The Best Tank in the Game is a Bio Armor Stalker

[Outrider_01]

12 hours ago, Machariel said:

regardless of how sturdy you can make /bio, the fact that the rest of the team died means it can't be the best tank, since even an invincible stalker can't hold aggro well enough >__>

Pfft, Vargr all the way 😉

[Dain Bramage]

*laughs in Invuln/SS tank with KB -> KD soft control*

 

I am glad you're enjoying your build. No doubt there.

 

However IMHO I'll also agree that part of tanking is agro management as well as soaking/avoiding damage for the team/self.

 

YMMV

[Bill Z Bubba]

I have seen far too many posts from blasters saying they can tank. It's sad really.

[Solarverse]

To the OP

This is my Stalker's Stats. His stats are about as good as you are going to get on a Stalker. Capped Resist to all but Psi, Negative and Toxic, Psi is near cap missing the mark by less than 1%, Negative is 15% from Cap. Defense is soft capped to Melee and Regen is at 441% and that is without Melee Core which brings it up to 713% Regen. I stood Zero chance.


 

Edited October 30, 2020 by Solarverse

[Solarverse]

11 hours ago, Luminara said:

 If they fart, it draws aggro. 

LOL! My Tank does not fart!!!    😄

[Xanatos]

8 hours ago, Gulbasaur said:

I've tanked incarnate stuff on my widow. The bar is quite a lot lower than you might think.

I said the harder stuff.

[Luminara]

48 minutes ago, Bill Z Bubba said:

I have seen far too many posts from blasters saying they can tank. It's sad really.

 

I could find a way to do it with a blaster.

 

I won't, because it would be a ridiculous amount of work and easier to accomplish with a defender.  Or, you know, an actual tank.

 

But I could.

[Luminara]

23 minutes ago, Solarverse said:

LOL! My Tank does not fart!!!    😄

 

Why not?  Ask @Bill Z Bubba about his Stanks.  Aggro galore!

[Machariel]

3 hours ago, Outrider_01 said:

Pfft, Vargr all the way 😉

space sailboat is extremely cool but there’s something about the Mach that just does it for me 😎

Edited October 30, 2020 by Machariel

[jackalcoh]

15 hours ago, Machariel said:

regardless of how sturdy you can make /bio, the fact that the rest of the team died means it can't be the best tank, since even an invincible stalker can't hold aggro well enough >__>

Except the actual Tank that was on the team died.... so i guess he's not the best tank either.

Except I outlived him (the tank) and kept fighting long long long after he died.

[Machariel]

38 minutes ago, jackalcoh said:

Except the actual Tank that was on the team died.... so i guess he's not the best tank either.

Except I outlived him (the tank) and kept fighting long long long after he died.

you may have been the most individually survivable character on the team, no arguing that (though with IOs etc any given powerset/AT can wind up in that spot).

but, part of a tank's role is not just not dying but keeping the rest of your team alive by holding aggro (which stalkers are not good at), and, the title of this thread is "best tank in the game" which is quite an audacious claim 🙂

 

what you are actually describing is really scrapperlock, which is now Not Just For Scrappers™️

Edited October 30, 2020 by Machariel

[Oubliette_Red]

The best tank in the game is the one on the team effectively holding aggro, while stomping/stunning/bashing the enemies, surviving their attacks and minimizing the damage to the squishies on the team. I couldn't care less what powersets they use, I don't even care about their AT if they are effectively 'tanking'.

 

Effective tanker > FotM Tank.

 

🙂

 

[Frunobulax]

oh yeah well ALL of my toons can tank

 

Spoiler

if you count varying periods of time which sometimes may only be measured by planck lengths