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I've watched heavily IOed Brutes solo at +4/x8. I can't imagine how ungodly slow a Tank fighting +4s would be.

I don't know why you're going to use Granite. There are easier ways to achieve stupidly high levels of mitigation without flooring your damage and recharge. Instead you could run with some of the WP powers, and pick even more powerful ones inbetween. Like instead of IW (I don't know why you have IW if you have Granite anyway -- you even have Active Defense too; how much mez protect do you need?), take Integration. It doesn't give fear/confuse, but you get huge regen to go with it. Take something like Force Field Generator to get 16% DEF vs all for almost no endurance.

Anyway, you have all that mitigation and stuff but your actual damage output is really low. You just have minor to moderate damage attacks. You should look into extreme damage, short activation moves like Seismic Smash. Plus you'd waste time using powers like Active Defense and Siphon Speed all the time.

Yeah, I have a couple brutes who can solo on +2/x8, and can hit the aggro cap. They don't need to be any more durable than that, because no more enemies than that will ever attack them. If my Brutes can hit aggro cap at +2/x8, and does more damage than a Tanker, why would I want to play a Tanker?

I have enough toons already, and I know people who are already maxed out so wouldn't get anything. I'd honestly rather a costume slot.

I just showed this to a friend who got a kick out of it. He totally has a Tanker named LastSon.

Very cool. I'm digging the combination of parts you have going there.

Fire, Energy, and Rad have one secondary effect. Dual Pistols has DEF and KB even without Swap Ammo. You take Swap Ammo to have access to FOUR (five or six depending on how you count lethal and cryo) secondary effects. Just like you take Aim to have more damage/accuracy. You still have a secondary effect without Swap Ammo. Wanting Swap Ammo free makes about as much sense to me as wanting Aim to be an inherent.

I'm an altoholic, and I simply don't have the time or energy to purple out even one toon, much less the 26 I have on Virtue alone (with more on Freedom).

No it's not. You don't come out of the gate doing combos. You don't do combos regardless of what powers you take or use. You have to have at least three powers to do combos, and use them in order. You can't do your first combo until 6, same as Swap Ammo. In fact, doing combos affects your power choice order, your power selection process, and your power usage order. It affects your DPS and your normal attack behavior. I think it does a lot more and requires a lot more than Swap Ammo.

Assault Rifle doesn't. I don't know if that's a shining example of a good set, but it gets along without it. Also note, Psi Blast didn't have Aim, but it was fundamentally changed to have it, and even with Aim it's a crappy set.

Melee sets don't all have Build Up. They have Follow Up/Blinding Feint, Soul Drain, even Rage. I embrace the variance in these sets and all along was hoping that DP would have something different than a generic plastered Aim into the set, because ranged sets have ZERO variance. Either they have Aim or they don't (Dark Blast and Psi Blast for non-Blasters have no Aim). I was hoping for a ranged Follow Up. But I think the ability to give yourself a constant damage boost through fire damage is a very unique and viable alternative to Aim.

I don't have any Tanks.

Not me. None of my Brutes will become Tanks.

No Tanks.

Me.

I won't.

I won't.

I don't have any.

If I wanted a Tank, I'd have a Tank.

Maybe people aren't rushing back for that, but what about easier access to EATs, Ultra Mode, the AE updates, the new mail system, or animated tails?

Usually you'll find our community is pretty friendly until someone starts acting out. It's only when someone comes in and says "THIS GAME SUCKS" that someone tells them to get out. Take this thread for example:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=212253

Someone who doesn't play very often asked a question. We had a few "Huhs?" but overall mostly people giving ideas and theories on why they'd do double exp now instead of after i17. It wasn't until someone came in and called everyone "delusional fanboys" that people started saying "If you don't enjoy the game, just leave."

And I tend to agree. If it's not fun, don't torture yourself, and don't drag others down with you. There's a difference between feedback and suggestions and "THIS GAME SUCKS, YOU'RE ALL DUMB FOR PLAYING."

UI update could potentially be pretty awesome.

Ooh... what about inability to remove people from global channels if they're offline? I know of a few global channels that have filled up and there's nothing you can do about it but start a new one. Like Virtue LFG.

And they'll continue to insist it's not an exploit and their $15 entitles them to do absolutely ANYTHING they want long after it gets changed.