PosterChild

Lots of shield suggestions, how does shield do when it comes to holding aggro? would I need an AoE heavy set like fire to keep everyone on me?

well, I'm not new to tankers, I just need a new one, I've got a late 30s fire/stone and a late thirties stone/ice if that helps.

Fire/stone can't stay up enough, and stone/ice is way too slow for kill speed.

Don't know if that changes your suggestions at all, but I'll keep ice/fire in mind

I could see that, how does SS stack up? I've never played SS on a tank past level like, 4. :P

Dark/elec! Dark/elec! for no other reason than it is my favorite defender combo!

The title explains it all, I want a new tank, and I want to be able to hold aggro, and be able to take a beating.

Stipulations:
Not willpower
I'd like secondary suggestions too
Not ridiculously IO dependant

I'm open to all other primaries and any secondary, tell me what you can do as whatever, I'm lost as to what to make!

Thanks

I've said it before, and I guess I'll repeat it here, storm/psy is awesome, but it left me feeling like I had one trick up my sleeve.

That being said /psy will be fun, psy is fun fun.

I found myself becoming a one-trick pony.

Snowstorm- freezing rain - psionic tornado - psychic scream

Not really all that entertaining after 5 levels of that. But the lightning storm was always nice to have around.

Dark/elec was my first, and still holds the record as my only 50. Can't solo, but is amazing on team, completely slaughters accuracy, and then, with short circuit and power sink from the elec mastery, no one ever has end.

Life is easy.

Ill/rad is still incredibly powerful, but yes, they took away the ability to summon more that one phantasm. As far as recharges, I don't know, I don't remember when ED came along but that could be it, the only way to get perma decoys now is with IO slotting.

Storm/rad?

I played it for a long while, never got it to 50 though, but you can totally lay waste with freezing rain/irradiate combo, it destroys the defense of the enemy, while dealing pretty huge damage once well slotted. Tornado is a little bit harder to utilize, it becomes more of a "oh sh--" button". Rad is ok for AoE, but if you're looking for a fun build...that admittedly starts a bit slow, maybe storm/rad is good for you like it was for me!

Wait. would that mean we'd have to pay to get pistols? or would it only be a signature hero sort of thing?

Either way, if it does knockdown, I'm gonna go with FF since you'd provide two kinds of mitigation for a team, or Storm, because I was a storm/pistols char.

Good read