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Ok, I was running a BS/Regen scrapper at the time, and my sets werent exactly bad, but this guy wouldnt go down, and If it werent for regen the fight would have ended way before it did. Any ideas on how to achieve this awesomeness?
Solo, my Human PB has about 35% resist to everything 'cept Psi (and I'm pretty IOd out). While not world beating, it's not bad, and combined with decent recharge and the two heals, a Human PB can just keep hanging, and hanging, and hanging... They appear pretty tough.
Then of course, there's Light Form (OP, did the PB used LF?)
I've had opponents compliment my toughness in Warburg, but Tank Toughness??? Well, I've gotten that level on teams (last night I took the alphas and tanked several Praetorian AVs and never dropped once), but soloing...Hmm.. I feel I'm about as high as a Human PB can get, save that I can get more recharge to get my heals back faster and I could get some more defense (but I don't really care about the latter)
Here's the problem -
PvP, mez and other status effects are minimalized so that any AT can deal with them and be competitive. The PB never had to deal with being stunned for any appreciable amount of time (if at all). They probably had in the area of 40% resistance to your attacks...coupled with 2 heals, I'm sure they were a tough out.
Now, in PVE, that same PB would get stunned or held and get taken down in very little time without a number controllers on the team or some other form of outside help.
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...Now, in PVE, that same PB would get stunned or held and get taken down in very little time without a number controllers on the team or some other form of outside help.
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I think this is one of those hanger-on's that's not so true anymore. The 3-1 Insp trade makes having a Breakfree ready just about all the time, especially when you get a decent sized Insp tray. By the time mezzing start to really be a problem (late 20's) your tray is decent enough. For a PB, post 38 with Lightform you can take down any mezzing boss.
It's just not the problem it used to be. I soloed the high level Carnie and Malta arcs in PI on a Human PB (and we all know the mezzing power of those two). I did them at a challenging but brisk, and most of all, fun pace - certainly not close to the agravating toothpooling Khelds used to experience.
I've seen some amazing stuff in my 2 years of playing CoH, and one of them was a human PB tank that I encountered in Warburg a while back. I've never had a tougher fight before except for some WP tanks, and now I want to roll one myself, anyone have any tips/build for one?