Dechs Kaison

Damnit.


I'm a Loyalist now.

Honestly it's not so much the magnitude of the taunt but the duration that makes it weak.

I swear, every question ever posed on these boards gets the same answer.

"It depends."

It depends on the powersets. It depends more on the goals of the build. Nowadays all my tanks have a main-tank and an off-tank build. Nine times out of ten, the main tank has tough and weave. Ten times out of ten, the off-tank doesn't.

Overall, it looks great. There's a couple things I'd change.

Hurdle instead of swift, especially since you have combat jumping. The two combined work out to amazing maneuverability in combat.

Take one slot away from swift (hurdle) and give it to one of the attacks. I'd suggest Jab if you intend to use it, otherwise put it to KO Blow.

That fifth slot you have in Haymaker/KO Blow (and maybe Jab) should probably be the Mako quad for maximum enhancement values. If you add another slot to KO Blow, keep the one you have and add the Mako quad to it.

Knockback protection. It'd do you good to get another four points. Maybe that extra swift (hurdle) slot is best in combat jumping for the karma KB protect. The reason I say this is that KB is usually under 4 or over 10 in terms of magnitude. Eight points won't help any more than four in most of the content.

AVs - Scrappers and brutes. Maybe Stalkers and tanks.

GMs - Nobody.*

Not without nukes, shivans, HVAS, a stack of envenomed daggers, and a truckload of insps.

Thanks for the input so far guys. It's all really interesting to hear.

There's no doubt about it, the bottom line of City of Heroes is dealing damage to defeat the enemy. You don't gain experience for getting hit, debuffing enemies or buffing allies. It pretty much only comes from beating people in the face until they fall down and don't get back up. To that end, people have taken this pursuit to the extremes, such as soloing Pylons, AVs and GMs, even duoing a mothership raid, all without temporary powers.

By choosing a tanker, you cut yourself off from being able to do those things. Tankers are the least damaging AT, and unlike defenders, have very limited means of increasing that. So in a game so focused on dealing damage and feeling super, why do you enjoy playing a Tanker?

For me, it still is about feeling super. In fact, it's about feeling outright awesome. I've termed myself an "aggroholic," though I doubt I'm the first person to think of that term. I'm always actively seeking larger groups of stronger enemies. If I don't have to keep a finger on my Dark Regeneration bind, what we're fighting isn't tough enough. It makes me feel awesome to know that what I'm up against should be able to kill me, but can't.

That's not all of it, though. By being able to keep all that attention, I'm letting an entire team of people be awesome. Everyone can go full bore with their attacks and not worry about return fire. That makes me feel awesome.

I had a great time! There were so many frakkin' tanks!

Sewer Trial was completed in 1:07 total with four dark armor tanks, three willpower tanks, and one unfortunate invulnerability tank.

That was a blast for sure. Thanks for coming guys!

I am happy.

What I mean is I'm not going to thank for each SB. But at the end of the night I'm more than likely to say something like:

"Nice job, SuperFireKinManDude. You were really on the ball with SB tonight."

Cold/ dark/ traps/ rad/ or cold/ defenders are my favorites, especially when they come with sonic blast.

Any kind of 'troller is awesome.

I like blasters, too.

I'll be happy to take one other tank, but I don't like to bring a third or more.

Scrappers... meh. If they join, fine. If I don't get any, great.

That's pretty much my feelings for Master run or regular. I'm never picky, though. I take the first seven people interested and go. I like buffs, debuffs, and controls, but mostly I just like people who can have fun.