Long time, no see:)

Hey guys, you may or may not remember me. I take extended breaks from CoH/V and have been for 5 years(First break started cause of E.D.). I just can't help but come back to this game.

Anyways I have posted this because I have a problem with my fire/fire tanker. I love my tank and with i19 eventually coming out I want to make sure I'm finished up to the point of the incarnate system. Now I understand that fire/fire tanks focus primarily on Resistance, it has always been that way. On my toon I built him like that and any little defense I can get makes a difference. I am looking through the IO sets though, and can't seem to find anything that gives Status Defense Debuff Resistance. Can anyone give me some advise on how to achieve defense debuff resistance with sets or without sets? And I haven't looked too much into the incarnate system so I'm not sure if there will be an incarnate tree that will give us this.

Future thanks to any and all replies.

Okay, not going to dig through every set known to man, but I'm fairly certain that no set provides enhancement for Defense Debuff Resistance.

Only powers specifically tagged as providing DDR do so.

As Firey Aura is a resistance/damage set, it has NO powers that provide defense debuff.

Translation: You're SOL.

Now, is this necessarily a Bad Thing? No. You're still pumping out SCADS of damage, as well as enjoying high levels of resistance, plus one of the fastest-recharging self-heals in the game. Stacking defense on top of that, even if you do lose it to debuffs on occasion, is STILL a killer idea.

Most tanks have most or all of the trinity:

Defense > Resist > Heal

You have:

Kill them first > Defense > Resist > Heal

Having them be unable to hit you because they're already dead is better than hard-capped defense.

Having them unable to hit you because they missed due to defense is better than simply taking a fraction of the damage.

Taking a fraction of the damage is better than trying to heal it up.

Being able to heal the damage is essentially your last resort.

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musculature is the only incarnate tree with a defense debuff power in it.however its not a resistance buff . but an increase to debuff power effects so nothing really there.

ill be going with my fire /fire tank to the cardiac incarnates. the 33% end cost and a resistance buff will not only make me happy in recovery but ill be capped in s/l resistance.

as far as i.o sets go..i didnt find any that a fire/fire could use to increase debuff resistance.there resistance to cold,fire,energy,psi,toxic and negative .but no defense debuff resistance that i can remember off the top of my head either

i think hyper said it best when he said "SOL"...

Alright thanks guys. I guess I can't have everything lol. I already feel like a god I was just seeing one of the few stats I don't have is attainable. I guess after all these years I have fallen to becoming a form of being an 1337 and number cruncher Thanks again guys really do appreciate the replies))