Tsuji

Yeah, but I always imagined they were just a bunch of people damaging each other while spamming heals. I can't think of any healing pets I've had, though it must be something in praetoria since I definitely saw it before ever having a pet from a mission in paragon

You'll almost certainly need to use mace or ice for defense if you want capped def and perma dom, and if he gets it villain side then moves to hero side he can stilll use mace.

For damage I'm pretty sure fire is better, but with psi you can help debuff AVs and monsters regen with drain psyche and can debuff their recharge too. So he should probably just pick the one he likes the look of more.

Wow, you even used an image just to highlight how you can't read...

Overall I don't think the PPPs are too useful for widows, but if I were gonna pick one i'd go with soul mastery or leviathan mastery. Soul has a -damage toggle which will help mitigate the big hits, while leviathan has a nice debuff you can fire off so that your AoE damage is still good even without crits.

It's still worth it, it's just not as great as it is for a scrapper.

I dn't have it, but I do have the city traveler thing....But all the first powers are so useful that I always take them anyway. But since I have more freedom I can do things like take combat jumping instead of hover, then afterwards take fly. You don't lose all that much without ninja run. I dn't actually see all that many people ninja running either. You just have to remember most of hte people on the forums are more hardcore players, so a higher percentage buy things like ninja run, and therefore make their builds including it.

Yeah, it's almost comical. I asked my friend why he picked stone melee and didn't try out kinetic melee for a brute he was taking to 20 then abandoning, and he told me he couldn't handle kinetic melee's long animations....

What? Really?

Well, first off, I'm not whining and don't think it's particularly mature to insult me because I have a different view about willpower than you do. I don't think that you bothered to read my sig before insulting me to show everybody how awesome you are since I have a number of non-50 WP tanks. I don't even have a 50 WP, I just started one for GR.

The 350hp/sec thing is just flat out not true, and you DEFINITELY aren't getting that much passive, so let's put that one aside.

The resists aren't what I'd call strong, shields has higher resists to all but S/L, so the non-psy exotic resists are like ice's damage debuff, although they affect all enemies rather than those hit by chilling embrace. They are passive, like you said.

I'm not sure the end regen being passive vs active makes much of a difference; the real question is how well it works. For instance, drain psyche isn't passive, yet it's amazing end regen. Hit one enemy and your end problems are solved until it drops. I literally ran all the leadership toggles and arctic air while leveling my ice/psi dom and never took stamina. But QR on its own doesn't remove end concerns. It does make end concerns better like stamina, but I'm not sure "it's passive" is a particularly huge benefit for a tanker as compared to a damage AT. I'm not sure whether it's enough to completely solve end concerns on its own or not; I'm going to try not taking stamina on mine and see where it gets me.

People make a big deal about the +perception and the exotic mez protection, but the question is WHERE do those even matter? When's the last time you actually saw fear, confuse, or repel in PvE? I figured we'd see more of it in praetoria, given that it was intended to be more difficult, but I don't recall seeing it anywhere. The only place it's useful is AE content. As for +perception, it's useful on the scrappers and etc. but I can't see it being particularly useful on a regen tanker given that as soon as you get hit you can see whoever hit you. You're a tank, so in theory they're all attacking you already.

Next, willpower DOES have weaknesses. -recharge makes you lose most of your aggro, and regardless of quick recovery willpower still has a weakness to endurance drain, just like most tank sets. It also doesn't have huge non-SL resists, so sudden bursts of exotic damage can still take you down. Beyond that, I think we just have a different opinion of how significant the damage type "weaknesses" in the other sets are. I think they're not particularly significant, and you disagree.

I don't think willpower's taunt aura weakness is disclosed up front unless you check the detailed info really closely. At least most of the WP tankers i've met who didn't read the forums didn't really know why it was hard to keep aggro, and I didn't really read the power descriptions since I already knew what they did.

I don't think it's a particularly good argument that willpower should be weaker at aggro generation because it's the set for people who want to attack things; you've already got shield and fire, both of which are much more heavily offensive sets and both of which have a strong taunt aura. If you want to attack and do damage be one of them, that's what they're there for.

I also think that having an aggro management weakness for the set compared to other tankers is alright, but that at the moment it's just TOO weak. Regardless of the aggro management weakness, if you go all out you should be able to hold aggro better than any non-tanker AT. They should not be able to steal aggro from you IF you're going balls to the wall. As soon as they do, the tanker, in the current game, becomes the worst AT option in the game. Low damage and its only damage multiplying skill is a single target resist debuff.

But I think half the sets have pretty good utility that they don't sacrifice aggro control for. The main thing Willpower gets is the extra endurance. But it's not the only set with utility. Fire has consume (newly buffed version) and of course the damage, though it sacrifices survivability for that damage. Invulnerability has invincibility's tohit bonus; I've used it to avoid slotting acc, so I know how valuable that is for attacks. Shield has AAO and of course can also buff defense. Ice has energy absorption which handles endurance issues about as well as quick recovery does, I think.

So why is willpower the only one sacrificing its aggro generation capability for its utility? The self rez? I love the self rez, but don't make me laugh.

Is the ability to have no significant damage type weaknesses that strong? Given that I've played fire and ice tanks, which both have a big weakness to two types of damage I'd say....No, not really. Not the way CoH is setup right now. It COULD be worth it, in theory, but there's no content in the game where this advantage is particularly game breaking.

You can use purples to make up for damage weaknesses, but you can't use an inspiration to hold aggro.