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As a general rule most guides newer than issue 9 are still applicable. Several sets got a significant buff in issue 13, since then the only really major change that comes to mind is the inherent fitness with issue 19 and it didn't change powers, it just opened up more room in your build.

As an example my Invuln soft cap guide dates from issue 13 but everything in it still applies today; you just have room for 3 more powers nowadays. My first 20 levels Invuln guide on the other hand did change dramatically so I've updated it with the issue 19 changes.

One thing to consider is that while as Elec you may not have end issues Cardiac also on a couple of trees offers you damage resistance, and as you go up the tree increasing amounts of it bypass ED. At Tier 3 it's giving you the equivalent of another DO of resistance in all your armors, at Tier 4 you'll get about another 15% of resistance enhancement... it's enough to bring your S/L to almost the 90% cap with Tough.

Spiritual will give you more recharge, the other effects are generally less useful for a tanker. Still, since very few of your powers will be ED capped for recharge it does provide a lot of bang for the buck since you'll get full value for almost all the boost.

Nerve's primary boost of accuracy I generally think is more or less a waste of time on a level 50, you should have all those issues long squared away. On the other hand it does have that secondary defense buff that could be helpful with Weave... considering you're starting from scratch though and probably working with set bonuses to build defense I'd think it's less useful to you.

Musculature I generally don't consider all that useful; first off your attacks are likely already at ED cap damage so that portion isn't getting you much until you get to Tier 4 and secondly because it lacks secondary effects that really help a tanker all that much. The secondaries seem more tuned to a control/debuff character in my opinion.

On the higher tier incarnate abilities I've found Ion Judgement to be the most useful... it has by far the widest area of effect. I'll admit I find this somewhat frustrating as 3 of my characters have already invested in tier 3 Pyronic

For Destiny it's hard to beat the Rebirth Radial (+Regen) tree; first you have a massive heal followed by a brief Instant Healing level regen tapering off to a minimum of +200% regeneration at the tail end.

Barrier offers nice resist/defense at the start but it drops off rapidly and you really don't need the resist buff while the majority of the defense buff isn't enough to help you much. Ageless gives a nice utility of +recharge & recovery, I'm not sure it's as useful as the Rebirth though. Clarion is basically mez protection... something I wouldn't consider on a tanker.

For Interface I don't look any further than Reactive; all the debuffs are very low % even stacked to the cap, therefore I go for the added damage proc.

Lore is a big question mark; of the original 4 choices the Warworks had the best damage while the Seers had the best buff. I haven't studied it since all the new pets were added to know what the situation is now.

While Pinnacle is one of the smaller servers it's hardly "dead". Admittedly I haven't played much there in a few months but I do have a number of characters there I occasionally play; I haven't had a lot of trouble getting something going anytime I've wanted.

Back about 8 months ago I was spending the majority of my time on Pin and I doubt much has changed. Like any server the key is using the popular global channels for that server. You're unlikely to get much action by simply standing around and waiting for someone to swoop down and invite you but a shout out on the global to the effect of "Hey, we're putting together a ____ with 5 open slots, who wants in?" will do wonders. Even a "Is anyone starting something a level ____ can get in on?" will usually do the trick.

I generally play on Guardian, Pinnacle and Infinity and I find it's not all that hard to find something to do at most any time. On the other hand if you're always going to be on in very off peak times you may want to consider one of our two English speaking European servers; with many of the players on them being on the other side of the world their peak times will be at times when the NA servers are off peak.

As has been mentioned the revamped Faultline is worth doing from 15-25 or so; I personally like Strigga Island (20-30) and it has some really nice temp powers in several of the arcs. Croatoa is an interesting zone (25-35), the mobs are different than you'll find elsewhere and can be really dangerous.

Freakolympics in the 20-25 (or is it 25-30?) range is a fun story arc... I forget who gives it out offhand but the contact's in Independence Port. Montague whatsisname in the Steel Canyon University has the entrance arc that'll allow you access to the Midnighter Club and Cimerora (35-50). You'll certainly want access to Cimerora for the Imperious Task Force, one of the most popular TF's in the 35+ game.

The Devouring Earth "Terra" arc in Founder's Falls is worth doing; the zone's 30-40 but I forget offhand if the arc is 30-35 or 35-40. Actually all the arcs in Founder's Falls are worth doing at least once, some are a lot of fun.

Once you reach 40 you'll want to run Tina MacIntyre's arc (40-45) in Perigrine Island and Maria Jenkins' arc follows in the 45-50 range. Both arcs are what I would consider must do in the later levels. They're packed with AV's so expect a challenge.

Along the way to 50 there's a bunch of Task Forces to run, some of them good and some of them, well, part of an accolade badge. The first you'll find is Positron in Steel Canyon, it's now split into two TF's in the 10-15 & 11-16 range and is worth doing. Synapse in Skyway (15-20) is long and all Clockwork all the time... I find it boring but relatively easy. Sister Psyche (20-25) in Independence Port is a lot of fun and Citadel (25-30) in Talos Island is decent albeit over supplied with Council cave maps. Manticore (30-35) in Brickstown is another fun one to run. Numina (35-40) in Founder's Falls is in need of a rewrite... it's a decent TF with a LOT of pointless hunt missions stuck in the middle, most of them hunting level 1-20 mobs at level 40.

The Hess TF in Strigga Island is a good, relatively quick one (25-30) and Moonfire (also in Strigga) is another fun, quick TF. The Katie Hannon TF in Croatoa (30-35) is worth doing although the rewards on it got cut drastically some time ago.

