Finduilas

Though I haven't looked at the Sapper ranged attack specifically, most end drain attacks are typed energy. Rather than trying to build up your Ranged defense, perhaps you could soft-cap your Energy defense instead, which would be a lot easier and less expensive.

Of course, that may not work if the sapper attack has a super-high to-hit, but that would be a problem for Ranged def as well. In which case you'd have to fall back on the epic attack or teammates that can take them out quickly.

The reason I chose not to go for Psi def or resists with my Invul tanks is that to get a meaningful amount of either, you really have to dedicate your build to that and not much else.

An alternative way to approach it is try to increase the the overall amount of defense in your build, especially to S/L. Then you only have to worry about pure Psi attacks, which aren't that common. And as a side benefit of building for typed defense bonuses, you'll also increase your positional defense, which will help against most Psi attacks.

Of course, to do that, you'd probably want to pick up Tough and Weave, which would require that you drop 3 powers from your current build. Painful, yes, but if you're on a tight budget it's a lot less expensive than trying to increase the defense (including Psi defense) in your build just using IO bonuses.

A couple of other notes:

I strongly recommend that you drop the End/Rchg slot from your Reactive Armor sets. You don't need them for slotting, and the bonus you get from them is pitiful. Just putting a second slot in CJ or SJ and slotting two BotZ will get you a much better bonus.

Unstoppable is way overslotted--you only need a SOs worth of resistance enhancement to cap all your resists. Slotting recharge is also a good idea if you plan on using it fairly often. If you are primarily using it as an IO mule, put the RA set in one of the resist passives instead.

I also suggest that you look at one of the DM guides either here or in the scrapper or brute forums. I haven't played it much myself, but I think most veteran DM players would suggest that you should take both Shadow Maul and Dark Consumption.

I've been playing DA for over four years and as far as I know CoD has always had the same endurance cost it does now. Several years ago the three main armor toggles (DE, OS, MC) were reduced from .26 EPS to .21, but unless a change was made to CoD a looong time ago, I think you're misremembering.

I don't agree with the advice to avoid Mace; it's great in combination with Dark, and the end issues are completely manageable if your build has sufficient end reduction.

And if you're referring to Cloak of Darkness, it uses exactly the same endurance as Acro and any number of other shield armors. Like most damage auras, Death Shroud and Cloak of Fear do cost a lot of endurance to run, which is why they should be heavily slotted for end reduction.

And run DS and CoF with no Accuracy or End Reduction? I certainly wouldn't recommend it.

Rich players have more to influence to spread around, but I'd think that poorer players would have more *need* to distribute what they have between characters. This would be particularly true if the 'bank' would allow the exchange of recipes and enhancements as well as influence.

Completely feasible. I have Air Sup/Fly on all but one of my Tanks, and that's exactly what I do.

Yes, "Follow" works the same on both Hover and Fly; unless you have some momentum, (which is more often the case with Fly than with Hover) you'll stop just outside Melee range. However, if you're using Fly to reach a foe you'll usually have enough momentum to get into Melee range.

The Foot Stomp issue was never a problem for me since my tankers' feet are firmly on the ground when tanking. For me, and I think for a lot of other Fly users, the difference is not between CJ and Hover, but between CJ and nothing. IME, using CJ just doesn't make that much of a difference.

For straight point-to-point travel, yeah. But for me, the complete freedom of movement in 3D more than makes up for the lack of speed. IIRC, Fly still is the most popular travel power, so obviously I'm not alone in feeling that way.

*Slightly* lower; 3.9% vs. 3.75%

Keep in mind that you can get the bonus from CJ just once, but you can get the KC bonuses up to five times if you can afford the enhancements.
And set bonuses don't take up a power slot.

But it's not necessarily an "either/or" in any case. Having CJ will definitely make it easier to soft-cap S/L, but it is possible to do so without it.

Not true. As I mentioned earlier, my Invul/EM has neither CJ or Hover and is at the soft-cap for S/L and near it for E/NE.

Willpower is more challenging since it doesn't have as much S/L defense as Invul, but if you're taking both CJ and Weave, you certainly can reach the soft-cap regardless of which travel power you choose.

Oh, if *that's* the case, take Air Sup/Fly instead. Air Sup can take the place of one of your SS attacks, like Punch or Haymaker.

Honestly, unless you really want to use Hover in battle, don't bother with it. You can easily make up the lost defense with set bonuses. The same goes double for Manuevers, since it has a relatively high endurance cost for the defense benefit it gives.

Why would it "get it the way of actual gameplay"? CJ does gives some additional mobility, but IME any advantage it gives in "actual gameplay" is very minor.

However, I suppose it could be playstyle dependent. I know in my case, having CJ made very, very little difference in how I play my characters.