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With the stats you mentioned you'll easily be able to stand up to anything in the game, even a tower-buffed Lord Recluse with a few insps. One suggestion I'd make is changing Swift for Hurdle... Hurdle stacks with CJ/SJ for a noticeable buff to jump speed and distance and a minor buff to height.

Oh, if you're slotting for recharge with those LotG +recharge I'd certainly find another slot for Taunt and that 7.5% recharge bonus. I'd also consider Pounding Slugfest Acc/Dam & Dam/Rchg for the last two slots in Haymaker & KoB instead of the Mako's... that gives you another 16% regen and they'll be considerably cheaper.

The build's different than I'd make one, but I don't see any real problems with it other than what it'll cost... that's going to be a big chunk. Be prepared to spend upwards of 500 million or more. Oh, looking at Stamina I'd reslot it; if you're staying with 3 slots I'd toss in a pair of common endmod and the +end proc. As it is you're a bit light on recovery there, which may or may not matter depending on how it plays with your IO bonuses. That's a question you'll have to answer after you've played it awhile.

Overall pretty solid, there's a few tweaks I'd make though, mostly fairly minor.

Not bad, but I've a couple suggestions interspersed.

This is a fairly quick & dirty build, but it will be functional and you shouldn't have end issues. I would recommend getting the accolades (Atlas Medallion, Portal Jockey) for another 10% to your total endurance.

It's short of the soft cap, but you will have 42% S/L/E/N defense. Getting that last bit is doable, but the easiest way is to drop Air Sup/Fly for CJ/SJ. This is all figured on one foe in Invincibility... such as you'd have facing an AV.

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Level 50 Magic Tanker
Primary Power Set: Invulnerability
Secondary Power Set: Energy Melee
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery

Hero Profile:
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Level 1: Temp Invulnerability
(A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge: Level 40
(3) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge: Level 40
(3) Reactive Armor - Resistance: Level 40
(5) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance: Level 40
(34) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%: Level 30


Level 1: Barrage
(A) Smashing Haymaker - Accuracy/Damage: Level 35
(17) Smashing Haymaker - Damage/Recharge: Level 35
(29) Smashing Haymaker - Damage/Endurance: Level 35
(34) Smashing Haymaker - Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 35
(34) Pounding Slugfest - Damage/Endurance: Level 30
(46) Pounding Slugfest - Accuracy/Damage: Level 30


Level 2: Dull Pain
(A) Doctored Wounds - Heal: Level 50
(5) Doctored Wounds - Recharge: Level 50
(7) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance: Level 50
(7) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge: Level 50
(9) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge: Level 50


Level 4: Bone Smasher
(A) Smashing Haymaker - Accuracy/Damage: Level 35
(9) Smashing Haymaker - Damage/Endurance: Level 35
(11) Smashing Haymaker - Damage/Recharge: Level 35
(11) Smashing Haymaker - Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 35
(13) Pounding Slugfest - Damage/Endurance: Level 30
(13) Pounding Slugfest - Accuracy/Damage: Level 30


Level 6: Swift
(A) Flight Speed IO: Level 50


Level 8: Unyielding
(A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge: Level 40
(15) Reactive Armor - Resistance: Level 40
(15) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance: Level 40
(17) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge: Level 40


Level 10: Taunt
(A) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Recharge/Range: Level 50
(37) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Recharge: Level 50
(39) Mocking Beratement - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50
(39) Mocking Beratement - Taunt: Level 50
(39) Mocking Beratement - Recharge: Level 50
(40) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Range: Level 50


Level 12: Air Superiority
(A) HamiO:Nucleolus Exposure


Level 14: Fly
(A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range: Level 50
(43) Blessing of the Zephyr - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range/Endurance: Level 50


Level 16: Health
(A) Healing IO: Level 50


Level 18: Invincibility
(A) HamiO:Cytoskeleton Exposure
(19) HamiO:Cytoskeleton Exposure
(19) HamiO:Cytoskeleton Exposure


Level 20: Stamina
(A) Endurance Modification IO: Level 50
(21) Endurance Modification IO: Level 50
(21) Endurance Modification IO: Level 50


Level 22: Whirling Hands
(A) Eradication - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 30
(23) Eradication - Damage/Recharge: Level 30
(23) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 30
(25) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 50
(25) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
(27) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance: Level 50


Level 24: Resist Physical Damage
(A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge: Level 40
(40) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge: Level 40
(40) Reactive Armor - Resistance: Level 40
(42) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance: Level 40


Level 26: Tough Hide
(A) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
(27) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
(29) Defense Buff IO: Level 50


Level 28: Boxing
(A) HamiO:Nucleolus Exposure


Level 30: Tough
(A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge: Level 40
(31) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge: Level 40
(31) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance: Level 40
(31) Reactive Armor - Resistance: Level 40


Level 32: Weave
(A) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Endurance/Recharge: Level 40
(33) Gift of the Ancients - Defense: Level 40
(33) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Recharge: Level 40
(33) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Endurance: Level 40


Level 35: Energy Transfer
(A) Smashing Haymaker - Accuracy/Damage: Level 35
(36) Smashing Haymaker - Damage/Endurance: Level 35
(36) Smashing Haymaker - Damage/Recharge: Level 35
(36) Smashing Haymaker - Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 35
(37) Pounding Slugfest - Damage/Endurance: Level 30
(37) Pounding Slugfest - Accuracy/Damage: Level 30


