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Get a Widow. Those things, especially IO'd completely, are among the most powerful toons in this game in PvE. A night widow can pump out some very very nasty DPS and its defenses will make other defense based characters cry. THey can come out from Hide, do a burst of dmg and still not worry much about anything, since they avoid most things who take a swing at it. Also, Night Widow vs Carnies is just too easy. High Psy defense, high Psy resist, Clockwork King is not even a challenge for them.

Go Widow, Fort or Night Widow. Night Widow is a solid choice for a start, but a well built Fort is nothing to snuff either. I made my widow with both builds and they are well equipped. Widows, so easy to play, a cave man can do it.

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Thanks a lot.

are you still selling this?

Hah, you want to pair a stoner on task of LR with the towers? Really? Be real, LR buffed by the towers, will take down a stoner really fast, unless that stoner is healed, buffed or assisted in one way or the other. Sad stoner with no kin will be rapidly chased down by LR and made minced meat. My Ice tanker has done STF and tanked him fine. You show me a Stoner tanking LR with towers on with no help at all, not even insps, and show it on video or it did not happen. Bring it.

Matter of fact, you have a stoner you want to put up vs my Ice/ ?

I have 3 IO'd Ice tankers, Ice/DM, Ice/SS, and an old Ice/Em. I would pair those up vs any stone tanker any day. They are self reliant, great recharge, great defense numbers, and now, thanks to i19, i can get tough AND aid self on those Ice tankers. Since it is defense set, u can pull Aid self when needed and the chances are great you will not be interrupted, if things go bad, you got a heal or hibernate.

I have an IO'd Elec/SS tanker as well. Great numbers and his resists are great for just about any dmg type, except toxic (if I am not mistaken). He has tough, a solid heal, and phase. Very hard to kill as well.

An IO'd fire/fire tanker who had problems with malta before i19 due to end drains. His heal recharges in 11-12 seconds. Resists are awesome except vs psy, but since his is accoladed and packed with IO HP bonuses and thanks to his fast heal and phase, it is very very hard to kill as well.

Build right, play right, be smart. You can now make just about any tanker very very tough to kill.

Mind/Trick arrow for a solid disruptor is a viable option as well.

From my experience, in other words, from what I have seen in Freedom, in arena, in Pocket D, and specifically for duels, I will give my vote to earth/energy dominator. I think the lack of them in arena, or hanging around in pocket D looking for duels, just the absence of them when I am there makes me feel they are being underused and perhaps underrated.

Another toon, for dueling 1 vs 1, which I have rarely seen (although I see them often for team arena) is illusion/emp. I have seen in pocket D a certain illusion/emp character who had made his build for dueling, he was thrashing psy/em blasters, doms, corruptors (even thermals), and I thought, since then, it is underrated or underused for duels, and yet, it can be effective. Never again have I seen in Freedom an Ill/emp for duels.

The 3 I would pick from are Fire/ , Dark Melee/, and Martial Arts/. Fire/, IMO, has the highest dmg of all primaries for Scrappers, especially since GFS is absolutely lethal, and hits like a titan when it crits. The DoT of Fire dmg especially with the already high dmg numbers, is a great tool for killing WP tanks or brutes. Dark Melee/ also has some sick dmg (although long animations) with the Shadow Maul + flurry, combination, and a quick recharging heal, and a fear (a good tool if you know how to time it right). Martial Arts/ also has some very nasty damg and Eagle's claw + Flurry combo is also very nasty. Because most powerset combos you will encounter in FiteClub, outside of regen, rely on Aid Self, I would go with Fire first or Dark Melee second (MG is also DoT and you can spam that over and over to counter Aid self, but Shadow Maul+flurry is also DoT (sort of) and it could help to disrupt Aid Self.

Ok, so it seems you want it a lot more for zones than for arena. If you do happen to do a lot more arena, then some tweaks would go in your build. I am not LOL'ing Fight Club stuff, but if that's what you want to do then further tweaks would be in order, IMO. In fight club PvP rules, my Ice/Dark tanker has not lost a single fight in standard times. When sudden death is included, things can change quickly, so he has lost some, few, but still.

So, what I would give is some advice on power selection for your toon, based on my experiences with it:

Definitely Fitness, everything in Ice Armor except Chilling embrace or icicles. Super speed is a must in zone PvP, so Hasten + SS. Combat jump, at least, to add to your defense and your mobility, up to you to include SJ. Tough and Weave, yes, take it to increase your defense, it does make a difference, earth Epic for fossilize and quicksand. From dark melee, the heal, shadow maul. In PvP, the combo of Shadow Maul + Flurry, is a big hitter, but the root times are looong, so your choice if you want to use that. Go for as much global accuracy as possible as well as defense bonuses, then recharge, then HPs.

