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Guys instead of complaining now you should just wait and see whats coming in i13, kheldians are definately getting looked into, whether it will be good or bad we will have to wait and see.

Linky to my Empath guide

The thing is, whilst controllers primary would make them more effective in teams offensively, as a healer it isnt very good because it doesnt have defenders endurence AT ability.

If you play a controller its true your more offensive but a lot of the time to make up for that your running low on endurence and if your going offence then a lot of the time you wont have the slots needed for all the empathy set to be effective.

I have a dark/empath defender at level 50, whilst i admit the AOE's are handy, the -accuracy doesnt give much of a boost really, but yes that can be handy with fortitude in certain situations, but overall if you want to be an effective empath you cant get many attacks anyway.

Tenebrous Tentacles is a handy power if its slotted well, I use 2 accuracy, 2 immobilise and 2 recharge reduction IO's on mine and it works well.

Also in your build above, Maneuvers isnt worth taking, the defence boost is horrible and its just another draining toggle.

I have to comment though, no Blackstar? I think thats a big error there especially if you have taken power boost, a lot of the time you get blue inspirations because you dont use many, so can easily recover after a nuke, plus if you have a blaster with a fairly weaker nuke, for instance rain of arrows, use it directly after and you will still wipe out the entire mob. Seems a lot easier.

EDIT: As for Dark Pit, on paper it looks good but in actual use it gets resisted a lot more than its worth, plus the recharge time is still bad. Whilst usually its worth taking AoEs, this is the only one ive tried and respeced out of.

Its up to you but through personal experience I'd say your better off with another power.

It may not matter much but early levels i find its better to start with heal other rather the healing aura, just because healing aura does next to nothing but if your on a sewer run then heal other is really handy.

No travel power till level 24? Your going to be stuck if your jetpack runs out

Other than that looks like a good build. Torrent is handy sometimes if someone gets in over there head (and fun if your bored to use on hellions in Atlas playing human golf )

no offence but if you want damage and control powers so you can be like a scrapper you should be playing a dominator....

thank you i have been looking for an answer to this for a long time.

some of those actually look a lot better than i thought they would, still would have liked to see a more pointy evil one somewhere but the elemental shields are awesome, except for the crystal one which i think looks kinda lame.

well this just seems like a pointless thread, stalkers whining because they cant mass gank empaths is kind of amusing.

Just thought of something else to add to this guide:

Always take note of the players around you, as soon as you enter a mission for the first time work on trying to find out whos taking all the damage, sometimes it wont be the tank.
Once you find this out, use that player as a 'base' so that when your not healing other people you switch back to targeting that person as there more likely to lose hp.

Another good tip i picked up is if you click the dot on the top of the team window, you can drag the box anywhere on screen, if you move the team window to the direct right side of your powers, its much easier to switch team members fast to heal in an emergency situation.

Cant believe i missed those out!

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3 Rech in Res, I wouldn't do it. From experience I've found that the combination of a slotted Regen Aura, Fortitude and the odd Heal will keep most teams up. Epescially once you get some IO's going.

As for Tough, again you've got Regen Aura and Healing Aura - getting near the S/L Res Cap isn't bad but I'd rather either have A) something more beneficial to the team like Leadership etc... or a few attacks for when the going's far too easy.

But this is a YMMV kind of thing, so hey - each to their own.

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yeah its a valid point i kind of agree with that, but that being said tough wouldnt hurt, even empaths get hit sometimes its good to know you have a bit of resistance and dont get two shotted by a rogue AoE or something.

The res slotting is just a suggestion because especially as your leveling, your bound to have a team wipe, recharge can help with those people who refuse to go to the hospital and just wait for a recharged res or an awaken, which can also happen where there is no awakens, granted this isnt very common as it used to be now you can mix 3 insps to make an awaken but it can happen.

In all honesty i think its just personal preference that, I like to know my res is ready if one person get randomly taken out.

Thank you for the good feedback people I wrote it on notepad first and just pasted it at an early time because i didnt want a random post in it mid guide lol.

