Hyperstrike

YOU DARE CHALLENGE MEGAMIND?

Gives you a basic framework that you can add what you want into.

Honestly, I'd prefer to crank Defense and Resist, rather than simply relying on HP. This starts out, at its baseline, harder to hurt than your build. And basically scales up to "Where'd this super-speed Granite Tank come from?" when playing "Let's Get Dangerous!"

Or something is laying down Confuse.

And, with some of the upcoming changes, endurance issues are going to become a memory in most builds.

You mean... LIKE THIS!?!?!?!?!?

Of course! She's standing. OUT there in the pitch! 😁

So Gob. Maybe something like this?

My DP/Inv Sentinel is a BEAST. Loads of fun. Is it the MOST invulnerable? Is it the MOST DPS'y? I answer this questions thus. If I'm having fun, WHY DO I CARE?

Well, I had to go back to NVSurround because trying to full-"screen" windows was insanity. And the taskbar in Win11 is ALMOST as stable as a pissed off Chuck Manson on an acid trip to Hell. And I spent the money for Start11. Hopefully it'll leave me with a working implementation.

Or maybe eat a single purple to augment this:

Agreed. If you're rocking something like the build I demonstrated, playing on a team with a couple instances of Maneuvers or another bubbler is going to make you absolutely godlike. It'll be like Numenor and the Undying Lands in Middle Earth. You may not QUITE be a Tanker. But you'll be able to sail in fairly close and see it.

We're all going to gather here in this nice, safe DEATH PATCH!

#EverythingIsBetterWithNinjas

As a Resist-centric tank, it can be as durable as any other combination. As for damage output for farming? I'm not one of the people who pays that much attention to the subject.

Gonna slightly differ on the necessity of Tough. Sure, you can soft-cap Defense. What happens to you when something hits you ANYWAY or can reliably bypass your defense? *SPLAT!* Also If you're not using it KICK >>> Boxing!

I've said it before. I'll say it now. And will say it again in the future. Unstop is the prototype for [Self Destruct]. It's a delayed suicide button and an utter waste of a power pick for a tank built this tough. Anything that's slaughtering you through incarnate-capped Defense and 75+% E/N and and 83+% F/C RESIST is still going to slaughter you at 90% Resists. You may just get another few seconds out of it. As to specific slotting for those "leftover" powers, knock yourself out. From an overall perspective, the changes you're suggesting are have essentially no impact on damage mitigation.

The only thing I had to be grateful for was that I hadn't dropped REAL cash on a Threadripper or EPYC setup... And you may be thinking "Window Blinds"? Maybe?

Note: Reloaded with my RTX 3070Ti FE. (I have the BEST friends! One of them even works at NVIDIA. And deliberately made the mistake of going Win11. I'm starting to see LOTS of clients with new rigs with Win11 preloads on them. And I was starting to have trouble finding stuff. The interface is a mess. You have to REGEDIT to move the taskbar! And it breaks the Quickview when you do! Also, no Task Manager in a menu off the taskbar anymore! WHO THOUGHT THAT WAS SMART? So I pinned Task Manager to the Taskbar instead. I swear, if we research these programmer's family history, it'll be a straight line...and their parents will have been brothers... And NVSurround. It's kinda a mess on Win10. It's a frackin' JOKE on WIn11. But I have to deal with whibbly Windows taskbar. Because the full-screen functions, instead of the "No NVSurround" "snap to screen" full-screen is invaluable to me.

Had my main rig barf its BIOS back right before the new year. RMA'ed the board. Got it back last week. Put it all back together. Would power on. Wouldn't boot. Now, had this been a year or two ago, I'd have stopped everything to troubleshoot it for a while. Unfortunately I no longer have the time for this. And while running my work rig on my laptop MOSTLY works, it's driving me nuts. So I schedule the local Micro Center to take a look at it. $40 and I'll at least figure out what's wrong. So I bring it in, and I have the techs staring at it in horror... 😁 So the tech opens it up. After 20 minutes. The verdict. BENT PIN... Originally, the chip cost me $800... Well, it cost me $1000 because the only way I could get it was in a bundle with a monitor I didn't need. Tech comes back. The 5950X is now $550 plus 80 in labor. We have them in stock. *SIGH* Okay, do it. I need the machine back. So he says "gimme 20 minutes". I go and window shop. Inspect the latrines (damn egg salad sandwich for dinner). Come back and the tech asks me "Can I convince you to buy a $130 warranty? We'll cover your computer for 2 years (and this is my self-built system). And you just pay any labor costs. Seeing as I somehow managed to *BLEEEEEEEP!* my CPU, I say "Sure. Why not!" So he goes to ring me up for $250. ... "Uh..." "We're going to cover your CPU under warranty." Cue me needing to re-inspect the latrines...(damn shock). On top of that, the original batches of Zen3 were...a bit squirrelly. The more recent vintages are a lot more stable. Because of this tech, (name and location remain unsaid because I want to make sure this doesn't get him in trouble), I'm going to be spending more money at Micro Center!

And here's a semi-finalized version. Only the Alpha is taken. No other Incarnate.

Both of you with saturated Invince?

Dumb question. Is this with zero'ed out Invince:? Or saturated?

For your perusal. Mid's DPS calculator says optimal attack chain. Blinding Feint --> Sweeping Strike --> Ablating Strike --> Vengeful Slice 297 DPS 1.67 EPS

Here's an alternate, somewhat more exempable build (IMNSHO)