New Dawn

To get out of burn patch and look for someone else..possible. Blazing Aura doesn't have an autohit taunt. To run out of Burn Patch yet still be in quicksand and attack you, that's interesting. What was his secondary and what were you fighting?

Most people I am pretty sure do not get into threat mechanics deeply, partly because they and their team members are well supported by other people in the team.

When your support from other players is non existent in terms of being commonly identified as support ie you are without both defenders and controllers on your Mo run. Then keeping as much damage off of the less durable team mates as possible becomes advisable along with keeping the likelihood of becoming defeated yourself.

You might for the best option (team output/time) decide to outrange some effects. By being ranged your threat is lower. A scrapper in melee could have competitive threat levels due to their taunt aura being on and their damage output. Death Shroud + Cloak of Fear + Soul Drain + Good attack chain can at times without a single taunt element involved steal attention from even the most well taunt slotted. If in doing so damage is redirected their way and they happen to be in the vicinity of off others then a aoe can occur that can cripple the team. To avoid moments like that it is in best interests all round for the scrapper to have lower threat. A taunt aura can come off. The scrapper would often dish good if not better damage per end over time anyway.

As someone who tanks with scrappers without defenders or controllers I have had to learn certain things about AVs, what are their attacks, more importantly what can their attacks do and when they will use them. You can keep the others in the team from being hit, as well as yourself by most attacks, but in some cases other members have to keep their threat level down.

I'd imagine some people on an all Scrapper STF without the use of temps would have a team where many members would be running back from the hospital in the boat during some AV fights. None of that needs to happen. One person with a high threat level keeping damage directed towards them and entirely off of the team can help the rest of the team survive to do the most damage in the shortest amount of time. That's what we do, and we have so few deaths a scrapper Mo is clearly 100% possible.

A tanker at their peak theoretically should not in looking at the team care what toons are in play but in how they're played.

When someones new to Khelds I'd imagine a basic IO set build maybe right to get started with. Would that be useful OP? Anyway I'd also imagine other people to do something more appropriate than I.

If I was a team leader who had a bunch of people all wanting to get several of their missions done in the evening then quite possibly, am not going to think about it too much, a Plant/TA would be good.

Otherwise it maybe or may of been a blessing in PvP Base Raids if they ever happen..

Someone could also ask for -range on Flash Arrow but I wouldn't hold any breaths.

Look at what you can find, create a build for yourself then ask for opinions. Always better and don't worry about mistakes as we all make them or have made them depending on personal opinions.

My TA is very welcome around some people but not everyone. I'd be right in saying that some of what is the best that you can offer will only be there if what you are offered is ideal. A help me to help you scenario. I specifically said though that I wouldn't always be comfortable tanking for a team with just a TA. This can mean that 99% of the time I would love it. People behind a toon matter and the game keeps fresh when you vary your team make ups and the people behind the characters. I'll always try to man up to powersets rather than pick holes in them.

Some people miss powers, just talking powers in general, because sometimes they do not see the utility. Maybe that utility would only be good in 5% of the game for 1% of the people who can make something of it but then some people may be doing that 5% of the game most of the time and priding themselves upon it. Especially those who love to do the things other people told them they couldn't do.

Most TA builds I wouldn't want for myself as I personally wouldn't be always comfortable tanking for them. The reason being, is that they may of skipped something they did not see the utility in. Perhaps every so often power designers sometimes make sets for dynamics that some of the population don't even think of, or care to get into, from their current standpoint. They looked at what they needed as far as the end of their own noses and took 6 out of 9 powers and go on to complain that they can't defend well enough.

I am all for a buff, but the right buff, not a buff that's there because people couldn't see that part of its difference is that one may play with someone of the set differently to how they may play with other defenders.

Subtle changes like halve PGAs rechg to 20 secs (good for fast teams and competes with the other defenders debuff toggles that are 8 sec rechg better) or make Ice Arrows Cast time 1 sec and rechg 16 sec would help the set in my book.

In PvP it might need altering, I wouldn't know.

I can see it's problematic and unfinished. It looked like a build still in the process of slot changes and undecided on a few powers. I did look at it the other day, change stuff around. Move powers, change some and wondered how important build up to you was when you got +tohit from Invincible and all the +Acc bonuses in the attacks.

Throw some ideas on your concept, does it fly etc and I'll throw something down. Even better would be to just have a go at a making a Fire/Mace up then having people look at it.