Critique my tank please :]

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Well here he is, T.A.N.K.

My hopes for him are to hopefully be the aggro holder for the group, I know I didn't take presence as a SS but I'm hoping to make that up with equipment.

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TANK: Level 40 Champion

Superstats:
Level 5: Super Strength
Level 13: Super Constitution

Powers:
Level 1: Wrist Bolter
Level 1: Beatdown
Level 5: Defiance -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 5: Teleport -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 8: Mighty Leap
Level 11: Empathic Healing -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 14: Retaliation
Level 17: Enrage -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 20: Demolish -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 23: Shockwave -- Rank 2, Rank 3, Challenging Strikes
Level 26: Unbreakable -- Better You Than Me, Rank 2
Level 29: Nanobot Swarm
Level 32: Shadow Shroud -- Rank 2
Level 35: Field Drones -- Rank 2, Rank 3
Level 35: Acrobatics -- Rank 2
Level 38: Hurl -- Rubble Trouble

Talents:
Level 1: Superhuman
Level 6: Mighty
Level 9: Enduring
Level 12: Physical Conditioning
Level 15: Shrug It Off
Level 18: Intimidating
Level 21: Impressive Physique

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Thoughts:

emPathetic healing: No. Damage interrupts it, has cooldown. You'll want Arcane Vitality or Psionic Healing.

Retaliation: from a pure tanking stand point, you'd be better served with Energy Shield (with energy knight upgrade) or Force Shield (with Force Sheath upgrade).

Field Drones: nerfed now. Not ideal before, less ideal now. They can feel free to wander off and heal other things. And if they are by you, well, you're here to tank, which means AoEs are focused on you and they get chewed up, leading them to heal each other and...well, they got nerfed. You'd be better served with Resurgence as an emergency heal.

Overall, think there's a few areas that could use some work.

Gut feeling says you will lack AoE threat as well. You essentially have Shockwave, which has a 15s recharge. I'd look for something that doesn't have a recharge, has a good radius, and can take challenging strikes. Ego Sprites is a good one.

No defensive combo. Useful for building up defiance stacks, which is probably a good thing if you want to use Enrage.

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I didn't like defiance for my tanking toons, rather I selected Invul.

An interesting note, in the power house you can get defiance buffs by using defensive combo. I don't know if they stack, but it might be worth the play time to work out.

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Thoughts:

emPathetic healing: No. Damage interrupts it, has cooldown. You'll want Arcane Vitality or Psionic Healing.

Retaliation: from a pure tanking stand point, you'd be better served with Energy Shield (with energy knight upgrade) or Force Shield (with Force Sheath upgrade).

Field Drones: nerfed now. Not ideal before, less ideal now. They can feel free to wander off and heal other things. And if they are by you, well, you're here to tank, which means AoEs are focused on you and they get chewed up, leading them to heal each other and...well, they got nerfed. You'd be better served with Resurgence as an emergency heal.

Overall, think there's a few areas that could use some work.

Gut feeling says you will lack AoE threat as well. You essentially have Shockwave, which has a 15s recharge. I'd look for something that doesn't have a recharge, has a good radius, and can take challenging strikes. Ego Sprites is a good one.

No defensive combo. Useful for building up defiance stacks, which is probably a good thing if you want to use Enrage.
Well for the 15s recharge I was hoping that's were Nanobot Swarm would come into play, id basically be spamming that as often as I could.

Thanks for the ideas though, I'll take that into consideration.

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Well for the 15s recharge I was hoping that's were Nanobot Swarm would come into play, id basically be spamming that as often as I could.

6s for Pathetic Healing. Problem is...you want to tank. It interrupts on damage. These 2 things do not go together. And even if you didn't want to tank, given the nature of healing aggro in this game, Pathetic healing just isn't good. You want to go with either Arcane Vitality (the maintained heal from sorcery) or Psionic Healing (the heal worth taking from Telepathy).

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6s for Pathetic Healing. Problem is...you want to tank. It interrupts on damage. These 2 things do not go together. And even if you didn't want to tank, given the nature of healing aggro in this game, Pathetic healing just isn't good. You want to go with either Arcane Vitality (the maintained heal from sorcery) or Psionic Healing (the heal worth taking from Telepathy).

Yeah I'd definitely not going to get that healing, I wasn't aware of the interrupt on it, which sucks eggs.