Bill Z Bubba

No, I had not looked into it heavily yet. Thanks for those pointers. And I mispoke earlier. Apparently I can pull off a max diff ITF and had already done so with my fire/em tank. About to clear final Rom again. Just hate having to run away to get debuffs to fall off so I don't die. I'll edit this post with a pic if I can get it done again with zero faceplants.

Pretty sure this is why I can't stand certain ATs. If you're eating dirt, your DPS drops to zero. OTOH, as Sovera states, if THEY'RE eating dirt, it doesn't matter how survivable you are. For the record, I can't complete a max diff ITF with my fire/em tank. Soon as khels are in the mix, I get slowed to the point that neither my attacks nor heal can fire off and I can't move to get out from under the debuffs. Granted, this last run I didn't utilize afterburner to get the hell outta dodge as soon as I saw my defense go into the red. Because I don't like doing that. Playing SR, I'm accustomed to just sitting in the thick of it, ignoring all the defense debuffs and slows and whatever else is being thrown at me. Right up until those lovely autohits start coming in. Then only the SR tank survives unless I start cheating with ultimate insps or P2W garbage. In the end:

Wanna talk about useless T9s? How about SR's Elude? Yes, we KNOW you're already at the softcap but have some more defense! And some extra run speed that you don't need either. Hey, we'll throw in some recovery but then we're gonna crash you out for no good reason even though we didn't do anything for you in the first place but give you a groovy backflip to show we had done it. As others have said, some of the T9s we still have came from a different game. One that actually was "balanced around SOs." But the newer sets have much better ideas. Shield, Willpower, Bio, all decent even if you do still skip them. Example: I don't have parasitic aura on my bio/claws tank. Just couldn't fit it in even though I would have liked to. But Elude? I actively tell everyone to skip it. Same goes for Unstoppable. Were I to have my wish for SR, it would get the Master Brawler treatment from Sent SR to get rid of the click mez (if you so choose) and then turn elude into a continuation of the concepts behind the scaling resists. A bit more scaling, a bit more absorption, a bit more plus speed/recharge and call it a day.

Yes on burn and I'm pretty sure 3:30 was my average on the bio as well. And yea... kinda weird seeing a time on a tank that close to my main claws/sr's average time. Don't think I much care for that at all to be honest. And I need to find another 30% recharge for the fire/claws.

My click mez prots are never doubled up. I leave hasten on auto and use it as my timer for firing off practiced brawler or the like since both have a 2 min duration. Interesting note... as it stands right now, my bio/claws has better times than the fire/claws. I'm going to rebuild the fire/claws for permahasten and the true followup, focus, slash chain that the bio is running and pull burn out of the mix because right now... it seems burn is actually decreasing my ST DPS.

This. My bio/claws tank was getting confused and terrorized left and right while running in DA the other day. My claws/sr and sr/claws users maybe get hit with it once a mission. There's probably a few autohit or nonpositional mezzes out there but they're rare. As per Mids, at least, looks like it's the same base values for protection be it from click or toggle protection.

Bah

All good thoughts. Thanks yall.

I have to have permahasten for the followup-focus-slash-repeat attach chain which grants a triple stack of FU on to focus. Therefore, the max recharge is absolutely necessary for my build.

Nope. I use ragnarok - the chance for KB and the sudden acceleration KB-->KD Gots to have that +10% recharge and I hate KB. Knocks them out of burn/ damage auras/ melee/ etc.