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Resurrect - level 6

Bring players back to life with this power, long cooldown though so cant deal with more than one downed player effectively.

If you plan on being a PvP healer, this isnt very useful. Also doesnt resurrect players that have used Self-Destruct.

Possible Slotting:
Usually 3 recharges but depending on your level range you can get away with 1 or 2 slots instead if you need elsewhere.

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No.

Other than that - the guide looks pretty decent, though I don't agree with slotting procs/globals in things like your heals or buffs - I'd much rather grab Health somewhere like 49 for them if I need them.

Edit: Oh God Tough and Medicine.

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What do you mean No? please explain which part you dont agree with and I will edit if need be, but as far as i can see theres nothing wrong with it.

Tough is a fairly effective power even though defenders dont have the hp to take many hits, tough can make you live at least one more hit which is always good, medicine isnt really worth taking in my view because you have enough heals already. plus medicine is interuptable anyway so by the time you have finished using a medicine power, you could have used a decent regular heal anyway. The only thing that is argueable about it is the res with it, which is handy at times, especially in a team wipe but it doesnt justify taking two other powers first that could have been used elsewhere.

SECTION 4: EPICS

Epic powers are powers you get after level 40, they are sets of four powers that help with defenders weaknesses, those tend to be resistance and control.
Below I will explain the usefulness of each powerset.

Dark Mastery

Opressive Gloom is a good power, it drains hp whilst keeping your enemys disorientated, not really useful for an empath though.
Dark consumption drains HP and adds to your endurence, good if you have endurence problems or missed stamina, but defenders should have no real problems.
Dark Embrace is this sets armor power, slotted it gives 43.6% resist to smash and lethal, 23.8% to negative and toxic. Good power to take.
Soul Drain is only for partial empath, and if you have chosen partial empathy then this set is for you, it increases your damage by 12.5% for 30 seconds as well as chance to hit. The recharge slotted can be taken down to 60 seconds.

Electricity Mastery

Electric fence isnt really useful seen as most of the time you will be teamed anyway, it immobilises one enemy for a while but can drain a small amount of endurence, only good use would be slotted for end modification and used on enemies if you have electricity attack set.
Thunder Strike is a good melee attack, being an empath you shouldnt be thinking of melee attacks anyway but this power is a good one, same animation as total focus but less damage, can endurence drain and has a small AoE radius though.
Charged Armor is this sets armor power, slotted you can get 43.6% smash and lethal resist, and 31.7% energy resists, good if you plan on team pvp in particular compared to other armor epics.
Power sink is a very good power to choose, and i strongly recommend it for an electric attack set empath, as power sink combined with short circuit will take away all enemies endurence and stop them getting any back for 10 seconds, this even drains a fair bit of AV's endurence too.

Power Mastery

If you didnt take stamina, then conserve power should be your primary choice, if you did however you can miss it.
Power Build UP is one of the better powers an empath can take, without it on level 50 my heal other heals 522 with it, it heals 780, the effect last 12.5 seconds and slotted it recharges in 120 seconds but its still a good power.
Temp Invulnerability is the best smash and lethal resist armor set for defender, giving 47.5% smash and lethal resists with it slotted.
Total Focus is good for a melee stun, and also for an attack if you are going for a combo build. Highest damage attack in all the epic pools.
Overall this is the set most empaths choose.

Psychic Mastery

Dominate is a handy power if a single enemy has broken free from the tank, you can hold it and stop it killing a team member.
Mass Hypnosis isnt really of much use in a team because of a blasters AoE's it will wake them straight back up again, handy if your attempting to solo although its not recommended.
Mind Over Body is this sets armor, giving 43.6% resists to smash and lethal and 31.7% resists to psychic damage slotted.
Telekinesis is one of the more useful powers in the epic sets, constantly sending a single enemy away from you with a repel, but very endurence heavy, definately needs slotting endurence reductions if you take this.


