Infinitum

Well that makes more sense now - posting a Rad build in comparison to Fire wasn't shooting true in my head. I actually have a build somewhere that is 90% Resists to all with 45% melee defense with just alpha incarnates. Totally impractical but cool to see. I want to say it was a Dark Armor build.

I thought that is what your thinking was behind that also - I see your point, but both do meet your guidelines of the healing tab and with higher recharge can be up in ~90 seconds. I know that is splitting hairs but to not notate either of these as a heal might not give all the information needed for the initial description for someone to delve further into either of those if they are looking for any kind of healing available to either set. Again, please don't take this as an argument against your fantastic guide - I may be the only person on the planet that views these in this way. This really is a great guide.

Updated the primary post - added a few gems I have been working on

Forgot I had updated my Radiation Armor build post travel update. It increased significantly the Melee Defense - I realize I could also switch to Cardiac to chase the less than 1% of Psi I am deficit and increase the cold resistance but musculature pays off across more scenarios for a change that wouldn't really benefit overall survivability aside from aesthetics. The winter lord and Crey Cryo tanks never give me any issues 😎

I am not seeing the correlation here - mine was just throwing Fiery Aura out as an option - because of the quick availability of healing flames. Really has nothing to do with the viability or performance of Rad - but I also have one of those. 😎

What about Dull Pain? And Hoarfrost? Not intending to nit pick at all - was just curious what the thought process was behind these entries. Thanks!

Not on mine 😎

SC + LR + Chain Induction + Thunderstrike + ionic if avail. will wipe most mobs you can face. Such a cool feeling - brings a grin every time.

For that matter - Fiery Aura with Healing Flames healing well over half your HP bar every 15 sec with high recharge - combined with decent resist values across the board except ice and then also consume for endurance management - I would put this in a category higher than regen.

Shield works best on Stalker and Tanker from maximized offense/defense standpoint it puts both ATs in the sweet spot of their relative classes while also filling the aoe deficit on most stalkers and adding more aoe for the tanker.

Check out the build i posted a few posts up - Nova Infinitum - doesn't have LBE but could be swapped in. I usually take energy/body mastery on most of mine.

Ah yeah, i forget that is a thing - never played it. I have had intentions to, but other themes keep outweighing it. My 90s environmentals kept kicking in and telling my brain it stood for Street Fighter.

One thing I just noticed on your build was invincibility saturation was set to 0 it will always be at at least 1 when it matters. Its a good looking build - the only thing I would probably change is switch from cardiac to agility to make s/l defense softcapped with 1 in range and chase melee defense to the softcap also. What you have as it is shouldn't have any trouble with anything in game.

I am sure this is a dense question on my part - what is SF?

Basically It looks scary sometimes until about 10-25% health is remaining and then opponents will literally wear themselves out because unless one of them can burst they are just (insert colorful metaphor here) in the wind at that point. lol. They cant hurt you. I have literally walked away in the middle of +4/8 content with less than 1/4 life left in the middle of a mob - made myself some lunch and came back in the same situation. Most of the time they cant hit you at all - when they do it becomes the seige of stalingrad and they are the nazis. This is the build i use. Hope it helps. Alpha Infinitum - Tanker (Super Reflexes - Claws).mxd

Kinetic melee needs some help like EM did pre buff. The only character I've noticed the ET self damage was on a stalker but even then - Running energy aura- was easily mitigated. All of my tankers with EM (i have 3) never notice it. SR would be a good pair with it because of the extra recharge IMO.

Here is my Invul/EM for comparison. I have literally fell asleep mid mission at my desk and still not even come close to dying - a few times actually. Everyone was wondering why i just started spinning aimlessly on the screen. It is that durable across all damage types also. Nova Infinitum - Tanker (Invulnerability - Energy Melee).mxd

That one is Ice/Ice and can hang with Recluse and other such "calamities" so its pretty tough. Absolute Infinitum - Tanker (Ice Armor - Ice Melee).mxd

My Elec/Storm Troller Holds - drains - knockdowns - stuns - slows then factor in stealth in steamy mist - defense from hover (now with magneto flight) and other bonuses you can softcap. Ageless core is a must to fuel this slow killing agonizing death machine - seriously it is the equivalent of a python digesting a rhino - but it will and there is nothing the rhino can do. I have a whole series of trollers that can do this - dark/dark - dark/storm - fire/storm but the elec/storm is the most effecient, ruthless, and safest.

Willpower actually replaced regen - haven't you heard? *eyeballs regen fanatics* 😁 In all seriousness Willpower has decent resists if you build for them - awesome regen with RTTC saturation - high HP - and great endurance. It is probably one of the best all around powersets.

Could you post your build? - I am pretty good with Rad (I know there are others better than me at Rad though) - but I have never tried Staff actually so I am sure between me and other critiques of it we can come up with something for you.

What I would probably do - is swap taunt in the place of either Conserve Power or Focused Accuracy. Given the issue with Rage crash and potential endurance issues I would probably keep conserve power of the two. Does that logic seem correct?

No, i don't think you would want to lose rage. Its too good even with the trouble it causes sometimes. When i get home from work I will have a look and help taunt find a home for you.

Hello all. I wanted to apologize if it seemed like I was ignoring anyone on here. I had some unfortunate real life issues come up this last year - changing jobs, deaths in the family, sicknesses in my household from October until honestly February - and some days I felt like I could barely keep my head above water, but I am a tanker and made it through it all like all tankers do - annoying the piss out of anything trying to kill you - because you... do... not... die... as a tanker lol. I am back now and all is well so far - so again deepest heart of heart apologies if I ignored any requests on here - it was not intentional. Having said that, any future requests I will be more than happy to help - and as I get more time to do this again will update the primary post with a few new builds and changes I have been working on - I missed out on roughly a year of game so I am catching up myself now. Take care everyone, and keep on keepin' on!

Yeah its great, but its just a matter of taste. I dont like it. lol. Theres no reason really aside from my peculiar style and I have never cracked the code of making it feel good to me. I may revisit it at some point and try to make it click.