Acemace

No one is more eager on the boards to have a good scuffle over the role, value, and buff scenarios then Tank enthusiasts.
It is the only AT with it's own monthly event going on eight years. ;]
Long live Tanks.

Nice feat! Here's a Sapper to gang up on to celebrate. ;]
Last month 7 years, this month 7 TT's, the mathematical definition of a perfect number twice. Cool.

Few things have amused me on the intrewebz as much as the chuck jokes did.

Here Aett a couple ideas I sent to Floyd last year before he left.

Stack Bruising capped @ 50% for 5s (10s)-

Increases the usefulness of multiple tanks on a team - Rangle
brought this point up in this thread and I argued pointlessly for stacking during c/beta last year.
-if no to stacking:
Make it 20% unresistible damage resistance debuff for 15s (10s) and add minor resistible 10% -tohit debuff - Thematically the impact of the tank attack weakens shielding and unbalances an enemies ability to retaliate.
Stacking would increase the Tankers teams overall damage against AV's and hard targets, while also elevating their role.

Damage-

Throwing added damage at the chalkboard is to me a lazy accepted wisdom - which is (by itself) rarely a good way to make decisions
to possibly improve the unique role of any AT, and simply homogenizes each new melee character created down to multiple choices of
similar options.
Issue 4 Tanker Burn was aggressively toned down because the AT wasn't intended to make Blasters & every other teammate irrelevant, which if you weren't around it certainly did (besides of course Jacks love of pen&paper ATs & antipathy towards p/lvling), even so Tanks current damage potential lies within acceptable parameters.
That said:

Tier one attacks-

Raise the damage and reduce the recharge time by 1 second on powers above 2secs, reason, will help soloing speeds at lower levels, it also provides better functionality to an attack all Tanks must take.

The actual damage increase percentage would have to be determined during beta, but the desired result would be akin to Super Strengths Jab being reclassed from minor to moderate while War Maces Bash would go from moderate to high, and the adjustment to the end modifier would have to be fleshed out depending on the damage %.

To a lesser degree of importance (to me anyway):

Taunt-

Lower the animation cast time to 1.57s (1.67s) increase the base range to 75ft (70ft) and radius to 17ft (15ft).
Tanks are not meant to be 100% effective as an aggro magnet, just as a controller is not meant to be 100% effective as Crowd Control, though both come pretty close as is.
But Taunt potentially maximizes offensive and aggro management efficiency and slightly increasing the base range and radius would be a minor adjustment, also Castle had already spoken openly about making it's animation faster.

In that vein:

Raise the aggro cap for tanks to 22 (17)-

Minorly emphasizes differences between Tanks and the other three melee classes, especially solo and unbuffed it's resistance to defeat by multiple npcs is an attribute, and the cap being raised would highlight that albiet in a small way, though a cap needs to remain to avoid anti-Tank stacking.


I mentioned before tanks to me are within acceptable balance, and that based like many of you on having played ad nauseum every AT, certainly with all the means currently of boosting performance there have not been teams of any combination of other ATs that left me feeling my Tanker character was lacking, but like you I'm not against a small upgrade to something I like playing.

That's a nice effort Aett, but if a real attempt was going to be made to get a dev to look at buff ideas a new thread should be started by someone non-controversial who can tack *reasonable* suggestions up to the original post, reediting it as new ideas are offered.

Castle among other devs love[d] that since they can pop to the 1st post and see what everyone is offering without sorting through 15 pages of morass.
I don't have the time to do something like that anymore, but another benefit to addressing suggestions that way is that once posters note that reasonable suggestions are being tacked on to the main post the tone in the thread tends to be more serious and respectful.

OP had good intentions but the thread has quickly turned into someone amusing themselves, and really offering any ideas in what's going to be 25+ pages of 'I want godmode' 'no tanks are only meatshields!' is inefficient.

I'd get Rangle, Aett or NuclearMedicine (someone with time to update it) to create a thread like "Feedback: Tanker Buff Suggestions" and I could get it stickied.

Long live Tanks.

The Brutes main damage mechanism was a Tanker idea we all pushed years ago which was fettered off to give cov an intriguing counterpart to this AT, just btw.

Some of us have successfully pushed for quite a few Tank improvements that were actually implemented from cast times to Burn to weapon sets and more, and while I'd never appose any buff to the AT, I'm of a similar opinion as Vox especially when on a fire tank with the myriad of enhancements available it rarely feels like most of the game offers any challenge.

The one caveat to that is that it would be welcome to see more primaries with a damage aura or an attack (and that exclusively be offered to tanks where the power is shared by Brutes / Scraprs) so that a particular set offers more then only resistance to attacks.

& ps, don't feed the trolls after midnight.

Conjecture, it's such an airy place in witch to live. [j/b]

Odd, you didn't have to say his name three times to make him appear.

Hey I resemble that remark.

I'm mostly thankful for my father in laws homemade spiked eggnog, any combination to the words "amish" and "homemade pies", and like Myrm I'm thankful for the School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences they do great work.

A couple days off is also not a bad thing. ;]

Ten that's a lot for the old players ;] Let's see:

1 Subscribe until service is no longer available at which point wait to see if another company takes over and hosts the game servers

2 Update the important links directory thread

3 Hit forum cartel someday without having camped daily in Forum Games

4 Write game code that causes Super Group Base Turrets to attack Villains and Heroes

5 Take someone's clothes away from a public shower and leave them with only a funny costume to wear

6 Switch all Maruts current binds with my outdated 04 hami raid instructions

7 Find out what that green healy aura is and why anyone plays toons it emanates from

8 Tell your mom I'm pregnant

9 Type out a bucket list while not under the influence

10 Frog tipping

Access yes but the spare time infrequently, and I was more or less joking, there are people in any number of situations, college, retired, stay at home moms etc who have the free time, what they do with that is their biz. ;]

Sorry to hear about your mom Ast though it was evidently years ago, still moms are a special group of people.
As for pvp and trash talking it often brings out the worst in an online persona, I would know I was on the top five leader board of one of the Battlefield FPS and if someone started jawing during a match thay'd wish they hadn't quickly, many ragequits followed and my random teammates always cheered. Needless to say if you're not a top player and you come against one it's likely going to be unpleasant.
The culture of top pvp is brash, hard, with little room for mercy (though I can't speak to coh pvp it's never been interesting), and anyone who lets their kid(s) swim in that is an idiot.

Basketball (& tennis & football ) has a similar culture but as you get a little older you have to gage what trash talk you're going to be able to back up. ;]

Good to see the above unfortunate incident was sewn up and put in the past.
/edit having not read the end of that last post- maybe it's not sewn up, only in the past.

Forbin_Project being on fire.

Stryker was a Republican?
I always took him for more of a Jim Jones & the Peoples Temple slant.

I've actually removed it because it's nonstop chatter for the freebies.