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Aw, DK, I do enjoy the gusto in which you proselytize Dark Armor.

Now look what you did! You made an edit completely negating my long post!! THANKS!

In answer to you're new question, I can tell you, WP/DM should have A LOT of team performance. WP is considered to be quite survivable. You've got moderate defense to some things, decent resist to others, and Psi is well covered. On top of that, you can boost your HP quite well and regen at very strong numbers.

Throw in the heal from DM and you're covering a lot of those "tight situations." You also have the endurance needed to keep attacking, which will help you shore up those aggro needs. Since DM can be turned into a good "buzz-saw" build, you should be turning out lots of aggro. Use Taunt, and you should be fine in helping your team.

Also, the Single Target damage of DM allows decent solo work.

Now, if you get to 40, and you have that feeling that you're aggro gathering could be better (for the sake of your team), then go with Earth Mastery and get Quicksand. It covers a huge area and will help keep people away from those ranged squishies.

I wouldn't worry about your combo. It can work very well for teams. If you decide to IO it out, I'd suggest just going for +HP bonuses. They're cheap (and usually take 2-4 slots - mostly 3), and they would only solidify your tanks durability. Also, they're easy to get while still getting good power enhancement values.

Well... Invader Zim stumbled upon the advantages of cuteness as a means for lowering defenses of others... I don't see how going the other way with it would be too difficult.

To the OP, I'm not really sure you're opening comment was as concise as you think. Nor all that different. This is in no way to be considered an attack on you. Having been on the tanker forums for a long time, there have been all sorts of threads asking people to rank tanks in one order or another. This isn't really all that different. You're just asking for our opinion, but not exactly being clear on what you're trying to gain from asking said opinion.

Here's some highlighted parts from your OP that seem... contradictory.

You ask for what everyone prefers to play with, but then go on to say no Stone Tanks. Well, what if that's someones favorite tank to play? What if that was what most people would have said? Also, how can one not consider their own play style when picking a favorite. To be honest, I don't think it would become their favorite without having fit well with the way they prefer to play. And in the end, if it's based off of play style, how does that help you?

Basically, all you've left is numbers, and "most conceivable situations." If that's really all I'm allowed to choose from, without playstyle being a factor and only using SOs, then I can say I'd really take ANY tank combo, and make it work for "most situations." I've played all but Inv/ to 50 (it's just not as "fun" for me, but that's just play style preference). There's only one tank primary that MIGHT not work as well for teams, and that's WP. But, that's only if you don't know how to grab aggro outside your aura.

Again, I'm not trying to heckle you. It just doesn't seem your thread is anymore unique than others that have come up. If you're new around here, it's completely understandable why you wouldn't know this. Maybe if you could clarify why you want to know everyone favorite, and to what goal you're trying to get at, then you'd set it apart from the usual "tank rank/what's the best tank all around/what's the toughest" threads.

We'll make it bright yellow. And bolded. With comic sans. And pictures of kittens next to it. And we'll promise cake.

Also, we can just link the thread when someone asks this question. Besides, they're more likely to see that than to do search.

Yup. This.

We really need to sticky a thread titled: The BEST UBEREST TANK EVER and it should only say this in the body copy: Any tank built well and played well. There is no powerset combo that can't adjust to any situation.

These threads pop up too often for us to not have a sticky like that.

I always keep mixing up Isla and Amy. No wait, I mean Amy and Isla. I mean.... well ****.

Also, that photo of Lindsay would be better matched to an Oompa Loompa.

He did do the nasty in the past-y.

Wait, that's unpossible. How can they be clones and their own grandfathers?!?

Well, to help fight the inflation, you could sell them to me for 36 million. Even less if you want to really stick it to the system.

...just sayin'.

Why would someone want to become randomly intangible? If you ever thought Illusionist were a nuisance, just wait until all your targets randomly go untouchable for 3 seconds.

1: The RAM is indeed, four indentical sticks. And I've tried many variations on slotting to make sure everything works fine. The DDR2 slots are 2 sets of yellow and red slots. I've tried all 4 slots, just 2 yellow slots, just 2 red slots, the first red and yellow.... you see where I'm going.

