Dechs Kaison

Not exactly. On +0 difficulty, yes, the tanker and the scrapper will take about the same number of attacks to flatten a mob. As the difficulty increases, the performance gap becomes clearly visible. Now we've gone from back roads to the autobahn.

I want to make sure I'm not misinterpreted. I'm not saying the grass is greener anywhere and I'm quite happy with my lawn. I like my tanks, and as of yet I still haven't been able to like a scrapper. I realize that's just preference.

I didn't mean to say that there is something wrong with building an offensive tank. I'm simply a "play to the strengths" kind of guy. In my opinion, if you what you want is offense, make a scrapper. I wanted character that could stand at the gates of hell, so I found the toughest AT I could start with, the strongest looking powersets, and built more defense on top of that.

I plan to make a scrapper that does the opposite. He'll be Fire/Fire/Fire, loaded down with offensive bonuses, and survive just long enough for Rise of the Phoenix to recharge.

No, I didn't. What I meant was, I targetted Holtz and jumped on top of the first two portals and taunted. I didn't target the portals, though. The first two died from AoE. The back two or three were constantly spawning Rikti for the whole fight though.

Holtz and Honoree were fighting me for two to three minutes while the portals spawned rikti.

What I keep trying to say is: If you got to the point where the room was absolutely flooded, you should have just backed out, reset the mission and tried again. Don't throw your mouse against the wall then come here whining that it's impossible.

To be brutally technical, the last level cap raise was from 40 to 50, and accuracy was nerfed, but that was for critters, not players.

Reminds me: Using Self Destruct as you're about to die anyway, but then rezzing with a full compliment of huge inspies because you leveled up.

No no, it doesn't happen for legitimate questions.

Take, for example, the following two "questions:"

"Why is the level cap 50?"

"why isnt the level cap 100 i want more slots and powers this game sucks!"

One of these will be answered respectfully and most likely in great detail. The other is trite nonsense and will be treated as such.

Yeah, that doesn't happen in our community.

Never a problem to ask a question here.

So what relation does animation have to frame count, anyway?

In pen and paper games, that works. You can have someone that takes and deals all the damage, because there's a lot more to those game than damage. You need someone with the charisma to talk his way out of situations, someone skilled enough to get through traps... etc.

The point is, in a pen and paper game, there are plenty of things a "brick," or as I would call him, a fighter, cannot do. This is the balance.

In an MMO, all there is to the game is damage. If you have an AT or a class that can deal enough damage to kill anything on its own and take enough damage to survive anything on its own, then it is out of balance.

I agree with you, Airhammer, that most people are expecting a Brick when they roll a tank.

I don't build tanks offensively because that feels, at least to me, like buying a Humvee and outfitting it for drag racing. You'd be better off starting with a Kia. Any Kia.

If I wanted to be an offensive character, I'd be a scrapper or a brute or a mastermind or anything else. I looked at the list of ATs and chose Tank because I wanted to survive anything the game had to throw at me. I want to off road in a combat zone, so I'm going to buy my Humvee, add armor plating and make sure the wheels get enough torque to carry it around.

Hey, never said I didn't have faith in you. Your comment just sounded like this:

"Ok, so you can walk a tightrope a thousand feet in the air, but I do it without a safety net."

Sure, you can both do the same thing and you're both probably just as good at walking tightropes, and you might even get across faster, but one of you is smart enough to have a safety net. Just in case.

I was talking from the perspective of using more AoE than anything else, as tankers (my main melee AT) tend to be more AoE capable. Eventually you'd be left with nothing but bosses.

Not that it matters to my Dark Armor tank. Hell, I've jumped into the Rikti Mothership Bowl alone without trouble.

That is interesting, I always worry about letting stray boss aggro get away from me because of the aggro cap, but this is certainly good to know. Thanks.

Dark Armor here. Sappers mean nothing.

Ok, things turned into a snafu. So back up and try again. Reset the mission once.

"What exactly is his job? On this ship?"
"Public relations."

A little over the top here. One look into that room, even knowing NOTHING ELSE about the arc, and you should have thought "Hey, maybe I should prioritize on those portals."

Ah, see, there in lies your problem. You may be able to hold down a bunch of rikti, but held and not attacking ones aren't counting against your aggro cap. I'm certain of that.

With a melee type character with defense powers, all you have to be able to withstand is 17 enemies worth of damage. Hundreds or thousands in the room won't matter beyond 17 at a time. It gets ugly when you're down to 17 bosses, of course.

I looked at that and almost had a heart attack from sheer joy. If that doesn't look like fun, I don't know what does.

If only my tank had knockback.