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I somehow doubt that; though I try to finish things well ahead of deadlines, mostly because anything made under deadline pressure is unlikely to be something I will be proud of.

Is it safe, Kenneth?

Gum-tree resin in high summer. Really.

You going to finish those fries?

The value of extra slots would depend immensely on the powersets in question. My Invuln tankers and brute have all the slots they need. They have at least three powers that don't require any slots at all; four if they took Unstoppable (only the Brute). It's easy for them to six slot all their attacks; and having each attack six slotted makes life easier if you are building for defense bonuses too.

My Willpower characters tend to be starved for slots; everything they take in their defense set is worth slotting, with the exception of Strength of Will. Slotting one power means removing one from another.

I'd imagine things are similar with other sets as well.

Yesterday. The deepest penetration of hip hop into my world is the fact that the noise of flatulence used to be greeted with "Excuse me", but now the response is WORD!

What's your plan for world peace?

It has a disconcerting tendency to appear as soon as I start buffing teammates, summoning pets, or conning mobs.

Is Dr. Vahzilok too sexy for his shirt?

You mean, I get two years in the monastery? Sure.

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

This makes a lot of sense. Those powers were typically available early, while the endurance to turn them on and leave them on was not.

The one respec I know I'm doing right off is my fire/DB tanker, who now will be able to use each of the combos. I have always built my characters with an emphasis on recovery first, anyways. A character that isn't defense capped may be relying on teammate buffs to stay alive. I can live with that. But a character without enough endurance is simply no fun for me to play, solo or teamed.

WP's issue with alphas is largely temporary. Set IOs are not really needed to enable WP tankers to deal with difficult alphas. Tough and Weave pretty much have you covered. Before those are in place, there's always Strength of Will, which tends to be rather useless after you have them.

Playing a WP tanker means changing your mindset a bit. It's less about being the first in and more about seeing where the problems are and reacting intelligently. If a scrapper wants to charge ahead, let them. You can hang back and watch for the mobs that get loose. If your team needs you to tank traditionally, they will give you the leisure to herd a bit and taunt around.

One thing that surprises me about Praetoria is that nobody seems to be making many tankers there, but that having a tanker on the team makes the content there much more team friendly. It's still difficult enough that herding doesn't work, and Seers are pretty miserable, but my electric/kin tanker makes the place a lot more team-friendly.

You ENTER THATWAYS.

You are in a maze of twisty turny passages, all alike.

You see [AZERBAIJANI POLICE CAR], [A TABLE WITH A BOTTLE ON IT LABELED "DRINK ME"], and [A GRUE].

What I am afraid of is that I might now have two missions in my queue that I can't access to either finish or drop. When you got to the point in an old contact arc where he was ready to give you the story arc, as soon as the book appeared you were committed even if you had outlevelled it, and it occupied one of your major story arc slots.

This is why I mentioned the fact that I had levelled. On the other hand, levelling up has never cancelled on-the-agenda missions or story arcs before; many times I've found I had level 15 story arcs open on a level 50 character, noticed by the fact that you still had an active contact in Steel Canyon. So this behavior is doubly unexpected.

Situational awareness is more important than any aura, IMO. Right now I'm working an Electric/Kin Melee tanker through Praetoria. At level 18, this tanker doesn't even have an aura. This is my first run with Electric Aura on a tanker, and it looked to me like the aura was a damage aura that probably eats endurance, so it won't be taken until after Stamina. I do, however, have Taunt.

I think I do a reasonable job under the circumstances of holding aggro. There's way too much friendly immobilize flying around in Praetoria, so half the time I'm not even sure which mobs are on me. I prioritize bosses, put myself in front of the many ambushes, target the targets of teammates low in health, taunt, and curse at indoor super speeders.

I play willpower tankers much the same way; aura is irrelevant, you probably won't contain all the mobs, you pick priorities and watch for what's loose.

If you're thinking about an Invulnerability tanker, I'd try Inv/Dark Melee. This is close to Granite in terms of being an unkillable aggro holding machine, even at SO performance. Shields/DM is also a very justly popular combo.

The main complement to this duo would be an AoE DPS character of your choice. Electric/Mind or Archery/Mind blaster, a Spines scrapper, or perhaps a corruptor would do well.

Regen is great if you want to have fun with level 4-20 content. Once you approach level 50, its performance falls behind Willpower in my opinion.

It has essentially no layering, like Willpower does, only a small bit of resistance to add to its regeneration. It is entirely dependent on the timing of click powers; and when you're out of clicks you're out of tricks.

Regeneration is distracting; rather than setting priorities about which enemy to go after next, you're monitoring your health, wondering if any of your click powers are close enough to recharge to take on another. Given the many spawns that can two or three shot you, and the increasing tendency to rebalance attack sets around animation lag, you may not have the manual dexterity, the ability to wait out the animation, or the latency to react before you're dead.

If you want a different experience from WP that's friendly to a variety of concepts, I'd consider Super Reflexes. Here you will NOT enjoy the 4-20 levelling experience, and even after Stamina it's going to be tough sledding. I do not recommend trying to level a /SR scrapper in Praetoria, either. But once you conquer your endurance issues, you will be close to godly, even at SO levels.

If I made another Regen scrapper, I'd go with Broadsword or Katana, sets that can add some layering that Regen lacks, or Dark Melee, that gives you another self heal on a short timer.

I'd just concentrate on debuffing the -tohit of any bosses or other problem causing mobs in the spawn; the rest probably aren't going to be nearly as significant a threat, especially given that other mobs in melee range are increasing your defense as is.

Touch of Fear is your main -tohit tool. It works even if a boss will not be feared by it in one hit; the magnitude is 3 if I am remembering right. The mob does not have to cower before the -tohit takes effect.

Neither. Make mine High Tea.

English Breakfast or Earl Grey?

Only for elementary school kids. Middle and high school students need to get away from the hothouse school environment. Not because they wouldn't benefit from being exposed to teachers and curriculum, but they probably benefit more from being away from their "peers".

What did (do) you want to be when you grow up?