Moving on in your career you'll almost certainly run the Imperious TF (ITF, 35-50) in Cimerora several times as it's one of the most popular in the game. There's several 45-50 TF's also, many of them among the most challenging in the game. If you like pain then try the Quaterfield TF in the Shadow Shard (40-45) and you'll be running the longest TF in the entire game (4-8 hours to complete).

Those are the things that I try and do while leveling up.

I can't imagine that anyone might be biased towards the server they spend almost all their time on (Guardian), that's just INCONCEIVABLE.

I'll echo what others have said about checking out several different servers and making use of the more popular global channels on each server.

I don't think anyone's mentioned this, but the servers are listed in reverse order of their load (basically their population at that time but there are things that can affect load other than simple population) with the last server you logged into on top.

Freedom is always either the top or 2nd server, unfortunately with the most players comes the largest number of jerks. Yes, the good players outnumber the jerks but there's just so many of them that you're certain to run into them.

Virtue is the other server in the "top 2" and it does seem to have a smaller number of jerks... it also has a lot of very strange people who ((talk like this)) a lot of the time and play and chat in character. It's where most of the more hardcore role players have migrated to. Generally they're nice enough teammates but be warned, it can get a bit weird at times

We also recently merged server lists with the European players so we've added Union, Defiant (both English speaking servers), Vigilance (French) and Zukunft (German). Union & Defiant both seem to be fairly active in non-prime time; which makes sense because many of the players there are on the other side of the world after all.

I personally wouldn't bother with Maneuvers; you don't need it for defense and likely there's better things you could get in it's place.

For another, you've slotted the Touch of Death set... that's primarily a positional set, not a typed set. You'll get the same amount of S/L defense for far less inf in only 4 slots with Smashing Haymaker. I would toss a Crushing Impact Acc/Dam/Rech or Acc/Dam/End into a 5th slot and call your attacks good.

Another thing, do you already have that Glad Armor 3% def proc? It's EXTREMELY hard to come by and it'll cost you ~3 billion inf or a couple of months of grinding out hero merits.

Don't bother with that Zephyr KB protection IO in Fly, it's completely wasted as Invuln already has all the KB protection you'll ever need in Unyielding. Likewise that Force Feedback proc in Kick is another waste of time; it's not going to fire often, chances are the power isn't going to be in your attack chain and even if it does fire it only lasts 10 seconds.

Along those same lines Hover isn't all that useful to you, remember you can't use Foot Stomp unless you're standing on the ground. It's your prereq for Fly but don't include it in your defense figures.

The slots you save by moving to Smashing Haymaker & one Crushing Impact in your attacks will go nicely into Unyielding & Res Energies for two sets of Reactive Armor giving you more E/N defense at the expense of F/C defense... in my opinion a good trade. I'd also pull one slot from Invincibility; I really don't find that perception proc to be all that useful.

Dropping Maneuvers will open up room to slot Foot Stomp in at 38; this is a power I wouldn't want to delay. With the extra slot you could always pick up Super Speed at 49. You could also snag Combat Jumping for more combat mobility and another small chunk of defense.

There's other things I'd change, for one I don't really think it's all that useful to enhance the Hold in KoB although I see what you're going for in set bonuses. I'd also find another slot for Tough Hide; it's a nice chunk of defense equal to that of Weave at no end cost... it's deserving of another slot.

That's a few things for you to ponder anyway.

I tried to like it on my Fire/Rad but found it greatly disappointing. I tried it with the Contagious Confusion set, I tried it with 5 damage procs and I tried it with a Partridge in a Pear tree (well, forget that last). I found it mostly or totally useless in all cases thanks to it's extremely small AOE. The only thing I noticed it do was eat endurance.

I dumped it for Psi Tornado and there's absolutely no question which was the superior power.

What I'm seeing right off the bat is that you're chasing set bonuses that aren't helping you all that much instead of getting ones that do help your durability.

Building a highly durable Inv tanker is quite possible, the trick is building your defenses to the 45% soft cap... primarily your S/L defense followed by your E/N defense. F/C is rare enough that it can be disregarded; you'll end up with decent levels of def there more as a byproduct than anything else. My Inv/Stone tanker is sitting at ~45% S/L/E/N defense and ~30% F/C; I also have roughly 25% defense to Melee/Range and ~20% AOE which covers most Psi... that's a byproduct of building for typed defense.

The sets you'll want to look at are Reactive Armor (4 slots in your armors), Smashing Haymaker (4 slots in your attacks) and either Mocking Beratement or Perfect Zinger in Taunt. After that think about Eradication (3 slots) for Foot Stomp and Thunderstrike (6 slots) for a ranged attack.

Powers you want are Boxing/Tough/Weave. Dump the stealth pool!

Looking at other areas of your build remember that Taunt is AUTOHIT in PvE; it doesn't need accuracy unless you're PvP. Also Fly is at the fly speed cap UNSLOTTED. Yank those slots. Psi damage is very rare and in almost every situation where it's encountered it's fairly minor; it isn't worth warping your build trying to go for small amounts of Psi resist and defense.

It's easy and relatively cheap to build a very effective and survivable Inv tank without Unstoppable. Oh, take Haymaker instead of Punch; it's a much better attack.

For a bit more detailed description check out my soft cap guide in my signature.

Heck yes I'd take a crashless nuke. While I have the nuke on my Fire/EM blaster, and have it slotted up (Eradication) thanks to the crash I probably only use it once a night. Mostly it's there now as a set IO mule.

I'd be absolutely good with moving it's damage to on par with Rain of Arrows if it became something I could actually use every time it came up.

It probably averages twice a day for me; however yesterday I had it happen literally 4 times in 5 minutes.

This is a problem that's been around for a YEAR now, come on and fix it already.

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