Did my tanks get nerfed!??

As has been mentioned, Carnies can be problematic.

Depending on the mission settings, you could have been -5 levels to them. (Which would indeed be rough on most, if not all tanks.) On a level 50 team you'd be SSK'd to level 49 on both of the tanks you mentioned. If the mission was set to +4/8 that would have made the Carnies lvl 54s. Without a ton of outside buffs I can see you having issues surviving, even with fairly well put together builds.

With one tanker at level 40 and the other at level 46, it's possible that jose2390 is simply fighting several of the more difficult high-level groups for the first time (or maybe just the first time tanking them for a large team). Carnies, Malta, Vanguard, Rularuu, Arachnos, IDF, etc can be quite a surprise when you're used to Council and Warrios.

Please no sarcasm. I humbly came here with honest questions, not to be made fun of. I'm far from a beginner. Most of the time, I play other classes (Blasters, Scrappers, Controllers, MM's etc) Tanks? here and there. And Yes I am familiar with will power. My Katana/will power scrapper is lvl 43 atm, and yes I do know the difference between scrappers and tankers.

I apologize if I offended. Anyway, thank you for letting me know about tough and weave. I never used them because I heard that they can be pretty heavy endurance hogs and I personally don't like toggles (thats just me) Also, I want to thank everyone who took the time to inform me about the current state of tanks. I really thought it was a nerf. Take care.

I understand where your coming from. While I was leveling up my Fire tank I rarely had issues against any groups I fought, with the exceptions of Carnies. Then I finally got around to playing the "brand new" ITF that had been out for about a month or two. I can honestly say I was horribly embarrassed by how poorly my Fire tank did. He was "owned". At the time he wasn't all that IO'd out, and didn't have tough and weave. I spent 3+ months lurking around the Tanker forums to see what I could learn and how I could "fix" my tank. He performs much better now, but I still get a little hesitation when I bring him along for the ITF.

I'm using io's only. The ones you can make at the university. Forgive me but I'm not familiar with posting builds on forums like the way you guys do it. Basically with powers like high pain tolerance for example I will put 3 healths and 3 damage resistance. The rest of my build is balanced like that. 3 of the same enhancement into one power.

I don't have billions of dollars. Can't afford the big boys stuff.
On some of my others toons, I was able to buy that. But that was before

Thank you Rangle. I greatly appreciate your feedback. I haven't done one of those yet. I mainly play radios, tips, and regular mishes with the difficultly on plus 1. I'm from the old school.

I am happy to report that my tank is doing much much better now! I respeced it earlier, added tough weave and hover for that extra defense. Even without hover it still rocks. I was just going against Infernal and things went well. Thanks again everyone for your suggestions. In the future I will definitely invest in more powerful sets. Peace

I have a Apple.

Also, someone had put together a Mid's Wineskin wrap at one point. You can locate the thread discussing it here.

Not sure if you'll be able to update to the latest version of Mids using it.

There's a link to the App there as well. Best of luck. Glad you're happier with your tank.

I missed Rangle's cause I was at work on my phone.

Considering I haven't run Sentinel in a while, I did pretty good from memory.

Just a quick note here: I'd suggest Combat Jumping instead of Hover, if you want to squeeze out that last bit of Defense. It has a very low Endurance rate, and doesn't have the maneuverability issues that Hover does.

(Unless you mean you're running Combat Jumping and Hover, in which case... carry on)