Dersk

You would prefer a faster suicide button?

Stone melee's mallet animations that use two hands use alternate animations that are shared with the axe/broadsword/mace sets. Stone mallet uses the hack animation, and heavy mallet uses the disembowel animation, as I recall.

I love yes/no answers to either or questions.

No, endurance reduction enhancements don't reduce the severity of the crash. Yes, they reduce the cost of the activation.

Tough and weave can significantly help you, though I have a hard time suggesting anything over footstomp.

I had tough and weave on my shield tanker as he was leveling up, but quickly grew tired of the restricted power choices, and opted for a few IO sets to up his melee and ranged defense numbers.

On that topic, if you're not too keen on IO sets, then tough and weave will use up a significant chunk of your endurance recovery.

That's coming from someone that would rather have fireball, so take that how you will.

And here we see why so many suggestions don't even get the courtesy response.

There's a secondary other than sonic?

Dropping aid self and aid other for RPD and buildup would make your build very similar, in power choices, to what I've been using for invuln tankers for about two years now. The order is a bit different, but I've never found a way to include the resists Es in a way that satisfied me.

With the abundance of the temp power ethereal shift, I don't have any problems using unstoppable whenever the need suits me, and I'd rather lean on that than the measly resists in REs or spending time and endurance animating aid self in hard fights.

As I recall, it requires a foe in invincibility's range to go off, and even then the chance to activate only occurs once every ten seconds.

It's not so much that invincibility is a bad place for it, it's just that there is no good place for it ouside of blinding feint and follow up, which aren't exactly available to most characters.

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Most NEW players don't have the accumulated knowledge you have

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I wasn't attempting to debate how easily new players make influence, specifically. I was responding to someone that supposedly knows enough to give advice on these forums, yet finds DOs expensive when they really aren't. You've completely misread my post if you thought I was critiquing the money-making activities of new players.

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The fact that some of your first power choices for some of the sets are VERY end heavy, like Blazing Aura and Death Shroud, further compound the problem. Yeah, you and I know to wait on, but to someone brand new, that is neat lookin [censored] you wanna use.

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I take and use all damage auras as soon as they're available

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You are talking about concentrating on certain sets of mobs

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It's a bonus and not required for a character to be self sufficient. I specifically mentioned that that activity allows me to surpass DOs and SOs.

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And acting alone, my 12-21 characters could not consistently afford DOs, IOs, or their initial SOs either.

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Before i9, I would have had no problem agreeing with this statement. Ever since, I haven't had any problem completely outfitting characers with complete DOs and SOs when the time comes. Focusing on hellions and CoT, for example, before level 10, I generally don't even buy DOs, but instead go straight for generic IOs.

It doesn't happen automatically, but having a self sufficient character nowadays isn't quite as hard as it was.

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If you try to take down a white lieutenant and minion standard solo combination, a tanker will surely need to rest if the lieutenant of that combo is a Tsoo Sorcerer.

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I don't have that problem.

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Dropping the mission isn't an elegant option

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Apparently, niether is using yellow inspirations, using building, hitting the sorcerer when it's switching toggles, repeatedly knocking the sorcerer down or disorienting it, or any other number of tactics that varies between powersets other than standing in a hurricane meleeing the sorcerer until your endurance bar vanishes. Yes, that's the elegant option.

Oh, and don't bother having any accuracy slotted! You just aren't going to get that much accuracy out of TOs and DOs, after all.

No wonder there are so many people with endurance problems.

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My Mind/FF Controller has got tells asking if I heal a couple times

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This may seem like splitting hairs, but that isn't the entire archetype being refused. But, more importantly, that type of refusal isn't being done by someone that actually undertands how the game works. Ironically, people that pursue tankers do so quite often out of similar motivations to get a "healer". As much as I enjoy playing my tanks, I don't see that kind of popularity as positive feedback for the AT.

edit: I'll clarify that "healer" comparison as being my anecdotal experience from the types of situations certain types of players request a tanker. In typical play, when I see that, all requests for a tanker could be replaced by "healer" and it'd make as much sense for the situation. "We just lost our last tanker." "That's a big spawn, we need a tanker." It's sad sometimes.

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The Eagle's Claw alternate is just bad.

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At least it isn't something you'd see in the movie Zohan.

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I think blasters and controllers have worse END issues than tanks do

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I'd love for you to clarify how blasters have worse endurance issues than tankers. I may not be too keen on blaster issues, but endurance efficiency isn't one of them.

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I'd say the same for endurance drain but they have ONES modifers. Only way to make those "weaker" is to make tanker Endurance bar higher (instead of lower end use modifiers) so they fill less of the bar along with an equivalent end recovery tweak so that things end better than now but not too better for sets with Quick Recovery

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Even more off topic, but I long thought that if tankers are intended to take a team's share of debuffs, knockback, status effects, and damage, they should be given the tools to take those effects without crumbling. For the time being, that really only applies to mitigating status effects and damage. Knockback situationally so. But, taking a spawn of Mu, or anything else with relevant endurance drain, and being sapped of endurance to the point that the tanker's ability to mitigate damage is compromised is a terrible way to encourage tanking or reward teaming.

Though, a universal reduction in endurance costs and endurance recovery would logically require an equivalent reduction in the value of enemy-used endurance drains, to be fair. I think that's more of a data entry problem than a balance problem, though.

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For one thing, it's more of a forum exercise than something that actually happens in-game

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How often it happens is a debatable topic highly tainted by one's point of view and anecdotal experience. It happens. It happens to and bothers some people more than others, but so does being kicked for not being a healing defender.

I've been refused invites to SG teams that simply didn't want any tanker at all (boy did I quit that SG). I have been refused an invite to a TF because the team already had a tanker. While it problably saved me heartache from teaming with idiocy, I've never seen or heard of that issue with anything other than a tanker.