Level 38: Resist Energies
(A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge: Level 40
(42) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge: Level 40
(43) Reactive Armor - Resistance: Level 40
(43) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance: Level 40


Level 41: Conserve Power
(A) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
(42) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50


Level 44: Laser Beam Eyes
(A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 50
(45) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 50
(45) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
(45) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge: Level 50
(46) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance: Level 50
(46) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 50


Level 47: Energy Torrent
(A) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge: Level 50
(48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance: Level 50
(48) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
(48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range: Level 50
(50) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 50
(50) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50


Level 49: Physical Perfection
(A) Endurance Modification IO: Level 50
(50) Endurance Modification IO: Level 50


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Level 1: Brawl
(A) Empty


Level 1: Sprint
(A) Empty


Level 2: Rest
(A) Empty


Level 1: Gauntlet



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A few thoughts on your last build. First, the Touch of Death, Obliteration & Mako's sets offer positional defense, while Invuln already has significant typed defenses... you'll do much better using sets that offer typed def. Things like the (if you can find/afford it) Kinetic Combat or the FAR more affordable and available Smashing Haymaker.

4 slots of Reactive Armor is plenty, it'll ED cap your resist (slotting all the resist IO's in the set) with decent endred. 4 also gets you all the bonuses you want. I generally toss the Steadfast unique into a 5th slot in TI since I grab that at level 1 and RPD in the 20's.

Taunt is an EXCELLENT place to get some really nice and cheap set bonuses; the Mocking Beratement set grants 1.8% additional endurance and 2.5% S/L def along with 7.5% recharge. Perfect Zinger offers 10% regen, 5% recharge, 2.5% damage and 3.13% S/L defense.

Since you're already 50 the best slotting for Invincibility is 3 Cytoskeleton Hamidon enhancements.

Once you approach the defense soft cap Unstoppable is a wasted power... I wasn't sure when I first respec'd into my issue 13 soft cap build and retained it. After 20 STF's, 4 of them MoSTF runs and innumerable ITF's and other TF's I haven't used the power a single time. If Lord Recluse buffed by his towers, Romy and his puffballs of doom and most everything else in the game can't make Unstoppable useful I decided to drop it.

Resist Elements is entirely skippable as has already been mentioned; it's minor protection against a rare damage type.

Tough/Weave are vital parts of your defenses however; I highly recommend getting them if you want to maximize your survivability. I fully understand how tight the build is, but dropping Resist Elements, Unstoppable & Build Up will make room in your build.

Aargh, my faithful Asus 8800 GTS just bit the dust tonight... video corruption even on the BIOS screen and only functioning as a basic VGA adapter in Windows. Device manager claims that the card can't start; uninstall/reinstall does nothing.

Due to the problem persisting even on the boot screen before Windows even starts loading I think the card's probably dead.

Well, I was looking to buy a new card in March... I guess my timetable got advanced although it really could have picked a better time. Just ordered a replacement from Newegg, BFG 275 GTX. Unfortunately I'm stuck with the laptop probably until Tuesday.

I'd second the thought of Stone Melee... it really does hit with authority and it has significant mitigation in it's knockdowns (both hammers, Fault & Tremor) and the MAG 4 HOLD in Seismic Smash. With a bit of recharge you can actually keep an entire spawn on their butts with the Fault/Tremor combo... I typically jump into the mob, hit Tremor (since it doesn't need a target), find a likely boss & Seismic Smash, then as they start to stand up Fault to knock them down again, pound on the boss a bit until they start standing up then Tremor.

Main tanker for a static team... well, a Shield/* does come to mind... once you get your defenses soft capped, which is pretty easy to do with minimal IO slotting you should be highly durable. I will say that baby Shield (well, any defense set really) characters do struggle until they can get their defense into the 30's or higher so the low levels will be tough.

For a bit smoother ride from the start you may want to consider an Invuln tanker... it matures stronger defensively than the shield and is considerably stronger early. It does lack the offensive output of the Shield though. Invuln may not be what it was in issue 3, but out of the box it's probably one of the 3 toughest tankers... add some IO bonuses and it's second only to Granite Armor in toughness. Issue 13 saw some major buffs to the Invuln set... I've run nearly everything in the game with mine and never had any issues with survivability. Even exemped down to Positron levels it's still highly capable... probably about the best tanker available at that level.

What are your teammates going to be playing? That has some impact on what you choose; if your buddies are rolling Shield scrappers for example then a Shield tank is a no-brainer for stacking Grant Covers. If they're rolling buffers/debuffers that opens up the choices also. If they're all going to be playing blasters then you'll need to count on yourself for all your survivability.

Late game the Fire/WP is capable, but it's also easy to get overwhelmed... it tends to suffer when taking a nasty alpha strike. The SS/Inv can be tougher if built right but endurance will be more of an issue. End is easy enough to get around by slotting attacks for endred and later on slotting IO sets.

I have a Fire/WP brute at 50 myself, and with extensive IO set bonuses it's... adequate. Endurance isn't much of an issue although WP burns more than Invuln does; Quick Recovery offsets that nicely. WP is fine until suddenly it isn't (incoming damage outpacing the set's regen) while a well-built Invuln has more spike durability.

I've found brutes, particularly in low-mid levels, tend to suffer from the "GO SMASH! SMASH MORE! SMASH MORE! SMAS...oops, why am I examining the rug?" due to constantly chasing Fury... it takes a long time to build in those levels and pausing to recover will loose your fury bar forcing you to start over.