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Nah I need it to be easy on the endurance. I do like Bio but wasn't sure how it played on a Tank. I also like Electric but again not sure how it plays out on a Tank.

I found @Infinitum post where he laid out a crap load of Tanker builds. I was just looking through some of those. And... I've seen vids of what Betty gets up to....lol I'm not at her level fo-sho

Or.....are you "watching" for an easy meal?

I'm kicking around the idea of rolling a Tanker. I don't have any power sets in mind and I'm not exactly partial to any one in particular, except I don't really like Stone, offense is fine but not defense. I'm looking for any recommendations, anything is fine as I don't really have a theme or name in mind. I'm just looking to jump into a decent set that's easy to level up and good post 50. I've rolled several Brutes and dearly love the AT but when it comes to main tanking I've noticed if my Brute is the only tank on the team, big pulls can get messy. And I've also noticed, from a DPS or support roll, that it's smoother with a Tanker on board...from my perspective. So... What are some hard and fast rules about a Tanker build? I'm familiar with many of the sets but not with how they change for Tankers, which powers play well with each other? I'd like it to be easy on endurance from the get-go and I'd like it to expemp down easily. An all-content sort of tank. My goals...kill'em all and let some other God sort'em out. Oh and not eat floor. THANKS! -WT

Here's what I do if I'm not the tank...follow the tank. This has never failed me.

Ain't this the dude that troll-posts? Or am I confusing him with another D?

I read all three pages....and have come to this conclusion. Tankshock is a winker....never trust a winker.

Yes! But I'm still a new dude so I got questions I'd like to ask him...like How did he handle Rage crash? Or... Why did he have two travel powers? And... Did he have End use problems and how'd handle it?

I looked at Hecatomb: D, D/R/A, NE Proc, ToD: NE proc, Unbreakable Cont: Smash proc Mako's: Lethal proc

I think you are giving up too much by not proc'ing out Crushing Uppercut. 3 Hecatombs and 4 procs would double its damage and shave a second off the recharge.

Welp that's basically where I'm at. Got ~30% def on just about everything.

Is Dampening Bubble skippable? Debuff resistance in a static bubble seem situational at best.

I was looking at not only support by my own survivability as well. Couldn't get any defenses to soft cap. Got S/L res in the 70s, but my thoughts were along the same as y'alls it'd be easy to soft cap def, but I haven't managed it so far.

I was playing around with a themed idea yesterday and I think Corruptor would be a better fit for the Theme but.... After having played around in MIDs a bit just didn't like any of the outcomes. Does Force Field work better with a Defender?

I built a Scrapper with Electric Armor and he does fine and that is a resistance set, as well. The armor is there and if you like it, use it. And with Electric Armor I built a Brute with it as well that my son runs, it is a beast, but overall, my Scrapper's resistances across the board, other than S/L/E, are higher and I soft-capped both on defenses on Melee and S/L.

Originally, when you said the build only got to 39.1% def, was that with Barrier's perma 5% included? If not, then you were at the soft cap, or near enough not to matter. And if you are at 43% now then with Barrier you'll be at the hard cap of 48% (these numbers are for general content). I can tell you from my builds that 45% is good enough, but the problem you'll have is with mez. I have a Dual Pistols / Time / Mu and if I could figure out how to get the endurance just a little better so I could run Clarion then he'd be bullet proof, but as it is I have to keep Emerge insp on hand at all times because he lives in melee and he gets mez'd alot. Mez will cause you to drop some of your protections and with such a shallow HP pool we're just a few hits eating floor.

Yup...this is my conclusion also. I have recharge in ever place I could put it. I'll have to have a fourth (non-finisher) attack in the rotation. So, I'm going to respec into exploding shuriken. I currently have it proc'd out, one of which is Annihilation's res debuff. Do you happen to know the duration of the debuff?

Yes! I actually looked at that and it proc's out nice as well. I will have to go Ageless though, barrier won't be an option at that point.

Dual Blades / Ninjitsu Scrapper - Bobby Filet

It's good.

What I'd like to see are optional tweaks made to the existing travel powers. Like adding flips to regular run animation. Make the regular run not look like you have a stick stuck up your backside and make the chick's head not bobble, optionally of course - some may love looking like a perky pug running around. And I don't know what they were smoking when they came up with the amination for parkour, but I like the flips and don't really like ninja run either, or sometimes it doesn't work with the theme. More options for teleport animation, but to be honest, I am pretty happy with those. Or how about make it so phase, in Super Speed, actually works with stationary objects...and running on water would be epic! Also, while we're at it, add a minimum FX to everything.

OK I never did get around to putting the build on the test server...but I did get it to level 46. Right now without the purp sets, Hasten is 20 secs off perma and Crushing Uppercut is off by just 2 seconds for the rotation I mentioned. I'm also still missing 1 LotG global recharge. So, I'm figuring with purps' recharges, the last LotG, and Ageless it'll definitely be off recharge for the rotation. What I've learned thus far though... It's a Boss deleter. It's a different playstyle than I'm used to, just ST rotation, but it's 1, 2, 3, sometimes 4, next target. I dipped into the Teleport pool and use Combat Tele to get into position before my team can scatter the mob, otherwise my rotation switches to using Spinning Strike until I find the boss. I even last long enough sometime to take the big guy out solo then I might have to pop a med purple to smash the rest. Endurance is absolutely not an issue so that got me to wondering...if it turns out I don't need...need Ageless for recharge, which I'll know before Destiny gets unlocked, would Barrier be a better choice for more survivability? Barrier would also work thematically as my Stalker is a science origin that utilized technology, so a force field look is a good look. On the other hand.... Ageless Radial will boost my debuff resists to accuracy, slow, and perception to levels that will make them almost bullet proof and give me a lil defense and regen resist to boot. But they are already at decent levels. Nother question... I don't really like the animation of Sweeping Cross and I've gone into the Weapon Mastery pool (didn't know it had a drone!) partly for theme, and right now I've selected Web Grenade for the build...useful? The enhancement set bonuses help but other than that and being as I haven't picked it yet, I'm feeling like I'll never use it. Or it'll be just for the runner or flyer that's trying to get away.

You do you boo. Edit: Errr...umm...don't mean that in a snarky way....

On Everlasting it's the....forget what it's called....but it's the "hologram" that makes you tiny.

Well I mean is this any worse that a Team lead running an all Defender ITF? I agree that the lead calls the shots, and I will also concede that there quite a few farm-babies out there that don't know their AT. BUT, all I do is PUG and I take all comers. Using the ITF as an example, since it's 35+ which means you get an assortment of skills and lack thereof. The first leg of the ITF is pretty easy and if I'm running it, I will be on a 50 that can handle it and can do pretty well with just a few decent players even at +4 (don't do star stuff, yet), so it's my litmus test and I will adjust accordingly. I mean as far as I'm concerned, I just wanna have fun and the difficulty setting doesn't affect my machismo, but I REALLY don't want a slog, cause those are not fun. BUT...at the same time don't really want a steamroll either, got to find that balance. Exclusion is no fun especially for the excluded, but people gonna do what people gonna do.... I remember once, in my early days when I knew less in-game slang, I had no idea what "smol" was and a smol ITF was forming, well I joined cause I like ITFs. Then I got the "you ain't no smol" from the team and they didn't elaborate, so I bailed. Sure, I felt a lil slighted, but F'em, they lost a good(ish) player. Bottom line....don't get butt hurt, start your own team, and don't exclude just because douchebag did.