SECTION 5: TIPS AND TACTICS

1. Always make sure you are far back from the mob, you are not a tank, and a dead healer is no use to anyone. The only times you should go in melee range is to fire a good AoE or a melee epic move if you have nothing to do heal wise.
2. Do not be tricked into thinking if you take Tough and one of the Epics armor sets that you will be able to last very long under fire, because you wont, you do not have a tankers hp and will die quickly.
3. Always remember, healing comes first, if the team is losing health, its not good to use clear mind or start an attack because you will find a wipeout very fast.
4. In times when you have nothing to do because your in a good team who need no healing, I find concentrating on keeping the teams endurence up can be much more of a challenge, also a couple of AoE attacks wouldnt hurt either even if they do rubbish damage.
5. A team that does not need healing will get annoyed at you if you dont do anything, they will see you as a leech so at very least try to keep buffs up, theres normally something to do if you try. Constant afk healing will get you booted.
6. If a team member dies, rather than just charging in straight away, check to see if anyone else is near death, healing your standing team is a better tactic.
7. Dont be afraid to run (benny hill style ) away from mobs if team is going down, its much better for an empath to run away than die with the team, especially if he/she has recall friend. You can always come back to resurrect a team member.
8. Empathy is all about being useful for the team, so things that are commonly needed such as recall friend, and to some extent grant invisibility will get you teams more often.
9. If someone calls you a bad healer, dont leave in a huff, ask them what your doing wrong and why you are bad, if its down to your powers then just explain its your charecter if they dont like it they can leave. Fair but stern is the best option. If this doesnt work you could always not heal them, that will teach 'em
10. You cant resurrect an entire team at once, suggest wakies or hospital if teams splats, recall would help because you can teleport them back to missions enterence.
11. A team usually tries to protect the empath the most in the team, dont abuse that by getting yourself in harms way.
12. AFK healing by the ouroboros portal to get yourself high in the healer charts isnt on, and people that do this are cheaters. YOu know who you are with the 20 million hp a day heals :P
13. Empathy isnt as easy as it looks, it can get really challenging at times, in particular statesmans task force. Be aware of a constant change in need for heals, it can differ from mob to mob.
14. A good healer usually gets thanked, a bad healer gets shouted at, an afk healer gets booted and ignored.
15. If your trying to build a combination build its about trial and error, you will need to try out a few things to see what works and spot weaknesses in your build.



So with that, 2-3 years experience comes to an end, I will miss this game its a shame that people have decided to move on.

I wish you all good luck with your Empaths, make me proud.

SECTION 3: POOL POWERS

Every charecter will take a pool power at some point, Empath or not, but heres a low down on the ones that will benefit Empaths the most.

Fighting

This benefits a defender a fair bit because of defenders inability to take damage. Tough is the most useful power here and slotted it can give 23.8% resistance to smash and lethal damage.
Meaning almost a quarter of the damage coming in will be negated.
Weave is a good power if you have defence elsewhere, otherwise in my experience, its not really beneficial. It gives 7.92% defence slotted currently.

Fitness

The main pool set of most charecters, as a Full Empath, its not 100% nessessary because you have your recovery aura and your reduced endurence cost when your team is in need, but i still take it anyway because its a good boost.
Can never have too much of a good thing

Flight

I was thinking whether to mention this because its only a small thing, but in some missions when a tank runs off above you, leaving you at the bottom of a ramp, or if you fall from a big ramp during a fight, this is much easier to get up there to heal rather than super jump or superspeed.

Concealment

Grant invisibility is a good power to help tanks deal with agro and also you can help your team stealth missions, stealth is ok for the same reason but for yourself, Invisibility i find little use for except for running away after a team splat because you cant do nothing under it.
Phase Shift is good to get away from mobs because you cant be harmed for the duration.

