New Dawn

These type of comments have been done to death that anymore is just a +1 post. Not worth getting a reply too now.

In your attacks you went 3*acc/dam hamis then another dam SO. The last of which only gets ED'd down. You could of used an endurance, knocking the end cost of the attack chain down and improving dam/end more.

3 Res/End Hamis or Def/Tohit/End Hamis. With ED, each end red shaves of less and less, so it's costly. Why you would spend that much inf on shaving very little end off of something like combat jumping and needlessly adding very little def at the same time is beyond me.

Overall the build could of been more end friendly for possibly 10 times less cost.

Bear in mind that endurance loss comes from the attack chain I have moved slots to make the build cheaper and left some open for anyone to do something with it that is to taste:

1.848s Cast + 3.33s Recharge = 5.71s Frequency
Taunt Duration = 35s

This looks okay doesn't it.

What if Taunt is resisted 90%.

35s/100*10 = 3.5s Taunt Duration

5.71s Frequency - 3.5s Taunt Duration = 2.21s lowered threat which is window to attack someone else of higher threat.

Yes it is generally fine, put a taunt IO in it.

It's a good thing that people disagree on things, it's a bad thing when we can't just be happy to agree to disagree. It's a bad thing when people beef themselves up to more than they are whilst putting others down.

I'll openly admit to being a snob. Antagonize had nothing in it so I passed on looking at it.

If I saw your build I'd realise which flexibilities you can and what flexibilities you can not offer a team under a variety of circumstances. Some people have solutions and some people do not to a variety of circumstances. Some people concern themselves with themselves or 95%-99% of the game, not some 1%. Everyone builds based on what they know and value. If you suggest something can't be done using your TA only for support do not do it thinking everybody elses TAs can't either.

I'm on them games an all, although not really having as much interest in them.

Welcome Back, where ya been?

One man's trash is another mans gold as they say and if most the player base were satisfied with the "Gold Standard" name for a PB design in it's day with the knowledge of it's day then so be it. It has it's name so that most people can identify it. I know that most people took it as a template and were reasonably happy and some overly rigid towards it.

You could also unslot a Hecatomb Damage that is sitting on it's own and replace it with a basic Dam IO and +5 it. Any expensive Heal/Rechg, swap it with a cheaper one that's +5'd and go use those IOs on another alt.

I don't know many Elec Armours tanks that have skipped Lightning Field altogether. Out of the ones I think I have seen they weren't as good as they might of thought they were. I don't even skip it on my Elec/ Brutes.

Under -Rechg conditions, you gauntlet less and you can taunt less. LF is a damage aura that goes unaffected by -Rechg. Aggro consolidation is better.

The Aura gives off a Mag 4 taunt to 10 targets, you're aggro considation is again higher. You're stacking threat with your attacks.

You're also doing the same Damage per End as you would be with attacks anyway. It is the standard 8.56. At any point in time whilst attacking you are stacking damage to your attacks. As with all AoEs the moment you hit more than 4 with them you're doing more damage per end than you would with a single target attack. More xp/time.

All Elec Armours have Powersink which can be used to gazump mobs endurance so they take themselves to 0 endurance quicker and force them to use their low tier attacks if alive long enough and so what might of been a long fight duration you might not of survived turns into a long fight duration you can survive because enemy dps is lower than it was initially. What Lightning Field can do here is help that by reducing enemy recovery. If you prevent any recovery then the enemies will reach 0 end sooner. For alot of Tankers, the mobs are dead before the mobs would of reached and fought at 0 end, this isn't always the case for me and I do find some breathing space for having lowered enemy dps. Mobs can stack mez effects and quickly the less endurance you give them asap the less likely their opportunity. Once their end is low the aura keeps it low, soon enough they might only have their version of brawl.

What I have seen with Elec Tanks with no aura goes along something like this:

Runs into mobs, misses with pbaoe attack, if used to begin with at all and mobs go for someone else who has affected them. Less xp/time

Tank has mobs grouped, does not manage to aggro control all of them, one of the mobs takes out the defender who is number 2-3 on the threat order sometimes, goodbye defender, goodbye debuffs, hello compromised team. Less xp/time.

Tank not concentrating, mismanaged endurance goes to low end can't gauntlet, mobs become attracted to somebody else that person gets it. Less xp/time.

Ambush happens, ideally Tank would pick up all ambushers if possible but fails to hit with initial attack, no gauntlet no aggro control, vital team member taken out. Less xp/time.

Brute on team is actually doing all the Tanking. The tank is a spare part, often without much sense as a spare part.

Scrapper, the leader in DPS is scooping up free ambush aggro better and dying. The DPS leader dead because the Tanker didn't do the job. Less xp/time.

Solo Tanker not at ideal xp/time setting because they couldn't kill mobs quick enough. Less xp/time.

But maybe for different people of differing skill, "Hero Stats" should do the talking. If I farm without my auras on then I know I am making less xp/time because I am killing slower.