Dechs Kaison

I'd have to find it, but I know it's been mentioned several times by our devs that ED was necessary to implement the endgame system which eventually became the invention system.

Sorry Grim, but you've got the wrong info here. ED was implemented to allow inventions to be useful. Otherwise, even with inventions, you'd still just six slot damage.

Yes, ED applies to sets. There's no reason it shouldn't. You get more enhancement out of sets than you do out of Common IOs or SOs.

It's not the mitigation, it's the lack of any kind of secondary effect to benefit from defender values.

I don't see it as a problem, personally.

I think Soul Drain is a bit excessive. You don't need any more damage buffs.

If you want to pile on -resistance, there's no better secondary than sonic blast. Radiation Blast may have more AoE damage, but the -res procs do not stack at all (even from multiple casters). You're better off using howl to increase the damage of your seven teammates even further.

If you want to pile on +damage, there's no better than kinetics.

I find the only problem with kinetics is that a second one becomes redundant. Damage cap is damage cap, and it's relatively easy to attain. I think you're better off with radiation emission, as you get some +damage from Accelerate Metabolism and you can add assault. Radiation brings many more tools to the table than kinetics.

Send it in a PM, I'll be happy to go over it and see what I can do.

Just be sure to export the "data chunk."

Healing doesn't do as much for a team as force fields do. Then again, Cold Domination gives almost that much defense, but also reduces AVs to underlings.

Preventing damage is always better than recovering from it.

I like the run.

Just in case you didn't know this already:


You're awesome, Hyperstrike.

Very few people will just hand you a build. Personally, I charge a modest 750 million influence for my time.

Then again, you could always post the build you have and I'll happily offer suggestions on how to improve it. That's always free.

I appreciate the compliment. I'm not an expert, but I do what I can around here.

Don't just listen to me, though, you can see for yourself. Just drum up a few builds and import the mitigation numbers into my Survivability Analysis (link in sig).

I'm not going to comment on your build, as you've already got a few of the experts helping you out. I just want to throw a few thoughts at you with regards to tanking.

The tanker who is the last man standing has failed.

I cannot stress how important it is that you hold your aggro. I don't care how much you can survive, if the AV or the bosses are not attacking you, you're not tanking. I built a Dark Armor Tank that could survive the apocalypse, but I made sure before I got that far that he could keep the attention on him.

Now, I understand that there's little can be done to prevent outright stupidity on the part of your teammates. It's a crying shame to see a blaster tear down a hallway he can't handle. Let him go, he's got to learn somehow.

Defense is far and away the best thing to build for. After that you want +Max HP. The last thing you should be building for as a Willpower Tanker is more regen.

When RttC gives you hundreds of regen percentage, a 10% bonus here and there won't make a drop in the bucket. Getting more max HP enhances the power of ALL of your regen. Defense, though, is the best because you begin to layer mitigation at that point. Fewer things hit you, so the regen becomes multiplied.

Another important aspect for a WP tanker to focus on is a way to hold large groups of aggro. WP has the weakest of the taunt auras, so you must learn to make maximum use out of gauntlet and taunt. I suggest picking up an Ancillary pool that will give you more AoE damage, since SS will only have footstomp. It may be a difficult leveling process, but after level 38 you'll probably do fine.