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Also, of course, the secondary is a source of mitigation that the OP is, apparently, ignoring.

A shield defense tank with combat jumping, tough and weave can hit the defense softcap for all three positions using only seven set IOs. Backed with resistances, it's a tough enough tank for most situations.

An electric armor tank is a resist based tank that has a second mitigation tool in endurance drain. Endurance Drain does not become a viable strategy, however, until Power Sink becomes available at 26.

A Willpower tank is fairly strong out of the box with just SOs. It does benefit immensely from Tough and Weave. It also benefits significantly from making sure enemies are in melee with it, to fuel Rise to the Challenge's regeneration buff. At a minimum, you'll want to take Taunt, OP, to use it.

No tank, however, is designed to take a beating indefinitely. Half the point is to knock down, stun, or defeat the enemy. Doing so drastically cuts incoming damage.

DOs have only half the effectiveness of SOs.

It is very difficult to judge the effectiveness of a set before SOs become available at 22.

Also, many sets have key powers that do not open up until later in a tank's career.

What levels are each of these respective tanks, and what secondaries are you using with each?

Flee the Flea.

My suggestion is this:

Be willing to form your own team.

If you're broadcasting in Talos or Founder's Falls for a team, and you don't see one forming, but you see two other people looking for a team?

Grab the bull by the horns! Form that team yourself!

You might be surprised who you run into, and you might build a great team.

I strongly support this.

...mostly out of the hope that, someday, Unknown Heroes will decide that it's large enough, and I won't get a tell inviting every new alt I roll into it.

Consider Touch of Death for melee attacks, and swapping out the Multistrikes for Obliterations and Sciroccos. ToD and Obliteration both have 3.75% melee defense for the 6-slot bonus, and Scirocco has 3.13% AoE defense at five slots.

Going to the Body Mastery pool, six slots of Focused Accuracy with Gaussian's gets a big 2.5% defense to all positions. Or you could keep Maneuvers and slot Gaussian's into Tactics.

Also: I do not see the Steadfast Res/Def unique in your build. Buy one, even if it costs you a few million. One IO gives you 3% defense to all positions. Stick it in True Grit or Deflection.

Mako's Bite is a good source, 3.75% ranged def for six slots.

The Monster Island mission door (used with radio missions in Peregrine Island) is back.

Spines/Electric, and possibly a Fire/Earth dom.

The crystal set for Earth is all kinds of sexy.

The Crystal theme makes a great Ice Melee substitute.

Of more interest, IMO, is the Invulnerability option that is "No FX"... only Dull Pain and Unstoppable have any FX under that option. Likewise, Willpower, Regen, and SR have similar options.

Neuron, actually.

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Too late...

...but so worth it.

Could save a power by dropping Cobra Strike and slotting boxing with Razzle Dazzle.

And, of course, I don't think that the Gaussian's proc works the way you think it does... The proc has an uptime of 5 seconds out of every 3 minutes and 20 seconds on average. Not exactly what I would refer to as continuous.

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Get a Steadfast: Res/Def IO. Put it in Deflection or True Grit.

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I soloed Math at +1.

Superman.

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[I got it, I just didn't want it?]

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Yeah, you'll be fine with Claws/Invuln. The scrapper combinations are very nicely balanced in PvE these days. There are better and worse choices for various objectives, but there are no clear winners and losers.

I have a theory that Katana/Shield can achieve the highest DPS with billions of influence spent, but I haven't worked it all out yet.

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Let us know when you make that Katana/Shield... I'll be right behind you with a Spines/Shield.

Looks like Virtue's pretty popular...

If it was on Virtue, I'd be in if the time was right. I've got a nicely IOed DB/SR who's managed to solo a couple of easy AVs.

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Unfortunately, she suffers the same fate of all defensive sets: vulnerability to debuffs

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A well-built SR is 95% resistant to defense debuffs. The problem mine has with debuffs is that some (I'm loking at you, Possessed Scientists!) nocs have debuffing attacks that are flagged as non-resistable. Not many of them, and since the player PVE and PVP versions of these attacks ARE resistable, I wonder if it's a bug. It's very very rare though -- in general, I can go afk in a crowd on the Cimerororan walls, for example, and so far have never come close to dying. I just run a few percentage points over 45% and the debuff resistance eats up the debuffs.

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No, the issue she's having is to-hit buffs, which custom MA critters are known to have in greater amounts.

I think Rieze should try to prove that sig line...

No nukes, no Shivans, just scrappers.