I'll shoot you my latest Dark Armor tanker build when I get home. Until then, I predict Dechs Kaison will be here soon...
My guides:Dark Melee/Dark Armor/Soul Mastery, Illusion Control/Kinetics/Primal Forces Mastery, Electric Armor
"Dark Armor is a complete waste as a tanking set."
Same I will post mine when I get home as well.
cue Dechs...
The hard things I can do--- The impossible just take a little bit longer.
If numbers are so much more important than a teammate who is fun to play with, forget about the game altogether and go play with a calculator instead. -Claws and Effect-
Drum roll please.
(Actually, I'm just going to find my build that's posted in my Dark Armor Sucks thread and link it. I just need a few minutes.)
EDIT: Wow, my thread got buried pretty far back. Anyway, here's where I posted my build. It's a little outdated and it is /Fire Melee, but you should be able to tweak it without problem to fit your needs. Put something together and post it. I'll help you optimize from there.
Also, just scan through that thread. There's some garbage in there, but a lot of good information about Dark Armor as well.
Where to now?
Check out all my guides and fiction pieces on my blog.
The MFing Warshade | The Last Rule of Tanking | The Got Dam Mastermind
Everything Dark Armor | The Softcap
don'T attempt to read tHis mEssaGe, And believe Me, it is not a codE.
Ok so here's the thing, smashing/lethal/energy/negative def need to be soft capped, achieve that and the ready is easy. My experience so far running my new DA tank on my new account is as follows. (btw I can solo +4+8 all enemies except achronos for some reason?) Dark regen is what makes the build, your damage isnt really a major' factor considering you need allocate alot of slotting on def. But once slotted very godly! (wish the devs designed a holy armour) like I sed you can become uber with da, not even my invun Mr Olympus compares and he is well built. I would even go as far as to say da once io'd is the best tank AT around. Kinetic combats and eradications are very expensive but well worth it. Also look me up for a pvp build if you need one? Thats my.niche 
I dont really know what to say
Electric Armour and the Soft cap
Electric Armour and the 1st 20 levels
Thundra Knight
click here for You want the best TANK!? I'll let you decicde!
Wow you guys over here on the tankers forum are so helpful and nice, thank you all for the quick replies, ima take that build you posted and ima tweak it as I can and then repost for some additional help
Jordon Justice
So here is what i was finally able to come up with,not quite sure what to do with the final slot, either build up, acrobatics, or hurl boulder
DEF- I understand that nothing is softcapped, OH NO DOOOM you might say, but the tank will be teamed up with an ice domination controller and have perma mind link on him essentially softcapping him to everything at about 60% except fire and cold and that will still be softcapped 
34% s/l
30.3% e/n
even 19% f/c
109% MAX HP+ premafrost work will make him have about 200% MAX HP
END use is EXTREMELY HEAVY, but hopefully will not be a problem with this slotting/buffs
Also has GREAT resists to everything except for ENERGY which is really sad because i predict this character will see alot of energy dam, oh well ill go pick up some temp power toggles to enhance my energy DAM res
an lastly he will have the FAULT/OPRESSIVE GLOOM combo to stun everyone around him for the majority of the fight
any revising of my enhancement sets please let me know, otherwise id like to thank everyone for their help and appreciate the respect on this side of the forums
Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.90
http://www.cohplanner.com/
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Level 50 Magic Tanker
Primary Power Set: Dark Armor
Secondary Power Set: Stone Melee
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Dark Embrace
- (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
- (3) Steadfast Protection - Knockback Protection
- (3) Impervium Armor - Psionic Resistance
- (5) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (5) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (7) Impervium Armor - Resistance
- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (40) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (40) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (42) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (43) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (7) Impervium Armor - Resistance
- (13) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (15) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Recharge
- (A) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (15) Eradication - Accuracy/Recharge
- (17) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (17) HamiO:Nucleolus Exposure
- (21) Endurance Reduction IO
- (21) Endurance Reduction IO
- (A) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (25) Impervium Armor - Resistance
- (29) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (29) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Recharge
- (A) Theft of Essence - Chance for +Endurance
- (9) Theft of Essence - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
- (9) Theft of Essence - Accuracy/Endurance/Healing
- (11) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
- (11) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Endurance/Heal/HitPoints/Regeneration
