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Here's my Fire/Fire/Pyre and a leveling build with Taunt at 10 and SJ at 20. PWDRKEG v4.0 - Tanker (Fiery Aura).mxd You're a tank...so until Fire Sword circle (24) and Incinerate (28), you're stuck with Combustion and Burn, basically. I do slot the Kinetic KO proc in Scorch, which is a minor mitigation tool. You can slot the Tanker ATOs, immediately, so having the MoT +Res proc in Blazing Aura and the Gauntleted Fist +absorb proc in Combustion, makes you really tanky at lvl 10. Before anyone jumps on the lack of swords, I'm not a huge fan of the elemental weapons, and want room for Char, Melt Armor and FireBall at the end of the build. Numbers are at 50, with one stack of MoT, but no Incarnates.

While they both do list Accuracy as an available enhancement slot, only Accurate Healing sets are available, so I slot Theft of Essence +End proc, but no accuracy IOs. My current project is 37 (Bio/Fiery Melee) and ran with a 54/8 PI team last night. Didn't really watch but clearly didn't notice missing +5s, with either. My attacks certainly whiffed alot, so anecdotally I'd say no.

Trying again: Voltaic Thunderbolt_v4.0_I27p5 update- Tanker (Electric Armor).mxd

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Hey, I call them as I see them. Your guide is 'da bomb, for Bio. For Inv, I reference @Hyperstrike and @Infinitum. For Fire armor, it's @Sovera and stone is @Bopper. Me, I just steal from everyone else and hope that Zect gives just one compliment, about my posted builds, while calling me a "Forumite", as an insult 🙃

He's being subtle and humble. DEFINITELY check the link in his signature. @Xandyr is the Bio armor guru and I used his guide to make SWMPTHNG (Bio/Rad), and as an incarnated 50+3, he's nearly unkillable. My current project is Bio/Fiery Melee. Last night, at lvl 31, I joined a Citadel TF on Exc, and he cakewalked through a +2, with a team of almost all melee/damage toons - i.e. almost no support (one kin Corr with tanks, scraps and blasters filling out the group). Ran in Offensive mode, until Vandal and the Council just melted, in droves. In hindsight, didn't even need Defensive mode, for the AV, as he went down quickly, as well. My $.02 infl for Fire as a secondary 😁

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Feel free to e-mail as many Hero merits as you want to @PLVRIZR or @PLVRIZR2 😆 (Yes, I know they are "account bound" and that's not possible)...

^---this. I am the same, @Kabal, in my distaste for the Bio animations. Since PA is an aura, you can color it as you like and AC is only seen on activation, when the armor forms and is then immediately shed. I can live with that.

My S/L farmer is an Electric/Electric brute. I have basically the same build (obviously tankier on the tank) and can S/L farm or run pretty much anything at +4/8. Even tanked Recluse the one time I took him on the Ms. Lib TF...and it was on Tanker Tuesday, so no support toons. You can use the armor template and plug in Rad melee, I'm sure. I'm still having problems with Mids' exports, on my laptop, so here's a screenshot, and I'll try to add the export later, from the PC.

And maybe Ice, to slow everything around you to match the SLOWness of Rad Melee...😆 In all seriousness, I made an homage to Swamp Thing (that got genericized, lol) as Bio/Rad. He's super tanky and debuff-y, but I hardly play him because Rad Melee is sooooo sssslllooooowwwww. So I know Bio works (but Bio pretty much works with any secondary).

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Why thank you! Still working on the Mids' bugs, but try this. The only thing (IIRC) I changed (from the previous data chunk) was moving a slot from Stamina to Siphon Life, to stick the ToE +end proc and moving a slot from Combat Jumping to Hasten, for perma: Still virtually the same numbers, but with the end proc in Siphon, you can keep Focused Accuracy on, at all times, and every four seconds, refill your end bar. 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

This. Whatever you pair it with, EB is the King of KB.

...and you can get Siphon Life at 8, and add the Theft of Essence +End proc at 10. But I also agree, you shouldn't have too terribly difficult a time keeping your blue bar up.

"Mo Durable"...

Paging @Hyperstrike and @Infinitum I'm not a fan of Rad Melee, so am hesitant to throw my $.02 infl in here...

For a minute, I thought the 1* HM ITF was being led by @Spaghetti Betty, as I ran (as usual) to the large left room, only to realize they were +4s and loaded with EBs (and nictus infused bosses)...SURPRISE! The team recovered quickly and thanks @Ronin_Around for dropping it to +2, for the rest of the night. We had no problem with the dark ambush at +4, but the GMs and AVs would have taken all night, methinks. Did someone say we were a 7 tank team running at /8 targets? 😆 Lots of leveling and lots of fun. Final Rommie was a bit of a disappointment and went down like a wet towel. Great work to everyone who joined and thanks again to Ronin for leading us.

Hey, I hit like a wet napkin...(well, except for the latest Rad/SS project 😆). And I *love* when you add curveballs to the TFs... On a serious note, I 'd vote (and offer to lead) the Numina, tonight (because I have several toons who only need that for TFC), but alas it is H.S. soccer season and with two boys on the varsity team, we'll be having games on all days, until February. I should be back home in time to join a missions team so, @Warboss and @MsAligned, look for a tell around 10PM EST! 😁

Thanks. I dropped a damage proc or two in RT, KB and FS, for 2x winters, to get over 100% slow/recharge resist. He's still a murderball of unkillable goodness, as well. With the supposed "proc nerf", I don't see that much difference in damage, but again haven't parsed that deeply into the combat data.

Liking this, alot. Thanks.

I have not, but good idea. Have actually been playing him (you all have seen him on TTTs "ATMSMSHR") and leveling organically.

OK, so a loaded question, for sure, and there will be many opinions. Fire away with your suggestions and reasoning. Why am I asking? My latest project, in preparation for an all Rad/SS Tanker Tuesday event, has now unlocked everything but Hybrid and I've amassed plenty of Emp merits to begin to finalize the incarnated build. Here's the current 50 build and numbers. Adding one stack of the MoT +res puts everything but N/C/P to cap. Fires constantly in Haymaker... 110.1%+ Recharge/Slow resist. 26.1% Melee Def, without even trying. Accuracy? Seems spotty, even with Rage (single stacked) up, but haven't drilled down enough to have hard data. Near perma-Hasten @ 213% recharge, 145% bonus in the 20-ish seconds it's down. Foot Stomp every 6.7 seconds. End use 1.47, Recovery 3.4 - will probably take Ageless for self and team DDR, anyway. Hit me!