Psycho Jas

Originally Posted by Vertistic

England drawed USA pz

Originally Posted by vertistic

someones mad

Originally Posted by je_saist

Your regen rate is partially tied to your HP cap: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Hit_Points

You can get a Willpower to the HP cap at level 50 with a bit of IO work and the usage of accolade powers.

There are several factors that you'll need to consider when chasing after ever increasing regeneration rates, such as:

• regeneration is not the total answer to survival
• regeneration rate boosts through IO's are limited
• overall avatar power choice and design for task at hand
• if you take all of your primary and secondary powers, you will have six power choices left to make

No matter how you slot physical perfection, it's not going to give you greater surivability over taking the fighting pool for Tough and Weave. Ergo, you'd only want to take physical perfection if you were able to fit it and another epic pool power, either Focussed Accuracy or Conserve Power, on top of a build that already has boxing, tough, and weave included atop your basic armors.

So, you'll need to already have a handle over which powers you can reasonably drop. Out of the Willpower set, the only real droppable power is the revive. Out of the dual-blades set, it's not so easy to pick a power to drop. As a set dual-blades is weaker on straight damage and straight mitigation of incoming damage. The damage counts and mitigations are made up for by activating the various combinations of Dual Blade powers.

Now, I'm sure some number cruncher out there will tell you that oh you can drop such and such a power and skip that chain and it won't affect your DPS / Aggro handling abilities. My personal opinion is a "depends on what armor you coupled it with."

Willpower, as an armor set, is extremely weak to slow powers, with no recharge rate resistance. So, all it takes is one Crey Cryo tank and your combo ability goes out the door. As you get into the later stages of the game, you'll run into more and more enemies that have slow components to their attacks, such as the Carnies (Psi), Malta, Rikti, Arachnos, and Rularuu.

In order to put your DB mitigation down effectively, you'll pretty much have to take every single power on a tank. Sure, scrappers can get away with dropping Confront, but if I have to explain why dropping Taunt makes a player a bad tank, I don't want to.

So, for an average DB / WP built tank, the only power you could safely drop would be the Revive.

That's only going to leave you with 7 free powers.

3 of those powers go to swift, health, stamina. That leaves you with 4 powers. two of those go to your travel set.

That just leaves you with two power choices, and on a tank, you really, really, really want to get your smash / lethal resistance as high as possible... so that pretty much limits you to boxing and tough.

From there you could work backwords, thinking about which powers you might not really need. You might be able to justify dropping Strength of Will to take Weave, and just settle for not being able to handle alpha strikes as well as you could with a different build.

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Once you have your basic build structure in mind, and you know what you want to do with the build, then you can start to look at various IO sets, seeing which ones offer HP cap boosts, or regeneration boosts.

The general rule of thumb is that in the long term an Hp Cap boost is going to benefit you more than a straight regeneration boost, and many IO sets with HP cap boosts also have regeneration boosts.

Hopefully this helps you in your quest to make a good tank.

Originally Posted by Vexington

Eh, no. That wasn't nice, that was creepy. W/e, bro. I'm out.

Rpt, Pzpzpzpzpzpz, lata

Originally Posted by Vexington

That's offensive. I'll only tell you if you ask me nicely.

Originally Posted by Psycho Jas

What part of you being completely irrelevant didn't you understand? You must lead the most aweful life, pull yourself together.

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

One other thing. More in the nature of friendly advice Forget about reloading Limewire. Calling it a potential trojan and a portal for system infection through downloads is being kind...

Originally Posted by vindizzLe

Quit lurking my CoHfaces, you're terrible at RPing a girl. Obvious.

Originally Posted by vindizzLe

Why do you care?

Originally Posted by Borderline Boss

lol verbal diarrhea

Originally Posted by TrueDarkLord

I'm not pulling a card...u made it perfectly clear that you are annoyed by me an don't want me on the team..

Originally Posted by TrueDarkLord

jas doesn't want me there

Originally Posted by Borderline Boss

You were being serious, but in an attempt to gain credibility with me, decided to pretend you were giving "false information". Nice try Psycho Jas, but you're a book I've already read.

Originally Posted by Borderline Boss

This is not a good plan.

Originally Posted by Sinistar6000

Just curious about the placate proc. Does it help evasion? I have one and was thinking of using it for Emp/psi as a way to get untargeted and run a little then get back to healing.

Originally Posted by ConFlict

think what you will, pro.

Originally Posted by Vexington

Lmao,

The battle between Jas and Supermax!?

Two people who know nothing, but feel the need to comment on everything. This.. is... awesome.

Originally Posted by ConFlict

Its pretty effective in zone as well.

Originally Posted by Mercury_Down

It does come in handy when you've got a taunter on you. Not that that happens all that much.

Originally Posted by Supermax

On that subject, it's kinda weird. I've been placated by psy blasters without being hit by them. Not sure how it's possible. May be some insane lag or something, but I clearly got placated when the only person attacking me was a psy blaster....and i took zero damage. This has happened twice in the last 2-3 months.

Originally Posted by OneAboveAll

just fix 100% placate.

Originally Posted by Dawk_Boy

also ur bad so no one will pick u

Originally Posted by ConFlict

The time has come for these changes.

Originally Posted by Borderline Boss

I don't think they're very good, but everyone else is really bad