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Originally Posted by SinergyX_EU
Build =! IO's. Unlikely a fire armor can outlast WP or Inv once they get -recharge on their behind, being a pure resist set without healing i dont see last longer then a defense and mixed based set.
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SS/Fire Brute here and I regularly duo the ITF (set at +1 or +2/x8) with one death (and there's a guy on these forums who's solo'd the MoITF with SS/FA). At 32.5% defense vs all positions I just pop one purple inspie to softcap and the resistances give lovely layered protection. Terrorize is my main weakness. FA is plenty survivable for regular content on my brute, so for a tank it'd be even tougher. I have no idea what the 'best' survivability set it and I'm not saying it's Fire, I'm just saying that a properly built Fire is a lot less weak than people say it is.
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Whilst I'll not argue with what people can do with a build. I will say that with Brutes I expect their fight duration to be less than a tankers, a tankers survivability from shielding should be enough to endure that extra bit of fight duration from them taking longer to defeat mobs in theory.
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Originally Posted by Aneurysmo
FA is plenty survivable for regular content on my brute, so for a tank it'd be even tougher.
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Willpower has a few nice tricks that Invulnerability doesn't have.
For a start it has an additional healing and stamina power to go with inherent fitness' healing and stamina powers as inherents, and rise to the challenge, which is awesome. A very user friendly tier 9 that outshines unstoppable IMHO. And also, a self rez power should you fall in combat.
Invulnerability by contrast, offers you resistances to things, albeit small, to things that Willpower does not, and counteracts with accelerated healing.
But its swings and roundabouts, an Invul tank IO'd up for defence etc, is probably going to take LESS damage off a hit than a Willpower one. But it balances out in as much as the Willpower one heals quicker etc...
There are different way of survivability and this is what it comes down to, a FA/SS tanker is going to kill things far quicker than an Invul / SS might for example. But the Invul will take less damage doing it, just takes longer, war of attrition, than an out and out blitzkrieg of the enemies.
I'd say the differences between the two are negligable but Invul takes the lead somehwat because you can face off masses of mobs and you have the resistances and defences to get you through it.