granite/dm is very survivable, the only time you'd die is if you got into arena with a decent pvper with good burst/debuff.
naturally you'll have to par your granite tank with your buddy who will be playing a kin, so you'll have speed boost and fulcrum shift on at all times, so yea in pve you will not die if you play your cards right.
Hey all,
So for the longest time Ive wanted a stone tanker. The highest lvl I achieved was lvl 24 for a stone/em build. But was very unsatisfied with em. Dmg was low, mostly stuns and in my opinion a very boring build. So I just rolled out a stone/DM tanker. Im at lvl 14 right now and loving it. Im still a bit squishy, but with having a dm/regen scrapper, I know what to expect for the attacks. I was thinking of stone/SS, since I have a SS/WP Brute at 50. I love rage and the attacks. But didnt want to get SS purely for rage and the -bonuses for granite. My question is, how will granite form be with +dmg, to-hits when I use ( I forget the cone power to steal the npc's dmg. ) Will that actually work like rage? better? worse? I know unlike rage you can just hit a button and its on, but on the other hand, there is no crash like rage and I can use it with 9 npcs in its power range. Please let me know.
Plus I like the fact that I hve 1 heal power, a scare power, end power and a immob power as well with DM. Combine that with Granite, I think it would be cool.