Power Pools for a Shields/EM/Fossilize Tank

Looking for opinions as to which power pools I should go with on my Shields/EM tank which is about to hit 50 (from the old AE days).

I'm considering Aid Self/SS/SJ/Fitness for the whole psychological hopelessness factor (ever had a tank hit aidself after you've worked him down to 25% health? i rage a little when that happens).

Ideas?
Input?

Not a fiteclub toon, basically just for team arena, zone and random downie doolz.

Those sound like solid choices to me.

Warhamster has a shield/ss tank that he brings to RV here and there named Betty Best and its, well.... pretty beast. I think he went with aid/ss/fitness/fighting. I'm pretty sure he skipped sj because I'm almost positive that I've never seen him use it. Either way, his tank can take a serious beating.

He has some numbers and info about his build here.

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Noob question, why shields? What benefit or advantages does shields have over say WP or Stone in PvP?

Uhh...stone has no advantages at all, so pretty much anything is better. WP is ok. Shield is good because it has fairly high levels of defense, along with some decent resistance. It's definitely not top tier like Fire, but with a large investment, it can be made pretty good.

Also, Shields has a modest Damage boost as well, though that can be detoggled fairly easily.

You nailed the build Smeg.

I'm of the opinion that you really need to decide if you want it primarily for arena or zone, since its hard to go wrong with 2 togs that really give good bonuses. Betty has actually done well in smaller team arena settings like 3 v 3's and 4 v 4's, but she suffers from not having SJ when trying to perma taunt targets in the larger matches. (that's why I said you'd want to decide so you can drop Fighting or keep it for zone)

She cant compare to the brute in 8 v 8's. After playing my respecced team arena brute Aazure Steel in 8 v 8, I'm convinced that a scrapper followed by brute is probably best taunt bot. That super fast recharge single target taunt is so beautiful on the scrapper. Without nades the tanker really lags behind in the disruption department, hence my decision to spec the tank completely for zone.

IMO for zone fighting, Shields really comes into its own because of True Grit. 20% hit point bonus at all times is sickness, combine that with 2 health accolades and a decent defense/hit point build and you end up with 3k hit points. You could pick up the 3rd accolade and shoot for 3100 if you are insane and have no life. :P

The defense is dead theory works out very much in a tank's favor. Most people are now less worried about base accuracy and +to hit, and more worried about how many procs they can cram into their attacks. Combine that with clearing 50% defense pre DR, all those hit points, an almost impossible to interrupt aid self, debuff defense and -recharge resistance, reasonable DR'd resistance of 37% with tough, and you end up with a pretty sick toon. I monitor my combat log while fighting, and most people are rolling to hit in the low 30% range, some the mid 20%. Mind doms get a boost into the mid 40%.

If you decide to skip fighting, expect to take more damage due to the lower resist/defense. At the very least, I'd try to clear 50% defense as long as it doesnt hurt your build. Should be possible to do when togging on CJ.

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Originally Posted by SmegHead Those sound like solid choices to me. Warhamster has a shield/ss tank that he brings to RV here and there named Betty Best and its, well.... pretty beast. I think he went with aid/ss/fitness/fighting. I'm pretty sure he skipped sj because I'm almost positive that I've never seen him use it. Either way, his tank can take a serious beating. He has some numbers and info about his build here.

Any build yet?

big sekrits, son

If he post it a downie might steal it and kill him with it. Serious **** right there.