If Tankers got Regen

Most of these suggested improvements are making me pretty glad that balance decisions aren't usually down to a popular vote.

Hmm, we need to improve regen by some amount for tankers. I know, 100% resistance to all debuffs, give integration a damage aura (5 damage scale every two seconds to only three targets in a 15 foot radius, not trying to be greedy), moment of glory should be a toggle (with a long recharge, say 60 seconds, so if it gets detoggled you're vulnerable), and revive should hit the entire map with all three types of warburg nuke. I mean, come on, we need the set to be tanky, people. These improvements are modest but effective.

If they were going to turn Instant Healing back into a toggle, I would prefer they throw caution (and the cottage rule) to the wind and change it altogether.

Moment of Glory is supposed to represent what would happen if you truly 'instantly healed'. That why while most damage type defense buffs use 'deflected', MoG uses 'absorbed'. I would run with that concept a bit.

I might change Instant Healing to a scaling resistance buff something like:

1st target in range - Scale 1 resist to all but Psi
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1st through 10th targets - Scale .25 resistance to all but Psi

Thus you're truly 'Instantly Healing' some of the damage. If you wanted to do the Energize cheat around the cottage rule, you could give Instant Healing 100% Regen to go along with the scaling buff and lower the initial target resistance to Scale .75 or .5.

This seems to deal with Arcanaville's concern about the scalability of the set between Tankers and Brutes/Scrappers/Stalkers. It also doesn't provide Regen a ridiculous solo advantage, like old school IH toggle would. Finally, it gives Regen the ability to layer protections like most other sets do.

Having said that, here's a completely separate thought related to the first one but falling along a different line. The reason I tend to focus on Dull Pain's +heath is because things like boosting regeneration do not address alpha strike and burst damage issues, which were a major focus of the Ice Armor changes back around I5. If players could convince the devs that Ice Armor lacked sufficient burst damage resiliency to warrant a change, I would think the same line of thought would work for Regeneration which as even less than Ice used to have.

As to putting scaling resistances in Instant Healing and converting it into a scaling resistance toggle, I think its unlikely but even if it were possible I would be unlikely to support that change. It doesn't so much try to justify using resistance to simulate a regenerative effect as handwave it away completely.

What if the, IH was still a click, but instead of just a high regeneration power, it was changed to add +HP (heal) like DP, which in of itself would increase the regereation rate of the set, and then instead of just having lots of regeneration, it acted more like a self only heal over time. Either a steady heal every x seconds, or with burst heals that decreased in the amount healed and with longer duration ticks inbetween.

This way, it could be used prior to jumping in to absorb an alpha, or reactively to recover from sudden burst damage.

If you put scaling resistances in, how close does the set get now to Willpower?

Willpower can get ~90 hp/sec with a single enemy nearby with very high resistances to s/l and very good defences to everything else.

How much higher regen does Regeneration reasonably need to compete with this, because simply slapping a lot of res/def seems to give you two sets doing approximately the same thing.