Dersk

You think a tax doesn't affect demand? Seriously? Or are you talking about this instead of the wentworth's fee, which is already equivalen to a sales tax.

No. It will check to proc once every 10 seconds from anything that's a toggle.

Fireball > Taunt

Every tank should have fireball.

Intermediate level: Rather than buy a relatively expensive enhancement, place at least two cheap bids (lowest or 4th lowest of last 5 sales) on the recipie for the enhancement, preferably on different levels. Craft all purchased enhancements, and sell those that aren't slotted (at highest or 2nd highest price). While this will take longer than buying now, it will make building almost any character a process that makes money, rather than costs money.

It's like eating healthy and exercising. It's how you should live.

And here I am just having spent the most I've ever spent on a miracle +recovery... 50million. I didn't even bid creep.

People never cease to amaze me.

That only applies to someone that looks where to spend money before learning how to make money. They are destined to be poor with that outlook and deserve no sympathy. All a newblette has to do is discover the market value for arcane salvage and be reasonably well off for the rest of his or her existence.

Why is 100k wrong? What is the "right" price, and what objective criteria did you use to determine what that price is? We need to alert the playerbase, because they're obviously missing something when they choose to ignore common salvage rewards at the AE while selling and bidding 100k for that common salvage.

Perhaps I should start refunding players the billions I've made selling these things at the wrong prices.

...without even using pool powers.

Between mob placement, debuffs, status effects, and allies with knockback, repel, their own agro generation capabilities, and hell even the ability to use status effects of their own makes the expectation of a tanker to use AEs with varied target caps, radii, and level placement to completely control all agro from all spawns simply ridiculous.

With the inherent gauntlet on many single-target attacks being so small as to possibly not include the tanker in its radius, such a standard does nothing but provide a way for the entire playerbase to be labeled as a failure. It really isn't a very productive expectation from a position of game balance or gameplay.

Before making a long-winded post about that statement, I'll ask that you simply clarify if you would feel "complete aggro control" could be replaced with something a bit less stringent.

It seems to me that expecting a tanker to hold the attention for all enemies and survive the damage it draws is as reasonable as expecting a blaster to be the sole source of damage and to be responsible for defeating everything (without relying on buffs or debuffs).

I think all tanker primaries, without relying on secondaries, should be able to withstand the initial attacks from an entire spawn and survive it. I'm a bit undecided on what difficulty or level difference that should be achievable, or how much time the rest of the team should have to suck up their end of the deal. But, complete control over enemy agro for the entire duration of every fight is only setting up every tanker for failure.

And here I was thinking people forget what it's like to play without set bonuses.

I had always guessed it was related to their abundant use of dull pain, causing them to (usually) require more damage to kill regardless of damage type used.

Make an elec/fire tanker and tell me he's "survivable".

My invluln tanker has 122 endurance. If he only lost 100 endurance when unstoppable crashed, having 22 endurance remaining would be quite obvious. Yet, my endurance completely disappears.

...and the crash doesn't stunt recovery... at all.

The OP simply got a tick of endurance between the crash and when the toggles tried to eat endurance.

The problem with leadership on a dark defenders, from my experience, is that there are so many available methods of tohit debuff available, maneuvers is either wasted due to enemies being floord in their accuracy, or a particular enemy avoided the debuffs and maneuvers has nothing with which to stack.

Assault just sucks in general for personal damage... resistance debuffs don't prevent it from being overshadowed by enhancements and common inspiration usage (it still sucks for adjustements to DPE).

Tactics I do use on my dark defender, but he doesn't have radiation blast, which, like the tohit debuffs, provide such a plethora of defense debuffs that tactics is unlikely to make a difference once you've actually hit something.

But, yeah, vengeance is a self buff

It won't get changed as long as the proponents for change constantly spout out this tripe.