Leadership

My favourite pool power set, they take a long time to reactivate after they have been knocked off but they are great for teams.
Maneuvers is the worst power in the set because the defence buff is really low, the slot can be used better elsewhere but assualt is a great boost to damage.
Tactics is a great power because your team will hit a lot more and finish enemies quicker.
Vigilance is my favourite power in the pool set because if one team member falls, slotted with 3 defence recharges, 3 heals you can stop a team splat as soon as it begins.
It gives every member of the team 39% defence for 120 seconds, which is almost soft cap, and heals all of them for the same amount as healing aura. It also boost To hit by a fair amount too.
The only drawback is the long recharge of 300 seconds which cannot be slotted for recharge reductions, but you shouldnt need to use it that often anyway.

Leaping

Combat Jumping and Acrobatics are good choices because of there resistances to immobilisation, holds as well as knockback. Combat jumping also has a moderate defence increase of about 7% slotted.
Not 100% nessessary but a good choice for a travel set.

Presence

An Empath should not be taunting under any circumstance but intimidate and provoke arent that bad powers.
The fear boost can be good to use when a tank has the agro but be careful with the stragglers that will most likely bum rum you.

Ok powers to choose if you really want but better choices can be made.

Medicine

A lot of empaths take this set for the extra heals and resurrect, but personally i never saw the need heal wise because you recharge fast enough anyway and the heals are kinda bad plus they have interupt time.
Heal self is an ok power choice as is resusitate, but again, the slots could be better used i think.

Speed

Hasten when slotted with 3 recharges will be a great ally to you, i always have this set to auto activate and it helps me greatly with buff recharges.
Super speed is handy to dash in and out of the melees and use healing aura but in travel use, a wall is you weakness.

Teleportation

If you choose to go teleport, recall friend will be loved by many when you teleport them to mission enterences from train stations, plus if a team splats and you get away, you can teleport them to safety.
Make sure you ask if they want teleporting first though because it can annoy people if you dont ask outside of a team splat.

Teleport as a travel power is good but only if you have a fast pc. You will need to bind it to a key to use it effectively too.
The bind i use is:

/bind rshift, powexec_name Teleport

When you use this, if you hold down the right shift key, it will auto set your mouse to teleport mode, meaning wherever you click with it held down you will teleport to.
I always slot teleport with 3 range, 3 endurence enhancements so i have no endurence drained with maximum distance, but you may not need all those end reductions.

SECTION 2: EMPATH POWERS BREAKDOWN

Ok so now you have decided what kind of Empath you want to be, now you just need to know what each of the powers do and how they are used.
Below I will explain common usage of the powers and there effects and the levels you can attain them. Also slotting will be discussed a little in this part.

Healing Aura- level 1

A small radius area of effect heal around the caster, also the only heal that effects yourself.

Used in conjunction with Heal Other, sometimes set on auto by clicking it with the ctrl button held down.
Usually when Empaths afk they set follow on a fellow player besides the tank and have this on auto. Beware constant afk healing WILL get you booted from teams.
Most commonly used in farms too sometimes afk following a fire/kin.

Be aware the small range does not mean you should be stood in melee range as you will get stunned a lot later on, and a stunned or dead healer isnt any good to anyone.

My tactic used to be with either a kin in the team Speed boosting or Super speeding into a group of players then as i run backward to range again, hitting the heal. Rarely get hit that way, sprint is not fast enough to pull this off unless you have slotted swift too.

Possible Slotting:
Usually 6 slotted, 3 heal, 3 recharge, having a numinas +regen or a miracle +recovery instead of a recharge is fairly common.
Minimum slotting that could be used and still be viable is 4 slots, 2 recharge, 2 heal.

Heal Other- level 1

Your main heal as an Empath without a doubt the button you will be most hitting throughout your CoH career.

Used with Healing Aura to keep your team alive. Good range meaning you should stand well back when using it.

Possible Slotting:
Nearly always 6 slotted, 3 heals 3 recharges, although when you hit over level 25 you can use a recharge slot with Numinas +regen or Miracle +recovery because it only knocks off 0.17 of a second.
I strongly suggest 6 slotting it though just because of the amount of time you will be using it.
If 6 slots is really too much you could probably get away with 4-5 slots by dropping recharge but you will underperform with it.

