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Good to know! And good idea on Overwhelming force. I noticed a lot of people slot Superior Might of the Tanker there. Where would you slot that instead?

Cutter, you always come through with gold. I was thinking of at least 3 slotting Eye of the Storm with Fury of the Gladiator to get the KB Resist to try and help cover that hole for DA. A FF+rech could fit in there quite nicely 😛 I know that the Tanker Mecurial Blow already has the -res portion, but I guess even more is better in this case? haha

Update on this: started rolling one and it is tons of fun so far 😛 cool "energy" top options based on how you color the fire around your hero. I feel like a DBZ character haha.

First: Love your name haha. It does seem like Staff has a nice flow to it where you can take every power. I MIGHT skip out on precise, since I was forced to take Mercurial, and get both Innocuous Strikes and Serpent's Reach. For Epic sets, I was thinking of going for body mastery, for physical perfection. Just as another way to help deal with Dark's endurance issues (and also not have to deal with the redraw, like you say :P)

Good to know, and it makes total sense when you put it like that haha. Thanks Apparition.

Also, should with Innoc Strike or Serprent’s reach be skipped?

This is AWESOME work Galaxy, thank you! Extremely cool testing. Data is fun.

Hi all! I'm currently designing a Dark Armor/Staff Fighting Tanker. Obviously you need to grab Mercurial Blow as a Tanker. I've seen some than just jump to Guarded Spin, while others also pick up Precise Strike. Is it important to pick up Precise Strike as well in order to have another way to build up perfection in your attack chain? Also, are there any powers in either Dark Armor or Staff Fighting you would recommend to skip over? Thanks in advance!

hahahahaha my man, I have a serious case of the Altitis as well, but it allows us to enjoy this great game in so many different ways! We can form our own Justice League/Avengers 😄

That makes complete sense to me! Hopefully I can get a Dark Armor fully IO'd out and give it a good showing 😄 I feel staff, with it's end reduction stance and +Def, could be a good pairing for it!

Great points Riverdusk. Totally didn't even think about the DA taunt aura scrappers miss out on. If I end up going Katana Scrapper, I'll look to pair it with EA/Bio/Nin or something.

Hey Doom, I'd love to hear your opinion on each Katana wielder and what pairs best with them. 😉 messing buddy, this gave me a laugh.

Great points man. I do have a shield Tanker, and I definitely noticed a huge difference once I had him properly slotted. I’ll do the same with that DM/Shield Scrapper 😉 Good to know about Dark Armor. I’m theorycrafting a Dark Armor/Staff Fighting Tanker, and I think that will be a cool combo.

Great point, so it'll pair well with all the resistance DA gives. Great to know about Form of the Soul as well. Once IO'd out, do you find yourself primarily staying in one of the other stances, either Body or Mind? I could see Form of the Body being preferred, if you could fix endurance issues and get enough recharge once IO'd out.

Some pretty sweet animations there as well 😛

Consider me sold. I assume you run mostly in the stance that provides end reduction? I could see you staying in that mostly for leveling, and maybe switching to one of the others for endgame content, if you’re able to work out your endurance issues with particular sets/enhancements.

Yeah man, I imagine it's great at holding aggro 😛 I'm all about the team play. I'm not a Werner ITF rules stud like some of you 😂

Rokkeb, if I could like this multiple times dude... I would. So thankful you took the time to write this all out, it was great to hear about you experience. Only issue now... You've made me also want to roll a Dark Armor/Staff Tanker 😂 That sounds like a synergistic and cool combo.

Appreciate it man! I've rolled ONE /Bio, and it did in fact take some getting used to when I was used to running Invuln on a Tanker 😂

You are totally right about Katana looking/feeling right about being on a scrapper. Those 3 secondaries are the EXACT 3 I'm torn between 😂 good to know about the ATO's for a scrapper on Kat. I know some say they skip DA on Katana to have a more optimal attack chain. Is it something you'd say you SHOULD have to fire off when needed?

Nice! I have rolled a StJ/Bio... I could totally see Bio fitting in great with Kat. I could see StJ having more ST damage, but Kat trades that for the added Defense and better AOE.

Always a valid point 😂

Necroing this thread because I found the whole thing fascinating. Some questions on this tough test: 1. Do you feel this testing order would be the same (at least for the available powersets) if you applied it to Scrappers? How would their lower resist cap impact the results? 2. Out of all these sets, which ones do you feel benefit the MOST from late game, fully IO’s builds? From what I read, it seems Rad and Dark would make substantial jumps.

Haha this actually isn’t the first time I’ve heard about his Kat/DA. @Wernerwe summon thee! Any particular builds/advice you’d share? Do you feel a Scrapper is the optimal archetype for that pairing?

Obviously, Kat has been seen as a Scrapper set for most of it’s lifetime. Their ATO’s could push them out to the front.