I hope that helps.

What is your secondary? I think I might be able to contribute at least two cents to making an Ice tanker for PvP. I will start with my one cent, I think they do a lot better in zones than in arena. In arena, you will hold your ground against other defense based toons, but vs resist based toons, I would not play an Ice/ unless it was Ice/Dark. When fighting Cold/dark blast toons, I would prefer fighting them with my Ice/Dark as well. Their lack of Aim, and your heal plus your defense, go quite a ways to help you out. Even, vs Elec/thermal's , I would prefer Ice/dark your defense, to hit debuff, and your heal, your fast recharging energy absortion, can give you solid survival tools.

If you change your mind about what kind of primary you would want for a general pvp tanker, I would go electric armor. Elec/SS/Earth would sure give Psy/Em blasters a really hard time in arena; trust me. He's my favorite tanker for PvP.

Having said that, I would also like to know what do you intend to use that toon for, what kind of PvP you want to do, etc. Last, but not least, are you sure you want to make a tanker for PvP? If you are looking to go out there and kill, you might as well go as Psy/ blaster or Stalker (and get some practice AND advice from other good stalkers). That goes for arena and zone.

What you really need to make a better use of fallout is communication. As soon as you are in a PuG, it would help to communicate and get an agreement of what happens in case someone faceplants. It’s no gimmick, it’s a tool, a powerful one to use. Just like other powers in /Rad, they are tools. Like it was said above, comes into play a lot more in PuGs than in established teams.

Repeat Offenders, in times when we are running teams with toons from any/all SGs, we check to see if we have Veng or Fallout before someone is rezz'd. And RO teams are mostly buffing/debuffing machines, yet we still have faceplants. We check to see if we have those tools available and we use them. No gimmick, just playing the game and thinking about what we have at our disposal.

What Rad does in addition to what you said, among other things, is FALLOUT. This is the best single power/nuke for debuffing and killing in game, all in one power. No other power does as much as Fallout does in one single hit. Fallout debuffes soooo much and it is also a nuke in it's own right as far as damage. Cold has no power like Fallout. No other debuff set has what Fallout offers in one single hit.

I would say the easy answer for what Cold or TA do not have over Rad is FALLOUT. Faithful Fans of Fallout for Repeat Offenders makes a strong case for it.

For zone, if you think you can't take tough AND temp phase power.... you should stay in your box.

With a well timed TK + snipe+flares, repeat as soon as the suppression is over, I would also place the mind/fire ahead in a duel vs earth/engy.

That's exactly my point. No tank, no powerset, can tank LR in STF without help, buffs or insps management. What you said of 'only needed PB fortitude and AB is an inmense deal. Your Stone/Stone, like my Stone/Stone, can not tank LR without help either. LR can make quick work out of any Stone/ tanker unless that tanks gets help like I said above.

Silver, do you have any lvl 50 tankers, who are not Ice/ primary?

NO tank in this game can solo LR in STF without outside buffs or good insps management. His Acc, dmg, and speed boost are overwhelming. It is so by game design.

Don't take stamina just for thermals. Stamina won't save you from getting zapped by elec/thermal. If the OP had reached about 4.0 recovery w/out stamina, there is no need to take stamina at all.

But still playing to win or playing not-to-die and draw?

For Trick Arrow in zone, or if you wanted to use one as a 'ruptor in arena, I would go Mind/TA/Hibernoob, or Grav/TA/Hibernoob

Fixed to reflect my take on this. That hold buys you enough time, if you have been following them, to land that nasty attack, which is just lethal for squishies.

That same blaster which you use to kill pretty much any other melee toon, I would like to try that blaster on my melee toon; he's not regen. I agree 110 percent with what Murdock said. i13 was a big deserved buff for melee in PvP.

This is not a call out or challenge to show off. This is perhaps to show, in practice, how blasters vs other melee, IMO, do not have that much of an advantage if they want to play for the win and not for the draw.

Playing to win or playing not-to-die and draw? Got a /regen scrapper, Conflict, for duel? Will be happy to see that match vs -kaleidoscope.

Check out -kaleidoscope (freedom). I have seen him/her beat down regen scrappers; the end drain is bad enough without /therm debuffs.

You are still vulnerable to elec/ attacks. It does not have to be an elec/thermal. I have seen Elec/Rad corrs beat down /regens scrappers in duels mainly due to the end drain.

To the OP, how much regen do you have in your current build, and what are your global rech times, and how much HP do you plan on your build?