Endurance management tips Stone/Stone?

So, I took a hiatus from CoX for a while and tried other games and I find myself back to CoX again.

I'm back to trying to level my Stone/Stone tank and am still having a horrible time managing my endurance at level 12.

I find myself soloing a lot due to my erratic schedule (Either not having time to team or being on a odd hours).

I was just curious to what basic techniques experienced tanker players use to converse endurance while solo and in teams and specific techniques related to the stone primary and secondary sets.

Any tips and advice is greatly appreciated.

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If you let us know what you've got in your build so far we might be able to help a bit more. Not knowing what you're working with leaves us somewhat blind to your issues.

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Welcome back. Unfortunately, low-level tanking is rough for every set. Just the way it goes. Not much you can really do at level 12, but teaming would help since you would have teammates to deal damage while you try to hold aggro.

First and foremost, slot endurance reduction into your attacks. Attack powers are the primary source of endurance usage on most characters and, for the most part, use more of your endurance than toggles. Frankenslotting your powers can really help with this. It can allow you to get good values for accuracy and damage, as well as getting significant amounts of endurance reduction.

IO set bonuses for +Endurance and Recovery can usually be had for a 2 or 3 slot investment in a power. I used this to get a 22% recovery bonus on my Elec/Dark scrapper, before stamina, which made a significant difference. Since most set IO's are also multi-aspect IO's, you also get some of the benefits of frankenslotting.

Combining the first two suggestions, consider IO'ing out your character at 17 with level 15-20 set IO's. This will help you get decent enhancement values in all your powers, as well as allowing you to grab some of those helpful set bonuses. It can also be done for fairly cheap. Rare salvage at low-levels is fairly cheap, as are a lot of the recipes themselves. Just try to avoid recipes that need a lot of the arcane salvage (ie. Luck Charms) since those can get quite pricey. It also puts you ahead of the SO/IO at 25 crowd, where recipes and rare salvage start getting expensive, without sacrificing a lot of enhancement value.

Dual builds can also help out, especially with a set like Stone Armor. Make a build for teaming and one for soloing. My soloing builds are generally built for more attacks, and lighter slotting in the toggle armors until late in the build.

Those are more 'everyone' ideas than Stone/Stone specific, but might help you out anyways. Someone with Stone/Stone experience should be along to give you some more specific tips.

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