New Dawn

This is where guides come in, if you want the best character then read the guides and perhaps do further homework. I had a fight with Dreck with my Trick Archer. It taught me to slot a certain way, his limits are common anyway. If you make something for yourself then you gain, learn by doing, learn by mistakes.

You can ask how people work out what to do with their builds. How is the attack chain worked out? How much recharge can you gain without gimping the rest of your build?

Guides are alright as they suffice in getting people started but that's it. Guides should try and give you something to get started from not finish the game with and have no need to know more.

I prefer other people to do a build to see what they favour, get a rough idea of their limits inf wise and then round it off how I would "without it being the very best I or they can do". Sometimes I may not say where I have rounded it off. Looking at mids should tell people, info is plain to see.

I posted a near finished Dark/Dark defender once of mine, it was near done but not quite.

There are tweaks people can make to their builds in order to be flexible enough to be able to work with any team line up and get the job done. Builds with those tweaks are rare. In most build suggestions for a type of defender say, the slotting could almost lack an extra slot of something in some power. By not having that one slot, best tactical options in a certain random team line up could therefore be limited. I could put a range in my fort. I then don't have to risk getting EMP'd by Scirroco in trying to apply it to someone. In a team with certain limits on team tactics whereby I am the only defender it can make a difference. I am not getting EMP'd, so I can help others. Little things.

If you're a pvper in a balanced game where only a slight bit more skill/luck is what it takes to keep winning and your build has a certain flexibility that people just haven't thought about then you could be suspicious about giving away your build as it would be like exposing your flexibility so others can share it and expose all your build vulnerabilities so people can have a better pop against it. However in one pvp fight you get a combat log and ingame you can read peoples powers to get a good idea of someone elses build. I have practically remade peoples builds after pvping them once but I don't pvp seriously, barely ever do I.

Then there is the cookie cutter factor, some people are proud to offer their builds and have several different copies of what they took the time to thoroughly min/max about whilst others prefer to be completely unidentical for concept individually and/or perhaps have a niche.

Believing in people playing the game as it is meant to be played, ie a player runs into challenges and learns to overcome them themselves or as part of a team is another reason.

If you were to get given a complete guide on what to expect and what to do, would there be much point in playing the game? It'll be like mowing the lawn to me. I was into getting to know the numbers but the game has lost its magic from knowing them (but atleast I don't feel dumb in teams). Once you know the magic trick, the magic is gone.

It is better for players to be self sufficient in creating any build for themselves. Better to teach someone to fish and all that.

They resist most of the tohit debuff, a lvl 50 should resist 85%+ roughly otomh, then with movement, simply use immobs and/or -fly. Just them two really but that'll mean acquiring from pools.

Hibernate is good as its a second wind panic button, you can still keep aggro however you want to be done with regen and end rec before you lose taunt control. It's pointless trying to get it to rechg any faster due to the no phase period being the exact amount of time as the base rechg.

Don't ever need a vast amount of control and one would rather not have to wait 20 + mins for a controller who is available and willing to team. I generally go for random people within my level range.

I've seen Mind/Emps control and do the job of an empath defender (who didn't proactively buff) but it really cuts into the Mind/Emps time. The empath did blast but they got lost in their attack chain that much a blaster would of been better.

I think it is only so if the Kat/Fire is reliant on Divine Avalanche which does go against maximum damage potential. If possible wherever possible I'd get rid of that DA. Cut out the need to use it and Kat should prove quite a beaut in terms of damage dealing. Not specifically the best in any area but damn good and possibly right on Broadswords back in terms of ST. (I did do the numbers in 2007 and felt dirty afterwards)

Not something to say. Anyway about this tanking business. Your capacity for a high threat level is low compared to others and then there is the mezz issue. With buffs, maging is something defenders do very well, in teams with a tanker, a defender can be number 2 or number 3 on the hit list anyway especially in pugs. I don't dispute taking an alpha but that's not all that tankers do. I have heard of an empath holding recluses attention whilst people take down the towers, again doable but also doable by any AT. Pulling inner circle, defenders do, scrappers with confront can clean do it too, ya just don't see too many about, again any AT.

I like your putting out there what can be done, but do you know why it can be done?