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Epic thoughts?

Aett_Thorn

By Aett_Thorn,
Posted on: 2009-05-15 10:34 in Tankers

 

Posted

Hey there.
My main tank, wp/ss, is looking to respec... change epics, specifically.
I have /pyre right now. Char, fire blast and fireball.
I've had energy before...
What are cold and earth like?
I've wanted to try earth, just never gotten to it.
Suggestions?

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Posted

Sadly no.
Thank you anyway.

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Posted

I took Earth and Salt Crystals - the only power I took - on my WP/DM tanker. Salt Crystals's sleep is useless in team situations, but the important thing is that it is a -def debuff that aggrovates up to 10 mobs in a huge radius, and as such more than makes up for the slowness of Dark Melee's AoE powers.

I may end up making an alternative build that has Quicksand too. That also seems very useful, if situational: I've seen it used to great effect on single file ambushes on the ITF.


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Posted

I'm a big fan of Quicksand and Stalagmites on Aett's second build. They're more for fun than anything else, but man are they fun.

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Posted

I also use earth on my tanking build for my invuln ss.

I use salt crystals, stalagmites and quicksand. I tossed in the sleep proc that gives you a chance to heal in salt crystals for the heck of it.

All in all its nice for agro management, bunching groups and the def debuff im told is noticable. Not so much for me because im running rage all the time but others especially side kicks like it.

*readies fire extinguisher*