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Couple goals I'm going for on this build. Soft capped defenses (which I did and then some in case I get what minimal debuffing I might), enough global recharge for perma hasten and MG -> Sm -> SL -> Sm, no endurance issues, and AV soloability.

I initially went with FM/SD, but I found I wanted a heal of sorts and went with DM. I plan on getting the spiritual alpha and the barrier destiny for max resists. I know some swear by gloom, but I wanted to have no worries with endurance (if this is redundant please say so and I'll try it both ways). I *think* I have enough recharge but I'm always open to ideas on how to get more. Touch of Fear is just for fun and the tohit debuff is pretty good.

Tear my ideas up!

What is good DDR? I have 52% all the time and 70% about half the time. In order to get this I have to use Grant Cover which is an extra toggle, so I'm not sure how that will affect my endurance.

Do you recommend Aid Self? Lack of self heal is one of the holes I'm worried about. I'm getting my miracle today, so I'm not sure if there will be a hole in recovery or not.

So I wanted to solo Maria Jenkins arc and I know I could do it easier with other ATs/builds but I've never had a strong melee character.

I was hoping to get some advice on the best attack chain for FM and some ideas for my build. I am already softcapped to melee, range, and AoE and I'm working on accolades to increase my health/end.

I was considering the -regen proc in interferance and wondering if soul mastery would be better than pyre (gloom DoT +tohit debuff).

I'm a pretty veteran player, but new to soloing AVs.

Thanks!

Heroid,

Once or twice that happened back when the arena first came out. It was completely a bug (we were supposed to be in the arena but zoned into a villain mission), but man it was *AWESOME*.

We're about to have a Quake: TF bromance on the CoH forums. Ah, the good 'ole days.

I'm trying to figure out *why* anyone would want to run it beyond doing it because you've never done it before. The drop at the end is the same as BAF or Lambda, but requires a much bigger time sink/risk. It's not an efficient way to get threads or a chance at a very rare.

The dev team needs to consider the risk/time:reward ratio and adjust accordingly or else BAF will be the only thing anyone ever runs.

Haha, *that* was me being facetious. I mean, c'mon it's Dax! I beat him with a defender (with no self heal) before they ruined PvP. He didn't have travel suppression!

Xanatos? Didn't I rock your body in the first ever Free For All PvP event on the Test Server?

Oooooh, yeah.

yeah, I know what you're talking about.

it's basically the LFG tag that we can apply. instead of manually searching through everyone and cherry picking what you want, you flag yourself for... LRSF and the system groups those interested in the same thing together.

yeah, I did it when it first came out. I don't think it was 4 minutes, but it was *very* quick. not very interested in it now.

How did they change Tina's arc... ?

I think the toss up for the miracle and numina's (in this instance) doesn't matter much. My survivability isn't the issue here. I'm *only* farming lvl 52 battle maiden warriors on x8. I'm not running out of endurance and I'm not dying. I'm looking for any way that I can up my damage output for faster farming. The possible ways are more recharge, damage, or procs. I think I've got the procs covered. Rage + Fireball + Footstomp kills all by the LTs and Haymaker, KO blow, Icicles + Proc, Chilling Emb + Proc, and Taunt + Proc take care of the rest, but I want to do it faster.

I use EA after I footstomp, so my def is softcapped (it sits at 50% after I EA) and then again if I need endurance.

Yes, this is not the optimal tank build, but as you can see I'm only using it for one thing. If I was tanking other things, I'd slot for 45% w/o EA.

