Fighting Pool?

[Jags]

Are you guys taking Tough and Weave on your sentinels?  Any thoughts are appreciated.

[Destlin]

I 100% take tough/weave on every toon i ever make. they make great mule slots for great buffs.

[Heraclea]

Did not take them on mine.  No need of them to serve as mules for IO buffs, being /Willpower I had both resistance and defense in my secondary.  Not a fan of taking a useless melee attack.  Not building a heavy here. 

[Destlin]

You absolutly want them to soft cap defense. Unless you are going for maybe a glass cannon? Then why not just play a blaster? Yes you can skip them as this game lets you build however you want but I have not seen a decent build without them.

[Sunsette]

The only time I've built a sent without them was an alt build of my concept without armor and with slightly more utility. If I'd made it as a separate character, I would have made them as a Blaster.

[Generator]

I skipped on Ann Ionic's first pass of a build, mainly because I didn't see three open spots to go into the pool.  I might revisit this decision later, though.

[GetRidOfWires]

I haven’t seen the need for a Sentinel with Bio Armor. He’s only 36 though, maybe my view will change. Only time I thought about it was fighting Red Caps.

[Six-Six]

I take tough. I want all the def I can get.

 

While tough can't be take without taking boxing or kick first, kick was just perfect for my vigilante DP. when they've got a sliver of health left after eating bullets, I walk up to them and give the the boot. makes me smile every time. =)

[Heraclea]

I may end up taking them on my Pistols/Rad sentinel, my second sentinel project.  She plays a bit closer to the action than the Water/WP, who has many tricks to keep too friendly mobs at a distance. 

 

Remake of a blaster I had in i23.  I get to re-use what I consider my masterpiece of bios that are brief and to the point:

 

 

Then again, the first sentinel I took to 50 has another good short one:

 

 

 

[drbuzzard]

I take the fighting pool if I think it can make me really durable. If I don't think that's really possible, I skip it. My fire/fire sentinel doesn't have it, nor do I plan to respec into it as i can't really imagine making a build which will make him outright tough. I'll live with him healing up his boo boos. 

 

My SR, WP, and nin sentinels all have it, and are quite durable (or will be once I get all the IOs slotted on my /nin one).