Fury for Tanks

Ok...hear me out...

It effort to make Tanks more "solo friendly"...I have proposed many damage boost ideas.
However, I have came to the conclusion that they don't really "need" more damage output.

I propose that they give Tanks "Fury"...just not as potent as Brute Fury.

In order to keep balance...make 100% "Fury" equal a 50% damage bonus. (I have not ran any number's so I'm not sure if that's too much of an bonus or not)

The Fury mechanic makes soloing much more fun, in my opinion.

You could keep the Gauntlet effects on top of Fury.



Would 100% Fury equalling a 50% damage bonus for Tankers be too unbalanced?


Edit: Even if it is a little bonus...people will still try and keep it full.
This will help greatly when teaming, as the Tank will always try to generate as much aggro as possible and soloing a Tank would actually be fun.

When it comes to ATs, they're designed for a specific job, other people have managed to break away from these roles but in the end, the AT they are decides their most potent stratagy.

Tankers are meant to be the 'draw all the enemies because you can take all the damage'. They have relatively lower melee damage than say a Scrapper but not all that much. Tanks are able to solo well even if it takes a while longer to take down mobs.

I may just be one person, but I feel Tanks are already quite solo-friendly if you slot their attacks with accuracy to get the most damage out of their attacks as possible.

I know that people are going to be against me on this...and if data mining comes out to prove me wrong then thats great but...

Myself, being a long time Tanker...my main and my first 50...I will be re-rolling my main into a Brute when GR comes out.

I truly believe that the Tanker numbers will drop once GR comes out...but I also know that there will still be some Tankers around...but you have to be kidding yourself if you think that Tanker numbers will be as high as they are now.

I'm just trying to think of ideas that would keep me from re-rolling into a Brute.

I heard one player describe Tankers as late-bloomers, mainly because they're harder to train up but after a certain point, become quite powerful. The damage potential of a Tanker may be down to slotting Accuracy to push their attacks up to the 95% cap before going onto damage. For every attack you miss is an attack with zero effect.

If you love your tank, play the tank. Otherwise re-roll as a Brute. I would think, as a long time player, you would know by now that nothing compares to a tank in its ability to take damage and gather agro. Brutes are glorious scrappers on the red side, but they will be weak tanks on the blue side. Not weak in terms of being able to take damage and not weak in terms of dishing out damage, but weak when it comes to absolutely being counted on to gather aggression. If, like you say you play mainly solo, then just pretend your new Brute is your old tank. If you do team, with a tank who knows how to tank, you wont be building much Fury because the tank will be taking all the punches, and you'll be standing there wondering why your taunt doesn't work. So there are trade offs. Just be prepared and I hope you find whatever you do fun, even after GR comes and you switch to Brute.

It could be worse.
My Tank and first 50 was Invul/EM. EM, as it currently is, is not the way it was when I started, and his build seems all over the shop.

So I kept the 50 version at the back of my list, server transfered for a rename, and re-made him as Invul/Elec, so that he can at least do AoE well as well, rather than being a big sack of HP and nothing else thats useful.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Tanks aren't meant to be damage dealers. If you're having trouble soloing, you can alleviate this by: slotting for damage (admittedly this may not be feasible at low-levels when you may need to slot for endrdx instead) and using red inspirations to boost your damage.

My first (and so far only) Tank was/is Inv/SS, currently level 48. He certainly became a lot easier to play with Rage, but I wouldn't have called him "unplayable" before that. I had him abandoned at level 15 for a long time, but once I dusted him off and actually made an effort at learning how to play him, it went pretty well. Of course now with Footstomp he's just ridiculous.

I also have a level 35 SS/WP Brute. He certainly does more damage, but that's because he's supposed to. Tanks and Brutes aren't the same, nor should they be the same.

/unsigned like the fist of an angry Brute

wanna double pimp slap him dechs? lol,just kidding....























...or am i?

Ok...you guys/gals are clearly against my suggestion and seemingly against me personally.

...but you have to admit my line of thinking is not that far of a stretch...

You have Brutes that can "potentially" get up to Tanker levels of survivabilty...and then you have Tanks that cannot get close to Brute level damage.

That's where my thought process is coming from.

I understand now...after several threads (I apologize)...that I'm completely off base.

So I guess I'm just going to stick with my Brute.

Uhm. My Fire/Fire and SD/SS tanks mow groups down like a scythe through wheat. The orange numbers may not be as big as a brute/scrapper, but they're still nice numbers.


At one point I'd sent a PM to Castle asking if it was feasible in the game to do a single target Fury like mechanic for tanks. Not even asking for it, just asking if it was technically possible as I was curious about it.

His response