Tsuko

Yep Attack sets and Active mitigation changes all. I can keep Cimérorans on their asses or stun by cycling every 3/4 seconds [Foot stomp] and [Hand clap] (with 6 slots : FF recharge, Sudden -KB and 4 Stun purple IO). With 4 to 5 ff recharge procing constantly, i'm perma hasten with almost no global recharge in the build. it's always more soft control, more heal/absorb and more full proc'ed Dark Obliteration, Ground Zero, Rad Therapy and Gloom.

Do the same with an attack set with a lot more soft control and you will be fine. My last Rad / ss build even have a 6 sloted hand clap on top of foot stomp 😄 Well, the 5 Proc recharge "might" help too 😛 The best way to beat DDR ? no defence at all 😄

If you only keep SS powers, it become very long 🙂

Still sad it removes the attack fx 😕 but yeah, still the best option atm i think, thank again for sharing this 🙂

Yeah, but all is about taste, i love my SD EM Tanker, my Rad SS, my Rad EM but i dont even want to try SD SS, i dont feel the AT, and i must certainly be wrong. As for some armor, I love so much my SR stalker but i dont even understand how @Bill Z Bubba do with his SR claw tanker Oo Same for SD MA, i tried the @Werner build and ... not for me 🙂

SS is broken OP, if and ONLY if you dont use SS 😛 The attacks of the set has been balanced to keep the dps at medium good level with Rage... But you use Aux and Epic / patron attack with, it become crazy. Gloom and Dark Obliteration become a snipe and a Targeted mini nova, Cross Punch has the same dpA than Haymaker but on a cone, and so on. Shield Charge on a SD SS tanker with Musc T4, caped AOO, 2 stack of rage : Same parameters, Gloom :

I fear that the stam management of rage / hasten crashes on SD.SS tanker make the AT not so worth

Congrats to both of you 🙂

Gloom is one of the top DPA of tanker and brutes, now you have a very particular build.

There are several of techniques to solo Romu nictus, none are easy and requires training to do and/or particular builds : ALL ask a thing based on how high is your standing power (AKA what your toon is able to facetank) and being able to solo kill Romu and / or the nictus. This is one of the reason i play a SR stalker with Rebirth, Rune of protection and mélée core. [Spoiler : all of this is far far of the ideal Roleplay "scenarios", read at your own risk] [and dont do this in "normal" PuG team : i know some "very open minded hardcore old school all cleaning Roleplay #moblifematter" fanboyz who kick for those pulls.]

i have playtest EM SR stalker by soloing itf in +4x8 🙂 Romulus nictus is just another boss with more hp 😛

For my Fire / NIN Blaster, i dont use Sting cause i dont want to be forced in mélée, i use a heavy proc'ed Golden Dragonfly as a debuff / burst tool as Inferno. I took Char and Shoking powder as Double heavy proc'ed hold to have a ranged rotation with Blaze / Blazing Bolt / Fireball, on top of being able to hold any boss with a fast double hold.

I tend to use a priority rotation due to the Energy focus, random Assassin Focus mechanic and random Build UP procs. I have an EM / SR stalker with a build based on standing power : to be able to solo and staying at mélée range almost in all situation. My goal is to use ET (slow and fast) as much as possible, mainly during Build up windows. Slow ET / TF / EP / Fast ET / AS and priority to Crit AS 🙂 Ho and yes, i dont use BS cause no crit AS is a perfect placeholder and i want to keep a 2 slot Placate to have a burst / CC ability.

My choice goes to EM / SR over Bio or EA for more standing power (swaping Assaut / ageless Core and Rebirth / Mélée core based on content with Rune Of Protection) ease of slotting Damage proc and giving more value to the 20% recharge buff of SR to aim for "3 ET per Build up windows" rotations. After more than 40 hours of plyatesting each phase of beta on several Energy Mélée, i had better times on pylon with EM than my old STJ. But i'm far from being the best STJ stalker and i have hours / days / months of Energy mélée gameplay on (and VS) stalker, Brutes and Tanker from before and after the Snap.

Yeah, i finally moved from Reunion.

i enjoy mine so much, it's just... amazing 🙂

We all know how Dwarves are when they have a party... One night, too much beer, A cute defender and boom another son, Blaster 😄

Before i had a strong blaster. I saw your post. Now i know you're @Werner's son.

WTF... BlasteR.. No wAy Oo

Congrats ! If i can ... it took me 17 days to break 1h29 lol And 4 others for the scrapper run. Then almost a month to reach the end of mission 3 with no incarnates with... a dominator lol I enjoy the game at the moment, i just finished to move to Excelsior, finding an awesome shelter in The Cosmic Council. I ll never use amplifers for those runs. Hail the Sexy bearded king !

Really ? Dam... but it should expensive no ?

That's my point about this tests. Staying inactive in the middle of mobs is not a good indication of a tanker efficiency. For instance, Radiation Armor needs Radiation Therapy / particle shielding with good recharge change ALL. It's even stronger with Dark Armor huge heal. Don't get me wrong, i m very impress by @Galaxy Brain tests : tons of hard work. But there about tankers, mitigation is not just about numbers : movement, position, synergy of armor / attack and scaling of gear and effect of power creep in the game hit directly Tankers. Any tanker just using the P2W backpack to fly over 17 enemys will stay alive for so much more time. Dam it's there i hate not being english to be more accurate 😕