Tsuko

If you want an idea of what tankers can do when they seek a "cool and funny" way to kill time, check this thread : you will witness what tankers can do in term of balance between staying alive in a nightmare content and kicking big ass 😄

Take any Attack set able to raise Recharge : all the set with Knockdown can slot Force feedback chance to +recharge : Super Strenght with a build Rage / KO blow / Foot stomp / Cross punch / hand clap / Gloom / Darkest night / Dark Obliteration, for instance. Build your tanker to cover the only one tiny hole in resistance : Cold. Seek any form of recharge to have Hasten Perma and Debuff resistance to -recharge at 100%. Slot your Particule shielding x6 and Radiation therapy x6 with 1 proc chance of +stam from Theft of essence + 5 Numina Congrats, you're unkillable 🙂

Sorry your Highness 🙂 But your build was the blueprint for my SD / EM "marine canon" tanker

The King of Cimerora is still on his throne.

At least, it's quicker than soloing nightmare ITF 🙂

If you want to melt targets, NRJ is amazing.

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