Tsuko

With no limit on cost and a well tailored level 50 build, Tanker's Radiation Armor can be tougher than granite. Absorb with huge recharge is just awesome. Maybe too much.

Make like 10 minutes i write then erase what AT, i love most but at the end got a shit ton of lvl 50 toons and i love them all, sometimes more than others, for what they do best. Finally, i think that fun is awesome but :

My Ice rad tanker aoe : Ground Zero Proc bomb / Dark obli / Frozen aura / frost St : Priority : Freezing touch / Gloom / frost / filler depending of what's up and if things to agro And my ice rad scrapper is the same but i just swap ice sword between each attack cause i use the 50% crit on it, have Moonbeam instead of gloom and no dark obliteration, instead Shadow meld to mitigate damage spikes (to let my absorb/barrier/heal coming back)

If ice mélée have an issue, it's his leveling. As super strenght, Ice mélée is a top endgame set. Exemplar and leveling is kinda horrible. Sort of price to pay to be top tier with a lvl 50 fully set / accolade. But trust me, ice mélée is very underated and i'm sure it will shine later.

Ice Mélée is very similar to Warmace : built around 1 Big DPA power. Freezing touch is stronger than the all mighty Clobber, can slot 2 purple Damage proc and Ice damage is generally WAY less resist than smash. Warmace have the advantage of the FF recharge io and a very strong soft Crowd control power, having nothing to envy to Titan weapons and Super strenght. Ice mélée is a "baby" step behind WM in aoe but provide Frozen aura as a 360 pbaoe sleep power with almost the DPA of Crowd control, opening you Chance to heal and Chance to placate io, and being so much better than Whirling Mace. In the aoe department, the ice patch is life saver while leveling and Frost is one of the best mélée cone power, just take a look a the Fire breath... :x "Greater" ice sword is bad, but it's a T7. So this is ok. Ice mélée just lack a good way to force the 50% crit io and being centered around one power, everytime FT miss, it's a disaster, Dps wise and make the rotation kinda random : a ice scrapper can overdamage allmost any mélée set or being average, but never bad. As stated before, Ice mélée is stronger with a stalker, cause the ice Assassin strike, while not being the stronger of the game, patch the "GIS" hole and provide another Strong DPA power. So, To be honnest, don't expect any major change to a set able to compete with the "all mighty" Warmace 🙂

Maybe this will help ! 🙂

i noticed that too on my Rad Armor / ice tanker ^^

About Romulus Nictus, the main issue is his heal, on top of the Nictus. A hard solution to counter his Dark regeneration, is to have 45/50 dark defence or 45/50 aoe defence. And remember that Romulus tohit will raise over the roof if he is surounded by his minions.

I spent several months doing only solo itf runs at max settings and never ever had an av running with rad armor tanker with darkest night. Radiation toggle debuff used to, sometimes, make holder running in issue 14+. At least when i mained my ice rad Cor. I saw this like 2 or 3 times with rad debuff on HC when i was tanking speedruns with my tw bio scrapper.

woaw i m come back after several months and it's still a thing 🙂

Because Ball Lightning and FireBall are not similar 🙂

Welcome back, Hero !

my SD EM itrial build with the lowest buff of Ageless Radial, on top of, with such def, i m not really often affect by anything And shield, as SR, is the king of cc prot with the double stack of Active defence, making it almost immune to the stupid terrorize effect.

yeah SD tanker are awesome. Invul and granite should be more "immortal" but the buff aspect with the ageless radial / grant cover combo + the debuff (aoo + darkest night) option + the ability to burst like no other of EM with aoo make it a great and funny AT to play in team. I love my rad tankers but the lack of real (by real i mean with DDR) defences is a thing while fighting heavy debuffing enemies.

yeah and SD provides DDR and def, not to mention phalanx fighting for self def

for "every day all road" gameplay i use my SD EM tanker with a special "itrial" build With cardiac T4 / mélée core res T4 / wedding band / demonic aura / one with the shield and defensive amplifier if needed to max out by myself all the def for master itrial run or MO lgtf. got taunt / darkest night / gloom to manage agro (the end use here is with both super speed and darkest night) EM + AOO pack quite a punch. Grant cover + ageless radial gives to all the light people around me to have better def and DDR.

