had one of another character, oppositely dressed, taken during the day. I would not put them on par with Batman and Superman, or Midnighter and Apollo but with no planning aforehand I have ended up with Super Chilled and Unconquerable: Maybe I should consider them a crime fighting team?

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What I really wanted was a jet black costume with the white circle and spray of light at one point suggesting a solar eclipse. Instead, I went back to previous costume designs and pilfered. Still, I don't think it looks half shabby. My new stalker, Super Chilled: But I am really going to have to swear off using black and blue in future designs. Becoming too repetitive.

Beta came before retail release. I had a Dark Defender then.

Because you don't remember something or did not experience it does not make what more than one person has indicated to be their experiences not so. There's a thought for you.

Not what I did. Perhaps you should go back and reread. Better yet, perhaps you should read it, because you can't reread unless you have actually read in the first place. You start off explaining the word "enabled" as if the word has some meaning other than its actual meaning. So its clear you're the one here with comprehension issues. Edit: And adding that you did not fully read the post does not make me look bad in the least.

I remember being invited on one of my Kinetics defender to a team and then the subsequent joy when an Empathy defender joined the group later to get, "...a real healer." When there are enough people treating them as preferred Empathy types enjoyed an advantage in terms of getting groups because those groups wanted Empathy and almost nobody was going to demand to have any other type of Defender. Not really the end of the world for me because a certain amount of my time was spent solo and not everyone felt that not having a healbot shoved up their butt was the only way to get by. But my second character in Live and my first to max level was a Radiation defender, and those enjoyed grief for their radial healing. Never could figure out why so many blasters and controllers could not understand that allowed them to be on one side of me with me between them and the melee, and the melee on the far side.

Yes, I know what the word "enabled" means. There is a reason I chose it. Its almost like I did not include in my post:

The game enabled Trinity style play from the get go, and people coming from elsewhere certainly were willing to lean into it. Tankers, other than Fire, were not known for their damage, a large enough group would want healing, and the way you end fights is damage. And in recollection, there was plenty of love for Empathy Defenders (along with people declaring themselves loudly to be such) and not so much love for Force Field Defenders. Heck, if Kinetics didn't have Fulcrum Shift and Speed Boost I suspect they would also have been a lot less popular with their healing emanating from foes and requiring them to hit for the heal to be triggered. But people have also been finding ways to get by outside of the Trinity since the start too.

I'd rather have Energy Aura tankers. 😛

Would love to have the option on Chest Detail for Ascension without the grillwork. As example with original left, suggestion* right: * To the limit of my artistic abilities

Storm and Dark suggested the costume colors to me, including hair: WeatherWitch.costume