More resist on Super Reflexes character

I know the point is high defense, glass jaw, but is there any other way to not fold like a wet paper towel on a SR character when the enemy gets a lucky hit in, aside from grabbing Tough?

Get more Hitpoints and more regen. Accolades are the best place to find more HP.

Also, try to fit Aid Self.

Resistance bonuses aren't very good. Tough is your best bet in that you need it to get weave in the first place and it's a decent chunk of s/l resist. I find the shield wall global to be pretty poor in comparison to the glad armor global but it's basically the next best thing after tough.

Well yeah man, but even if you don't want to use tough it's better to take it than the other melee attack since if nothing else it's a good steadfast or glad armor mule.

Here's a brief rant, in fact. Now that they've shown they're willing to turn fitness inherent and grant travel powers at level four or whatever it is, they should rethink the entire damn idea of pools. Why do we still need to take prereqs so that we can be slightly more defensively able? Does that make sense? Does it contribute to balance? Maybe someone thinks the answer to one of those questions is yes, but I'd love to know why.

It would at least have to be locked behind levels.

An SR tank who could get Tough or Aid Self at level 4 trivialised low level content. Yes, I tried it when it was on the beta server.

Pool Powers being level-gated is fine - our AT powers are level gated. Being locked by other powers is stupid.

"Yay, I can fly now! - good thing I learned how by slamming people and making them do back flips." *shakes head*

If we didn't require all these unused prerequisite powers, I might actually pick oft-skipped AT powers... Heck, even Hand Clap might find the occasional use...

I never used both, but Boxing was a nice addition to a SS Brute and a good finisher for a Fire Corruptor (unlike Brawl, it qualifies for Scourge).

As for the OP, yea, your best bet is to stack regen. Not only are resistance bonuses from sets often smaller than defense bonuses, but there aren't nearly as many and you would have to build for up to ten resistances instead of just the two or three you need for defense. You can also look into Incarnate powers, once you get there. Barrier grants +Res and +Def, Paralytic gives a -dam proc, etc.

Not really "resists", but you could try mixing in an attack set with debuffs/mezz/knockdown/etc. Stone Melee Fault, Dark Melee -tohit, even Air Superiority (always hilarious juggling a boss non-stop). There's some holds in the APPs as well.

It works for squishies, and it works just as well on the crunchies.

My current MA/SR build tries to do as much of everything as possible. Tough, Glad proc, +health, +regen, aid self. Its not fantastic, but I think its worth it to stack the Gladiator +3% res onto tough, and you can stack a further 2.52% s/l from the superior scrapper ATIO set, taking you up to 22.4% s/l. And that stacks on the passive scaling resists.

I also have 1943 health, and 395% regen, and aid self. Its not bad. I have a build for when the second set of ATIOs comes out that will reach 2000 health, basically the same amount of regen, about the same amount of defense, but dropping weave altogether and replacing it with spring jump. Spring jump is not only a nice offensive weapon, its also alpha mitigation of sorts.