INV/SS - The Unstoppable Force

I just tanked a STF with my inv/ss tank. Didn't need unstoppable with the emp on me with Recluse. Although I accidentally hit unstoppable by mistake, but managed to survive the crash anyway.

I had always been under the impression that you needed a stone tank to tank Recluse. I'm happy I was proved wrong.

I did the STF yesterday with zero support (six melee and two Blasters), and a fairly inexperienced team (including myself, I haven't done it in years). The Recluse fight was ugly but we pulled it off, and Unstoppable was a definite factor.

It's a nice power to have, even if you don't use it very often.

The Hydra's ranged damage shouldn't overcome an invuln tank's ability. Taunt and ranged attack the Hydra and he'll ignore your teamates. OP, yes at one time the Invuln tank was, well not silly cause I loved it, but very very sturdy. I think, and it's been a lot years, that back in 04 we could even get 100% resists, I know we could get 95. Before ED it was also pretty easy to 90 S/L and 65 to 75 everything else.

With enough support my /sr scrap can tank about anything, LR included (dark debuff, ice shields and emp, it can be done).


Stone, invul, shield. dark is somewhre in there, but i've seen too many taht were too situational or too dependant on their builds. and by that I mean they were were IO'd out, but against one target their heal wasn't enough to sustain them, or a few def debuffs and they were floored. You could probably spend an equal amount on a rad def and tank as good as a dark tank.

I may have lost the original arguement in all the posts, but stone is by far the most survivable. Pair it with ice melee or dark and its even more so. If you wanna solo that bad just roll a scrap.

Generally speaking softcapping all but Psi with 90% S/L Res is ideal, but if you cannot afford the sets/Hami-o ect then it's better to focus on S/L Defense first and save up for everything you'll need to softcap the rest.

There's no such thing as softcap with resistance, you're either hardcapped or you aren't - well, some could argue you could get a buffer against eventual res debuffs, but these debuffs are so few and far between I think it'd be too much of a niche use to be worth building. More to the point, it just makes it easier to cap, you can't go beyond 90% res.

CLA,

Yeah, used love that Drek map, I'm not a big fan power leveling people, but we'd use it to get our 49s to 50. Used herd so many of them that the engine couldn't reneder anymore. Used run the Eden task force (which I haven't done in ages) and herd all the Lattice, Guardian, Sarydonx together. That should be an Incarrnet power set, up the number targets our AOEs offensive and defensive can key off of.