Psionetic

Hi all. I just hit 20 with my PB and realised something: I have no idea about how I'm supposed to tank. My 50 is a defender so I'm used to being squishy and having less-than-blaster-level blasts, but the dwarf form is really throwing me. I really like using it, and being not so squishy is great, but I don't seem to do much good to the rest of the team and I die a lot (I do anyway, but thats neither here nor there ).

So, my point is, can anyone offer me any help/advice/constructive insults on tanking as a PB?

Thanks in advance...

Kin/Elec is good for end draining but you must remember that it doesn't actually stop most enemies from attacking. That said, it does force toggle drops (Tsoo Sorcerer's Hurricane, for example) if you drain all their end away; but they will still attack again almost straight off. Its still a useful tool though.

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Do they? Just tried it on test and couldn't see a difference: IR looks faster anyway (to me at least ) and I wasn't jumping higher or noticably faster with both on... Anyone know for sure?

Actually I place equal weight between my kin duties and my blasting (heh ) powers. I'm an Offender and Proud, so there

I'm not a buff-bot, I don't live to keep people SB'd, and I fully intend to take advantage of every (or at least as many as poosible) FS I fire off, because thats how I like to play. None of this cookie cutter business for me, thanks

Different/Weird, and damn proud of it too. (though you can take your pick of which you think )

My stamina-less build could keep up with everything but TK, but when I got stuck into the fighting my end disappeaered very quickly, so I ended up spamming transference. Now I've specced him into stamina (nearly broke my heart, I was so proud that he didn't have it before, daft I know ), and now he's much better in fights and can use TK a lot more freely too. I wish I had room for tactics too...

I'm always really torn about this. I know in theory it's a really good idea to get acrobatics, but my kin is my first toon (got loads now, but he's still shiny and new to me), and I just can't bear to play him without fly. Sad I know but meh. As a practical travel power I don't really rate fly, the vast majority of my alts have jump or SS (none have tp, bleurgh ), but i do use a nifty bind to switch on fly and then change freely between fly and hover, so that I'm in the air all the time, either flying or hovering. Very useful for AV's, I can hover just out of their melee range but still be in range of transfusion/transference/FS

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TY Mongoose

Faultline: That was pretty much what I thought for everything, especially the end reds, but nice to have it confirmed. Went and read the thread about the photon seekers after I'd posted, also very useful for tips on their use. Knew I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up about the quantum shield...

I'm up for this, will bring Psionetic

Hi all, just started playing my PB a few days ago and loving it, but a few questions:

Putting end red (not mod) into the form slots - does this just reduce the toggle cost or does it reduce the powers cost as well?

Does the Quantum shield lie to me? I know it says energy/neg energy, but it sort of implies it gives you res to voids/quantums as well... Or is this just wishful thinking on my part? (I'm guessing not, otherwise there'd be loads of posts here telling people to 3-slot it...)

And further off, do Photon Seekers (which sound cool) stick around when you change forms or do they disappear with the toggles?

TIA for your help

I'm up for this too, I can bring the kin let me know on here or by PM if you are going to run it (can send me a global but prob wont be on before 2 tomorrow otherwise).

Actually Ji, teaming with your WS was my first team experience of a kheld, so at first I didn't realise there was a difference Have rolled a WS though, just not very much yet Plus my SG has loads of WS's going atm, so I thought I'd be different

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Thank you Been playing my fantastic, wonderful, amazing... etc PB all day, can't stop grinning!

Many thanks to everyone who helped me out on the way, especially Blaze, and special thanks to those that were there for the ding (*just* before we took on Chimera):
UN Medic Droid, Quandary, and Toffy.

Thanks as well to all who helped me over the weekend, when i got from 47 - 49 really quickly and with some fantastic teams: Miss Honour, Spine Shooter, Stone Lady, Wise, Joulez, Heaven's Healer, Athenys Raefyl, Luke C, Kitty K, Burning Cold, Wintra, FIREBALL, King Scar, Euronymus, Afterburn, Bucky The Hare, Ariad, Coopstar, Dark Hutch, Mr Mushroomhead, Aeris Gainsborough, Azaroth, Silver Hellion, Funzo Force 5, Ravenhart, Jeweller, F-Aura...
Flippin' heck I've teamed a lot lately hope i haven't missed anyone and thanks again everyone!

It does accept the disoreint enhancers, but the only power that the big guy has that does disorient is his smashing melee attack, and thats hardly worth slotting for IMO. I slotted him 1 extra by accident so gave him an end red, and his blue bar never moves, which is nice, but with the free respec I'll be moving that slot somewhere more useful. Doesn't seem much point really.

Hope that ramble helps

So sorry I missed it Stupid bloody manager at work made me stay til half nine in the end

Sorry it didn't work out this time.

I'll try to be there with Psionetic (see sig), but as I finish work at half 7 I might be a bit late... I'll leave my toon at the gate just in case though

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Congratulations No. 1 So what are you rolling next?

Well my main problem with Pet. Gaze is that (atm at least) I can't stack it, it just doesn't last long enough. How many recharges/hold duration's do you have in it to get it to stack?

I've kept it anyway on all the different versions of the build I'm thinking about, but I just don't use it much atm. *shrug*

Hmmmm. I'm the same, I almost always have all my bots together firing at one target at a time rather than willy nilly, and I've also noticed I seem to attract aggro from other mobs whether I've done anything or not. Still, I seem to remember reading something about unconfirmed reports of a taunt aspect to the hench's attacks now (anyone now if this has been confirmed one way or the other yet?), if so it might get better in i7, and certainly easier to handle with Bodyguard.

I'm actually finding that I'm using much less controls at the moment - I've gone off petrifying gaze and now use just fearsome stare most of the time with an occasional tar patch, so I think if I take the renade it might up my control and damage output, provided (like Zaprobo said) I use it sensibly, ie. after my bots have taken the alpha and grabbed all the aggro. *Shrug* Definitely gonna have to test it out when I hits 35 I guess.

Oh yeah hadn't thought of the aggro it'd get me... hmmm. May have to test it out on test server then.

I'd like to do War Wall Defender too please

Hit lvl 33 with my bots/dark and I'm thinking of getting the photon grenade power at 35, anyone know if its any good? I figure it might stack nicely with my prot bots photon grenades, hopefully enough to even be able to stun bosses (between them they *seem* to be able to stun a lt now), but I seem to recall having read that it was a rubbish power... anyone have any thoughts? Or about slotting it - am thinking 2xAcc (hate missing, especially when you *need* that guy stunned) and then either 2xrecharge or 1xrecharge, 1xdisorient (I have slots free )