- (13) Touch of the Nictus - Heal/HitPoints/Regeneration/Recharge
- (A) Perfect Zinger - Taunt/Recharge
- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (34) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (34) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (36) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (36) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) Empty
- (A) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (31) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (31) Impervium Armor - Resistance
- (31) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Recharge
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (19) Recharge Reduction IO
- (19) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Absolute Amazement - Stun
- (46) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Recharge
- (46) Absolute Amazement - Accuracy/Stun/Recharge
- (48) Absolute Amazement - Accuracy/Recharge
- (48) Absolute Amazement - Endurance/Stun
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (23) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
- (23) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
- (25) Endurance Reduction IO
- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (36) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (37) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (37) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (37) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) HamiO:Endoplasm Exposure
- (27) HamiO:Endoplasm Exposure
- (27) HamiO:Endoplasm Exposure
- (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
- (33) Blessing of the Zephyr - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range
- (A) Empty
- (A) Eradication - Accuracy/Recharge
- (50) Eradication - Damage/Recharge
- (50) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (50) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Eradication - Damage
- (43) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (43) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (45) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Damage
- (46) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Recharge
- (48) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Recharge
- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (39) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (39) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (39) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (40) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (42) Recharge Reduction IO
- (42) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Endurance Modification IO
- (45) Endurance Modification IO
- (45) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
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Level 1: Brawl
- (A) Empty
- (A) Empty
- (A) Empty
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift
- (A) Empty
- (A) Empty
- (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
- (33) Miracle - +Recovery
- (A) Endurance Modification IO
- (33) Endurance Modification IO
- (34) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
Jordon Justice
I like the build and I think it really opens up some opportunities to not have to concentrate so much on defense. Your endurance usage is nothing to worry about. Including the two +end procs, your net recovery was starting at 2.9 end/sec. If you can drain that much by attacking and using conserve power, then I don't know what powers you're using.
Anyway, I played with it a bit. Moved a few slots around, and gave you a level 49 power: Build Up. Even without slotting, it's great sometimes when you start getting tohit debuffs. Hasten and Conserve power really don't gain much from the third recharge reduction, so I put those slots elsewhere. Cloak of Darkness was way underslotted, so I filled that out, got you some more regen and an accuracy bonus. I changed one of the Death Shroud endurance reductions to a DMG/END. The endurance cost doesn't really change much, but now the damage is close to ED cap. The defense bonus from BotZ isn't really worth much; I had it in my build for the last bit of energy defense I needed. I added that slot to Taunt, switched the set and got you another max endurance bonus. I also don't think OG needs three full hamio slots, so I put that one in Seismic Smash for the Mako quad. Finally, you needed some more KB protection, so I threw a BotZ in Super Jump. KB protection needs to be 12, since 8 doesn't protect you from anything that 4 can't.
One more thing: Switching one of the common end mod IOs in Stamina and PP to a Performance Shifter End Mod doesn't lose anything, but you gain a movement bonus.
Check it out:
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Where to now?
Check out all my guides and fiction pieces on my blog.
The MFing Warshade | The Last Rule of Tanking | The Got Dam Mastermind
Everything Dark Armor | The Softcap
don'T attempt to read tHis mEssaGe, And believe Me, it is not a codE.
Something else to look at. Variation on themes. It does include having the following accolades; Atlas Medallion, Freedom Phalanx, Task Force Commander and Portal Jockey for +hp and +end. (for details go to the wiki site: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Main_Page )
Hopefully it will give you some ideas.
Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.90
http://www.cohplanner.com/
Click this DataLink to open the build!
