Ronin_Around

Just a reminder that we are on Indomitable today, at regular start time of 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. and we will be starting the Stone Armor/Melee Weapon challenge tonight. Bring your new (preferably under level 5) Stone Armor Tank with one of the following Secondaries (Battle Axe, Broad Sword, Dual Blades, Katana, Staff Fighting, Titan Weapons or War Mace) to Kings Row to join in. Will likely start the challenge team(s) off with a DFB and then find other mayhem. We will also set up some other teams for those that aren't interested in doing the challenge, Miss Liberty and the Abandoned Sewer Trial are the weeklies.

Electric Armor/Staff is a great combo and a lot of fun. Ran one as my primary for Tanker Tuesdays on Torch for a few years. Your build seems solid and should play fairly well as you have it set out. A couple of suggestions: Swap in Mercurial Blow for Precise Strike, the Defense Debuff from MB is more useful than the stun from PS and can be slotted with the Achilles' Heel Resist Debuff Proc for added benefit. Guarded Spin can take Defense IOs and is a good place to slot a LotG Global Recharge Serpent's Reach - you have it 5 slotted with Apocalypse, which works nicely. Add a slot with the Decimation: Build Up Proc Power Sink - 4 slots with Power Transfer seems a waste. It doesn't do damage and the extra point to max end and 35 hp won't really be noticeable in the end. Keep the Self Heal and EndMod slotted if you want the Regen bonus put those extra two slots on Mercurial Blow, Guarded Spin or Serpent's Reach as noted above Staff Mastery is available at 20. Take it there or as soon after as you can. For your Judgement power, I haven't found Vorpal to work well with tankers. Would suggest Ion, Mighty or Void instead. Also your Regen seems good and you have a self heal in Energize, so you may want to swap in Ageless Radial for the Debuff Resist instead of Rebirth, unless you find you need the Max HP boost from that. In any event, have fun with this combo. It can be a blast!

An update: On Saturday February 1st, we will be starting Tanker "Tuesday" on the Victory server. This will start at 11:00 am Pacific Time / 2:00 pm Eastern Time. Meeting place will be in Kings Row on the wall beside the Independence Port gate. It will be run on the 1st Saturday of each month going forward, much like our Reunion runs on the 3rd Saturday of each month. This is because we don't have 6 Tuesdays in a month and feel that each server should get a Tanker Tuesday each month. Please join us for this event if you can.

A busy night on Everlasting with 4 teams running. Many thanks to @Warboss and @MsAligned for running a couple of mission teams and trying to get tanks to Yin TF range. And thanks to @X'terra for running a Yin TF that had a few hiccups to it. Also a 6 tank team saved teh shadow shard and took out Lanaru the Mad on the Faathim TF in 1:34. Much smashing happened all around. Next Tanker Tuesday on Indom will see the start of the Stone Armor/Melee Weapon challenge that Warboss mentioned earlier. Start a new tank on Indom, Stone Armor is a must and pick a hand held Melee Weapon as the secondary. Secondaries to choose from would be: Battle Axe Broad Sword Dual Blades Katana Staff Titan Weapons War Mace No Claws or Spines Meet up on the wall by the IP gate in Kings Row. 6:00 pm PT 9:00 pm ET On Saturday February 1st, we will be starting Tanker "Tuesday" on the Victory server. This will start at 11:00 am Pacific Time / 2:00 pm Eastern Time. Meeting place will be in Kings Row as always. It is being run on the 1st Saturday of each month going forward, much like our Reunion runs on the 3rd Saturday of each month. This is because we don;t have 6 Tuesdays in a month and feel that each server should get one each month. Please join us for that event if you can. See you in Paragon

I could get behind doing a themed Secondary challenge. Either Rad Melee or Electric Melee would be good. Or both, just run on different servers. I will suggest we do not run a theme challenge on Victory just yet. Let's get the schedule set for that first (respond in the TT thread in the Victory forum if there are alternate suggestion to what is laid out there), and have people bring whatever tank they want to get that one off the ground. Can work on a theme for a Victory run in a month or two if enough people want.

There was a decent turnout on Torch tonight for Tanker Tuesday with 3 full teams running. And there were a bunch of new faces on the wall tonight that got welcomed into the Tanker Tuesday experience. Many Thanks to @X'Terra for leading the mission team. @Warboss lead an All-Shield ITF at +2 and finished in 43 minutes. And some foolish souls joined me for a +4x8 ITF that we got done in 59:41. There were a couple of new 50's made today as well. Congrats to them This Saturday, Jan 18th, we are on Reunion. 9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm ET / 6:30 pm CET Next week, Jan 21st, sees the TTT on Everlasting. Yin and Faathim are the WST. Usual time, meet in Kings Row.

