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Heh. I guess the extra debuff annoys the enemies. I slotted 2 taunt duration and am mindful of how I attack and taunt (I ended up slotting my Alpha with Nerve and only have 1 taunt IO in Rise now). That has always worked well for me. I may have to check out the proc for funs.
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Originally Posted by Shadey_NA
If you ever feel the need to "fix" the taunt aura on your Willpower tank, slot in a Deflated Ego: Chance for recovery debuff proc in it. You will be amazed at how well it helps.
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Why Blasters? Empathy Sucks.
So, you want to be Mental?
What the hell? Let's buff defenders.
Tactics are for those who do not have a big enough hammer. Wisdom is knowing how big your hammer is.
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I concur. Just unlocked the Alpha Slot on my lvl 50 SD/MA Tank. Ran to 50 mostly solo. One of the smoothest runs to 50 I have ever done. Getting to lvl 26 for Shield Charge was cake. Lvl 1 to 20 is a joke these days anyway. I spam Storm Kick with the ATO proc in it. Incredibly strong toon and pretty decent damage for a tank with AAO.
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Originally Posted by mauk2
Tanks are not about damage.
Tanks are about tanking, which is not the same as durability. Also, SD/MA has three primary points of synergy. 1) Storm kick is a massive def to all buff. Def to ALL. Since shield is positionals, that covers everything except non-positional attacks. How many of those are there in the game?  The buff is very applicable into the incarnate levels, as well. Its real value is not the size of the buff, its in the fact that it has NO HOLES.2) Mitigation is all knockdown. Dragontail and shield charge synergize beautifully. Many/most of the iFactions to date are susceptible to knock. Knockdown works like a charm against them. (That's counterbalanced by outlevelling things to make them suffer kb, but just turn it up a notch to compensate.) 3) Eagle Claw grants a nice +damage buff, which stacks beautifully with AAO. Eagle Claw/Shield Charge/Dragon Tail in a big crowd is pretty. In addition, SD on a tank has the second best aggro-holding aura in the game (an icer beats you, barely), and OWTS makes you an Invuln tanker for two minutes at a time. SD/MA is a very, VERY good combo. YMMV |
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Does it work better than the Dark Watcher's Despair: Chance for Recharge Slow? About the same? Anyone know?
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Originally Posted by Shadey_NA
If you ever feel the need to "fix" the taunt aura on your Willpower tank, slot in a Deflated Ego: Chance for recovery debuff proc in it. You will be amazed at how well it helps.
A friend showed me this with his DB/WP scrapper at one point just after those two sets came out. |
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Haven't tried the -rech proc, but mids says it's a 5% better chance of hitting with Deflated Ego proc. So, it should work better. I do know it seems to drive baddies nuts. |
Originally Posted by Madadh
Does it work better than the Dark Watcher's Despair: Chance for Recharge Slow? About the same? Anyone know?
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I've seen it on a db/wp scrapper pulling aggro from a tank for an entire ITF. Then again he was using weaken combo from DB the whole time and that might have added to the aggro. It was my Inv/Nrg tank and yes I was using taunt.
A tanker who loses much aggro to anything but another character with the taunt mechanic is doing it wrong.
A friend showed me this with his DB/WP scrapper at one point just after those two sets came out.