Level 50 Magic Tanker
Primary Power Set: Dark Armor
Secondary Power Set: Stone Melee
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Dark Embrace
- (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
- (3) Steadfast Protection - Knockback Protection
- (3) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (5) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge
- (5) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (7) Reactive Armor - Resistance
- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (40) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (40) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (42) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (43) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
- (A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (7) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge
- (13) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (15) Reactive Armor - Resistance
- (A) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (15) Eradication - Accuracy/Recharge
- (17) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (17) HamiO:Nucleolus Exposure
- (21) Endurance Reduction IO
- (21) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Endurance
- (A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (25) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge
- (29) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (29) Reactive Armor - Resistance
- (A) Theft of Essence - Chance for +Endurance
- (9) Theft of Essence - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
- (9) Theft of Essence - Accuracy/Endurance/Healing
- (11) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
- (11) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Endurance/Heal/HitPoints/Regeneration
- (13) Touch of the Nictus - Heal/HitPoints/Regeneration/Recharge
- (A) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Recharge/Range
- (19) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Recharge
- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (34) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (34) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (36) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (36) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
- (A) Empty
- (A) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (31) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (31) Impervium Armor - Resistance
- (31) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Recharge
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (19) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Absolute Amazement - Stun
- (33) Absolute Amazement - Endurance/Stun
- (33) Absolute Amazement - Accuracy/Recharge
- (46) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Recharge
- (46) Absolute Amazement - Accuracy/Stun/Recharge
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (23) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
- (23) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
- (25) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (36) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (37) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (37) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (37) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
- (A) HamiO:Endoplasm Exposure
- (27) HamiO:Endoplasm Exposure
- (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
- (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
- (A) Eradication - Accuracy/Recharge
- (50) Eradication - Damage/Recharge
- (50) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (A) Eradication - Damage
- (43) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (43) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (45) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Damage
- (46) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Recharge
- (48) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Recharge
- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (39) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (39) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (39) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (40) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
- (42) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (42) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Endurance Modification IO
- (45) Performance Shifter - EndMod
- (45) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (48) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
- (48) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
- (50) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 1: Brawl
- (A) Empty
- (A) Empty
- (A) Empty
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift
- (A) Empty
- (A) Empty
- (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
- (33) Miracle - +Recovery
- (A) Endurance Modification IO
- (27) Performance Shifter - EndMod
- (34) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
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Throwing darts at the board to see if something sticks.....
Come show your resolve and fight my brute!
Tanks: Gauntlet, the streak breaker and you!
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Originally Posted by PapaSlade
Rangle's right....this is fun.
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Hello all, after considering all the options, my two brothers and I are looking to make a trio to run multiple TFs such as RWZ, Crimorea, and the New ones that were released.
That said, my brother is going to be building a tank and I believe dark armor/stone will be a fun and very good choice
However I need some help with slotting
out of this build, I need the following:
1)atleast 25.4% defense to melee/ranged/aoe as I am able to provide him with mind link and ttmaneuvers the other 19.6% however the more defense the better
2)As good Smashing/lethal, Fire/cold, Energy/Negative, and Psychic damage RES as possible
3)I am entirely unexperienced in building a dark armor tank, so any information,tips,tricks or anyhthing at all that is missing please let me know
4)I also have money to blow on this build
Here are a list of powers that I feel I have to have, however like I said i am inexperienced and everything is negotiable, also anything else that I need please let me know, thank you to all who reply
Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.90
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Level 48 Magic Tanker
Primary Power Set: Dark Armor
Secondary Power Set: Stone Melee
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Dark Embrace -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Stone Fist -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Murky Cloud -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Death Shroud -- Empty(A)
Level 6: Obsidian Shield -- Empty(A)
Level 8: Dark Regeneration -- Empty(A)
Level 10: Taunt -- Empty(A)
Level 12: Heavy Mallet -- Empty(A)
Level 14: Stone Mallet -- Empty(A)
Level 16: Boxing -- Empty(A)
Level 18: Tough -- Empty(A)
Level 20: Fault -- Empty(A)
Level 22: Weave -- Empty(A)
Level 24: Hasten -- Empty(A)
Level 26: Oppressive Gloom -- Empty(A)
Level 28: [Empty]
Level 30: [Empty]
Level 32: Soul Transfer -- Empty(A)
Level 35: Tremor -- Empty(A)
Level 38: Seismic Smash -- Empty(A)
Level 41: [Empty]
Level 44: [Empty]
Level 47: [Empty]
Level 49: [Empty]
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Gauntlet
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Health -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- Empty(A)
Jordon Justice