Help with a noob stone/stone

ive been looking over the forums and looked at guides but what i "really" want is a mids build for my stone tank (yes im useless at making my own builds)

She's in the mid-late 20s atm and i am going down the granite route for stuff like ITFs/MOStf/farming but i also want to be able to exemp down and still play effectively.

I dont have the funds for purps or PvP IOs but if people feel a certain proc IO is necessary then feel free to tell me.

When my tank gets to the epic power pools i was thinking Earth Mastery for the holds and for the concept of my character.

Thanks to everyone in advance!

well farming wasnt a big option, it was just a thought. mainly for TFs and such tbh. I'd seen granites on farms with kins thats why i thought about farming tho i already have an effective kin for farms so its not a big issue

As long as you have a kin it is a game changer, literally. You nerf the biggest nerf the Devs put on granite, possibly the biggest nerf in the game on one powerset. I got my Stone to 32, ran it for one more level, and stopped. I hate that nerfed feeling. But if you got a pocket kin you should do okay. I would say (since you are not too far along here) that you may want to consider a str/stone brute instead. The armors are nearly the same as the tanks (at this level of bracho a little more is not that much) and the damage potential is insane comparatively, especially if a kin is there, you will double down on Strength:Rage quite often. If you wanted blueside ability, the brute still works, as soon as GR is out.

I've actually got a lvl 1 sm/sa brute too just been on blueside a lot more due to getting teams lol i just want a rough idea of what sorta build would be effective for this tank.

Like I said, I abandoned mine. GL

Well, I haven't played a Stone/Stone tank, but I do have a Stone/Fire and an Inv/Stone at 50 so I know both sets pretty well.

From the Stone Armor side, you'll want, in pretty much this order:
Rock Armor - 4 Gift of the Ancients works well here
Earth's Embrace - 5 Doctored Wounds is my preferred slotting
Rooted - 3 heals... frankenslot for heal/end if you like
Mud Pots - I tend to frankenslot Scirocco & Multi Strike
Stone Skin - base slot, this is a great place for the Steadfast unique
Granite - A pair of Aegis and frankenslot to ED cap Resist & Defense
*Minerals - take it late though if you take it at all. Another place for 4 GotA

From the Stone Melee side, you'll want:
Stone Fist - 5 Crushing Impact
Heavy Mallet - 5 Crushing Impact
Taunt - 6 Mocking Beratement
Fault - 5 Stupefy
Tremor - Eradication is nice here; as is Scirocco
Seismic Smash - 5 Crushing Impact

Power pools you'll want:
Fitness - Swift (3 slot for runspeed), Health, Stamina
Teleport - your only real mobility with either Rooted or Granite.
Speed - Hasten is useful to negate the -recharge of Granite
*Fly - Hover makes using TP for travel MUCH easier.

*optional powers

In building your tanker I would take Rock Armor at level 1, Earth's Embrace at 2, Heavy Mallet at 4, Travel prerequisite or Swift at 6, Rooted at 8, Taunt at 10, Travel prerequisite or Swift at 12, TP at 14, Health at 16, Mud Pots at 18, Stamina at 20, Fault at 22 and Stone Skin at 24.

Now for your slotting... a Granite tanker has all the durability he'll ever need on pure SO slotting so there's little point in planning IO bonuses for that. Instead I'd focus on bonuses to fix your weak points, namely runspeed, recharge and damage.

thx for the tips Call, now to get to work on Mids. Heres hoping it works for me today :S

Be sure to grab Steadfast protection and IO bonuses with +def for elements that way you softcap your def. Also 6 slotting rooted helps a lot (3 Numina/3 Miracle). Once you slot it well its pretty much God Mode don't remember when was last time my tank died and this include mothership raids.