Best toon for i20?

After playing the 2 new trials I find myself thinking that I should really jump on a high res toon.
My Elec/SS is taking a pounding and I've heard that /Inv doesn't do much better since theres lots of Fire and energy damage.

So the question, What build seem to handle this stuff better?
I know we are all pretty weak and no one can solo this stuff but I'd like to die just a little bit less.

A lot of it can be alleviated simply by your tactics, man. If you're drawing way too much heat with your AoE, it may be wiser to hang back or Hover at longrange while you snipe the problematic stuff with singletarget. You'd still be helping the team a lot by taking out the mez critters or killing Lts. in one or two volleys.

It's awesome when it works, but after I get my second or third faceplant running Inky Aspect/Orbiting Death on my Warshade, I switch strategies and turn it off.

The best toon for i120 is, no joke, the one you enjoy playing the most and are bothered dying on the least. Because you'll be playing it a lot, and you'll be dying a lot. Hypothetically a perma-elude scrapper or an electric armor tanker with 60% or more defense to all positions would be the 'best' if you mean toughest. That's not likely to happen, though (well, the scrapper is certainly possible), so bring some inspirations and rely on your team to handle the team based trials.

Definitely. Even my previously 'worthless' Willpower rez is being used on a regular basis. After demolishing me the enemies tend to rush off to their next targets letting me stand again without being instantly one shotted while standing up.

Now, if only global bonuses worked while defeated to get those self rezzes back even faster.

Elec/SS is amazing, I'd bet that at least one of these is true:

-Your build isn't complete/you didn't plan it out that well
-You were on a bad team/didn't do the trials in a proper way
-You don't have your level shifts

Unfortunately Lore has one of the level shifts you need. But without the level shift I doubt most would bother with it so I can see why it was given the level shift over the more useful slots.

And yes, the #1 thing anyone should do with their rewards in these trials is go after those level shifts early and often.

WARNING: I bold names.

Its true I haven't finished my build but all thats left is the Kinetic Combat sets to get my s/l to 35%.
I probably don't have the level shift. The alpha slot is open but I haven't crafted anything for it.

I'll just keep playing him and see if I can find a good team.

in my experience you need 60-75 def to not die in these trials as a tanker. even then there are auto-kill attacks and the like...

you're going to die; get used to it. I found i am running my SoW and a small purple a lot on these trials... and while my wp has a lot of defense she feels pretty squishy sometimes.

I was a bit miffed on my elec/fire tanker at first but now I'm quite happy with what he can do (particularly in comparison to some other builds that are normally accepted as strong)

Most of the problem earlier was that in the first day or so, neither I, nor many of the team knew the content well enough.

Now? Sure I can die, but I've got capped s/l res, capped energy res, solid to high 70 res for fire and cold, and psi is up there too. This only goes up with buffs, and those are getting more and more common with destiny slots filling up.

I chose to forget def and chug purples when I need them. res is fine, and elec particularly so.

note: the above is in no way intended to make any qualitative or quantitative assessment of the relative strength of res and def builds in the new content

note part two: If I really really wanted something durable I'd probably go for invul/dark or shield/dark, and I may yet do that, but... not out of need.

Anything you find enjoyable is the best thing to bring, outside of that, elec armor is probably the best for BAF, where as invuln is probably the best for lambda. Baf is all warworks, which is mainly energy damage, where lambda goes for other damage types (still heavy on the energy, but it does lots of smashing and lethal too)

Still play what you want though.

Im sure if u have Rage, when it drops, your even more squishy.. thats why on my fire/ss tank, i have rage, but i dont use it, its there for set bonuses more then anything. If im fighting fire dmg baddies, then ill use it, but besides that, things hurt for those few seconds it debuffs u

I definitely took cardiac. No easy way to cap sl res without it.

I don't know... Marauder isn't really the hardest part of lambda. I'd say the rampage to get the crates/canisters is the tough part. If that gets done right marauder is mostly about clearing that first spawn and then not standing in the wrong place, though I'm sure that as far as the big guy alone is concerned, your right, invul IS better.

still if you factor in my heal at about 33 seconds and my regen I think I net about 75 hp/second. There will be some invuls that do better, but I don't imagine they all do.

Didn't read the rest of the thread, but just wanted to say that I've been doing extremely well on my fire/SS tank. Been playing him almost exclusively since I20 came out. Tried the trials on a couple other toons and was underwhelmed. Just didn't have the sheer feeling of power that my tank does. I can tank all parts of both trials, and I also add a ton of damage. None of my other toons can do both of those things even nearly as well.

Edit: Retracted due to incorrect numbers

I dont want this thread to devolve into yet another Elec vs In thread LOL.

I just wanted to point out, Always asumeing Inv is the King is total wrong.
And as always (I should sig it)... Don't sell Elec Short.