Adsorb Pain - Level 2

Very much a last chance heal, heals a lot of HP compared to heal other, but in return you yourself cannot heal for a few seconds. The damage it does to you is minor but because you cant heal yourself after, its very dangerous in the wrong situation.

If a tank is going down fast whilst your heal other is on cooldown, or heal other just isnt healing him enough, use this and stand well back, using a few purple inspirations before you use this helps with any possible incoming damage.

If you are going to drop any power in the empath set, this is the one thats least needed. In my entire playing time I have only used this a handful of times.

Possible Slotting:
Usually i tend to slot just 3 heals because i rarely use this power because of the dangerous side effects. Easily could get away with 1 slot though because it still heals more than heal other with one heal enhancement on it.

Resurrect - level 6

Bring players back to life with this power, long cooldown though so cant deal with more than one downed player effectively.

If you plan on being a PvP healer, this isnt very useful. Also doesnt resurrect players that have used Self-Destruct.

Possible Slotting:
Usually 3 recharges but depending on your level range you can get away with 1 or 2 slots instead if you need elsewhere.

Clear Mind - level 8

In my experience i rarely need to use this power, because the duration of it isnt great by the time you have buffed the team it runs out meaning its only to be used once people already have a status effect.
Most of the time people just use a breakfree or say nothing anyway so you need to be perceptive.
The mez protection is handy in some situations but i find myself hardly ever using this.

If you take the power however, blasters, defenders and controllers should be your focus because there the ones without resists to status effects.
Most of the time if people want Clear Mind they will type either: 'Stunned' 'zzz' 'held' in chat box, but if not its down to you noticing the effects on screen.

This should not take priority over your heals, if the team is splatting and someones held you should not stop everything to cast it.

If you do not get this power however, you will get the occasional know it all that calls you a bad healer, so beware.

Possible Slotting:
The one slot is all it needs one recharge one i usually put on but it has a fast charge anyway.

Fortitude - level 12

Your first proper buff, 120 second duration and it increases defence, damage and to hit by a fair amount. You will get asked for this fairly commonly up till mid 30s where its not asked for as much.

I tend to use it on scrappers and blasters because they are the ones who benefit from all of the buffs most. Scrappers usually take priority though for me because there melee and more likely to be hit in any team but its your choice.

I have seen Empaths without this power before so its not unheard of in the later levels, but you will get grief and it is a good power.

Possible slotting:
I tend to either 6 slot this power with two defence buffs, two to hits, and two recharges, later i tend to put in Gaussians syncronised fire control: chance for build up instead of a to hit buff, and possibly luck of the gambler: 7.5% recharge increase, but thats fairly expensive.

Recovery Aura - level 18

An PBAoE buff around the caster, the first of two similar buffs, one buffing endurence, the other regen. Recovery Aura is by far more useful than Regeneration Aura in teams, especially to those endurence hungry tanks and blasters.

Usually announced on chat by using a bind such as:

/bind (Any key here), team >>>Gather For Auras<<<

Or something similar to that. When people dont take notice, i tend to wait until they just get out of an elevator so there all grouped or at the start of a mission and fire it.
Another tactic is if you take notice of whos draining endurence in the team, run up to them and use it on them.

If a blaster has just used a nuke or another defender, and Adrenalin Boost is recharging, i tend to run up to them and use this too, it does start them gaining endurence again, but when they do start it helps them recover it.

Possible Slotting:
I tend to go 3 recharges only but if you have the slots this is a good place to put them, any endurence modification enhancements on top of this would benefit it greatly, but recharge takes priority.
If you have the money, also performance shifter: chance for +end is a good addition.

Regeneration Aura - level 26

The second of two similar buffs, this one covering regen, its a PBAoE and is usually used at the same time as recovery aura, but slot on that should take priority.

This power I have dropped in the past, and some people I have seen around have too, its a handy power but seen as your a healer anyway, theres very little situations where a standard heal wouldnt do the same thing.
Good to help Willpower tankers mostly and scrappers.

Handy before a boss or an Arch Villain, or in PvP.

