Regen/Savage Melee Tanker

[Thatpantherthing]

I'm kinda new to the game and I made a Regen/Savage Melee tanker. I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to making a build. I'd appreciate if someone could help make a build for me. Currently I'm level 12 so I have awhile to go before hitting level 50

[tellania]

you can earn up to 3 respects at terra volta trial, buy respec recipes, or get respec by gaining levels.

 

Best advice I can give,  take all the powers in your primary and secondary, and get a feel what works best for you.   I learned, with super strength, dont like handclap (high recharge, and knock back, bad for invincibility power).    You'll also have a better understanding of what power is worth it (do I use it) for making the change.

 

As an example, I like the leap power in the jumping pool with savage melee, but I dont like it in other melee sets (high recharge, so doesnt help much).

 

Do you feel tough enough and want more damage (I would recommend cross punch), or more resist/defense (for team/incarnate tanking)

 

What cost range, PvP IO's, winter sets, purple sets all cost $$$, are those ok

 

[Stingaray]

First of all gets MIds https://midsreborn.com/  Then watch a few tutorials. Asking doe a build is kind of a poor thing to do. Trial and error helped me build some of the best builds in the game. Peace. 

[Warshades]

On 7/21/2025 at 10:48 AM, tellania said:

 I learned, with super strength, dont like handclap (high recharge, and knock back, bad for invincibility power

 

Not trying to change your mind, but putting Sudden Acceleration KB to KD proc and Force Feedback +rech proc turns Hand Clap into a knockdown power that provides soft control as well as almost always procing the +rech proc.

 

On 7/19/2025 at 8:37 PM, Thatpantherthing said:

I'm kinda new to the game and I made a Regen/Savage Melee tanker. I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to making a build. I'd appreciate if someone could help make a build for me. Currently I'm level 12 so I have awhile to go before hitting level 50

 

Builds can vary a lot in how much they cost to actually build depending on what IO enhancements you build with. A few things about regeneration specifically worth mentioning:

• You do want to partially have high recharge in your build so that you can access your heals like Reconstruction and Second Wind more often when needed, as well as access your T9 power (Moment of Glory) that temporarily makes you nearly invincible for 15 seconds.
• Regeneration (not the power set itself) as a form of damage mitigation is typically considered the weakest, mainly because it takes time to regenerate health which you may not always have if you take high amounts of burst damage quickly. Fighting pool will be useful to get another resist power in Tough. Regeneration has been reworked recently and can be built to be durable, but it does take a little more knowledge to build and pilot than a typical resist and/or defense focused armor set.
• Regeneration I would say is a little bit of a late bloomer in terms of becoming tanky. Reactive Regeneration will certainly help a lot when you get to lvl 18 and can pick it up, but it's also a set that becomes more durable when you can build in resist set bonuses from IOs so that you take less damage and can give regen the time it needs to work and regenerate HP.