Aett_Thorn

I find myself agreeing with Johnny a lot in this post.





I'm scared.

Since you have posted an actually thought-out question, I feel inspired to answer it! But, before we begin: welcome to the game and to the forums! Now, onto your questions.

1) Yes, this build will have a lot of AoE in it, and therefore will be pretty good at getting aggro on it's own. Also, by level 38, you will have two attacks that actually teleport you into melee and do AoE damage, which is quite fun. However, as this is your first Tanker, I would HIGHLY recommend getting the power Taunt. It's a pretty fool-proof way of getting aggro. If you find yourself not using it much later on, then you can get rid of it, but it's a good power to have in your repertoire, even if you don't use it that much.

2) Skills that you should get:

Almost everything from Shields/
Almost everything from /Electric
Possibly the Fighting Pool, for Tough and Weave
A Travel power
(For now) The Fitness pool, for Stamina

Powers that can be skipped:

Grant Cover
One with the Shield

Powers that SHOULD be skipped:

Lightning Clap

3) Does this build have any inherent strengths? Yes, in spades. The two teleport powers I mentioned above are fun and really nice. Your focus will be in AoE damage, which is great in this game. However, your single target damage will suffer a bit for this. The somewhat unreliable draining of endurance from your attacks can help to run all of the toggles that you'll have by the end of the game, which is nice. Also, your aggro aura helps you out by giving you +Damage for each foe in range, which will help you kill pretty quickly.

Does it have any weaknesses? Also yes. However, they can be largely mitigated. You have no self heal, so any damage you do take won't go away that quickly. Also, as I mentioned above, your single-target damage isn't all that great. However, neither of these are deal-breakers, and this combo should be a great one for you.

4) Tankers really come into their own once they get to level 22 and can buy single-origin enhancements (SOs). I would definitely recommend sticking around until that point to see if you like it.

Hope this helps! Have fun!

No more so than if the same number of Americans bought the game and were playing it.

This is a forum to ask questions of other players. You are unlikely to get a dev response here. If you want one from them, send them a PM.

However, we have had players on dial-up for years, so that's the minimum that you need. Anything more than that just speeds it up a bit.

I really, really, REALLY hope they don't tie stats in with Origins. If one origin is tougher than another, it's a much better Tanker than the others, and all of a sudden you never see a Tanker that's not Technology in origin. If one does more damage, then Blasters will choose that.

Make origins meaningful? Sure, I guess. Tie them to stats? No thank you.

That's not a bad idea, really.

Yes, there is, but it involves IOs, and won't help too much. You can definitely slot for it, but it's really going to depend on what you're after whether it's worth it or not.

What level are the foes you're using it on? If they're lower level than you, they will tend to run away. There seems to be a bit of code to cause random running if the mob thinks that it can't beat you. There is nothing in Burn anymore that would cause them to run anymore than using something like Combustion would.

Okay, gotta go over some basics here, then.

Defense makes it so that an attack might not land at all. Resistance means that any hits that do land are reduced in the damage they will do. This means that having both can be useful, because you're both reducing the amount of attacks that hit you, and also reducing the damage of any hits that do get through.

Fire Armor is a resistance-based powerset. It has no inherent Defense powers at all. As such, you might think that getting set bonuses that increase resistance would be the way to go (stacking up resistance versus getting some defense bonuses). However, there are two reasons this would be wrong:

1) Resistance set bonuses are often really small. Despite 1% Defense = 2% Resistance*, the resistance set bonuses are most often smaller than an equivalent defense bonus from another (or the same) set.

2) Stacking types of protection tends to have a multiplicative effect.

Let's take a look at an example. Let's say that you've got 20 minions attacking you, with a 50% chance to hit you, and each attack that lands does 100 damage.

Base, this means that you will be taking 1,000 damage from these minions each time they attack.

If you increase your Defense by 25%, you lower the incoming damage by half, meaning that you take only 500 damage.

Similarly, if you increase your resistance to their damage by 50%, you lower the incoming damage by half, meaning that you take only 500 damage.

If you can get to 25% Defense and 50% Resistance, you will only take 250 damage, or 1/4 of normally incoming damage.


Another benefit of having Defense is that if an attack misses, the secondary effect does too, so that's something to think about as well.

Don't mind him, he's just grumpy for some reason. Like another poster said above, you may want to check out the Tech Issues and Bugs forum. Those guys really know what they're talking about when it comes to issues like this. This forum is more for gameplay issues and questions, not that it's a bad place for a question like yours. You're just much more likely to get a GOOD answer to your question up there.

This is actually better in some situations than the old power, actually. If you're at the damage cap, the new FE will actually let you do more damage, since it's basically acting as a proc. The old FE wouldn't do anything for you at that point.