Splatterman

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I haven't played my tanks a lot since ED, but in my limited experience in a team with my L31 Stone/Axe, my role has been to take the alpha strike, and then play scrapper. I can take an alpha strike, as long as the rest of the team immediately follows me in and takes some of the aggro off. I can push out the damage - not as well as a real scrapper, but with Axe my damage is respectable, and the knockdown helps too.

What I can't do any more is take all the aggro, all the time. And if we make a mistake and aggro a second group, I run like everyone else. Tanker's role? A poor man's Phantom Army, useful only for deflecting alpha strikes and doing mediocre damage.


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This would be my finding. I was playing my INV\Ice Tank the other day in a group of 8. If i jumped in, dropped an Ice Patch, jumped back out and let everyone else do thei r jobs it went well. If I stayed in the fight, I got killed.

My Fire\Fire Tank seems to last a longer, but he also has a higher damage output.

The days of moving in a ticking off the entire mob are gone, play smaller groups, and control them better. Success seems to follow that way.

i made a small mistake...

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01 : Blazing Aura dam(01) dam(7) dam(7) acc(9) endred(9) tntdur(15)
02 : Fire Shield damres(02) damres(3) damres(3) endred(50)

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The timing for the last sockets in these two powers need to be swapped.

Here is my I6 Fire\Fire Tanker build.
He is only a few hours old at this point, but working out quite well. I owe a thank you to Dark Phoenix for getting me most of this build done... I made a couple of changes that I like better. He is ED compliant as well.

If you notice that there is not Burn. And Taunt isn't taken until the very last power.

Exported from version 1.5C of CoH Planner
http://joechott.com/coh

Archetype: Tanker
Primary Powers - Ranged : Fiery Aura
Secondary Powers - Support : Fiery Melee

01 : Scorch acc(01)
01 : Blazing Aura dam(01) dam(7) dam(7) acc(9) endred(9) tntdur(15)
02 : Fire Shield damres(02) damres(3) damres(3) endred(50)
04 : Healing Flames recred(04) recred(5) recred(5) hel(17) hel(17) hel(27)
06 : Boxing acc(06)
08 : Consume acc(08) recred(19) recred(21) recred(21) endrec(43) endrec(43)
10 : Combustion dam(10) dam(11) dam(11) recred(13) endred(13) acc(15)
12 : Combat Jumping jmp(12)
14 : Super Jump jmp(14)
16 : Hurdle jmp(16)
18 : Plasma Shield damres(18) damres(19) damres(34) endred(34)
20 : Health hel(20) hel(37) hel(40)
22 : Tough damres(22) damres(23) damres(23) endred(27)
24 : Stamina endrec(24) endrec(25) endrec(25)
26 : Acrobatics endred(26)
28 : Fiery Embrace recred(28) recred(29) recred(29)
30 : Fire Sword Circle dam(30) dam(31) dam(31) recred(31) endred(33) acc(33)
32 : Build Up endred(32) recred(33) thtbuf(34)
35 : Incinerate dam(35) dam(36) dam(36) recred(36) endred(37) acc(37)
38 : Greater Fire Sword dam(38) dam(39) dam(39) recred(39) endred(40) acc(40)
41 : Char acc(41) acc(42) hlddur(42) hlddur(42) recred(43) recred(45)
44 : Fireblast dam(44) dam(45) dam(45) recred(46) endred(46) acc(46)
47 : Fireball dam(47) dam(48) dam(48) recred(48) endred(50) acc(50)
49 : Taunt tntdur(49)

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01 : Brawl Empty(01)
01 : Sprint Empty(01)
02 : Rest Empty(02)

I hope that this helps.

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* Steel Canyon: The Hellions are living up to their name and have taken to arson.
* Skyway City: The Trolls start a Rave (Troll-style) when they find a new supply of Superadine.




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Great ideas, but of all the places to torch, why steel canyon. I'm fairly sure everyone would much rather see Perez burning (all of it)

Maybe you could do that as a world event some time, and set the whole of perez on fire


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But if Perez was on fire would you really try to put out the fire?

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If Perez was on fire I would come in, put down my big a!*ed radio and start dancing, maybe try to get some kind of a Perez is Burning freaky rave\dance party thing going... and beat up anyone that tried to put it out.