A Ninjitsu Stalker!
What?!
But seriously, folks: a Fire or Dark Armor Tanker or Scrapper is a decent idea. However, remember that Karma's are for Defense powers, not resistance. As such, Dark Armor might be better, since Cloak of Darkness can take Defense sets, and you can pick up Combat Jumping for the other one.
Fire Armor has no Defense-set taking powers inherently, so you'd have to take two power pool Defense powers to put them both on the character.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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DA or FA Tanker or Scrapper 
What kind?? whats a good secondary for both/either to make a tough tanker out of me?
Also, Aett, are you really Kickballin' in VA? Because I tend to find myself doing things in VA :P
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If you're going Tanker, I'd say that a Dark Armor/DB character might be fun. You never see that combination around. Dark Armor/Stone gives you a lot of control, but sucks down endurance.
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Also, Aett, are you really Kickballin' in VA? Because I tend to find myself doing things in VA :P
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Actually, this year, we're kickballin' in DC, but I do live in NoVA.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was just the one with the most unsolicited sombrero." - Traegus
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What kind?? whats a good secondary for both/either to make a tough tanker out of me?
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If you're going Tanker, I'd say that a Dark Armor/DB character might be fun. You never see that combination around. Dark Armor/Stone gives you a lot of control, but sucks down endurance.
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Also, Aett, are you really Kickballin' in VA? Because I tend to find myself doing things in VA :P
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Actually, this year, we're kickballin' in DC, but I do live in NoVA.
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...Are you one of the people I saw playing kickball near the monuments in DC? That'd be weird and coincidental.
Also, I feel like DA should be a well rounded set, and yet I hear it very maligned a lot, and dont' see many tanks above the teens around, it makes me worry.
But, on that note, i'm totally gonna be rolling up a DA/DB, I've got an inv/stone, so I'm kinda tired of stone
darks biggest problem is endurance.
dark regen and CoF are huge blue suckers, and are a vital part of your survival mitigation at lower levels.
WHEN you mature, these are much less of an issue (slotting, set bonuses, powers, etc).
you can always sell one -kb IO, then get the res -kb IO later.
I believe the defense sells for more.
or take weave on a fire tank, but that will happen in the 30-40's?
fire/fire (take tough) is always fun.
fire/ice - not the raw potential of fire/fire, but I could solo from lvl 20 on (large mobs) and hunt in restricted zones due to ice patch+burn (for many, this effective one trick pony gets old).
if I didnt make a fire/fire, I'd probably go dark (more mitigation, but hard on the blue bar).
dark/dual blades sounds interesting.
I'd go dark/mace if I had to do it again. stacking stuns (OG), and wouldnt bother with CoF.
LOTS of builds for dark/mace posted recently.
50 Tanks: Invul/ss, Fire/ice/fire, Ice/em, Stone/fire
WP/Stone, dark/dark, shld/mace
50 Other: WS, SS/dark/sc brute, BS/Regen/WM scrpr, fire/fire/force blaster, rad/kin corr, mind/rad ctrl, ill/storm cntrl
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...Are you one of the people I saw playing kickball near the monuments in DC? That'd be weird and coincidental.
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We actually play over near Congress. If you saw a team in pink getting their [censored] kicked, that was us.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was just the one with the most unsolicited sombrero." - Traegus
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We actually play over near Congress. If you saw a team in pink getting their [censored] kicked, that was us.
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That's awesome, I probably did see you, I was all over DC. I'm in NoVa as well, neat stuff.
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darks biggest problem is endurance.
dark regen and CoF are huge blue suckers, and are a vital part of your survival mitigation at lower levels.
WHEN you mature, these are much less of an issue (slotting, set bonuses, powers, etc).
you can always sell one -kb IO, then get the res -kb IO later.
I believe the defense sells for more.
or take weave on a fire tank, but that will happen in the 30-40's?
fire/fire (take tough) is always fun.
fire/ice - not the raw potential of fire/fire, but I could solo from lvl 20 on (large mobs) and hunt in restricted zones due to ice patch+burn (for many, this effective one trick pony gets old).
if I didnt make a fire/fire, I'd probably go dark (more mitigation, but hard on the blue bar).
dark/dual blades sounds interesting.
I'd go dark/mace if I had to do it again. stacking stuns (OG), and wouldnt bother with CoF.
LOTS of builds for dark/mace posted recently.
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I've heard nothing but bad things about CoF :P, but the Mace set has always intrigued me, I just never gotten past 15 with it...but I attribute that to playing it with invul when I hated invul.
I may just give several things a whirl and see what sticks, but if anyone can come on in with a great idea that i simply can't turn down, feel free!
I have a build lined up for my lvl 32 da/stone. It's pretty lean on end use and makes more end recovery than my da/dm. Add to that 3 aoe stuns! Yeah it's overkill but it's fun overkill.
Don't tempt me with another /stone :P
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/stone 
Anyway, I remember making a dual blades/DA scrapper and that was fun.
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get out of my head!
On the other hand, if you take either Hover or Combat Jumping, both of them allow you to slot a defense set enhancement as early as level 7. This may make for a tight build, especially with DA, since you know that with Fire or DA Stamina at 20 is imperative.
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Yea, I see it as vastly more necessary for a Dark, simply because consume can -sort of- take some end pain away.
Why do I put so much thought in to tanks!
I just love em too much I guess.
Alright,
Fire Aura is out of the question, I'm going with dark, and I'm going the Presence pool as well to try and stack some fear action, which means CoF is looking tasty. Question becomes...what secondary? (no DM, I hate matching)
No matching means no stacking.
I'm working on a fearmonger build which uses DM and the presence pool. So far the presence pool costs anywhere from 2.4-4.1 times more endurance than CoF and the aoe is only 10% more accurate. I'm not scared of the end usage, I'm just concerned with how big of a drop it will be to my defense. Once I'm done I'll post it and then you can see if it's something that you can work with.
I'd say DA/WM. The mitigation of Stone (almost) with the AOE goodness of Fire.
SS might tap you out on end adding Rage crashes to a DA (especially if you're like me and throw Hasten on every build).
Fire doesn't have enough mitigation for DA (or any).
Ice wouldn't be bad if you can get past the DPS of a kitten.
Energy: Heraclea would lynch me for suggesting (and I don't)
DB: No clue .... dunno if you want to keep track of DB AND DA ...
DM: Matches perfectly so of course not
Axe: Would work too ... better mitigation with WM tho I think.
Stone: Since you love it so much ... 
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Ice wouldn't be bad if you can get past the DPS of a kitten.
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Thats awesome. It sounds like dark/wm would be a good thing to give a go at. I'm not looking in to ridiculous IOing out my build, but I'd like to be tough with either regular IOs or a couple sets.
Now I wish I wasn't at work!
Hunt down Jebe the Pirate for advice on DA.
Acemace is probably the go to guy for WM.
There's a fairly lengthy discussion of DA/WM power selection and slotting down a few threads--look for "Critique my frankenslotting".
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I was just hunting my way around, running some missions. and before I logged, I check to see what recipes I had, and behold! 2 Karma -kb ehancers!
Now, this makes me think it's time for a fire or DA tank, since I'll be free from acrobatics. Any suggestions? I'm open to just about anything!