New Dawn

LRM is up what maybe every 150s? I am at work so am going by memo. If I was to be a blapper like you I might have an AoE that was up more frequently to alpha mobs rather than have them alpha you, then perhaps an AoE control (I do get to sleep people with sleep grenade) which will likely still leave a couple of targets still uncontrolled (so stuns or holds) then blap the snot out of the uncontrollable targets with a melee def'd up build, but be mindful of AoE controlling asap again. Worth doing a mock up build on test using insps to achieve the melee def that is planned.

I think Melt Armour is barely worth a power pick let alone slots. Your power order might need a rethink. Combat jump is not essential and neither is hover. The lowness you take them pushes more essential powers to later and then in the end you are taking good powers worth 5 slots so late that you cant 5 slot them. Complete rethink me think.

Since getting that new launcher I haven't been able to play the game. That was days ago.

For an error: I get this:

Error parsing command line argument 'auth 64.25.36.15 -project eucoh.

Oh and when downloading the thing my security detected something malicious too.

Ice is good with anything.

Never even heard of Captain Planet. Elemental by the sounds, yeah go with with ya gut.

I'd love customizable taunt sound myself.

You only need a few different vocals of "You're all under arrest" and then what could be cool is a second later a random background voice shouts "Get that one".

Better than any Urrgh Arrgh.

The taunt power could be made up of two vocals, one we pick and a reply thats always a random reply to supposedly come from the target.

On a target like an AV that would usually be the last one standing and so have no one to say "Get that one" too, the taunt could be, "I'm taking you in" and the random reply could be "Over your dead body" or something.

Players could suggest things to say maybe and the best suggestions get used. I know alot of people find the current sound annoying. In my five plus years of playing tankers the sound is always off.

Yeah I'd love customizable taunt myself. You only need a few different vocals of "You're all under arrest" and then what could be cool is a second later a random background voice shouts "Get that one". Better than any Urrgh Arrgh. So the taunt power could be made up of two vocals, one we pick and a reply thats a random reply. On a target like an AV that would, being the last one standing and so have no one to say "Get that one" too, the taunt could be, "I'm taking you in" and the random reply could be "Over your dead body" or something.

Dark/Dark plus some colour tinting lends itself for a Sandman concept, just add earth mastery as an epic and you have something with quite a few very useful tools plus a rare seen concept. I keep thinking about it myself.

I use AS all the time and as much as poss versus AVs.

Maintaining the primary powers is key to holding up as a Tanker. With that in mind the more damage per endurance your Tanker does the better. Now musculature should make you have to attack less cos you duffed it in say 5 attacks instead of 6 but then again you can get end drained pretty tough, be on the ropes and so what then? Cardiac has an effect on more powers than Musculature so could be doing more for endurance management.

My Fire/Thermal is squishy as hell without some def. I tend to find mobs close in so fast I am not sure if its melee def I need to worry about. Ultimately I went with kill everything quick. I got all the attacks, except the snipe and I powersink after the nuke so thats alright.

I find people don't pair like for like too often. With the nerfbat to Total Focus plus the prospect of Pom Poms, NRG/NRG might be unique enough.

Most people prioritize range defense. They can hover above npcs that don't fly and only have to worry about ranged attacks. (AoEs often don't extend as far as ranged attacks)

I'd imagine that if I prioritized end then without the nuke I would be able to chuck out conserve energy. You are keeping CE so end extensive end management has me puzzled.

I would do this, start ranged, gain control, and maybe then blap with an energy/energy. Powerboost would help with control powers.

I can't read what bonuses you have right now but I will add that I am puzzled by your choice of epic. Well no, if cryo was taken it wouldn't puzzle me. I even have the sleep grenade on one blaster. I find I am more survivable duct tape controlling than I would be with the body armour, which is good to chuck in the +3def in and a kb res though.

Footstomps recharge can be super low and so some people think its a fantastic PBAoE. To be honest just like Stonetanks are penalized prior to granite I think Superstrengh is too and so footstomp needs to be good. Often neglected is the fact that Knockout Blow is a Hold. I remember sometime in early 2005 when I just entered the 40s I was told that to do Malta missions I need an /SR in the team to drop the sapper, balls to that, often they were unreliable and as they say if you want something doing.. Do it yaself. It is good that you are thinking about active defense (not the power). Sometimes the shields aren't enough which is why for defense sets Clobber is recommended no later than 30 and so on.

Total Focus is better than Boxing in terms of DPA, DPE and DPS. What is important is your attack chain. The attack chain looks alright possibly even without total focus, but total focus allows for more end recovery over the duration of itself than most of the other attacks.

What could be also important, is say your ability to quickly save people with taunt. Long action times is going to make you incapable of doing anything whilst someone is getting their butts handed to them. I would in the first part of the fight concentrate on aggro control rather than heavy hitting unless you are one shotting a sapper or something.

For utilities sake if I made an energy melee I would of swapped out Energy punch for Air Sup and not having any grounded powers made the tank fly.

Ice Armour has -14% dam in CE and Shield has -7% Dam, however the resistance of shield works well. I think if anything the -Dam from one power will not stack with another contribution from the same power.

http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/powers/

Knock yaself out.

I would try to get atleast 23% S/L if I were you.

More time away from the new and shiny is whats needed. Set a future date that allows for a build up of interest but be careful not to have people forget.

I think our nice weather has been hurting Australia. I think our snowy christmases has been at a the cost of hurting Australia an all. Think of them australian animals that you just can't find anywhere else in the world.

Dead people = less of everything overall. Trials on timers really could do with people who aren't running back from hospital or waiting for a res.

Alot of people act like getting defeated is something that just happens or has to happen but it is bull.

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Looking at them builds I would go Cardiac. Ya bound to run out of end sometime.

Crumbs Moonlit. Bit of thread necromancy there. She long been respeced and finished now. I did consider the things you said prior and would consider that for soloing maybe as it means skipping other cool powers. Part of my thing with ghosts is not that their unkillable but they can disappear and comeback. I don't die but I can be defeated.

You could try /Elec or /DM.