Tsuji

If it's going to be a long term character and you IO it out, you will become much, MUCH less disappointed in KM due to power siphon. I went nuts thinking I should have gone /fire or /elec around level 40 or so, but then once I was IO'd out and got hasten I was glad I stayed KM. With the bonuses from the incarnate system and maybe 35% from IOs kinetic siphon's' damage bonus is only down for maybe 10 seconds, and you don't have to deal with the rage crash forcing you to stop attacking.

I'd consider is a dominator, and I'm pretty surprised no one suggested it considering the idea of the relatively recent Dominator redesign was to make an AT where the secondary and primary powersets are of equal importance. Since you like surprise and not doing the same thing every time I'd recommend ice, earth, plant, and electric primaries and then whatever secondary you think looks coolest. You melee, you shoot ranged attacks, and you control stuff. You even get a pet as long as you're not mind.

I'll also second the idea about rad/sonic.

Beyond that, consider the Arachnos epic ATs, they're pretty jack of all tradey. Most of them have a mix of ranged and melee attacks along with the ability to hide and crit out of hide.

The resist debuff is nice, I will give it that, but it's a bonus for having a single tanker, and again I said in current content. You aren't fighting hard enough single targets regularly enough in the current game for bruising to make an enormous difference vs grabbing someone else.

My main worry about tankers is that if you design content requiring buffs to tank, which is where the higher tanker caps will normally come into play (beyond invuln and stone), you end up with a situation where the survivability difference between these melee ATs becomes less important rather than more. There's nothing stopping a buffed scrapper or brute from taking taunt and easily handling aggro from a single large enemy, and tankers won't have much of an aggro advantage given that punchvoke doesn't really work on AVs.

Yeah tanks have definitely gotten a bit better, and it's the reason I made the KM/WP instead of an ill/rad, but let's not exaggerate; I don't think the nerfs had much of a practical effect on the way the game is played.

Luckily enough the game is designed so that even if your AT is a little less than optimal there will still be room for you, so I personally don't think the imbalance is a huge deal. But I definitely believe it's there, even with the changes.

Actually I'd go so far as to say the HP factor is the biggest difference between scrappers/brutes and tankers, especially since there aren't too many outside buffs that boost HP.

Though I won't lie, given the current content I actually think tanks are not all that useful. I can't think of very many situations in which a brute wouldn't be better from a pure powergame perspective.

I was under the impressions procs would go off every time you fired a power, and that the 10 second cooldown was for when they were slotted into a toggle.

Anyway, with hasten and a little global recharge it recharges in 5 seconds on my tank, so with even more recharge maybe you could get it down to firing it off every 6 or 7 seconds.

I leveled from 1-50 without stamina and also used to run arctic air and all the leadership toggles at once on my /psi. It combined with domination makes everything fine.

I personally think it would be a bad idea to skip stamina altogether, but stamina with 1 slot is probably ok once you get perma dom going.

More or less right. I've solo'd most AVs I've encountered with my Ice/Psi dom though, so you definitely can do it on non-mind. But that means you're going to be fighting something that can kill you in two hits, so you have to build and plan accordingly, and be ready to back out of melee occasionally etc etc.

You know, if everyone is taking stamina, making it inherent will actually increase variety since many powers or power pools no one would ever take before will now be taken. E.G. maybe more people will take powers like a self rez, or repulsing torrent, or stealth, etc.

I can understand saying people should have to use power selections to get stamina (I don't think they should), but saying forcing people to spend power choices on stamina increases variety is just not really sensible. Now, if there were actual alternatives to stamina available to the vast majority of players it would be true that there would be more variety. But most powersets simply have no alternative.

This is coming from someone whose main two characters don't have stamina, for what it's worth.

It takes around 15 minutes for my dom to solo a quarry if it doesn't run away or kill me, so 15 minutes is a good number for someone with strong regen debuffs.

I think Physical Perfection is probably overkill if you slot your aoes for end reduction. Currently my WP tank doesn't even have stamina and I can still attack for a really long time even when using focused accuracy. I'm sure when I get stamina only end drain and heavy aoe use could make a WP tank with the accolades and recovery uniques lose end. I can only see perfection being useful for if you wanna solo AVs.

Conserve power is still good though I think. You're WP, so you have no end drain protection, so fighting higher level arachnos etc. will hurt your end bar pretty badly.