Rylas

Someone better let tell all those Ice Tanks out there running high level TFs successfully before they go out there again! We got someone's opinion!

I'm looking for a benefactor...

While you may choose Ice over Inv, it's only a preference. For you, Invulnerable is "better" because maybe when you play Ice (and this in no way should be taken as an insult), you suck (relative to your Inv. performance). But for others, it could be the other way around. I for one, have not been able to see the performance in my Inv that I did in my Ice. But like you said here:

I believe that for every primary, there is a group of people who will make that set shine brilliantly. I haven't yet adapted my playstyle for DA yet, but that doesn't mean it can't be insanely durable with just SOs. So taking this into consideration, the question "What is the Best Tanker primary for Tanking?" becomes completely unanswerable. We're I capable of writing a well written presentation of why it's unanswerable, I'd write up a ginormous post and petition for it to be stickied. As it stands, I'm willing to edit and proof read for anyone willing to undertake such a task.

It auto levelled me to 50 when I used the auto-complete with specific search words!

Though it's probably pointless to respond to the OP at this point, since he hasn't bothered to comment since page 1:

Could you bother explaining WHY you disagree with all those extremely valid points? If you're going to insist that there's good reason to merge servers, you'll have to do more to shoot down the good reasons NOT to merge servers. A simple, "Mmmm, I disagree," doesn't cut it.

Also, if you could bother explaining to what depths you tried to find other players on the server you were on, that would also shed some light on your experience. Right now, it seems like you looked around some empty spots in certain zones, and decided no one was on. This, as pointed out earlier, is bad logic.

Please keep in mind that nearly all content in the game is played in instanced maps. And with the proliferation of travel abilities in the game [i.e. Travel powers from Safegaurds/Mayhems, Buying jetpacks in Grandville/Shadow Shard, team recall veteran power, mission teleport bonus pack power, Ouroboros portals, Pocket D portals, SG base teleporters, etc. etc.], travel time in zones has been reduced dramatically. So yeah, city zones will have the appearance of being "dead." Seriously, put some more effort into forming your own teams through the search function (or ask to join others). It works.

Yes, please leave out all good reasons why this idea is a bad idea. Otherwise, his poorly thought idea won't sound as good. How dare you bring in counterpoints!!

Seriously, allowing people to keep badges on level 1 toons would be overpowering. And just because you claim you don't go for accolades (which even if you didn't, you'd have them by default if you're going for badges) does not mean everyone out there is the same. People would certainly exploit this to have accolades at early levels.

No. No. No. And again, NO! The devs have said it won't happen. Get over it. If you absolutely don't want to get badges over and over again, then do the most obvious thing you should be doing: STOP GETTING BADGES IF YOU HATE TO DO IT SO MUCH.

Hear are your tissues. Cry less plz.

Wooo... sorry for the long delay in response. Yes, I used the global handle name. With the "@". I do have my global in my sig (points down). I've already used the email system before, so I know it can work. I also petitioned it and got a response stating that the global channel issues are a strong reason why I haven't seen the emails pop up.

I was also told that once the global channel issues were fixed, the emails should show up. While they haven't yet, I'm hoping they will soon. And not Soon (TM).

Nope, the body text only contained three letters: inf. I don't tend to get long-winded when I send myself money.

If they were "junk IOs," then it's not like the player who slotted them is going to sell them for much anyhow. In fact, they could just get as much from the influence given when you burn an enhancement from a respec.

The devs have stated we're lucky to keep ten. If you make mistakes in your build by blowing your influence on IOs you didn't end up liking, then consider it a learning experience. And I'm speaking as someone who made plenty of poor choices on his first IO build.

So, with SOs running near ED, that would be:

S/L Resist - ~40% (take Tough for 60%)
Neg Resist - ~47%
E/F/C Resist - ~23%
Toxic Resist - ~63%
Internal should maybe offer some Psi if it's increasing your cranium density.

These numbers seem a little low for the recharge the heal has. Yes, there's a 200% regen rate being added, but IMO, that's not a lot. So with that in mind, I think Bone Cage should not be handled as a phase power. You should be touchable, but I think during this time you are capped for resist and soft capped for defense. This should off set the lack low resist values of the set. I also thing Energy should have the same resist values.

Change the heal to a Healing Flames clone, but make it heal only, no resist features.

I like the idea of a death power. It's unique and new to the game. It should be an auto power, and it should have a cool down period so that it's not exploitable.

How about a twist on Tier 9 crashing:

Bone Avatar:

You focus all your power into creating a suit of bone armor, turning you into a bone giant. Your temporary size increase extends your range and damage, while increasing your overall resistance. This focus can only be held so long before it drains you completely.

Graphically, this gets the Granite treatment (but with bones, of course - and give different bone armor looks to choose from). The visual increase in size justifies the increase in range.

Timed Toggle: 1 min. The longer you run the toggle, the more health/crash you receive. A full minute takes you to 90% crash on end/hp. Seconds 1-15 will be the minimum crash amount of 25%.
Range increase: 20% (unenhanceable)
Damage increase: 50% (unenhanceable)
+HP: 30% (enhanceable)
Recharge: 4 mins. (enhanceable)

The numbers for this might need changing, I don't do numbers enough to know if that would be too overpowered or not (or underpowered). I like the idea of being able to increase your melee range, giving the tank a unique ability to control melee aggro in a wider area.

Yes, but can you list any cool new features?

As someone that played out his toons all the way to 50 before ever getting a VEAT or HEAT (without PLing), I completely support the change to the requirements. The less incentive we give new players to PL to 50, the better. How many times do we (the collective community) complain about inexperienced level 50s running around the game? One of the reasons people would PL to 50 was just to unlock Epics. I'd rather they get there because they were having fun and learning how to play their alt.

Don't get me wrong, I'd like DN or an AoE Immob. But I don't think APPs and PPPs will get straight ported to other ATs. But we can petition for a DN containing PPP for tanks, right!?