Smersh

There are basically three things you need to be able to solo an AV.

1) You have to be able to stand in front of the AV and not die. This shouldn't be too much of a problem for a tank, though some AVs will give some tanks problems here - I don't expect an invuln tank to solo Mother Mayhem, for instance.

2) You need an attack chain that does enough damage. Some secondaries will not be quite as good here - Electric does not have a great single target chain.

3) You have to have the endurance to run that attack chain and the selected toggles indefinitely. 20+ minutes.

Some primaries help more than others - Inv has great defense, but its only contribution to offense is the to-hit buff in Invincibility. Fire armor has a lot more offense, but you'll have to focus on making sure that it is up to par defensively.

Yeah... all of my characters are either the sort that would absolutely never be connected to the Well...

...or are virtual, RP Incarnates anyway, connected instead to multiversal forces of Order and Chaos.

But, really, I just have to look at it and think to myself... Would Smersh really accept power from some undefined but sentient power source, or would he just crank his old armor suit up to 11?

I work under the latter assumption.

It is possible that I might take one of my characters who is not yet 50 and play with the lore itself, but I haven't made that decision yet.

I think that just makes it clear that, any time he posts in the tanker forums, he has to be told that he's not allowed to talk until he's accepted my challenge.

Nah, too much work.

I'll one-up that...

I'm perfectly willing to invite him to my team and allow him to observe me soloing an AV. My results are reproducible.

Of course, he will have to agree to take back his statement, publicly, when I present proof.

And, no, I truly don't believe that Fiery Melee is in any risk of a nerf.

And... Just soloed Nightstar via Ouro.

Je Saist, you can take your words back any time now.

True story time.

Back somewhere around issue 7 or 8, I sort of soloed Terra, exemplared to level 40-ish.

I say sort of soloed, because I had a single buff applied to me - an Adrenalin Boost from a controller. I did not need it for survivability, I needed it for the endurance. I was doing enough damage to overcome her regen already, but the A-Boost made it go faster.

That was pre-invention, so I did not have nearly the recovery or endurance efficiency on my Inv/Fire that I do now.

My current build has 77.5% global recharge, more damage, more endurance recovery, and a Cardiac Radial slot.

I think I could probably pull it off purely solo now. In fact, I need to try to solo an AV with him again.

I would dump one of your spare travel powers and take both Unstoppable and Physical Perfection.

Just finished reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Excellent, though by no means a quick read - I found myself chewing on the details quite a bit, though in a good way.

Before that, I'd read the first five Amber novels, and I'm now working on the second half. I'd previously only made it up to the eighth novel - this time I have Knight of Shadows and Prince of Chaos ready to go, so I'll finally have the whole series.

Finding a good arc is far too difficult. I don't want to have to sift through a million options, I want to get on and play a couple of nice missions. How many thousand farms are out there that I need to go through to find one decent arc?

Also, there are far too many dead arcs cluttering the search. I think a wipe is in order... give a global message of the day so authors can save their arcs, and unpublish everything. Let it be restocked.

Maybe an option in the GUI that lets you search your global friends list for new publications?

Really, I'm just watching this thread for Arcanaville to ride in on her celestial chariot of light, and apply a precision guided orbital kinetic kill vehicle of logic detailing precisely how the OP is wrong.

For what it's worth, OP, I wrote a guide back in Issue 3 or 4, detailing precisely why pursuing the resist caps was worthwhile for a tanker. And precise amounts of incoming DPS had no relevance to that discussion.

Siphon Life is a great attack, and should be slotted as such. You could, however, use a couple of the accurate heal sets in a frankenslot on the attack.

A softcapped Willpower is a fearsome thing. Now, that being said, you might consider softcapping against Energy and Negative only, as you do have the dual layers of resistance and healing to preserve you from smashing and lethal. On the other hand, building in even a moderate amount of defense would be beneficial, as you'll be stacking on the to-hit debuffs from Dark Melee. It's really your call.

Rise to the Challenge's to-hit debuff is not worth slotting. If you're interested in to-hit debuffs, look instead to Touch of Fear.

There is so much wrong here that I do not even know where to begin.

Do you have a plan/goal for this build, or are you just putting in things that are expensive?