Dechs Kaison

No no no, when you're talking to Johnny, every superhero who was any good is classified as a Tank and is a good example of what a tank "should have been designed as."

Remember, Johnny wants Tanks to keep all their survivability and get damage to equal brutes.

I'm aware of the story, but the truth is that tanks neither received nor should have received Fury. As they did not, the ability could not have been stolen. We all know Statesman had a mad case of Mary Sue with himself, and was only willing to give Fury to tanks because he has the same obsession with them that Johnny does.

This much I can almost see. The problem is introducing something unique that will not affect balance. Or, at the very least, take something away first.

You've committed a logical fallacy here: False dichotomy. There is a third option: There is no problem.

Brutes did not steal Fury. Tankers never had Fury for it to be stolen.

I'm with you that Scrappers don't need a buff, though.

Fix'd.

Holy... That is one sweet costume.

Dude, it just goes to show you how awesome those binds really are.

You never know what you have until it's gone.

How I solve it depends on the character and what I plan to be able to do with it.

I have a DA/Fire tanker that was built to the softcap for S/L/E/N. He usually does not need that level of survivability, but because I wanted him to have no shyness around any particular enemy group, I spared nothing save concept to achieve the softcap to all four types.

I also have a Claws/DA Brute that was not built to the softcap. Like the tank, he has adequate survivability without the softcap, but because I wanted to focus more on his damage output, I only built to 32.5% defense to S/L/E/N. If it ever comes down to it, a small purple puts me at the softcap for all four. The important thing to note here is that I did not softcap S/L to the negligence of E/N. Again, I want to be able to survive well against a broad type of enemies, not perfectly against only one type.

In sharp contrast, I have a TW/Fire brute (sorry, no build posted) that's just built to stomp Fire Trolls. He has 40% defense to F/C and damn little else. Outside of AE, he's pretty worthless. But damned if I have a better PLing character.

At least they aren't Mercs.

On topic: I plan to go storm or dark.

Thermal or sonic should do really well, stacking on the henchman resists.

Came here to post this.

Well... Stygian Return doesn't stun.

But seriously, I'm glad these powers got a buff. They needed it.

Well, I managed to get the half level and unlock my Alpha. Now it's just down to trial craft rinse repeat.

Don't forget "getting abnormally defensive to a general comment makes you look terribly insecure."

This is going to be a general statement that doesn't pertain to just Dark Armor:

If you don't need everything you have, then your difficulty probably isn't set high enough.

Updated? Gah! No, I just wrote the damn thing. Before February 23rd of this year, the guide did not exist.

Despite many claims to the contrary.

I have no idea where these claims have come from.