Possible Slotting:
If you take this power you should slot it the same amount of recharges as you have for recovery aura so you can use them together, because people will not group up twice.
The Miracle: +recovery and the numinas: +regen and +recovery is a good choice on this power.

Adrenalin Boost - Level 32

The last power in the set, and very handy power it is too. Resistence to slow, and a massive regen and recovery boost for a single player for 90 seconds.
Use this power wisely because the recharge rate is long.

Used mainly on blasters or defenders after a nuke to get them instantly regaining endurence again, but if you have this recharged and want to use it, look for people with high endurence use in the team and use on them.
Rarely asked for, only ever with blaster but great benefits with it on any player.

Possible Slotting:
I tend to just slot 3 recharges, but if you have slots to spare this is a good place to add them.
I would focus on the endurence modification rather than the heal enhancements because your job is a healer anyway, and the recovery from a nuke would be the main place you use it anyway.
If you have slots the usual numinas: +recovery/+regen or Miracle:+recovery would be good but take more priority slotting these in your AoE heals/buffs.

Hello everyone,

As i am about to leave the game i think its only fair that I pass on a few things I've learned whilst playing Empaths. I hope this helps you.

I will split this into sections to make it easier to read:



SECTION 1: Is Empath for you?

First of all you need to think what you are wanting to do with your empath. If you are wanting to solo anything at all without a team, then an empath isnt for you.
They perform very poorly without a team, much like the current kheldians, however, because of this they are fairly rare, and tend to level very fast because everyone wants them in a team.
Empaths tend to be the most loved players around and make friends easier.

However i stress if you are thinking about trying to get a possible solo combat type from this you should reroll, I would stand by my decision that its impossible.

Good Empaths are always perceptive, and can see where there team is struggling and needs help, and also take note of any problems they currently have, the carebear of the group They always make a massive impact on a previously failing team.

There are a lot of dull times as an empath where you will not be needed. If it is important to you that your constantly active, then empath is not for you.



SECTION 2: ATTACKING POWERS

In my opinion, you first need to decide what kind of Empath you want to be, a partial Empath, taking a few attacks, or a total Empath, in which case primary powers are kind of irrelevant unless you are building for roleplay reasons.

Be aware partial empaths tend to be looked down on, and shouted at a lot, having snide comments made about them, i attempted a dark/empath combination build and left out clear mind because it seemed no one was ever asking for it, as soon as it went i got a lot of hateful comments until i respeced again. Be aware but ultimately its your choice, thats what the ignore buttons for.

Ultimately defenders dont do that much damage anyway, so i wouldnt expect miracle blaster types because you will just be disappointed.

My thoughts on powersets are as below:

Archery
Pros: Fast attacks, not a bad set because it has +accuracy to all attacks and the speed of the mini nuke is good so you can still kick out a little damage.

Cons: Drawing time to get weapon out between heals can get annoying. Not a great deal of damage in the set compared to others.

Dark Blast
Pros: lots of cone attacks and a targeted AoE, plus a self heal in the form of Life Drain.

Cons: the -accuracy never seems to make much difference even when slotted unless your teamed with a defence based charecter such as Super reflex scrapper, again the damage is fairly low, Dark Pit should be avoided, its long recharge makes it worthless unless fully slotted and they could be used better elsewhere.

Electrical Blast
Pros: Endurence Drains can really help a team with Short Circuit in particular, plus you have a pet, Volatic Sentinel which can dish out damage while you heal your allies. One of the few sets to have a ranged hold in it.
If you plan on PvPing with friends, this is mainly energy based which is less resisted.

Cons: High endurence usage, to get effective endurence drain usually means slotting is required, and in PvE the enemys tend to regenerate endurence faster than you can take it away. Single target based, only two AoEs.

Energy Blast
Pros: High damage, plus its energy based so its less resisted if you plan on team PvP. Probably overall the most damaging set for single targets in the shortest amount of time defender has.

Cons: Its all about knockback, which tends to annoy team players in melee because they have to give chase.

