Stone Armor Tank

Hi All,

Just looking for some help with a slight weakness I'm having with my Stone Tanker...against most mobs he's nigh invunerable but recently I've taken him out on some test runs against Malta, CoS and Rikti. Now most of them are ok but it's the Psionics that are killing me. Anything that drains end is a problem as well.

Not too worried about sappers easy answer kill them first but CoS with there end drain deaths are causing some issues.

Just wondered if anyone has any tips about how to deal with all these issues. The main one being Psionic Damage. I'd really like to hang onto my Granite Armor power but (and I'm hoping I'm wrong) am I right in thinking that I should have all my armor powers ready for use in case I meet a Psionic users?

Many Thanks in Advance

Earthern Soul

Well there's three ways to deal with psi. One being psi RES, one being psi DEF, and the other being healing. Fortunately for you, psi RES and DEF isn't that hard to come by, and you have a Dull Pain type power. Another option you have is to shore up your other RES and DEF so that you're really only dealing with psi damage and everything else is shrugged off. So...

1) Grab Weave. Weave gives you about 8% DEF to all, which will soften all other attacks as well as psi. So you're taking less from everything else, but also starting to dodge some psi. You can still run Weave while using Granite.

2) Get some +DEF set bonuses, especially for psi. Steadfast gives you +3% to all, including psi. With that and Weave you're up to nearly 11%. The easiest way to get psi DEF after that is Impervium Armor, though this is an expensive set. If you can 3-slot it though, it gives +1.875% DEF each, so that's potentially another 9% DEF or so to psi. As a bonus you also get recovery. Let's say 3 sets, so +5.6% DEF or so, which gives you 16.5% DEF to psi in total (you could do 4 or 5 sets but that would be wasting slots in your heal or Granite).

3) Get some +RES to psi. This one's easy too. Impervium and Aegis both have special IOs that give some. Both are +3%. So if you slot 4 Imperviums and an Aegis*, that's +15% RES to psi. A full 6-piece set of Impervium (you can start to see why this is an expensive set now), Luck of the Gambler, Gift of the Ancients, or Crushing Impact will also give you bonus RES to psi.

4) Grab +recharge bonuses as much as you can. If you can get around +65%, you can offset the penalty of Granite, and have Earth's Embrace up as much as possible, to heal when you take psi damage.

In total you should be able to get around 15% DEF and RES to psi. Or significantly more if you really shoot for it. I have a friend who has something like 30% psi DEF and RES on their Granite. There are also some PvP IOs that are super-expensive, but still an option.

* = Tip: You can slot RES sets in Stone Skin, Earth's Embrace, Brimstone Armor, Tough, and Granite. That's potentially 5, though I wouldn't go putting stuff in Granite if it makes you lose your core stats. Earth's Embrace is a good place to toss an Impervium or Aegis +3% RES to psi though.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

And don't forget that Stone Armor has two powers that can help here, too.

1) Rooted contains resistance to Endurance Drain, so make sure that that is on.

2) When fighting Psi enemies, drop out of Granite Armor, and turn on Minerals, which gives very good Defense to Psi attacks.