Best Primary/Secondary for PURE tank?

I actually have a fire/fire in the mid-30's languishing on another server; next time free transfers are available I may shuffle things around and move him.

Let's see, I have the level 30 Shield/Fire I'm currently working on, an abandoned WP/Stone at 22ish and the mid-30's Fire/Fire. If we count the test server there's a couple more, but they're level-bumped 50's from the issue 16 beta... kind of hard to count them as tankers played seriously. One Elec/SS and one Inv/Elec, neither has seen more than a couple hours play on straight SO's.

I'll say that I've really been enjoying the sheer damage output of the 43 Fire/EM blaster I'm also working on... it's a nice change of pace from tanking. I just got off of a Positron TF with my SG... without really pushing the pace as a 5 man team (3 blasters, 1 Elec/Shield scrapper and a Stone/Fire tank [a buddy's character, I was playing a blaster]) we finished in 1 hour 51 minutes. I died a couple of times, so I must've been playing that Blaster correctly

I'll admit it, while I enjoy tanking and do it a lot I actually play almost everything... I've found controllers are about my second favorite AT. For things like the STF I rarely get to play them though... usually people want me to tank.

I have a defense-focused Invulnerability/Super Strength Tanker using some of the ideas from your guide. I have actually been in groups assembling for task forces and been asked by a buddy, "Dude, we can't find a tank...would you mind switching to your beast again?"

Hands down, your best option for pure tankability is Stone/Ice. With SOs only, the survivability of Stone Armor, the slow from Mud Pots and a stackable Ice Patch make crowd control a breeze in just about every situation, even without Granite Armor.


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