Dark_Blasphemy_EU

In my opinion there's not such pve/pvp build, but who wants excellence?

For lv50 PvP you just need 3 attacks (hack, disembowel and headsplitter) if you go with FA. With FA you can slot all your attacks 1 acc 3 dmg 2 rech, and provided the long animation time in broadsword, you will always have one of the powers recharged. You don't need lucky or evasion, as the amount of powers rated as AoE is minimal, but you do need endrdx on your toggles, unless 2 on each, 3 when possible.

Nevertheless, my bet would be weapons epics, along with fear pool and tp (foe), thus having speed, tp, fear and medicine pools. Few things are as effective as casting fear on a squishie, throwing down caltrops at his feet, and pwning him while he tries to run away in slow motion

Castle should play the game a bit more in that case

Slow in movement and recharge . Sure TP lessens the movement effect, but it will never be as quick as ss/sj for herding/taunting as ice. But it's a matter of play style, just pick the one that suits better to your play style.
That said, I agree with Idris in that ice tankers are possibly the squishies best friend. Fire blasters can attack safely till exhaustion, and if fire ones do, all the others will. Stone is your best friend (apart from rads) when vs AVs tho

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Heya, have recently wondered about making a tanker, as i'm interested in playing a more team-focused character than my scrapper (Kind of built to solo). However, two sets really grab my attention, Ice and Stone. I like the graphics on both, but i can't really decide which i want to play long term. Have tried two low level ones of both. (Both deleted now) and i still can't decide. Any advice?

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Ice is much better team oriented, but Stone is better vs AVs generally.
No other tank will grab the aggro so easily preventing the team being attacked. Stone is practically unkillable after lv32, but its movement, recharge and damage penalties make it much slower in all terms.In terms of survavility stone beats all the other tanks, in terms of aggro management and safety for the team, ice is the best by far, if you can cope with the aggro that means.
Stone tanks do much better with a kin or, as a second choice, a rad in team that buffs its speed and recharge. Ice on the other hand really whine when teaming with ff or empath that boosts its defense

Theres's not one specific imo. Against blasters I'd say Ma/regen or Spines Regen. Against trollers, Spines/SR prolly. Against MMs, dark/sr... and so on

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I haven't played the 40+ game in CoH so I am not really qualified to comment on this particular nerf. I am a little concerned with the way these nerfs have been handled. There was no mention of them whatsoever, they managed to say a freespec would be coming after I8 due to some fire blaster changes.

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I was going to choose Psi epic for concept reasons, but with the incredibly heavy nerfs to that particular set I don't know if I'll bother with anything other than the mez protection and the shield. Some of the pool powers are going to be more effective for damage now. Psionic Tornado, now at 0.175? I want to defeat my foes, not gently blow on their faces.

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This is what most villains face with picking their Patorns. I wonder how many people take all four?

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If villain PPPs are broken, that doesn't mean you have to break trollers' epics to even things out, don't ya think?

Sorry I'm out, my toons are not fit for pvp anymore

Safer?? emp/elec without any doubt! It doesn't have mad imps aggroing the whole place around!

If the problem is AoE blasts, why nerf ST ones too? That cripples trollers for pvp too, not only for pve

Yep MMs shouldn't lose to regens, but if any regen has a chance against them, that is spineys or 'might' be, dark

Masterminds won't kill a spines regen easily. Besides, he can always jump away if hp goes down too quickly

It's still good, mainly if trollers cant kill regens now

Naaaaah, its globey

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Stalk i love your fire/ta

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You haven't fought a fire/ff

What u guys are about? Everybody knows that best PvP blaster is Archery/sonic!!

zomg im going to family home the 22nd for xmas holidays!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

PvP I mean, I didn't take it for PvE. Can show you anytime

Ok make it's useful against all the trollers but illu or mind / rad still most of them though. And also provides repel resistance, which would surprise bubblers

The level ypu are when you slot them

Heh, sarchasm aside, with 4 recharges and hasten it's perma

I got detention bubble perma while hasten is on, on my troller, tho

I'm always up for some pvp, so if you still need more testing, let me know ^^

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I think the most telling aspect is only ONE of my powers goes unused for any length of time, Clear Mind, and that's only because 9 times out of 10 it's best applied as a "heal" rather than a buff.

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10 times out of 10 it's best applied as a buff.

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Truer words have never been spoken

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Meh it itches, but got to agree with archie there

Meh should I delete my just created ff/psi then?