Do you get Tough with your Tank?

Honestly, all my Scrappers/Tankers have Tough. Tough just provides a huge chunk of S/L resistance that's hard for me to just ignore, then again my toon is all SO's and no IO's.

Do you guys think Tough is pretty important for all Tanks?

I don't always. I'd say weave is often the better power. Tough just helps with taking more S/L damage normally when people are playing outside of design as far as I am concerned.

I almost always get the fighting pool on all my Scrappers, Brutes, and Tanks. For some of the Resistance based sets, I find that Tough is very beneficial, sets like Dark and Fire can get a lot out of the extra S/L Resistance. I noticed a large increase in survivability on my /Fire Brute after picking up Tough.

For other characters, I don't always have Tough toggled. My Shield Tank and some of my Willpower toons I usually tend to toggle Tough when fighting enemies I know have heavy S/L attacks or do defense debuffs (Cimerorans are a good example).

Almost always. Some don't, for concept or lack of power selections, but probably 90% or so do. On the other hand, I don't often take Weave.

It was certainly one of the best powers I picked up for my regen scrapper.

I swear, every question ever posed on these boards gets the same answer.

"It depends."

It depends on the powersets. It depends more on the goals of the build. Nowadays all my tanks have a main-tank and an off-tank build. Nine times out of ten, the main tank has tough and weave. Ten times out of ten, the off-tank doesn't.

Hardly ever. I have it on my DA/FM tanker, to help out his relatively low S/L resists, and on my MA/SR scrapper, to open up weave for soft-capping. Granted, that works out to 1/2 of my tankers, and 1/5 of my scrappers, but still, I seem to find better powers to take in lieu.

My scrappers and tankers always have tough and weave. They very often either use tough to mule Steadfast Protection +3% defense, or only toggle it on when they're in deep doodoo.

I never have needed to.

I picked it up on both my fire/fire and ice/ice tanks. It really helped my fire tanks survivability as it has lower resistances and I really only took it on my ice tank so I could get weave to cap my defenses.

Oh yeah!

Fire and Dark both got Tough to halve the incoming S/L damage. I really felt the difference, and swapped out the tier 2 attack for Boxing/Kick without feeling the loss too badly.

My Invulnerablity tanker took it to cap S/L resists. I'm not sure if I really needed it here, this was more just to say I can and see those 90% numbers onscreen.

My Willpower tanker has it and I swear by it once again. It halves incoming S/L damage. I was in Colin Larson's Freakshow arc when I picked it up, and the difference against crowds of Swipers was very noticeable.

I havent taken Weave for any of them though.

I typically take both Tough and Weave on just about any melee character. I don't prioritize them, and often take them quite late in the build. Of the two, Tough is generally the less important, but the alternate path to Weave involves taking both Boxing and Kick, and there's even less point in that.

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I have Tough on all my Tanks, but only because I wanted Weave on all my Tanks. Tough is useful, but not "necessary", and I often leave it untoggled.

At the minimum, it is a useful mule to hold a Steadfast +Def/Res IO.

all my tanks get it except stone tanks. I especially use tough/weave for my sheild tanker. and having tough/weave is great for willpower. i would assume getting tough/weave would be ideal for having a sheild scrapper i didn't get it for any of my other scrappers though.

I'd put it this way: Tough on resist-based armor tanks is essential, tough on defense-based armor tanks is optional.

I've tended to avoid them on all but Willpower characters, deeming them otherwise not worth the Endurance drain or power slots.

Every tank, brute or scrapper I have ever made gets tough and weave. Even the Stone I made for my wife has it.

I get tough with my Tankers if they give me any lip.

Ever since the introduction of master run tfs/sfs, I've included Tough (and Weave) for all my tanker builds with the intention of tanking LR. Every additional tool towards survivability helps when you're not hitting the s/l resistance cap (ie everything not Invuln or Stone).

Before STFs/LRSFs, I rarely ever dipped into the Fighting pool and generally took tier 9 powers like Unstoppable.

Tough and Weave standard practice for me now, but on some combinations, it just makes it that much harder to slot everything heh heh.

I get Tough, I like the 90% I get with it. I usually solo +1's at the combat equivalent of 8 standard heroes. Tough comes in handy as I take them down.