Desitre

I must be careful how I word this story.

Based off of a movie called "teeth"

There is a fear that all men fear. Where the Colgate Lady of the Dark, will come on Halloween, and take their man hood from them. She will do it by having a surprise in her sarlacc pit, that surprise, will be teeth!!!

No one knows why she does this. Some say it's because she is an evil women who hates men, others say she is a vampire and has a taste for it. No one will ever know.

That is all I can say and I will leave it up to you to decipher.

I honestly don't think you should spend a lot of money on your stone. The stones can be the bomb and don't need IO's. They come right out of the box super uber strong. Plus if you spec out your stone, he/she may not see a difference because it already is so strong. Yeah some IO's are good like for your travel power but you don't need to waste millions on a tank that doesn't need it. You will find more improvement in your Invul than in your stone.

Don't get me wrong, a stone would be nice to have the recharge IO's, and would be cheaper; but you seem not to care about price and I think Invul will have a much more noticable difference with IO's.

So Tenacious T, After all these damn AT wars going on in your thread, did you find one that your wife can be absolutely horrid at?

For the most part I think fly; you can get anywhere, you have stealth if you max it out with the IOs of souring and freebird, you look cool, you can slot it so you never lose any end. which is a problem with TP. That's just my opinion though, it just happens to be the slowest of them all but I don't really care because it goes fast enough for me lol.

Super speed is the 2nd. fastest but you have to deal with running around buildings and running around stairs and that can be a hassle, especially if your in villains.

I hate Superjump with a passion, it may be faster then flight but, well it's hard to explain, you experience this annoying problem when trying to get to high places, for example the AE door up top. and the vertical limitations and a whole bunch of other things. It's great for PvP though.

Teleport uses alot of END but is the fastest and great if your a stone tanker. Also takes some skill when using it which you probably had to learn since you have it.

ALL the travel powers are preference though and there really isn't one that is the "best". They are all pretty balanced. Hell, I have a friend with just Fitness and 3slots in hurdle, swift and 6slots in sprint, she gets around okay but she does this because of the story and it's iconic to her character.

EDIT: Also flight is nice because you hit auto run key and you can walk away from the computer while your toon flies to the mission. You can't do that with the other Travel powers that's for sure.

I joined sometime in 2005 and my second toon ever was a Fire/Fire tank, and guess what...I STILL PLAY IT!!! It's gotta be my favorite build even with all the ******* nerfs lol.

I would normally say Fire/fire tank but, there's not a lot of flexibility in it "anymore" because of all the damn nerfs lol. I still have a lot of fun with it and fire fire probably uses the most tactics of all the tanks but it's nice to have something with a little bit more strength in it without having to go to the pool powers. Shield/Fire has always sounded like a good combo to me, if you want to go the offensive damage way.

If your looking for a good strong and durable tank go with Invul. or WP.

Then there is the stone tanker....lol The tank that doesn't die but relys heavily on his teammates for damage and the holy SB!!!

A lot of options and really any tanker can be turned into a team tank, I mean they kinda are built for it since this is a "MMO" The most fun and probably best way to go I think is with shield armor and have a really good damage power set like FIRE!!

EDIT: also Fire/Ice tankers are great once they get their burn and ice patch thing lol

Thank you, I hope you have a great Nevada day as well lol

Why is everyone against Absorb Pain? I have it on my empath and love it! Yeah you can't heal yourself while you throw it off but it saves people's lives. In my opinion I think that is one of the major key powers of an Empathy.

If your excuse is that you die every time you throw it off that's a load of crap lol. I manage to throw it off and survive just fine. The more healers we have being selfish and trying to keep themselves alive instead of the team the cruddier our teams are going to get.

For EX: When someone runs in without the team being ready absorb pain can really help you keep that person alive while the tank runs in and grabs the aggro off the dude.

I'm just saying that people shouldn't be so against Absorb Pain, it can become a very useful power if used right. I mean you would take unstoppable on your invul. scrapper correct? well when that power runs out you have NO end. or hp. That is much worse than Absorb pain if you ask me lol.

Alright, love some jesus killing natzi ACTION!!!!!

Really I prefer Invulnerability because I honestly thing it's stronger(not that much though) There are a lot of people that go WP these days too, so maybe mix it up? well there are a lot of people going invul too. This thread can go on for days, But if this helps since you said you want to go themed. Go WP because unless you are a super soldier, it makes more sense to have the "Strength of Will" then to be like super man.

Sorry if that doesn't help, there really isn't much difference in them strength wise, they play different though if that helps any. Make a WP on a server you don't play on normally and get to 15, then do the same except with an invul. That will help you choose, read into the powers as well.

Good luck, and I know this post is a tough one and may not help that much, but this thread is one of the tougher questions lol.

Dude that's friggin' awesome!!! First time I have ever heard of something like that lol You guys deserve the ultimate of all gratz, GRITS;-)

It's really not that hard unless you are trying to get IOs and all that crap. This is what I run on my empathy.

-Empathy-
ALL THE POWERS!!! lol

-Archery-
Snap shot
Snipe(something like that, just shows how much I use it.)
RoA

-Fitness-
Swift
Health
Stamina

-Flight-
Hover
Fly

-Leadership-
ALL the powers

-Teleportation-
Tp friend

-Power mastery-
Conserve power
Power build up

MY SECRET!
power mastery and fitness fix all my end problems. And the fact Almost everything in Empathy is six slotted(besides things like fort. clear mind, and rez.)

Yep thats it, no IO's really besides that I have numina something lol. and doctored wounds. oh and not to forget the fly maxed out with IOs.

I have never really had a problem with endurance really. Maybe because all I do is heal and not attack unless RA is up.

Welcome back bro. So When I came back I posted something similar but it was more "They killed me" lol Now unlike most people, I play my main(fire fire) Daily and it's all I play because I just can't let it go.

Fire Fire still uses the same tactics when you are going into a battle but they have done some major nerfs. Burn does half the damage it use to and no matter how much taunt you have, they are going to run back and forth scattering throughout your burn. FYI

Power wise- I suggest taking Tough and Weave, we need it badly now, it's pathetic. Also us fire fire tanks have to handle our kb protection and there's two main ways to do that. Acrobatics, or IO's. Now if you go the acrobatics path it's right up your neighborhood in the leaping pool. hell you probably have it. Anyways If you choose acro you are covered on kb and it's cheap, but if you go the IO you better get ready to spend money.

Now this is just preference from one tank to another about our IO's and that is," Do not get set bonused IO's and slot them in your shields, you will take a hit if you do and fire fire tank does not need that."

Good news about fire fire tank lol is that we still are one of the most highly DPS doing tanks out there. I prefer to play my fire fire tank by getting AoEs and DoTs with a lil greater fire sword thrown in there lol. I do this because I think it's easier to hold down aggro like this.

I think that's all the advice you really need. The only thing I didn't really mention is an exact build out(which I won't give you because I just don't believe in that kinda stuff) and that fire fire tanks don't really need that many IO's. I find after awhile I do better without them, so I only have 5 or 6 of them.

Again WB and hope you can find the beauty in the fire/fire tank again lol.

EDIT: here's the thread I started when I got back, had a lot of good advice towards fire fire tanks.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=186239 also I totally forgot to tell you that you need fitness lol total must. As you can tell they have nerfed us too much, I mean I don't even have room for mastery powers anymore lol.