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Fair, and don't get me wrong, as it's a joke and generalization. I truly appreciate the French, because without their support during the Revolutionary War with England the United States wouldn't be what it is today. You do have to admit that they've surrendered A LOT, since then 🙂

LOL. "If you like the French, raise your hand. If you are French...raise both"

^---this And for the newer players (please read some of D's previous posts...more like "Diatribes by Diantane") I will say that unless you specifically want the original feel of Live, and only DOs/SOs, there's no reason you can't have both tanker ATO procs, by Posi1 (read any of the great money-making threads by @Sovera or @Yomo Kimyata). While I also take mostly armors on my tanks, early on, I'll make sure to get the first and second (or third) attacks, so I can slot the aforementioned procs. Quick recharging, fast animating, simple attacks...that proc a lot. The +res and absorb from MoT and GF, respectively, make big differences in survivability, especially pre-20. Fill that in with free prestige attacks, and you'll run out of end, before you run out of attacks.

...and we had a blast, whipping through that Moonfire in 43 min. We also found Jack-in-Irons, near the exit on the next to last Moonfire mish, so after vanquishing Arakhn, we went back and pounded on him for the extra merits. Great fun and many levels were had by all. Thanks to @Ronin_Around for leading, sorry I missed the last few radios but congrats to the new 50s!

We had quick romp through a +2/8 Yin, but with only seven tanks as one who "signed up" realized they wouldn't have time to finish...which is too bad because it only took us 36 minutes to vanquish the Freaks, Council and the safety-pin-stockings equipped Clamor. Probably could have made it an even 30 min., with an additional tank. Oh well, many levels and a great time was had by all, regardless.

Two of my most durable tanks are Inv/Dark and Shield/Dark. Can't go wrong with either.

Sounds like your defense is getting debuffed. You can monitor your stats and know when your defense is floored. The "Big Mobs" maps' mobs *do* have the Fiery Melee defense debuffs in-play. Furthermore, you are susceptible to ranged attacks from any mob that is in LOS (with some distance limits), so if you may be taking more incoming damage than needed.

Our team had a blast and finished a +2 in 1:10. Not bad considering it was a "kill most" and with only tanks, it was a bit of a slog on the final "defeat Romulus four times" mission. Many levels, even for the incarnated tanks (I got two piloting NUTCRCKR, going from VL568 to VL570 😁).

You can certainly do that (pick both listed power sets), but we don't want to pidgeon-hole peeps who want to use a different secondary.

@Ronin_Around must still be recovering from the very large turnout on Excelsior last night. I can report on the team I led through a +0/8 Synapse. +0 because several of us were running our Energy Aura "challenge" tanks and were in the late teens and early twenties, at the outset. We finished in a respectable 1:28 and some of the added time was a bonus Babbage, which was right in front of the door entrance to the Clockwork Prince mission (from a different TF team), so we helped with that one and then got our own, very shortly thereafter. Double Merits! Only two defeats and only because @X'terra did their best @wittylibrarian impersonation and face planted twice (but not until the last couple of missions). Great fun and many levels were had, thanks to all who came out. Next Tuesday is Torchbearer, with Imperious (ITF) and Justin Augustine as the WSTs. See you in the City!

Don't have a build for you (I'm an old-school Spines/Fire broot farmer for FFs), but the @BigGotter's Big Mobs tunnel map still works for me. There are several guides for making easy infl/infamy, outside of farming, so you might want to check out @Sovera's signature for "money making"...and if you're in for a majorly enjoyable and informative story, read @Yomo Kimyata's "Journey to a billion influence" (or something like that)

Accurate summary (as always), but we had a blast slogging through it (as always). I didn't catch the time for Apex, but it was about the same as TinMage at 53 minutes. We thought we were going to start with six, but one was denied entry by LFG (and we all thought the "Alpa slot unlocked" requirement was no more, but the fact that they were only at 85% 'til unlock seems to point to the contrary). Battle Maiden and Director 11 caused most of the delays and it's a good thing a couple of us were loaded with daggers, because I threw TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREE, in the (not quite) two hours to complete the dual TFs. "Victory" was ours, in the end 😆

I second Warboss' sentiment. This is the way and Zem is excellent at it.

TW is slow. Slower than Rad Melee...which is saying something. While many have had success with resistance armors on Scrappers, you're self-nerfing since it'll be capped at 75%. Go Broot, fo sho. (if you wind up actually doing it)

We are currently running an Energy Aura armor "challenge" for Tanker Tuesday Tour on Excelsior. We got through DFB and the Frostfire arc and my tank wound up on 16 and ready for the Posi1/2 TFs. Next month (and on the 7th), we'll be taking on the Synapse TF, and it also happens to be the WST. I'm fairly new to Energy Aura (only one other toon - EM/EA Brute), but have been tanking since 2004...hence Taunt at lvl 10. Since Homecoming offers prestige attacks, and I'm a survivalist first, I have all the armors available at 16. Using the above advice, and any Res and Def IOs available at this level, I wound up with this: He's pretty immune to +1/+2 bosses (street sweeping in Steel Canyon), but obviously not a damage powerhouse.