Ogi

Ninja Run is the lowbie tanker's best friend. No powers wasted on pure travel powers (CJ is basically free defense).

One of the things I like about tankers is that I don't have to monkey around with sets to have a durable tanker. To me, brutes are like scrappers with a painful boot up period when you don't set them out. With a team a SO brute can approach tanker levels but then you need the right support.

SR, for example, softcaps with CJ+Steadfast as the only non-SR defense sources. One pool power and one IO versus the piles of Mako's, ToD, Aegis, weave, etc. etc. needed to do so on a brute. Some people like the AH and IO minigames. Most times, I don't, so for me tankers get the edge over brutes if there's no other deciding factor.

Nope. Did my stint raiding in that other game, don't like seeing it invade this one.

I'd be less annoyed with incarnates if only Alpha functioned in normal content as was originally planned. Judgement and Destiny turn everything into roflstomps.

The fury check would make suppressing Entropic Aura somewhat pointless on a brute since for whatever reason it notifies enemies. Scrappers do not have that issue.

I usually start using generic IOs at 12 and don't bother with [T|D|S]Os. I hate catastrophic enhancement failure. I also don't like making people wait around while I refresh enhancements so that the catastrophic failure doesn't happen.

My Claws/Energy Aura scrapper has a stealth IO proc and Energy Cloak which gives 65 feet of real numbers displayed stealth.

If I have Entropic Aura on, mobs aggro from melee range.

If I turn Entropic Aura off, I can tap dance on their heads without them caring.

Energy Cloak should suppress Entropic Aura with the StealthOn flag but doesn't seem to be working.

I know it used to work but seemed to stop just recently.

Anyone else notice this?

I bugged it, just got standard boilerplate in response.

I pretty much always go with scrapper secondaries that have a taunt aura.

It may be almost non-existent duration ones like WP or EA, or it may be beasts like Shield and Invuln, but usually it comes on a power I was going to take anyways and I usually don't have the power picks to spare on confront or the pool AoE taunt, and if I did have a free power I'd never have the slots.

I am slightly annoyed they gave tanker SR the WP treatment. Sure it's dead easy to softcap but any new content seems to be guaranteed to have autohit or untagged attacks (I'm looking at you positionless blaster twins in the SBB).

I haven't found any temperature monitors yet but it does seem to run cooler.

Though I also found out that while macros are stored account side disable xp isn't. Now to decide to reroll that Praetorian again or just roll with missing half og the Imperial arcs... grrr...

There is only one word I need to convey my response to there being no new iTrials in issue 24, "Yes!!!!!".

There'd probably be some modifiers to that but apparently there still will be development time wast,err, spent on incarnates.

Prometheus could be a Battalion agent sent to get rid of the actual threat to them (Tyrant, Wade took care of #2, some no name mook apparently) and to 'season to taste' the human well. They probably don't like bland wells and they don't want it too spicy so it causes heartburn.

The writers would never stoop to a "good job breaking it hero", though it would make the redsiders happy since they weren't actually being forced to save the world in the iTrials since they were actually dooming all of humanity.