A new Radiation Tanker

[khy]

I would like to soak up hits and remain standing. To laugh off attacks, and sneer at danger. I'd like to be able to lure everyone in to attack me, while the rest of my team cleans house.

 

Radiation might not be the best choice for this, but it seems like a good set. Solid, lots of buffs. Gamma Boost in particular seems nice, health when you need it and End the rest of the time.

 

I'm struggling trying to decide on a secondary though. I'm not a farmer, I'm interested in grouping more often than not. It seems to me like for big group content AoEs are king since you're going to be drawing in big crowds, yes? I know that Beta Decay will be AoE taunting, but I'm curious if there's a secondary which generally works better in group content.

 

And, of course, any recommendations for slotting would be greatly appreciated.

[Warshades]

Axe in particular sounds like what you're looking for in a secondary. It has a good amount of AoE's and Axe Cyclone actually draws enemies in closer to you, which can be helpful on maps where mobs are more spread out.

 

As far soaking up hits and remaining standing, I would not personally go with radiation armor. It's a decent set but ideally you would want a set that can mix both high resist and high defense, Invuln is perhaps best for being able to stand and soak stuff up without failing. I actually got curious to see if I could get invuln to sit at soft cap defense with 1 foe in range of Invincibility and capped 90% resist to all with just 1 SMoT proc and the 5% resist/defense from barrier core detiny and came up with this below:

 

 

Again, radiation armor can be made durable and should easily handle most general stuff without issue, but if you're trying to soak things up, Invulnerability is the way to go (unless you're ok with dealing with Granite on stone armor, it could technically be considered more durable as it can also hit soft cap s/l/e/n/f/c and can be hard capped to all resists while having higher regen from Rooted and a more readily available heal in Earth's Embrace). 

[khy]

I think the reason I like Rad in theory, it has lots of interesting secondary effects. Its heal scales on enemies hit, its taunt aura doubles as -tohit and -def on enemies, stuff like that.

 

I definitely don't see rad/ as the tankiest set but it looks so fun!

[Warshades]

56 minutes ago, khy said:

I definitely don't see rad/ as the tankiest set but it looks so fun!

 

This is the most important part in the end. Radiation will also help with endurance management since Battle Axe is end heavy, so it's a good pairing!