At our most recent Tanker Tuesday on Excelsior, the question was raised as to if the new Victory server would be added into the Tanker Tuesday Tour rotation. Of course we would like to include Victory in our weekly tanky smashing goodness, but there are a few things we need to iron out before hand. Firstly, since we do not want to step on any toes or cause any rifts from the start, is there someone from the private server already running a Tanker Tuesday event on Victory? If so, what is the schedule it is currently run on? (Weekly or monthly? time of day?) If there is already something in place, whomever is running it, please contact me @Ronin_Around and @Warboss and we will see how we can bring the existing Victory Tanker Tuesday event into the fold. Or at least get some of our veteran TTers to try to join in if they can. Secondly, if there isn't a TT event in place on Victory, since there are usually only 4 Tuesdays in a month and we already have 5 servers, each Tuesday is already allocated to a server with the Euro server, Reunion, being run on a Saturday. The current rotation is as follows with the Tuesday runs starting at 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET and runs for approximately 2 hours. 1st Tuesday - Excelsior 2nd Tuesday - Torchbearer 3rd Tuesday - Everlasting 4th Tuesday - Indomitable 3rd Saturday - Reunion/Europe - 9:30 am PT/12:30 pm ET/6:30 PM CET Adding Victory poses a bit of a problem, as we do not want to start alternating servers on different weeks. This event has been running on the above schedule for over 5 years now and changing that would not be fair to people of each server that enjoy the event but don't bounce around the servers like some of us do. Nor do we want to leave Victory out of this event. One possible solution would be run Victory on the occasional 5th Tuesday in a month, but that only happens 3 or 4 times a year, which seems a bit light. Those 5th Tuesdays are also used to do other, bigger all Tanker events like Hamidon or Mothership Raids and sometimes iTrials. The 5th Tuesday also rotates through all the servers, so whatever ends up being our solution, Victory will be added to the 5th Tuesday rotation regardless. My suggestion for adding Victory into the Tanker Tuesday Tour is to run it on the 1st Saturday of every month during the late morning/early afternoon. 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET. If this is acceptable to the denizens of Victory, our first event there would be February 1st. I welcome any thoughts or suggestions people have about us bringing Tanker Tuesday to Victory and look forward to doing some fine tanking there with you all soon.

Yes, TankHQ is up and running on Victory, but the base is still under construction. We will need to find a good day to run the Tanker Tuesday Tour on Victory, but all of our Tuesdays are full. I'm not a fan of rotating the lower pop servers on alternating Tuesday like used to be done on Live, as we have been running on a consistent schedule for over 5 years now. My suggestion is to TT on Victory much like we do for Reunion and run it on the first Saturday of each month. Likely in the afternoon as well, as apparently some people use Saturday nights for something called a "Social life", what freaks!😉 As always, open to suggestions from all TTers and discussion on how we can bring Victory into the Tanker Tuesday Tour.

A busy night on Excelsior to start 2025 off with a lot of smashing. Five teams were running with 2 mission teams, thanks for leading those @X'terra and @ColTech. We also had a double shot of the Synapse TF with thanks going to @PLVRIZR and @Warboss for each leading some rowdy tanks against the Clockwork King. And thank to those that joined me bouncing around the Cascade Archipelago as we beat up Ruludak on the Sara Moore TF. Next week, January 14th the TT tour will be on Torch with Imperious and Justin Augustine being the WST. Warboss would like to run an All-Shield ITF being run that night, so bring a Shield tank if you got one and we will probably have another for non-shield tankers or other shenanigans, depending on how many show up. Remember, you have 5 free server transfer each week, so you can move one over if you don't have one there. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Usual spot in Kings Row Saturday January 18th will be our Euro run on the Reunion server. No theme there for this year but would like to run an ITF there as well that week. 9:30 AM PT / 12:30 PM ET / 6:30 PM Central Euro Time. See you all next time

Welcome Victory! Looking forward to starting some new adventures there as well.

I have a new Stone/Mace tank on Indom as well, so should be good to go. I'll note that not everyone needs to participate in this challenge. For each TT on Indom, we will set up the challenge team and then set up the regular Tanker Tuesday teams for any others that show up but don't want to run a new Stone/*weapon tank. No need for anyone to be excluded. I also noticed that we have a New Server in the list now. The Victory server is online. We will need to figure out how to get that into the rotation, maybe another Saturday run. See you all later tonight.

Tonight we finished off the Tanker Tuesday Tour for 2024 with a Mothership Raid on Excelsior. With 29 tankers involved, we rang in the New Year by kicking the Rikti back off the planet (again). Faced with that much pure Tankage, U'Kon Gr'ai took off running. We chased him down on the top of the ship and whipped his ass there for a change. After we finished with them, we made sure to get rid of the Dropship as well, with @wittylibrarian getting the kill shot on it. While most tankers left to attend to festivities, a small group stayed to do Apex and Tin Mage II a favour by taking out Battle Maiden and then Neuron & Bobcat. Many thanks to those that stayed for that. Next Tanker Tuesday will be January 7th on Excelsior. Synapse and Sara Moore will be the WST. Meet up in Kings Row by the IP Gate. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET Stay Safe and have a Happy New Year all.