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Level 11 Magic Tanker
Primary Power Set: Ice Armor
Secondary Power Set: Super Strength
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Pyre Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Frozen Armor -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(5), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(5), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg(7), LkGmblr-Def(45), LkGmblr-EndRdx/Rchg(46)
Level 1: Jab -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Hoarfrost -- Dct'dW-Heal(A), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx(3), Dct'dW-Rchg(3), Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(15), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(15)
Level 4: Chilling Embrace -- ImpSwft-EndRdx/Rchg/Slow(A), ImpSwft-Acc/Slow(40), ImpSwft-Dam%(42)
Level 6: Wet Ice -- EndRdx-I(A), EndRdx-I(7)
Level 8: Haymaker -- FrcFbk-Rechg%(A), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(9), C'ngImp-Dmg/Rchg(9), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx(25), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(25), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(34)
Level 10: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 12: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(13), RechRdx-I(13)
Level 14: Icicles -- Sciroc-Acc/Rchg(A), Sciroc-Dmg/Rchg(37), Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(42), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg(43), Sciroc-Dam%(43), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(43)
Level 16: Health -- Mrcl-Rcvry+(A), Mrcl-Heal/EndRdx(17), Mrcl-Heal(17)
Level 18: Glacial Armor -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(19), LkGmblr-Def(19), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg(33), LkGmblr-EndRdx/Rchg(46), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(46)
Level 20: Knockout Blow -- C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(A), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(21), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx(21), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg(34), C'ngImp-Dmg/Rchg(34), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(42)
Level 22: Stamina -- P'Shift-EndMod(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(23), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(23), P'Shift-End%(50)
Level 24: Super Speed -- Empty(A)
Level 26: Energy Absorption -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(27), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg(27), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(31), LkGmblr-EndRdx/Rchg(31), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(31)
Level 28: Rage -- HO:Membr(A), HO:Membr(29), HO:Membr(29)
Level 30: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 32: Hibernate -- Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(A), Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(33), Dct'dW-Rchg(33)
Level 35: Taunt -- Zinger-Dam%(A), Zinger-Taunt/Rchg(36), Zinger-Taunt/Rchg/Rng(36), Zinger-Acc/Rchg(36), Zinger-Taunt/Rng(37), Zinger-Taunt(37)
Level 38: Foot Stomp -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(39), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(39), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(39), Oblit-%Dam(40), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40)
Level 41: Char -- Empty(A)
Level 44: Melt Armor -- ExVuln-DefDeb/Rchg(A), ExVuln-DefDeb(45), ExVuln-DefDeb/Rchg/EndRdx(45)
Level 47: Fire Ball -- Posi-Acc/Dmg(A), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(48), Posi-Dmg/Rng(48), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(48), Posi-Dam%(50), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(50)
Level 49: Permafrost -- S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Gauntlet
Level 6: Ninja Run

The melt armor slots are filler. I mean I could slot them into rage, but for what I want to do with this tank I don't feel I need it. I'm farming level 52-53 battle maiden warriors. EA is up twice a mob. I could 5 slot my ST attacks, I guess. Just looking for some advice based on what I'm doing with this guy and how to make it faster.

EDIT: Oh and I didn't feel like going back and editing it, but Hibernate has 5 slots /w 5 Doctored Wounds in it and I took those slots from Hurdle, but couldn't add them because of stupid levels.

I'm not at home, so I don't know that I can post my build right now. When I get there, I will.

I understand what you're saying about the set bonuses from Gaussian's.

Ok, so I actually went back a couple pages to read what was going on and... sheesh. Look, let's get down to brass tax... (what does that saying even mean?) This whole thread is a pissing contest (I think that's right, where you say your ***** is bigger than someone else's?).

Yes, Dark Armor can tank. You can thank IOs for that. Pre-IOs Dark Armor was horrible (I don't even know if Tanks had it at that point). It was end heavy, it was almost all resistance based, and you couldn't increase your hit points. I'm sure the stigma carried over post-IOs. However, IOs managed to plug the holes that DA had and now it is very viable. Defense isn't the end-all-be-all, you get hit every now and then. Ice tanks get hit hard because they lack much resistance; same for SR and SD.

Resistance and defense are not the end-all-be-all, if you get drained of endurance then you have nothing. Stone tanks, invuln tanks, and fire tanks will all get drain dry and killed. I don't know much about Will Power but it looks like they'll get sucked dry as well. DA has end drain resist and so does Elec.

You can taunt all you want, but if you can't move because you're feared then you can't do anything. DA has fear resist and Elec doesn't. That's one benefit that DA has so far.

DA has a massive heal that recharges very quick. Elec has a big regen boost/heal. Who knows how they compare... Elec can drain endurance (which is kind of cool...) and DA can fear (and debuff acc!).

Some holes that will hopefully be made in DA because I feel like it would increase challenge in gameplay would be AVs with a higher magnitude knockdown or knockback than acrobatics + IOs could provide (meaning you'd need ID from kin) and AVs that wormhole whoever they're currently aggro'd onto far away from them (that would be EPIC).

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But really? Does it matter? This is a game. Have fun. Stop arguing on the forums...

BTW:

I saw a regen scrapper back in Issue 2 tank (singlehandedly with no buffs) the ENTIRE monster wall in the Hive. I'm not sure if that sucker still exists, but it was about 10 DE giant monsters. That was pretty neat.

Oh and Dechs, I'll sell you that 52 ribo. I can't sell it for **** on the AH. Talk to me tonight.

but maaaaaan he takes out squishies reeeel noice... and when you combine that with stealing Hamidon aggro from the tank taunter...

good times.

Me.

It is important to note, that I'm only using this tanker to farm lvl 50+ Maiden warriors and sometimes lvl 50+ family when I want a change.