Stone Armor is the best at surviving almost anything, but pays for that with damage and recharge penalties in Granite Armor. No amount of set bonuses will make it possible to do great damage. That is why I think most are satisfied with just a bit of global recharge, or enough to get Earth's Embrace close to permanent.
I went for more mitigation instead of recharge. The Cardiac Alpha makes it fairly easy to hit 90% resistance on all but psionic. I have other characters I can play if I want to do damage. My Stone Armor tank is for tanking.
Damage isn't too bad either if you can spam foot stomp or tremor and such. Mainly did this because I wasn't sure if it was possible to achieve.
I'll play devils advocate. I built my stone /fire for +rech, movement boni, and+dmg. Effectively cancelling out all the penalties with the exception of -jump.
I went spiritual for even more rech and I'm about to slot ageless for that bit of recovery for long fights. Oddly enough that build ended up giving me quite a bit better defense.
I'm all for building however you want but I will kill this concept of tanking being at odds with damage output if its the last thing I do on these forums.
you can have your cake and eat it too.
Taking It On the Chin I-16 Tanker Guide
Repeat Offenders
here a small improvement to your tank Design though Stealth and slow protection and a bit more Def. move around bit faster and you do bit more dps with Build vs having SS
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Don't know if this has already been achieved or not, but heres a stone/stone/pyre tank with perma hasten while in granite. Does require spiritual core paragon alpha, but didn't think it was possible without speed boost or adrenalin boost. Also soft cap to everything except psi damage