If Ablative Carapace is always on, is there any point in taking Parasitic Aura? Am I going to notice a .9 second drop in hasten? I have the not ready sound already disabled, but am I gonna feel it on my followup, focus, slash, repeat attack chain? Here are the totals I'm seeing. I've got no accolades and no incarnate powers selected. Efficient Adaptation is selected. I'm not sure about having melee defense that damn low. Anyone got any thoughts in general? | Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1460;685;1370;HEX;| |78DA6594594F135114C7EFB4534AF7D25ACA56A0ADD87DDA029AB885202089A1914| |4E36B33A94369AC6DD392208F7E057DF005598C4F3EF81DFC12AE8FBEB8A1464140| |4DEAE99C7F803893B6BF3BFF7BE66C774E0BF7669DCFE7EF4F09C93953555BADE24| |DB576476B5A0A6AB9521274D96696D57A6BB55E5DB2D2DD286F1767B525ADD6D294| |2B957AF17AB3ACD62AA5E274F36EBDE9834141AB6A9A422E575BC2B158AF5795ABD| |54A7979C5AEAF6F3434EDB6535F2E686AA3522BBBD8A6634277FEB946A5A4CCD5B4| |6679AD58505B2B5A73AD8FC2C7E9FB234A3F5227B5B645EC9A85C8CBC2B4C7EC3A6| |0761F32ED41320CC9C23DCEF7EB3181AB4D1FBAC42E7993E04DB24BECCDC1EC7231| |BBDD4CBB87E90E3037C89B99BD59CC3193AEC97130C1EC4B8229E6C00BA25F160EE| |AA6059958F44C0E29132B6762B24ED322268BFC3C58E0887B6463639B76843C3878| |2D395284BC4D38C19F64E74255AE0F5CFBF047F01333FC9919FD02EE30B7A82A0FA| |AF29CE7ACBD17C08BCC3397C0CBE0143FFB9BE2F6705C730FCEC687B3F1ED339338| |A36D8AE3D75BDFB6F85FB276EA15F89A39F08639F4167CC7FC437102A82FE032EB6| |7DCEB063DCCB09719ED61A67DD8A7BE05F95911C449FE257FFDF0D7BF2EEBDAE9C7| |E006B8C94C6E81DBCC2754C720FA3598E17E0C2BCCD12C9803F3CC709AEB9028971| |0DE8290FE16984919410747D0C1043A98400713E8E0262182A72338F9A794CD18B2| |191BE768B10970123CCB4C9F03DF732532C58EA30B71CC4206B390C52C64310B59C| |C421E1D7CE6122285AEA6AEF15B6B237F0AF25360277A85C841CB411B92FF9FCA84| |7C34E3EDA461376750F20665C2A04C1A940583B228232C2992AED8BC4733DEDEB11| |FFD5760F7DBB12249613E95CC2DAEFEABC1FAFBB162921E70EF9D0F999947CCFDCE| |8423DEAF13D37E7042FF07E57AF8A3| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Ran with my lvl 32 bio/claws last night. Now 35. About to log on for more. This is going to be an insane combo. Having trouble getting permahasten in the final build, though.

Totally off topic... your avatar gif is freaking hypnotic.

My vote is no. There's no reason to run stone armor. It's still top dog on indestructibility, but the costs are just too high for my tastes. That said, I still have one, an MA/Granite brute just because kicking people in the face with granite/rooted is funny.

Dude.... what?

I suspect that Heraclea absolutely must be Invulnerable. Going otherwise would be like Bill Z Bubba not being SR... and that just wouldn't be right.

Huh. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I am therefore I drink.

Yup. Usually a purple set - the damage only enh + 1 other set proc. Sometimes a full AT set. On two of my FA tanks I've got the full tanker +absorption set in blazing aura.

I'm damn glad I did that!

I feel your pain, @Werner SR/Claws (Currently my favorite tank.) FA/Claws Bio/Claws (May give the SR/Claws a run for its money. FA/EM Rad/EM Bio/EM SR/EM FA/SM Ice/Spines (Soon to be nuked.) I don't like how many tanks I have. Pretty sure I'm missing a couple.

I like getting that baseline. In theory going BF-Attack Vitals Combo adds a good chunk of damage.

Initial pylon test on my brand new FA/Claws tank, lvl 50 and freshly built, no incarnate powers. 7 minutes. Only 150% global recharge with hasten up. Don't much like that. Attack chain is currently Followup, Focus, Slash, Burn, Followup, Focus, Slash, Pause, Repeat. Based on what I see now, I'll probably go Musc, Degen, Assault Core as usual but go with Ageless instead of Barrier. Or build both, of course.

Of course that's true. Some slows the cascading failure. None does not. The question is whether the other mitigation provided by Ice Armor is ENOUGH to counter the failures. My argument is that it absolutely does not and therefore Ice needs a buff to be remoteLY worthwhile outside of concept.

Where "regular content" translates to "base difficulty." /ducks //gets hit anyway due to lack of DDR

Get offa muh lawn! 🙂 I don't remember either. Wonder if it happened at the same time they added the ability to combine enhs.