Battle Axe isn't good with Stone is it?

I'm just wondering because I have a lvl 35 BA/SA and it well...sucks...and I HATE the recharge with Granite....so should I pick a different secondary or just leave stone alone?

If you made it to 32 without Granite all the time and you don't like Granite's drawback, you can make it to 50 without using Granite all the time.

Echoing what Hera said.

Granite Armor has some strict penalties associate with it's ability to take damage. You trade off movement speed, recharge speed, and damage. Without significant and expensive IO work you'll need a Kinectics around just to move and attack normally.

A problem, as I see it, is that too many players hit 32, get granite, and promptly drop all of their other armors and take more attacks, pool powers, or the like.

However, if you keep all of the defensive armors, take weave, and horde merits you can 5-enhance cap on the Luck of The Gamber 7.5 charge speed and Gift of the Ancients 7.5% run speed procs, which will go a long ways towards making Granite less unbearable.

If you frakenslot right, you can still remain survivable without external buffs in the default armors as well. Spend enough cash / merits and you can get Earth's Embrace close to permanent outside of granite... and a 3k hp cap with a 50-55hp per second regen rate and 30% defense is enough for most team situations.

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I have a Will power BA tank and I am enjoying it very much.

Battle Axe is a pretty decent set, with no crappy powers and a good secondary effect and respectable damage. Granite is the culprit here. -Recharge and -Damage and -Speed are going to make any secondary look bad. Try playing without Granite. I've seen a few guides for brutes that, using heavy IO set slotting, negate the penalties of Granite, but at a very hefty price tag.

Battle Axe is a pretty decent set, with no crappy powers and a good secondary effect and respectable damage. Granite is the culprit here. -Recharge and -Damage and -Speed are going to make any secondary look bad. Try playing without Granite. I've seen a few guides for brutes that, using heavy IO set slotting, negate the penalties of Granite, but at a very hefty price tag.

My signature toon is a Granite/BA tank. Battle axe is actually quite a good set to match with stone armor, as it has its DPS spread through the set (barring the first attack), rather than having one attack that really suffers from the recharge slow in granite. One thing you could do is to slot the force feedback chance of +rech in some of the AoEs as they do knockdown.

I don't think the problem is Battle Axe :P

I personally stay in Rock Armor most of the time and only use Granite in difficult situations where I would get killed with standard Rock Armor. Set up binds or macros to make it easy to pop in and out Granite. Use your attacks in Rock Armor to gather all the aggro, then pop into Granite only when you need to because you are taking too much damage.

I use an 8 button mouse, and have a toggle to switch between Rock and Granite to make it easy.

I like Battle Axe. I have a Fire/BA Tank and enjoy it quite a bit. So my opinion is that Battle Axe is fine. Although, I do not have a Stone Tank and so I have to borrow from my friend's experience to speak on that.

I know that Granite has some major slowing effects, but take Haste and slot recharges in your attacks to help overcome the slow while in Granite. I have a friend that has a Stone tank and that is what he does with his attacks to help get them to activate quicker.

You can also try to maximize recharge using some creative IO combinations.