Dechs Kaison

Could be worse. My brother's name is Daniel, but we all call him by his initials, "D.J."

While he was in high school and working part time, his boss called our house and asked to talk to "Dan." My mom, who answered the phone, replied "You must have the wrong number," and hung up.

I'm what I would call 100% U.S. Mutt.

Knowing my ancestry, I'm fair certain it's a German or an Irish name.

Oh, don't worry about that. My warshade isn't the only AT I play, despite how much fun he is.

Plenty of times I'll feel like being a tank. When that happens, I play my tank. Likewise with anything I play. I don't say "I want to be a tank" then just shift into dwarf and stay there. A warshade is less "shift as the situation needs" and more "all forms at all times" because they all work together. A warshade can make for a good tank in a pinch, but if what you need is a tank, get a tank. If you want to be the all offense glass cannon of a blaster, get a blaster. If you want a fast moving, self sufficient, crowd controlling, heavily armored weapons platform that might even be putting out as much damage as a blaster, THEN you get a warshade.

You're just a little off. I pronounce the "Kai" as ki with a long i sound (the a is pretty much silent), but the s makes a z sound. So it's KI-zon.

And I kinda lied about the "Dex" thing. I mean, that's how it's always been said while I was growing up, but I've learned that the "true" pronunciation (you know, how my great-great-great's said it) is more like "Desh." I think I'd rather be called "Desh" than "Dex" knowing that, but try telling your family to change how they pronounce your name after they've said it another way for 26 years.

These are two completely different arguments. The first is about measuring power and the second is about balance. I agree that not everything should be able to solo an AV; that is not a good balance point to set.

I maintain that there is nothing wrong with saying Powerset Combination A can handle more difficult things than PC B, therefor PC A is more powerful. If you don't measure power by what a combo can accomplish, then what do you measure it by?

All I'm going to say:

I've done this mission several times on a Ninja Blade/Dark Armor stalker who is currently level 44, and skipped taking fitness since it would be free in i19. He has a frankenslotted build with very few bonuses. My stalker runs missions at +1/x1.

Lethal damage is highly resisted by Malta.

Dark Armor without Stamina doesn't like to run all its toggles at once.

Stalkers do not deal well with ambushes.

I handled it fine. It took some inspirations, I won't lie, but it wasn't insanely hard.

The way of "I want the game to be easymode, give me an I win button, I can't think."

I completely understand you, but I'd like to point out I'm not saying tanker damage is bad. I'm just saying it's less than scrappers. I know tanker damage is more than adequate, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to do the things in my video.

I haven't build defense to the exclusion of offense. I made sure my tank is offensive capable. I hit things, and hit them hard enough. But I'm not packed for recharge and damage bonuses. "I know I'll kill you. I don't know how long it'll take, but I know that you won't kill me first."

Again, the following is just opinion, but if your goal is offense, start with the best offensive foundation you can find.

This is the true gray area, when you're talking about finding balance. Do you start with a tank, who already has enough defense, and increase his offense? Or do you start with a scrapper, who already has the offense, and work to increase his defense?

There's no right answer.

This makes no sense. Of course you can measure how powerful something is by the types of targets it can solo.

Is that the best way to measure how powerful an AT is? Maybe it is.

Is that the best way to measure how much an AT contributes to a team? Certainly not.