SilverBullet_NA

I meant to say "too much IO set def bonuses" not just positional def bonus. For my /stone brute unlike stone tank you have to pick up some IO sets Kinetic combat and thunderstrike to soft cap S/L/E also i worked to negate the movement (gift of ancients) and recharge penalty.

Ice def does play role against enemies like malta which have holds that can stack if it hits and in pvp (OT). As for CE iirc its 15% dmg debuff not sure the numbers on EBs/AVs which resist them.

I have Fire/Stone i like it i think it shines post IOs thanks to +def and +recharge set bonus. Healing flames seems to be up nearly all the time.

Well look at the numbers, for example my lv 48 Shield Tank (a work in progress) without even Tier 9 has 43% pos. def where as the ice tank while soft cap on L/S/E/NE def still has huge def holes to psi/fire and ice. On top of that shield as 20% resistance to all

Have perma HF and on top of that have base 2.6k hp. At 50 when you have AVs that can easily for 2k i would much rather prefer my Fire tank because of its resis or my Shield.

Not arguing whether Ice tank can run tf, pretty much run every tf there is with my ice tank (Arctic), what i am saying is post IOs Ice tank are inferior to other tank sets simply due to the resistance hole. What do i mean? Ice tanks gain very little from IO set bonuses my tank is at 48% S/L def. There is way too much positional IO def set bonuses which in other hand greatly help my Fire/Shield tank or my /Stone brute. Till the devs address this and give more resistance bonuses i stand by my argument.

Difference being def debuffs which are far too prevalent among AVs (Silver mantis, Captain Mako,Scirocco and Aeon's Clones). Elude being tier 9 gives excellent resistance to it combine with other SR powers i believe you have close to 100% resis to def debuff.

SRs have Elude which ice tanks unfortunately do not have.

Actually its 34.6% def debuff resistance which is one of the lowest for pure def sets.

Are you being sarcastic? if you had run any lv 50 TFs you would know that ice is worst tanking set there is. Because one lucky hit can flatten ice tank due to its lack of resisrtance, couple that with abundance of -def attacks some AVs have ice is not a good tanking set. You are better off running shield scrapper (Dr Aeon pawned our ice tank in STF last week, the scrapper picked him and tanked it without a hitch)...

Ice maybe good tanking set for running mishes (as long as you avoid mobs with +to hit like Vanguard or Ruluaru) but IMO its the worst tanking set there is.

Blasters dmg is unsurpassed in early levels (pre 30) when other classes do not have access to AoEs but later in the game as these powers become more prelavant. Blasters slightly higher dmg just does not make up for lack buffs/debuffs/control/surviv.

Given the choice of Corr or blaster i would take the former every time in ITF/LGTF speed runs i do regularly. Would be interesting to see what happens to that AT once Corruptors switch over.

As for Stalkers i can see them disappearing all together from the pve picture but will remain very popular for pvp.

Shield is resis/def sets not pure defense set other than that you can hardly go with powerset just because it is good in early levels, especially with smothened leveling curve and if you got a good SG to help you.

As i said do not judge a set by a exp at early levels if you get terrible team not matter what set you go with you will face plant. Shield slotted properly is better than Inv or WP, top three IMO are Stone, Shield, WP.

My Stone has no problem, Shield and WP should be able to do it as well.

Explain? But when rage drops it automatically puts -20% def debuff...

How is that when rage drops you still lose -20% def even if you have another stacked....

Yes i have run into stones who don't pick up tp and have SS, that said assuming player is competent and builds his toon properly. Both sets def/resis numbers are very good sadly even better than even pure resis/def sets, yes shield takes bit more IOs to make it right but that said even stone requires some IO work to increase the dmg/recharge.

Still better than these tier 9s Hibernate or Soul transfer

My argument is that defense is too prevalent not that it is good and mechanic is over complicated than it needs to be. There is no need what so ever for type defense that is where resistance comes in.

As for S/L def vs positional defense Actually there are plenty of mobs with pure elemental attacks or psi range/aoe attack (Arachnos, CoT demons etc) which s/l def would not cover. I do dislike that soft cap is easier to reach coupled with over abundance of def bonus for IO sets.

IMO that mechanic would make things simpler for new players and also you cannot block or dodge any more than 50% of the attacks.

I know those changes lets ignore the tohit buffs and pvp problems for now, in pve the problem is defense is too prevalent and easy to cap for even non defense based toons especially thanks to IOs unlike resistance.

Also as it stands positional is better than type defense, IMO they should have scrapped defense all together and rather implemented % value for block,parry and dodge. Which would have been more in line with the comics. May be its just me it just doesn't feel that exciting when you can simply avoid 90-95% of the attack an AVs throws at you.