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Mine recently reached 45. Great fun to be had as a /DB tanker. 
My Ice/DB has made me hate DB, the ugly animations is my main issue. Yes my next will be stone melee, they look good
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
I love my DB animations, but then my cha is a tiny 4ft Doll, so the ballet of death type moves realy suit her..
Tryed stone but that dumb hammer dosnt scale and she looked realy realy daft..
Tryed a baseball bat, but got so anoyed by her swinging it 1 handed, face it if yer gona smack someone with a bat, hold it with 2 hands for max impact, not fence with it..
Tryed Energy popm poms, but hated the sound effects, kept looking for the clicky when on mish :P
Oh and yeah hated EN too, tried that.
My WP/Fire looks great as WP doesn't overshadow the fire particles but I don't like fire/melee with anything too flashy (my Fire/DA brute looks awesome in fluffy mode, just a black mist of firey death)
Most of my alts are fairly normal size, my DB tank had to be DB conceptually, but am now sticking to just 3 powers from the whole set. I personally don't like the ineffectual look of them, the only melee set I like less is Katana, but EN is fairly close
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
I have 2.
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
I personally found the Dual Blades set too Scrapperish to be used as a Tanker... so rerolled my Willpower Tanker with Super Strength.
Yours had scrapper survivability did it? 
or do tankers have to look slow and powerful?
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
I prefer it to look like they're doing something not prancing and posing like complete fools myself, but if that means slow and powerful I guess the answer to the second question is yes
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
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I prefer it to look like they're doing something not prancing and posing like complete fools myself, but if that means slow and powerful I guess the answer to the second question is yes
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The Knockout Blow, as good as an attack it is, has that stupid wind up to it, Jab isn't a Jab, Haymaker is more of a double Axe Handle and hurl helps you produce a rock out of a steel platform...all moves are so telegraphic you wonder how on earth it should ever hit a defense set...if you wanna get fussy
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
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So umm whats wrong with DB? I love my 2 daggers, tried energy, but that constant thrum, thrum, thrum sound just drove me and my family nuts (play pc in living room)
But scaning these threads seems everyone and there dog goes for, stone or super strength?
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tried turing down the sound effects or in turn get a headset the first tank secondary i took was EM and as single target damage goes i think it's great just a shame you didn't like it 
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Yours had scrapper survivability did it? or do tankers have to look slow and powerful?
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Lack of survivability I would have blamed on the Willpower set.
And yes, I do actually prefer Tanker sets having a "Juggernaut" appearance... attacks that makes you feel like weight and brute force is put behind.
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I prefer it to look like they're doing something not prancing and posing like complete fools myself, but if that means slow and powerful I guess the answer to the second question is yes
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The Knockout Blow, as good as an attack it is, has that stupid wind up to it, Jab isn't a Jab, Haymaker is more of a double Axe Handle and hurl helps you produce a rock out of a steel platform...all moves are so telegraphic you wonder how on earth it should ever hit a defense set...if you wanna get fussy
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Now strangely I've never played SS either, muchly for the same reason.
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
I have a DB/WP tank at 50 (Steel Dancer) and you can ask people who've played alongside her whether or not she has survivability issues (quick clue: she doesn't). And no, she doesnt have aid self.
Rikti? a joke. Circle of thorns? cheap laugh. Malta? sappers are still a concern...sorta...ish. Carnies? ummm..ok, as long as there aren't too many >.> Stupid mask powers.
You can easily pull your weight and then some with Dual Blade or Willpower - I've never had any "zomg, tank cant hold teh aggroez!11!!" moments on katie runs or LGTF (STF yes, but thats Recluse for you...)
Defiant 50: Blonde Justice inv/ss; Lady Aminta emp/elec; Sierra Colt merc/traps; Tess LaCoyle elec/elec (blaster); Powerstorm elec/elec (brute);
Union 50: @Steel Dancer WP/DB; Blast Pulse Fire/Rad (corr); Bitter Twilight Earth/Psi (dom); Compassionate Emp/Psi;
Freedom 50: Incandescent Blaze ElecAm/Fire;
Nice ta hear guys, Dead Doll is great fun, often suicidal as there seem to sudenly only be TA/A deffenders around, no buffers or Healing.. Though I think there all just waiting to roll new Thermals :P
Mate is trying out a fire/emp to Duo with me atm, but groups seem quite easy to find as tanker so far..
Totaly loving way my lil tanker spins about, points her blade at a vil, to taunt it and let it know its next on her list..
Oi! I have a 50 TA! Very nice set. I'd tank for a TA like mine easy...seriously dunno bout anyone elses
Really like your concept btw.
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
Thanks, Dead Doll is very fun, I find it hard to play a cha if I don't have a concept I like. My Polish Ubek, Dominator cha Zdrada, is on hold atm, simply because I couldn't get a trenchcoat yet too make her look like secret police..
Dead Doll seems get nice responce when she yells her battle cry of "Hug me, or I will destroy you!!" she often gets huged by team or laughed at for being so darn tiny..
Realy got get her more involved in RP though, SG member got me to give in and agree to be a SK on a 40+ group with her lastnight, it was great fun, she got to meet Cot Behamoths (ballrogs) she is still trying figgre out how the heck she is suposed to arest one!..
Shhhh me alts a Ta/a too, a panda :P
I confess I tried and didn't like DB. I found the animations too slow and the damage too low and in DoTs.
Probably more of a personal thing, as EM (my latest tank in a line of Ice/Fire and WP/SS) also has it's share of rooting and slow animations, but DB... dunno. I tried two honest times as it seems an AoE machine, which is something I like, but no cigar. Granted I never got past level 15.
I got 3 DB's on testserver (ice, WP and inv) that were boosted to 36 back then.
The animations are pretty gimped, highly flawed if i compare to other games that have dual blade. Specialy the tier 9 is so static, while your arms move rather unnatural. Same for that tier2, frontslash/groundslash makes a very unatural move.
Added that combo's fail/hold if you miss, often the power isnt recharged yet to continue the combo. Finaly, if you wanna use the combo's, you are pretty forced to get a set of attacks, wich i dont really like (limition of powerchoice).
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I've taken the weaken combo, because unlike the rest of the powers its rather too helpful to skip. I have thought of removing all DB once I get my epic pool but it would rather limit me on TFs
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
So umm whats wrong with DB? I love my 2 daggers, tried energy, but that constant thrum, thrum, thrum sound just drove me and my family nuts (play pc in living room)
But scaning these threads seems everyone and there dog goes for, stone or super strength?
So where are all the Duel Blade tankers ?