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No that's great Advice! thank you, I'm going to work on it and use your advice a lot, I have been waiting sooo long for help with getting rid of acro.

I 'll have newer build up in a day,TYVM

Yeah, totally agree that they are skippable if he does this build he certainly has room for rock armor still.

I honestly don't think you need all those armors. Here's a list of armors That I think you need and will be fine with.

-stone armor-
Stone skin
Earth's Embrace
Mud pots
rooted
granite armor

-Fighting-
boxing
tough
weave

And that's it really. A pal of mine runs this build, barely needs to throw off rooted and never dies. I remember back before the nerf'd AE we would run all boss maps for the fun of it and he never died, never had to take a break really either.

The tough and weave are just overkill lol. This also allows you to have a lot more room in your build for attacks. Well actually it gives you one more spot than what you have now and all you have to get rid of is:

Level 1: Rock Armor
Level 12: Brimstone Armor
Level 32: Crystal Armor
Level 49: Minerals

So you eliminate three of them for tough and weave and boxing, and you got a whole new spot for something else

EDIT: I also think he used that one spot and got assault from the leadership pool, but you can't do that since you have to travel powers so you can use the extra spot for a mastery power or maybe a new attack.


EDIT: the great thing is if you don't want to stay in granite for most of your tanking, you can have this just as a second build and try it out. I can see where taking the armors would be good if you hated granite armor.

Oh that's nice, that gives you some room to really be creative with the build. I'm also digging those damage bonuses, you can really own with that.

A lot of good points, but from a lot of people I talk to, say that invulnerability is easy to soft cap. Now it's impossible for me to back this up with numbers because I don't use hero builder, but Invulernability is said to be easy to soft cap and while you soft cap it the other set bonuses will help with end. And almost everybody gets stamina these days.

They are very similar builds though, I just think Invulnerability would be stronger and easier.

EDIT: not saying Ice is a bad choice, any tank these days can be built into a farming tank, I just think Invulnerability will be easier to work with.

It doesn't matter about the battle axe, It actually goes really well with the play style of a stone. The problem you are facing it Stone Armor. It's great when you have a kin in the group with you but other than that, you are just a huge target for the baddies to bang on while your team kills the baddies. Granite (right now) has a huge problem that has gotten worse. It use to be not so bad but they made it so you can barely attack. Before you give up on all faith for your stone I'm going to give you a build to try out.

-stone armor-
Stone skin
Earth's Embrace
Mud pots
rooted
granite armor

This is all you really need when you touch into Stone Armor, by using this build you both, never die, and have much more space to try and fix that problem of recharge.

-Fighting-
boxing
tough
weave

-Fitness-
Swift
health
stamina

I strongly recommend getting these two pools and doing this for End and Survivability reasons(tough and weave just makes you god like with a stone).

Now you can get things like hasten to help with the recharge or maybe a mastery or something like that. If you still can't have fun with your tank after this maybe Stone tanker isn't for you Don't feel too bad about it, not everybody likes being a stone tanker because of the same problems you have.

Some tanks I would suggest you try if you don't like stone tanks are:

(From most durable to least durable)

-Invulnerability/whatever maybe Axe
-Shield/Fire
-Fire/Ice
-Fire/Fire

Look into these tanks if you have lost all faith in a stone tanker. Fire Fire tank is a huge difference from stone tanker. They are like Night and Day. Shield Fire tanks do a lot more damage, almost the same if not more than a fire fire.(I prefer Fire fire.) but they have a little more strength than a Fire/fire tanker.

Fire/Ice tankers are great for holding aggro. They play different than a Fire Fire but have the same survivability rate. Invulnerability tanks are tough tough tanks, they come right under stone tankers. They don't have the problems you are facing with your stone tank though so that's why I suggest you look into them.


Well I hope this is some helpful info, I'll subscribe to this so feel free to ask any questions.

I know, I never said the d3 was doing anything wrong, I said it was one of the best combos I have seen.

I never said anything about AB. I also see your point, I honestly have never played a sonic character, never felt the need too. I also never was too big into the defender scene, I have a 50 empathy defender but thats a healer, not a defender. So I guess I could agree with you that with sonic/emp u have both the damage and the support.

The best combo I have seen with an emp was with a D3, the heals kept them both at full health and the energy blast the emp had with the D3's DoTs and holds kicked some major butt.

rofl