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Looking for a New Tank Primary


S33k3r

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I had never tanked before -- I *despised* melee. Back in the days of live, I played a LOT of defenders, but eventually settled on Controllers as my favorite Archetype. Then that changed...

 

I have a very consistent play group, so I felt like I could give tanking a try and, if I tanked, well, I'd be with my friends and roll something else. One of the group, when he found out what was up, suggested I try an Electric Armor tank; I paired that with Dark Melee, thinking the -to hit of Dark would make it even tankier... I *love* the build. It even exemplars decently.

 

But now I'm stuck. I still am pretty ignorant when it comes to tanker primaries, and I kind of want to try something else.

 

Can anyone suggest another set, similar in play to Electric Armor? And, with that suggestion, any Melee sets I should avoid pairing / must pair with that set? Beter yet, if anyone has suggested builds, I am open to them as well.

 

Thanks!

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Radiation or Bio Armor would be my suggestions if you liked Electric.   Both have good sustain powers and can be made quite strong. 

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I'll add my echo to Rad as having a similar "feel" to Elec. Mine is /Fire for plenty of AoE goodness. I don't know that there's a "must-have/must-avoid" secondary to pair it with. Depends on what you're looking for there.

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  • 4 weeks later

i would recommend Bio armor a little easier to run then radiation and would recommend trying either 1 first on the test server bio and radiation are both excellent choices but they require a little more clicking to keep them up and going.

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Radiation's click powers bring valuable debuffs to the table.  You'll be using them in situations where you don't need the heal itself.  The same is generally true of Bio; IMO Parasitic Aura is the best armor t9 in the game.

 

I'd pair this with a secondary that enhances the theme.  Since you've already done the Dark Melee path, Kinetic, Radiation, or Psionic suggest themselves,  I have never done Psionic myself and probably ought to give it a whirl. 

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