An interesting time tonight on Indom as we had one team of tankers who took on a 1 star Hard Mode ITF as we heard Romulus had kidnapped Santa Claus. We triumphed over the nictus though with a meager 136 deaths in 2 hours to complete. Many thanks to those that joined on that tonight. December 31st will be the next Tanker Tuesday. Will be running an Instanced MSR on Excel that night. Will be forming it up 1 hour earlier than normal so east coast people can get to other festivities than night. 5:00 pm PT / 8:00 pm ET. Meet in Kings Row and we will launch from there. Enjoy the holidays, tankers!

Well, it is Christmas Eve but also still a Tuesday, that means there will be some Tankering to be done tonight and Indomitable is the server in rotation for tonight. Will start to the league as usual in Kings Row tonight ( 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET) and see how many show. My plan is to run a Festive Imperious Task Force, possibly a 1 or 2 star hard mode depending on the make up of the team. If we don't see you there, have a great holiday Tankers!

A Tanking good time was had tonight with 3 teams running, hi-lited by a mission team lead by @Warboss and a FreakSpec lead by @PLVRIZR and thanks to those that joined me on the Sky Raider Respec. The night started with beating up a Paladin and a Winter Lord that Warboss had wrangled for us. Alas my lens cap was on all night, so no pics of said festivities. This Saturday, December 21st, the Tanker Tuesday Tour will be on Reunion, so bring your */Bio tanks if you are still working on them, will likely decide what the 2025 theme will be that day as well. Meet up in Kings Row as usual, 9:30am PT/12:30pm ET/6:30pm CET. December 24th Tanker Tuesday will run on Indomitable. Understandably, most people will be otherwise engaged this evening, but I will run something for anyone that feels like showing up or needs to avoid family that night. Possibly some festive Roman punching. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET in Kings Row in the usual spot.

A mostly fun night on Torch tonight. with 18 tanks we started in Lord Winter's Realm, but unfortunately were not able to take him down. After that we had a couple of mission teams, Thank you for leading those @MsAligned and @Warboss, and a 6 tanker team ran a Kahn TF with me. It took us 1:20 of which 40 minutes were the final boss fight... Remind me not to do that again. December 17th will see us back on Everlasting. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Respecs will be the WST. Saturday December 21st we will be on Reunion. 9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm PT / 5:30 pm CET

Glad you could make it out, Boss!

A very busy night on Excel tonight with 6 teams going. Many thanks to our team leads, @Oterra (Numina TF), Focused Eagle (Katie Hannon TF), I think it was @Shanawdithit that lead (Dr Aeon SF), and @Agoogala & @Ultraamann for leading the other 2 mission teams. Dec 10th Tanker Tuesday will be on Torch. Cavern of Transcedence and Dr Kahn will be the WST. Meet in Kings Row on the wall by the IP gate. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET.

Will still try and run this tonight on Indom, might be light given the holiday today. Will run a Market Crash if we get at least 4 brutes

Two teams of Tankers hit Indomitable tonight. Many thanks to @MsAligned for running the mission team. And thanks to those that joined me on a +4x8 Market Crash that ended up being a kill all. We finished that in exactly 50:00. December 3rd will see Tanker Tuesday return to Excel with Katie Hannon TF , Numina TF and Dr Aeon SF as the weekly targets. Prepare accordingly.

Looking at the calendar, there are 5 Tuesdays in December with the 5th on being on New Years Eve. I'm sure people have some sort of plans for that evening, but if Tanks are up for it we can still run the event. I'm thinking a fast Instanced Mothership Raid on Excelsior for that night, but moving it to an earlier time, 8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT, so that east coast people can be done and on to others events that night. If that sounds good, let me know and we'll make it happen.

Sorry I missed you guys on Reunion this week. Was busy with family in town. Should be there for the next reunion run on Dec 21st.

A good night of Tanking on Everlasting tonight with 3 teams running. Many thanks to @X'terra for running the mission team through a bunch of AVs and to @PLVRIZR for running the Manticore TF which I think got done in under an hour. And thanks to those that joined me for the Sutter TF that we demolished in 1:09. Next week, Nov 26th we will be on Indom, with Moonfire and Market Crash on deck. Meet up in the usual Tanker place at the usual Tanker time.

A small but mighty turnout on Torch tonight with 2 teams running. Thanks to @X'terra for running missions for the lowbies while the rest joined me punching Council and destroying a giant robot on a Hess TF. This Saturday, Nov 16th will be the Reunion run. Start time is 9:30am PT/12:30pm ET/ 6:30 pm CET. Any tanks will do for this run. November 19th Tanker Tuesday will be on Everlasting, usual start time and place. Manticore and Sutter will be the WST but if anyone wants to run something else, please let us know. Have a great week Tanks!