Ice Blast
Pros: The slows can really help your team in most situations, also handy if you plan on team PvP, plus it has two holds and the most damaging single attack that defenders can get which also hits all foes in the area.

Cons: Really high endurence cost, no sniper attack, ice storm will get you killed with bad teams because of its tendancy to drag agro to you. Not a lot of damage till you hit the 30s and even then its not spectacular.

Psychic Blast
Pros: -recharge can be handy in both team PvP and regular teams, its psy damage so its not really resisted unless you come up against willpower types. Has a good variety of control effects.

Cons: Psy abilities tend to look bad, plus the constant wave board sound fx will do your head in after a bit. No Aim power. No Flashy attacks :P

Radiation Blast
Pros: Energy based so good in team PvP. Neutrino Bolt is really fast and X-ray beam is one of the few types with eye beam type attack.

Cons: Endurence wise costs a lot. -Defence isnt much good in PvE unless your fighting Arachnos blinding Widows. A fair few attacks require a fairly close range, and thats not where you want to be as an empath.

Sonic Attack
Pros: The -resist is very helpful in both PvP and PvE. Energy damage meaning its less resisted in PvP.

Cons: No control effects till level 28 with Sirens song, which isnt really handy in PvE because AoE will just wake them up again. The sounds will annoy you after a while, even more so than psy powers. The attacks arent flashy :P

i dont know about controllers but on my empath without power boost i heal around 370 with single target heal, with it i heal over 600 for the time it is active so it is a fairly big boost, the problem is the active time isnt really worth it.

I would strongly recommend the leadership set if you can though, vigilance when a team member has gone down, slot it for defence and everyone gets 39% defence, stops a team splat dead most time because its almost cap rate, awesome power.

Personally i think any buff to invul is good, nevermind 5% is not enough, its a buff not a debuff.
If people think they underperform i suggest they take a look at there build.
Invul still is the best tanking set there is, willpower vs anything other than psi, smashing or lethal, isnt a tank its a glorified regen scrapper.

EDIT: also id choose a glorified disco ball any day to a glowing yellow head, its much easier to get a costume to match up with invul without making a canary coloured suit.
Not that theres anything wrong with canary yellow suits, just not my style

on a side note:
taunt is pretty handy if you slot it with perfect zinger:chance for psi damage. It might only be a minor damage but it hits fairly often.

Having raised my 3rd tanker to 50, one stone/stone one fire/invul and the other fire/fire i think i can safely say the fire/fire does not need taunt, because the sheer aoe damage with gauntlet, and proper slotting means i have no agro holding issues.

However this being said, fire/invul still benefits greatly from it if you get the occasional 'bum rush' straight to a blaster just because of the range, its difficult to keep agro, and run out of a mob you have agroed to get one runner.

The Stone/stone i wouldnt even dream of speccing out taunt, i would get laughed at so hard because theres no point playing without it.

So my theory is:
Its not 100% nessessary IF your a fire/fire, but if thats the way you want to play you may as well just be a scrapper.

Otherwise to be any good in pve, you do need it.

Ahh the age of the scranker, worst points of a tanker, cant hold agro, worst point of a scrapper, cant deal damage. Why even bother? Just play one or the other

Sounds about right, the me and marko darko, the two mainly earning prestige in mighty paragon protectors, leave the sg and they lose top spot

Nice work guys you deserve it.

i retract my statement ^^ apologies

thats kheldian mez protection not electric melee ^^

Didnt know that about energy aura, any information on whats going to be done? possibly a linky?

Thinking along the basis that brutes and stalkers get electric melee primary and secondary, why didnt tanks/scrappers?

Mainly the defencive side of it would be great because looking at tanker primarys, theres nothing that is 'based' on reducing energy damage. They all are pretty poor at it.

If not electric melee, then it would still be nice to get some resistance that has energy resists.

Ummm.... you can keep energy aura

Thanks a lot for that that answered my question perfectly, now i realised i will have bad defences lol. You saved me a long pointless grind