Grey Pilgrim

Yeah, mine will be sitting at 64%, but I didn't slot up Resist Physical damage (saved those slots to pick up some psychic damage resist).

And Ironblade hit it on the head... Tanks should be tough, but not to the point where the whole game is easy mode... there should be some balance.

*added*

EBs are easier than AVs, Ultimo, but some ATs can solo easier than others. A tank should be able to solo the EBs in the level 40 story arcs, but that's going to get a lot more iffy with a Blaster, for instance (even though a Blaster can solo just fine for most things at that level). So it's kind of moot here, as Tankers will be fine solo. The Madame of Mystery might be a little rough, but she's hard for everyone.

Actually, I was going to whine that your linked video has nothing to do with the OP. So ha!

(it is indeed a funny trick, though)

Oh, duh, it's Thanksgiving next week. Silly me, I completely forgot. My wife and I aren't planning on going anywhere out of town for Thanksgiving, so I think I will be around. I'd probably join in if anyone wanted to do Isos stuff.

Bill already answered this quite well. You are very much missing the point. I'm glad you have found ways to leverage what is very much a fubared power. You can claim all you want, but Burn started out as an attack power... one that was altogether too strong. Rather than rebalancing the power via damage, recharge, how it applies the damage (as I am quite sure Castle would have done if he was given the job now, at least as I can tell from how he has adjusted other powers), the devs at the time give it a huge magnitude fear. That wasn't a good design choice, that was them flat out nerfing a power for farming too much. You can have the opinion that it was a correct decision, but I will flat out argue the bad logic you have in that opinion. Burn DID need to be adjusted, but not put to where it is. For years.

Also, you might want to be careful of using the term "crying." I had Burn on my Fire/Fire tank back in the day, as it would have been insane not to. But I did feel it was kind of lame in some situations, and never farmed with it. Heck, I soloed much of the time because of my weird gaming hours in grad school and such. When I was on teams, I rarely used it. So, I don't miss the days of farming with Burn. What I do miss is Fiery Aura working as a set: Burn is just one of the powers in need of a tweaking. Consume and FE are the other two (as you already identified).

Fiery Embrace is also an issue, as it's really only beneficial to Fire Melee. Any other powerset, you'd rather have Build Up. Blazing Aura is nice, you aren't going to hear me complain about it, and that's one of the reasons Fiery Aura isn't pathetically weak. It just needs improving.

And as Bill said, your example involves teammates working at cross purposes, not an example of a power not working. For what Ice Patch does, it works fine. Burn is an attack. It started out that way, and still IS that way: damage is its prime reason for being. It should work reliably as an attack.

*shakes fist at Mental*

Burn isn't necessarily a team based power. To get damage out of it, you need a good immobilize, AND to have that immobilize be activated when the mobs are nicely clumped around you: good luck on having that work consistently on teams. And Burn doesn't really fit the definition of a "team" powers... it's an attack. Also, it's VERY situational for a power that is supposed to be part of a set's reason for being "offensive."

Burn should work as an attack not matter if you're on a team or solo, or if you have an immobilize. As long as it's so situational, it doesn't truly add to Fiery Aura's offense, which is purportedly why it has weaker resists, etc. Shields has the same approach, and it doesn't have powers that are wonky like this adding to its offense.

A lot of things could be done to fix it, too. It could be made into another PbAOE of some sort (heck, it could have a big DoT upon hitting to remain more similar to the original power). The fear effect could be dropped and the recharge and damage could be adjusted to a level the devs feel is a good balance point. And so on. The power was nerfed like crazy back in the day, and done so in a bad way. Burn shouldn't still be paying for being a farming power, not when there are so many ways to make it work.

Heck, that doesn't even bring up the Immobilize issue. I'm not sure why that was kept in Burn when the rest of the mez protection for Fiery Aura was moved from there.

And sorry about bringing this back a bit... I saw it and wanted to get a bit more attention/discussion going, as I can't believe there was anyone saying Burn really was okay as is.

I'm assuming this means Tuesday night? Just wanted to be sure.

See, I know you're just trying to write a fun post, but... that behavior doesn't make sense for an Invuln Tanker, either. You get that nice defense boost from having enemies around you, so you should be rushing in. Heck, pulling behavior doesn't make sense for any tank, unless you're facing one of those combinations that will bring in a lot more mobs than your aggro cap will allow for. Most teams will still be able to handle them, but I've had enough teammates faceplanting happen from taking on 3+ mobs at once that I try to plan out more and call for a pull (if I can catch people in time, which we usually can, as I'm a fast Tanker that runs ahead of the team to get things set).

But yeah, Shield Charging in is always fun. I enjoy it: more dramatic than running any day.

Watch how you joke, MG, some ignorant types will think you are serious. And nice one, Viv... quite funny.

Anyway, as the game goes on, I wonder how much you can really get out of these threads. I know I don't have any lowbie alts laying around that I'm never going to play, for instance (it's actually kind of sad... there is something fun about those first levels that I don't get to experience anymore), so I'm not going to delete them: they have a name I want. But maybe those of us with more cash to buy slots have more expendables, I don't know.

There are also going to be plenty of people that either never check the forums, or are no longer with the game. I wonder if they're going to do a name sweep again.

Hmmmm, this reminds me. I hope Going Rogue gives us a few more slots like CoV did... otherwise I'm not going to be able to run anyone through Going Rogue on Victory. (Though I might have a vet reward giving me another soon).