Northman

Originally Posted by VKhaun

Good thing it wasn't a squirt gun disguised as a microphone.

Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague

They are currently Character Bound (the Catalysts, not the ATOs) and would only become Account Bound at BEST.

To the OP: If you have a level 50 character who would like to upgrade an ATO to a Superior Version, claim the Catalyst and enter your enhancement window and select a slotted ATO (much like how you select a slotted SO for combining) and select the Enhancement Catalyst, which will appear on the left-hand side of your screen.

IMPORTANT: After upgrading an ATO, it will be account-bound and cannot be sold. From what I understand, you CAN Email the enhancement to yourself, but not others. In addition, Superior ATOs cannot be slotted by characters below level 50 (or non matching ATs, obviously).

Originally Posted by Benchpresser

Dark/Dark possibly, really thinking about a Ill/dark and a Dark/Cold.

Also a Dark/Dark Dom and a Dark/TA .. or Plant/dark.... hmmmm

Originally Posted by Northman

Owts?

Originally Posted by Airhammer

You cannot take apart and recombine components. Once they are made they are made like any other IO. You can however construct more than one and swap them out. You could make a Spiritual and make a Musculature and swap them back and forth. There is a five minute cooldown timer on swapping.

Originally Posted by CBeet

Personal opinions ahoy

Short answer: Ice/Stone Tanker, plenty of tools for self softcapping, self endurance management, control, damage and aggro management.

Long answer: In a team that needs a Tank, I want one who will hold the aggro no matter what's thrown at it. Considering one of my favorite team additions is an AoE Blaster (usually Fire, Beety like big boom) they need to be REALLY good at it. Ice Armour has two taunt auras, one does damage and the other's -recharge (damage mitigation) and -speed (stops them from running away). Similarly, because of the taunt cap being a fickle thing, it's nice if they have some way to help the team with the spillage so Stone's high ST damage and the amazing power of Fault fit the bill (either you make one or two runners go splat or you just stun them from afar, remember, Fault is a -ranged- AoE stun and knockdown).

For survivability, Ice mostly runs off it's defense and the Dull Pain substitute. It has a PBAoE drain power which gives you endurance and a pittance of defense (also a taunt componant!) every 30 seconds with 3 SOs worth of recharge in it.. Best bit? 45 second duration for the defense so it'll stack for a bit too. It can be softcapped with just one IO (the ever useful 3% proc) and a smothering of the drain power Energy Absorption. Stone Melee's additional mitigation will compliment Ice as, IMO, Defense sets almost require a way of having a moment of breathing room for making insp or getting a good view of the battle.

Want some more synergy? Ice will keep any enemies around you aggroed or runspeed debuffed enough that they will be soon enough as you cave in the skulls of your current targets and any enemies which run/are aggroed accidently you can retaunt/stop with Fault, which is a perma AoE stun if slotted for 2 acc 2 stun 2 recharge. AVs/GMs may be the only problem, but pop one purple and you're softcapped for good anyhow. Ice will counteract Stone's high endurance, Stone with counteract Ice's.. Uhm.. Nothing, really, it just adds to the already good mitigation.

If you go into an IO investment, there're plenty of places to put LotGs for a high recharge builds (Fault, Hoarfrost and Energy Absorption up more often), enough attacks/controls for a high defense build and even the cheaper option of a simple +hp build works well with a defense-based Tanktroller.. You can almost think of it as a defense based Dark Armour