Hyperstrike

In the end, the "correct" answer is: Is it a Tank? Have you put a modicum of care into tweaking your build? If the answer to both of these is "YES", you're fine.

Damage penalty? Recharge penalty? Movement penalty? We thinking the same Stone Armor?

Here's some ideas to explore.

It's an active power while you're respec'ing.

You've basically done what you can to secure your account.

How did I never see this. Sorry D. Here's a LATE LATE contribution.

Sim sim, sallah bim! YOUR WISH IS GRANTED!

I'm being facetious. Take what you want to take. Play what you think is "fun". If someone has a problem with it? #BooFreakinHoo

Here's a few suggestions to get you thinking.

Sure there is. It's called "Invulnerability. It isn't QUITE Stone, but it has NONE of Stone's crippling drawbacks.

Rad is a "Resist Uber Alles" build. Trying to half-ass it by trying to acquire super-high Defense basically leaves you an egg shell. Because the second they crack your Defense, having sacrificed your Resists, you die.

The basic point is, in CoH, there are certain angles where it IS possible to have "too much of a Good Thing". With Regen, a Brute is already sitting at that point. And the "solution" to that is to be able to choke up enough burst damage that they essentially DIE before getting the regen together to heal any damage. SR has a similar problem with anything that can reliably crack Insane-O defense numbers. But updates have happened since the inception of SR that give it other survivability tools.

He's come to a fairly decent build without going absolute "Blood From A Stone." He can also compromise with his Alpha. He can go Resilient, then turn off Tough, leaving him with 83% S/L, better Resists than Cardiac, and nearly identical Endurance consumption (Card: 0.97, Res: 1.02)

Uh. Well... Uh... You kinda forgot to put most of Dark Melee in your Dark Melee dude! Also ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS turn off the Yellow toggle in ANYTHING with a Force Feedback proc in it. It'll mislead you as to +Rech performance. I know that people love to have Quadrillion-Percent Recharge. *CLICK!* "How long's the Recharge on that power?" "About 360 seconds..." "How long is it for YOU?" *CLICK!* But in this case, slow and steady wins the race. On the DPS calculator, you're pulling about 287. This setup pulls about 314.

Willpower's a better, more effortless Regen than Regen. WP gives less TOTAL Regen, but tosses decent Resist and Defense in. So there's less "I'm a GOD! I'm a GOD! I'm a *ROAD PIZZA!*" The reason why Regen is unavailable for Tanks is because Tank HP numbers are so through the roof that even a baseline Regen Tank would START at the immortality line. A middling Brute can pull down 61.59 HP/Sec out of IH or MOG. Note: Including all +HP Accolades, with Common IOs used in everything but IH. IH alone is 172.99% With a bit of tweaking, you can push to about 182 without searching for +Regen/+HP set bonuses. And you can tweak to get it up to 130s Recharge. Now imagine that with 20% more HP. Then toss in "Chance for +Absorb" Plus Numina and Regen Tissue uniques. Utterly redonkulous. So, you simply cut back Regen levels IN REGEN? And leave Tanks with an "inferior" setup? Or do you diversify, making up that lost Regen with things like +Resist, +Def or +Absorb? And what do you wind up with? ...Willpower.

Wow, coulda sworn I'd posted in this thread. Dual Pistols/Inv Nigh-unkillable and effortless two-gun fun.

Additionally, it's one of those things that helps facilitate team play. Again, you hold an enemy, it isn't escaping your cloud of aggro and bonking your teammates on the head. Possibly giving them time for you to YOIINK! them out of danger with your TP power.

You can always take another blast from the Pyre Mastery. Char still does a bit of damage. And a held enemy isn't doing damage to you or allies. Max HP is nice. But not really necessary.

AH CRAP!

Think you'll find this build a bit more survivable overall. Sure, less E/N/Tox/Psi Resist. But superior Defense numbers and damage output. With that comes reduced reliance on Dull Pain. Also, changed your Teleport choice. Make you more useful on a team. Changed the order of power selection to make you exemp more gracefully. As always, if S/L is above 90% without Tough, TURN OFF TOUGH.

Here's another option.

No problem. I missed it myself at first too. Though, granted, under Vengeance, you're a bad mofo...

No problem man. Sometimes all it takes is a deep dive. Also, figured it out. You had VENGEANCE on.

A blank of your build comes in about 36% Def (typed and positional) And this is all BEFORE simple enhancement. Using JUST 3x common Defense IOs, it jumps to 42%. Then set bonuses. Set bonuses: +13% S/L +7.25 F/C +17% (nearly +18) E/N +6% Psi +17% Melee +26% Ranged +8.5 AoE Stacks fast, don't it?

Happy face-mashery!