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If we're topic drifting towards knockback in general, my personal stance is that knockback is great, but it should never be on a power where the player can't control it precisely. Specifically, I think there should be no knockback on pets and no area knockback on powers that are likely to be used in melee range.

Well we can infer all day about paragraph X in post Y, but in the quote that started all this he was clearly "brute taunt to attack". Maybe J is an idiot, but my main point is that the insults and flaming were beyond excessive, and I don't think I've ever seen someone get so bent out of shape over me standing in the way of their god given right to flame stupid people on the internet.

I thought it was the second to last coffee talk. I'll try to be right back with a link.

Not exactly what you asked, but there's the Primalist archetype.

It's definitely a good line of thinking, but please, for the love of god, don't buff cold.

If you guys want to buff empathy's solo power, there's a really simple and significant way of doing it. Absorb pain healing the caster and damaging the target while debuffing their received heals and regeneration.

Clarity, clear mind, and forge type powers are pretty obvious culprits for this type of treatment, too. I think Biospark's suggestion of a mez has promise.

I read the OP, but not the rest of the threat, so sorry if I repeat something. I think the OP should include more of an argument for WHY trick arrow needs to be buffed. This is the single most important thing the OP should contain, in my opinion. There's never been a case when a dev team has been wanting to buff something and has thought "We just don't know a good way to buff this, but if we did, we would do it." (Note, that last sentence should not be interpreted as an intentional insult to Trickshooter.)

Here are my suggestions for arguments to be made:
-Trick arrow's debuffs, even when combined together, are numerically inferior to other top debuffing sets like cold and radiation which are not limited to debuffing. It is this way because trick arrow was punished for its redundancy and specialization by having its numbers reduced to the point where it is on par with other sets in the only area where it has any presence. The most obvious case of this is in acid arrow and disruption arrow, which are much, much weaker than area debuffs found in other sets.
-Having 8 debuffs is not twice as good as having 4 debuffs of equal power as one might think intuitively. All of those debuffs are used in the same situation, and take time to be used. Trick arrow's seven area debuffs could use greater specialization in their intents and purposes. (This one is very firmly my opinion)

Neither do I.

Or nerfing willpower.

Most people are going to be using it every time it's up though. Much easier than watching your buff bar for when it goes down.

Assuming the invulnerability character didn't have to use dull pain, yes.

Tanker:
-Greater survivability, thus is more likely to be able to stay up regardless of team composition and enemy group.
-Bruising (the resistance debuff in the tier 1 attack) is helpful in a team fight against an archvillain
-Greater aggro modifier means that enemies are more likely to group up in melee on them. This is a big help to teammates with area powers.

Brute:
-Much greater personal damage output.
-Survivability is lower, but in many situations and for most people it's "good enough".

To answer the original question...

"In what situations would a tanker shine where a brute dont. And what areas would a brute shine that a tanker wont or rather out shine each other persay."

The tanker will do better when on a team with little defensive support or on teams with a lot of blasters/debuffing people who are capable of doing amazing things if you just line the enemies up for them. The brute will do better while solo, while on a team that's well rounded and doesn't need more defense, and when IOd to the gills so that there's very little they can't survive that a tank can.

There's also a big difference in their playstyle, of course.