Captain_Tastic

For me they are much of a muchness. Good tanking is 90% technique so all primaries are just about equal. That said, I haven't tried DA yet on tank

Inv/SS
Ice/Fire
WP/Mace
Stone/Stone

All 50s. Captain Smashtastic, my INV/SS, is still my "go-to guy" though.

Most people on Union who know me know me as a tank. It is the role in the team I enjoy most and it is the role on the team I respect most.

For me, good tanking has 4 key elements. They must be a strong leader who is willing to impose their authority on a team, regardless of who has the star. They must get the balance right between fully assessing a situation they are leading their team into and setting a good pace for the team. They must have the experience to choose the team's killing ground wisely and the technique to execute it. They must have taunt.

I don't buy into all of this "scranking" nonsense, certainly not from a PVE stand point. If I want a scrapper in my team I will get a scrapper and if I want a tank I will get a tank. Two COMPLETELY different roles in a team.

In my experience a tanker without taunt is incapable of performing his role in the team to an acceptable level. May be my standards are too high, may be I haven't enough experience, but I think that taunt is the defining power for a tank and if you are not going to take it you had might as well not play a tank. It would be like playing a defender without taking any buffs/debuffs or playing a blaster without taking any ranged attacks. Yes you can take damage without taunt and yes you can even do a little herding without taunt, and you can easily take alpha strike without taunt, but you have no way of managing the aggro without it and without that you are just a low damage scrapper.

All my opinions of course and I do not expect or demand that everyone agrees with it, and at the end of the day it is their subs and their toon so they can build it and play it however they want to. Personally I don't see why you can't "scrank" with taunt in the build, though.

One warning about Spines/DA. I have a level 50 one myself and whilst they are hugely enjoyable toons to play, be prepared to spend a fair bit to solve the endurance problems of running 9 or 10 toggles.

I think it depends on which cicles you move in and how you define a "legend". I am about as regular a CoH player as you can get with my various Captain Tastics and most of you won't have seen me around too much. I haven't heard of the vast majority of people named on this thread and I could throw a few names back of top players who I have the privilage of teaming with a lot that most wouldn't know either.

For me, a "legend" is simply anyone who enriches the game playing experience of others by whatever means and I know far too many of those to name one by one on this thread. I consider myself fortunate to enjoy such a large and active global friend list.

Credit to the lot of you! Not only those who spend time under the globe drawing attention to themselves.

As all my toons are Captain (Something)Tastics (Captain Smashtastic, Captain Stonetastic, Captain Frostastic, etc) I was thinking about starting a SG with the name "The Tasticals". Nah, it'll never catch on...

Wonder if any brave souls fancy getting their artistic teeth into either of these two...

Captain Psitastic
Captain Stonetastic

Would love to see what you come up with.

I wouldn't worry about it mate. I found it easy enough to understand. Good luck with the recruitment. I seem to be bumping into your SG members at almost every turn lately. (no doubt they come back and regale you with tales of devilishly handsome and charismatic Captain *tastics they have had the privilage to team with )

I am a slave to the thematic build so...

Frostastic lvl 50 ice/ice
Blazetastic lvl 50 fire/fire

Currently playing Psitastic lvl 33 psi/mental manip