New Dawn

Just because you don't find something useful doesn't mean that the cottage rule should be torn up and chucked in the bin.

I would unlike a lot of people, simply ask the Devs for a possible buff and trust in them with what they come up with because they are the only ones able to look at the full picture. Usually no forumite is good enough to see the full picture.

Edit: and by all means keep digging.

Everyone has an opportunity to research a powerset before taking a powerset. If you realise you don't like something you picked then its no one elses fault nor problem. The main thing is that nothing is changed so badly somebody who likes what they picked gets something that isn't what it's supposed to be.

Yeah cos people gank and spank normally even if there isn't the type of defender set that can look after a large bunch of blappers. However this change on those sets in the trial is also of benefit to the empath because it makes their job easier. But still, there is bound to be some twit who thinks that if the empath was any good they would of been healed asap, then times that twit by a few more all spread out from eachother needing that heal asap..partially why I prefer people to have an opinion on empaths when they've actually played one to know one.

In small teams those benefiting of this change would now be able to offer great damage mitigation and blast more than the sets not benefitting from the change. Those ones not benefiting are partially reactive sets often played proactively where possible because coming out of an attack, or a buff on someone else, selecting team member and buff can take too long which is why I believe in lowering cast times on them.

I've enjoyed playing an empath, despite IOsets I am cack compared to what I was in 2005 but thats when I leveled her but I did get to level her with players who weren't 150ft away trying to be all pro, they tried to play within the limitations of an empath for best results and were within 80ft and LoS, when they needed help they got it there and then, removing the hide and go seek factor they allowed me more time for other stuff.

You guarantee that because?

Prior to the change in a typical team the hardest defender to be totally fantastic with and perma shield everyone imo is probably the kin, its hard, but then often so unnecessary so it dont matter. Then comes the Empathy, Thermal, Pain all close together if you are proactive because people do random stuff, then comes everybody else. Sonic, Cold and Forcefield are easier to play, to me anyway.

I don't have the patience to solo defenders and quite frankly if there isn't a team going, I'd play a more soloable AT like a scrapper. I do have a solo build, it does alright but like any defender your true strengths appear from making others look good. TAs by nature make those anchor killers that other defenders have to put up with look like they could know what they're doing.

A recovery is just a situation where aggro needs to be gathered up quick, someone could of accidentally pulled, many variables really. I haven't and still haven't been able to download the build from my location so going on memory. Taunt just doesn't look slotted enough. When I come to upload it I'll see a better picture but I do have a taunt to recharge ratio I stick to, because less than that has proven not to cut it.

Welcome to my original server.

I wrote ya build off when it comes to recoveries, sorry XD taunt just don't recharge quick enough for me you would have to stack it with gauntlet and hope no one redirects aggro from you making sure that the defender ya teams relying on gets to disappear from the gene pool. I don't believe in having to make recoveries often and you won't but bleep happens.

Posting myself about quickly with endurance reduced teleport I found important, also a recovery thing, having enough taunt duration to meet the recharge of taunt versus 54s can be also very important in granite mode and out of it too imo.

Stonetanks can be made so robust that the usefulness of fly is, but falling out of the sky could be your worry tping along. I keep hitting the one key for tp self.

I can't load up ya build from this location, I would of had the stoneskin passive with 3% def to all in it early-ish instead of hover, slotting so that with it and granite I am capped. Crystal 22 at latest cos of Moonfire and that, Minerals at 35 at the latest cos of Countess Crey but if you know what ya up against problems can be removed by other means.

So tankers are running up to the doorways of small rooms where there are mobs within and taunting them out? I think the objective is to give people no reason to go in where they will bunched in close by the smallness of the room and get aoe'd, this at the same time can prevent overwhelming the tank by an alpha..but yeah anywhere there is a small room full of mobs or say on an arachnos map where the corner rooms can step down then go for it with Tornado. With dead ends I'd be galing into them additionally.

I've seen tankers with hope that they can tank go down real fast. Most forumites who've been playing since the beginning have experienced being that said tanker.

I can't help but feel that there is more to learn from actually tanking for pick n mix random pugs vs anything than there is in an all tanker team because you actually have people you should be tanking for.

I wouldn't mind joining a tanker tuesday thingy with a scrapper someday.

Just to clarify tho more than one tank on a prestige farming AE thingy is alright in my book.

Yet all tanker tuesdays offer the possibility of someone leveling a tanker with no one to tank for. I never got the idea of it, it's something I wouldn't even be seen dead in. I completed an all scrapper STF before someone from the scrapper section ever did to kill two birds with one stone, 1) to prove that if I can do it with a scrapper, then as eggs is eggs I could of done the all tanker version and 2) not have to be seen in an all tanker team. So the all scrapper STF got done before the all tanker purely because I hate teamin with other tankers if I am tanking. Scrapper teams failed till someone with a totally tank mindset changed AT and done it for them just because they would never be seen dead tanking for tanks.

You'd get a tank to do what a scrapper/brute could do but with more damage?

So why ain't you shunning me?

You are teaming no? I think most people agree that it not till 26 (which can be got to in an evening with certain friends) that it really kicks off.

1 star the stupid supremist and put him on global ignore to avoid him for all eternity.

A large team. Not unless they feel that it is quicker to use the additional burst to reduce the fight duration than to come back from hosp. I was in a team the other day and they just let the Dev do his thing (wasn't me) to show them what he can do. Nobody minded, nobody gave a toot about xp/time but it was only done once.

In teams I don't normally use trip mines at all. I have been in an8 man team and soloed in another direction but the map and the npcs were just made for it. You can do your own herding.

The OP is new to having a Blaster given his words. Not necessarily anything else.

I have many 50s, 80 characters all caped most above 30, almost all the 50s have IO sets, they have a theme and a concept, when these powersets were designed they had a theme and concept. No probs there then and to add I tank with any tank, but with each type of tank I will tank differently. There was never a situation where I thought I best get my other tanker. Not every as far back as it goes, each tank is different so what? Just learn to tank things differently.

The first successful all scrapper STF was tanked by me on a scrapper. I devised it all, there was no temps involved, no one helped with aid other and we near enough Mo'd it. I think you should stop trying to guess what the person on the other side of the screen might be like because when it comes to firsts I got plenty. I have been the person who has always said "No AT is needed". I don't give a rats bum who is in team and haven't for over 5 years. When the first MoSTFs were getting done by one tank, 4 controllers and 3 defs my question was "What was the tanker for?"

My AR/Dev is ranged capped but sometimes with the goals I set myself it would be foolish for me not to use trip mines. People harp Eon about them in teams, so go solo the other half of the mission, me, I set myself challenges. Every blaster offers me a chance to do something differently.