Warboss

Hi all, I'm not an Ice Armor expert (by any measure) but I thought the DDR for Defense sets was higher than what I'm seeing on my IA Tanks. Mine are coming in around 51% DDR. Does that seem right? Seems a bit low considering SD is ~68% then stacks up to 88%+ with Active Defense and SR is in the 90s (iirc), so ~50% on Ice seems woefully low. I've got all the primaries except Hibernate (and I'm hoping that's NOT the intended "solution"). Am I missing something? Let me know. Thanks in advance. Warboss

I forgot how painful running a low level Ice Armor Tank can be (prior to the higher levels of DDR kicking in). I have to hand it to my team who stuck in there and finished both TFs. There was an good amount of leveling (I think I finished around level 22), and I know the rest of the team was leveling at a good pace as well. So "Well done!" to my teammates, and we'll see you at the next TT. btw, I think I broke Witty's record for number of defeats during a TF....

Ronin was faster on the keyboard than I was. Thanks for confirming that Ronin. Sounds good.

Hi all, I've been caught up in RL today. Not sure if I'll be able to make it tonight (if so will likely be a late joiner to the missions team). Take care and have fun, see you all soon!

Rad/Fire, come up with a reason for having them and don't look back.

Glad you could join the event. If you're not already a member of the TankHQ channel, you can join it by entering /chan_join TankHQ into the chat window and hitting enter. Torch is our stop next Tuesday.

Another fun run on Excel. Five teams, two Citadel TFs lead by @X'terra and @wittylibrarian, the Woodsman lead by @MsAligned, and missions lead by yours truly and @Drkchilde. Many new faces and players joining the event as well, welcome one and all, and much leveling and fun was had. Next week we're back on Torch for more Tanker fun! Hope you can join us!

There is a Discord channel, but we haven't activated it in a while. If there's interest I can look into it again. I tend to stay off it as no one needs to hear what I'm shouting during raids (especially all Tanker Hamis).

It was a great turnout with many new faces and players to the event. Welcome one and all. We had a terrific raid and the few times I hopped out of the pit to get more Rikti, there were few to be found. I also noticed several Tanks pulling Rikti, and other inhabitants of the warzone, along with us as we took down the pylons. Great work everyone! I have a few pictures to share, but that will have to wait until I get home. I was busy in chat, and I missed the killing shot, so belated gratz to Tinglie, and thanks for the generosity in gifting the prize to new Tankers. My team went on to a Yin after for additional herding and fun. And thanks to Ohm for providing the prize (I wasn't aware of that arrangement - will done). Hope to see you all next month here on Torch, or at any other of the Tanker Tuesday events. Thanks for joining us in the fun!

I go with the order you have them listed. Shield gives you Shield Charge which pairs well when all 2ndry sets and is extremely fun and effective to use. Defense based, but you can get decent resists with IOs and you can do additional tuning with Incarnates. Super Reflexes (SR), good overall Defenses (probably the best). You can get to Max Def pretty quickly (? level 25 iirc). No damage or effect aura which is a down side for me, but paired with either Spines or Radiation Melee you can pick one up. Will Power, not my fav, but many TTer's love the set. Good overall survivability once you get it slotted and tooled in. Again, no damage aura, so same deal as SR (2ndry wise). Combines Resists, Defs and Regen (interesting mechanics).

Freem is a ridiculously overpowered retooling of Council in a successful attempt to make them more boring than they already were... Apparently Council was being farmed which bothered the Devs for some reason (because it's not like there isn't other farmable content..). Anyways... Freem stacks, from Rockets and Grenade Launchers, Warwolf hits (normal (lts and bosses) and the Nictus attacks, and I think the reg Bosses have something before the transform. Nearest I can tell from my testing 20 KB protection is needed to prevent it. Or, at least it provides enough for you to take down the minions contributing to it (rockets and grenades) while you slowly whittle down the Warwolves (Nictus Rez, bosses transform into Warwolvex with a big sack of HPs --- Yawn). 20 KB protection will also make you popular for Taunting Yellow Mitos and perhaps help with some GMs (Io(?)), I haven't had time to fully test this. But, you will need to change your build a bit, sacrificing a few more slots that would other be more useful elsewhere. The change penalizes Fiery Aura and Dark the most, not sure why that was necessary, but it's what we've got now. If you're going Council hunting proc out your ST attacks for bosses and AoE everything else. KB Protection IOs: 3 Fury of the Gladiator (3) Karma's KB Protection (4) Steadfast Protection KB Protection (4) Blessing of the Zephyr KB Protection (4) Acrobatics from the LeapingPool (7, provides additional KU, Mez and Hold Protection) a bit more protection at the cost of a power choice. So on tight builds not really feasible (and you have to take two powers prior to unlock... so a bit of a "meh").

Not sure what happened on Citadel, I guess with the level range we were at losing the two other Tanks made a big difference. We did finish, a bit after the end of the event, but got it done none the less. Thanks to all my teammates for sticking in there and completing the TF. Overall, there was much leveling and fun to be had Tanker style. I think an upcoming challenge (2026?) might be Super Reflexes/* (in honor of PapaS's comments last night). Looking forward to the MSR next week. See you all there!

I was pretty bummed that Babbs flaked on us. Including SnS and the TT run that's something like 3 - 4 times he's avoided us? Either the TF is bugged, or he's afraid of my Tanks. I was really looking forward to PLV soloing him... I've got a couple of pics, but they'll have to wait until I get home. We had a great team, much, much herding, many leveling dings and a lot of fun with the herd and scrapping of clocks. For a destroy most run, I think we made great time. Can't wait for that one to come back around. Synapse has some of the best maps for a team of Tanks to do their thing! As Promised:

I feel like it's already been answered, but Rad would be my first choice (personal preference (kinda' like Fiery Melee is)), but that doesn't mean it's the only one. I think the 2ndry effects of BA compliment every primary. The End heavy primaries, or ones w/o End Recovery powers would be 2ndry choices (from an End management standpoint). I haven't run my Fire/Axer in awhile (don't recall if I rolled prior to Axe Cyclone - think it's likely), but I can see AC and Burn being just plain nasty (especially with Fold Space carefully used in big rooms). But, you can make similar arguments for most the other primaries as well (sans Burn, but other effects, Slows, End Drains, Etc...(Ice/Axe or Stone/Axe...)). Anyways, probably no wrong combo with BA, some primaries will just mature later than others.