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Hey, i'm currently interested in making a pve tank mainly for farming and general pve (tf's, Av's etc). I have been using a fire/kin to farm for quite some while and it's getting a little too boring for me now, as i've been playing villains abit lately i have seen a few farming brutes on there and it has made me want a tank capable of farming.
Just wondered if anyone could recommend some nice sets to do this with..
Gamete...
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Dude go Fire/Fire, Dark/Fire, Dark/SS or Fire/SS 
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I wouldn't go Fire / Fire, my WP / SS Tank was duoing a Farm map with a Fire / Fire Tank, we split the map and did half each. He was dying every few mobs even with Healing Flames, and I didn't die once. My WP / SS Tank used to Farm VERY frequently, using Fire Mastery Epic Pool. Activate Rage + Hasten, fire off Fireball into a mob, run in and taunt them, Hit Foot Stomp, Fireball, Taunt, Footstomp etc. Very effective farming tactic but it took me about 15-20 mins to solo a 6-man farm map, when it would take a Fire / Kin 5-10 mins. I've recently rolled a WP / Fire Tank, not changing from Willpower as it's simply my favourite ever Tanker Primary, the survivability is very under-rated, and Fire has 2 good AoEs, put those together with Build Up and the Fire Mastery Epic and you've got a Farming Tank. So I'd say either WP / SS or WP / Fire for the best Farm tank.
Josh.
My WP/Fire tank isn't as good as my Spine/Inv scrapper, infact is a long way from being as good. Have been wondering about a build change but I cant see a way of adding 33% to my kill rate to compete.
But then I love to scrap more so maybe I'm paying more attention on my scrapper.
Dark/Fire should be good based on my Fire/dark brute. Though no fury on Death Shroud would probably take a lot away from the kill speed
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I wouldn't go Fire / Fire, my WP / SS Tank was duoing a Farm map with a Fire / Fire Tank, we split the map and did half each. He was dying every few mobs even with Healing Flames, and I didn't die once.
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Sorry, but then he's a really lousy fire tanker. tripple fire always been 1 of the best farm sets of tankers, even before ED, before containment.
Basicly every tanker can farm, mainly depends on the mobs and your IO slotting. Even with my Stone/SS/fire i can compete with some more 'favored' farmerbuilds.
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ok, ty for replies guys i think i got an idea what i will make .
Yeh fire x3 just eats mobs up. SS/WP works better on a brute because of fury.
Fire/SS
Rage + Footstomp + Burn
Job done.
LOL, I have a fire/fire and I very rarely die in farms due to my healing flames being ready ever 10 seconds and having the following AOEs:
Run into group: Fire sword circle, fire ball then combustion, then hit Healing flames mob dead game over. I have complaints all the time from Fire/Kin trollers saying they can not get fulcum on the mobs because I kill them too quickly.
I'm very able to herd two groups of Mobs without any problems at all, if you dont believe me add me and see: @Durin Danark
I've said this before Fire/Fire Tanks hard to play, but fun and rewarding.
DD
Any tank should be able to survive so the main criteria for a farming tank is damage:
Fire/ Fire/SS/SM
Dark/ Fire/SS/SM
Ice/ Fire/SS/SM
Fire/ has an addition damage buff and a damage aura, the other two have damage auras.
Another possible is a Fire/Ice combo using the burn/Ice patch combo, wont keep up with Fire/Fire but comparable to the others.
Fire/Fire is top dog though!
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My first and fave alt if Fire/Fire tank - she is damn tough considering the perceivd weakness of Fire primary. Like MoX said Healing Flames can be recharged in 10 secs and my opening combo of Combustion, Burn and Fire Sword Circle usually takes care of anything below lvl 52 boss.
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Hey bud, I'm usin my dark/fire tank for most of my farming (though admittedly i dont farm much). Using him on the outdoor mother mayhem map. Great xp/inf, massive kill speed and insane survivability with the (unbuffed) 78% res to psi 
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Found all-round dark is a great tanker set, good resists against everything. Even though nrg is a bit lacking, but if that's really a problem, team up with a kin with ID or a sonic/thermal. With tough you'll get close to S/L cap. And for non-farming teams in tough mishes you get your soft control auras to help keep you alive, together with imo one of the greatest heals ingame.
So yeah, needless to say im well impressed with my dark/fire . Think out of all toons it was the fastest i ever lvled. Only doing own mishes and TFs took me roughly 100 hrs.
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I would also suggest Ice/Fire/Fire, unlimited end really helps those end hungry AoEs, plus you still have damage aura, max HP and hiber.....
Hey, i'm currently interested in making a pve tank mainly for farming and general pve (tf's, Av's etc). I have been using a fire/kin to farm for quite some while and it's getting a little too boring for me now, as i've been playing villains abit lately i have seen a few farming brutes on there and it has made me want a tank capable of farming.
Just wondered if anyone could recommend some nice sets to do this with..
Gamete...