Why post it 2 times? :S
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Why post it 2 times? :S
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Because the boards were playing up and it didn't appear to have posted first time round. Plus I had to go off and do some work, and by the time I got back and tried again (from my POV) I'd forgotten which board I was trying to post to.
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I noticed this last night on Dev Digest. Quite glad now that I had decided against redoing my INV/SS's IO build for issue 11 after all... Invincibility seems to benefit more from Defense Sets than Taunt Sets anyway.
Actually, what taunt auras would be useful to slot taunt sets anyway?
+ Mudpots (Damage sets are best - needs Endred/Damage/Accuracy, 5/6 Slots)
+ Icicles (Damage Sets are best - needs Endred/Damage/Accuracy, 5/6 Slots)
+ Blazing Aura (Damage Sets are best - needs Endred/Damage/Accuracy, 5/6 Slots)
+ Invincibility (Defence sets are best - needs Defence and a little Endred. A LOTG is a bonus, 3+ Slots)
+ Rise to the Challenge (Heal sets are best - needs Healing and maybe a bit of Endred, 3+ Slots)
+ Chilling Embrace (The only thing it can take is slows and taunt sets, needs neither TBH. No Slots)
Damage auras are by far best-slotted with 5x L50 set IOs combined with a Scirroco or Armageddon +Dam Proc.
CleavingBlow Acc/Dmg, Dmg/EndRdx; MultiStrike Acc/EndRdx; S.Dervish Dmg/EndRdx, Acc/Dmg/EndRdx.
So that leaves Chilling Embrace happily taking taunt set IOs (although realistically what Ice Tanker needs extra help locking down aggro?) and you'd possibly squeeze a few into the 2-3 spare slots in RTTC/Invincibility.
My aforementioned INV Tanker went the (5x Red Fortune + a LOTG +Recharge IO) route in Invincibility, and he's quite happy with his +55% Global Recharge rate. He's not going to miss the ability to slot Taunt IOs into Invincibility, and I can't think of anyone else that might other than some very wierdly-built Ice Tankers.
Well, the psi damage and stun procs wouldn't be too bad. Scirocco's and Pacing (For CE and 'Pots) damage procs are alright, but they're L and S damage.
The Armageddon one's higher damage/activation chance and it's Fire damage though. And until you get your grubby mitts on that one, if you use three Scirroco's IOs it grants you a little extra resistance... 
Realistically, once you've got >100% Damage and Endred and a good amount of Accuracy in a damage aura, there's not much left. Another IO set isn't going to do you much good with only one remaining slot to play with.
If you don't want extra resists and you'd rather have Psi damage then perhaps I could see someone using that Damage Proc until they get an Armageddon, but the bug is that the Stun Proc works on YOU, not your foes.
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(although realistically what Ice Tanker needs extra help locking down aggro?)
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Mine?
But that's because I tend to team with a mildly suicidal PBAoE Elec/Elec/Elec Blaster, and need all the aggro I can get to keep him vaguely upright 
To be honest, the main reason I'm slightly irritated by this is that it removes options. Options that only recently arrived, at that.
Plus, I've got two tanks, built in almost diametrically opposed directions. There's my Ice/Ice/Arctic, built to hold onto aggro like it was a shiny thing and not let anyone else have any, and to survive while doing it. And then there's my Stone/Fire/Energy Scranker, built to trundle around in his various armours (Granite there purely as a panic button), with enough aggro and survival to get a load of mobs around him, and then AoE them into oblivion.
Both work for me, and have their own playstyles, and mean that there are guaranteed to be any number of variants on building a tanker, most of which could potentially benefit from another option in slotting IO sets.
Then there's the conceptual aggravation. A Taunt Aura not taking Taunt IO sets?!? Double You Tee Eff, Mate?
Anyway, the main reason I posted was that I hadn't seen this mentioned on these boards. And the minor rantette was a free bonus
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Having a complete taunt set in an aura would be silly but getting a complete taunt set in the power taunt wouldn't be. I'd definitely love them on my kheldians antagonize. That'll be my first thing.
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Found the psi proc seems to work quite well on my ice/ice tank
suppose a armegedon would be more usefull but just cba to pay that much for the amount of dmg it does.
Don't be silly....
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Probably a good job that I hadn't started slotting my tanks up, but that's a bit of a pain in the [censored]. Perfectly good slots that I can't use to get Taunt set bonuses from.
Whiffs a little bit of the whole 'Well, we can't get TF souvenirs working properly, so we're just removing them from the TF's' debacle from a couple of years back that still rankles.
Hohum... At least we won't have tanks running into Tsoo Ink men or KoA/Malta Flashbangs 'pre-stunned'... Not much of a bright side though. (spot the pessimist)
I'm hpoing it'll be temporary until they fix it, but I'm not holding out any major hope on that front (see previous comment about pessimism)
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