2: All BIOS will say when all 4 sticks are in is that it sees 8192 in RAM. Which sounds about right for 8GB.

Hmm... pretty sure I've run both sets of 2 sticks, so I know the RAM sticks are good. I'll try seeing if booting in safe mode does anything...

You focusing on one word he misused doesn't really detur the truth of his statement. Nor does it mean you've actually addressed anything that was said. It's still BS to say that reviews and spoilers have never affected the way you watch a movie and that they never will.

I just don't see how this can be true. How can you possibly know how you'd perceive the story without seeing the spoilers. If someone told me the ending to the Sixth Sense, I'd have watched the entire moving thinking about it. There's not a way to be surprised by anything.

I can't concieve why someone would want spoilers anyway, but I know some people just want to have the false sense of "knowing" that it can provide. Maybe you have no interest to see a movie but wanted to know what happens. Maybe you're somoene who doesn't like surprises. Maybe it comes from a sense of needing to be "in control" of everything. Like the way you try to deride arguments or omit other peoples points when they don't suit your weak defense.

But if you're someone who can turn the blind eye on all the blaring plot holes in the last 6 seasons of Smallville, then you should be able to see why others aren't nit-picking at minor details in this movie. Sure, you've decided to call them mountains instead of mole hills, but plenty of people have pointed out reasonings and the what-nots to derail them from being so big of a deal. There's no need to be condescending if we still choose to see the story as stronger than you want to believe.

Oh, WHF must have been even more sarcastic than I thought.

I have to defend Dur here. This just can't be true. Have you seen how much he defends the writing on Smallville?

Meh, I think this is the only thing I disagree with you on. I think the cabin definitely was soemthing Jacob used. Remember, team Illana went there in search for him.

I think Jacob used it as a means to meet with Richard. It's not far fetched. If you're Jacob, you may want a place that Richard can meet you at, but want to allow him the assurance that when he goes there MiB won't be waiting there to trick him. Voila, an ash ring. Also, maybe Jacob didn't want Richard to be followed to his real "home." The only restriction it seemed Jacob wanted to enforce on his brother was that he couldn't leave the island.

I think the writers of the article mistook Christians words in the final scene. When he tells Jack everything he experienced and all the people he knew were real, he was talking about his earthly life, not the afterlife. It seems like a pretty big fumble on the writers' part.

You say you've discussed each point I bring up, and in the next sentence, claim I never argue a point. Which is it? Oh, and if I'm quote-mining here, let me know.

Now, there was this post in which I went and made plenty of points you ignore. Which is where I guess you must have been referring to when you say:

Yes, you do just end up saying something to the effect of, "you made several fallacies". In and of itself, saying simply that is not actually making a valid point. But that's usually all you do, and in your head, that seems to be enough.

Now, sometimes you try to be elusive by stringing together a bunch of words with no really comprehensible meaning, like you'll trick us into believing you made a point. Such as this post I already pointed out which you didn't feel needed clarification:

Okay then, one more time, I'll make my points on your faulty arguments, and you can address each one like you say you do.

Despite the numerous posts that have said the review you base your opinions on being wrong, you insist your reasoning is infallible that the movie is riddled with plot holes. Whether people want to take the time to send you a PM or not, you've got tons of people telling you the review was incorrect it the facts it presents. You've certainly kept you mind open to being changed on this, haven't you?

All you know is what someone has said of the movie, and the incorrect facts they present. Of the movie itself, you know nothing outside of what's shown in trailers and previews. The entirety of the plot is still outside you knowledge until you see the movie. You can argue all you want against that, but you're dead wrong to think you know the plot well enough to say it has holes.

You're basing your whole argument off of what others said in their reviews. This whole statement shows one of three things. 1: You have no accurate self perception, and believe everything you tell yourself. 2: You're projecting yourself onto others, which really stems from what I've said in number 1.

You always use similar phrases to this. You never actually go through and point each thing out without making erroneous arguments about each item. And yeah, I quote mined, if that's the way you want to phrase it. But I commented on it being out of context to what you said, but being incredibly indicative of your behavior. So show me how it's not the way you behave on these forums. I'm not sure many people will back you up in your defense.