Tank V Scrapper - damage comparison?
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Axion_Cortex,
Posted on: 2010-02-22 07:33 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
Even without buffs there will be some brutes seemingly able to outshine some peoples tankers at times.
The worrying thing for experienced Tankers is aggro control around a mindless brute. Some Brutes will from their damage levels etc for a period of time keep hold of aggro. Where a tanker will redirect damage away from team and/or offer the team safe range a Brute may not.
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Currently I don't see a reason, when GR comes out, to use a tank anymore if I can have a brute. I almost feel that they might even be more played then scrappers. I mean comeon a scrapper that takes more of a beating. What about that doesn't sound good? This coming from a guy that can't stand Tankers and rarely main tanks.
I don't agree that tanks will be obsoleted. There are plenty of tank variants which also do respectable damage along with being a meat shield. The one's that I suspect won't become as popular are those builds that are a meat shield in exclusion to anything else - those become dead weight. This is as much due to the fact that in the end game, a lot characters can take the alpha not just tanks/brutes. So if that's the only value you have, then yeah, you need to find some other way to contribute.