that was a only AT power run 🙂

I always apreciate your kindness and patience and dedication to your testings🙂 But you know what i think of "SO" content. Now, could you explain me the différence of result between your test and mine about Shield Tanker ? vs

EM is awesome on armor who dont need active defence, Granite, invul, shield, SR and so on. It works really well on Rad but for team content : i have a Rad / EM one with 80+ psi resist : she's the perfect team meatshield but is far far less tanky than shield or even invul. During my testing for this only AT run, i first try on Invul and to be honnest it was a blast : my shield EM can solo Romu but she can die a any moment ; i forgot once my invul / em tanker only AT in front of romu nictus lvl 54 with NO auto power... i came back 1 hour later, she was still alive.

i m ok but i still prefer EM on stalker for dps : Assassin and energy focus works so good together, as it is for STJ. But it's on tanker that i feel EM the best.

yeah it seems that Shield is not really tough too 😄

thank you 🙂

Another step into the powercreep of Homecoming ! 😄 Solo MOITF Maximum Hardcore : No inspirations, Player debuffed, Enemy Buffed and... Just for you all, ONLY AT POWERS : 2h50 and 25 seconds COME AND GET ME ! Tanker Shield / Energy Mélée. Musculature T4 Ion jugement T4 Degen T4 Banished T4 Assaut core T4 / mélée resistance T4 Ageless radial T4 / Rebirth regen T4 Yeah that's a ton of incarnates but being now in the Cosmic Council help me a looottt : cause on top of being adorables human beings, we clear so many itrials and endgame content compare to what i had on Reunion, it's night and day. Having an amazing SG changes the whole game experience, even for a f....g Diva as me 😄 So 🙂 it's obviously a specific build for the task 😛 Only AT power is a good challenge to make a build work. I think this is the step where no tanker AT will have real issues. I made it to Romu nictus with my Rad / SS tanker with a only at build but without the bump in dps of Gloom / dark obli (carry by rage² and meltdown) my poor tanker was unable to kill Romu nictus because of the essence drain at 3000 hp. I tried with an Invul / EM tanker but same issue, she could stay all day long in front of romulus nictus but with a bit too low neg defence, the essence drain was too much. The 3 first missions was far easier than i could expect. I quickly notice that without tactics i was lacking just a bit of accuracy. Once this issue solved, this was a walk in the park : M1 : only free the hostages, then rush to the altar, classic. M2 : only crystals by abusing cap agro and making the ambush running (with only ninja run, that was not as easy than superspeed but just enough, used mélée T4 core here) M3 : Mélée core T4 for the generals, assaut for the AV + console : Killing the 2 av near the console, romu first. then the console. (AOO makes things so easy here, even debuff, EM is really top tier in ST damage) Till i arrive in M4. My "patch" to solve the accuracy was barely enough to cover basic traitors, so Romu Nictus himself... i think i spent more than 50 freaking minutes just to kill him and his balls of hell. The Nictus were quite easy, by saturating agro, @Werner style, i solo kill the balls with ease (well i had to swap my ageless radial T4 for rebirth regen T4) Auto hit, then healer then sumoner, classic. I had "park" Imperius not far of Romu Nictus and i planned to take him to help me, once the nictus down. But 1) Romu sword spin destroyed imperius and my banished lore 2) if wanted to use 10 targets to push my dps with AOO, Romu was suddenly able to hit a lot more than usual so... i had to kill him 1 vs 1, with the "Player debuffed" setting directly in my face. So i found a new way to use the new Energy focus gimmick : by using the focus on Barrage to stun Romu as much as possible when the lore was up and kitting him just enough to force him to move and not using his sword spin, allowing the banished to destroy him, regen debuffed and stunned by the focus Barrage (under Assaut Core) . God i love the Energy rework 🙂

Stop hit on Gogo dancers in Pocket D and stay Focus !

Power Crash is a leveling power on Brutes, Tankers and scrappers. Any aoe as Fireball, Ball Lightning or Dark Obliteration will be a better choice, Maths wise. It's still a viable power. The only AT where PC is an Absolute Must Have is on Stalker.