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That is good information about the Panacea Proc Valiance working on everyone in a 30ft range of you, however my selfish side is going to come out and ask, "Why would you do that, especially as a tanker?".

I typically slap the Panacea proc in a "Health" slot at level 10.  The +HP/+END helps out a ton at the low end levels (if I am updating an older level 50 since it is a PVP set you can slap it in Health at 50 and it will continue to work at level 10).

If you put it in Valiance a power that you can at best get at level 44 (I think) then once you drop down in levels to do TFs or other things that can gain you merits you lose the proc because you lose access to the power.

Now if you are playing a character you never drop down in levels on then I guess that is a good place to drop it, but from my own personal stand point I don't see the benefit of dropping it in a level 44 power.

So with 4 powers with +5 slots each, you're already over 40% Resistance Energy, which would not be bad for a Dark Armor build. You could then use additional set bonuses from other powers to increase that amount even higher ... and that's before including (Superior) Might of the Tanker procs for +Resistance into the mix.

Currently my Dark Armor/Dark Melee tank is sitting at 75% Energy Resist (when Superior Might of the Tanker procs it jumps to 80%), and again that is good enough to be MT at trials with (I've done it with him before).  I have unfortunately put him on the back burner and do not play him often because I just find Dark Melee to be....clunky.  I'm not a fan of it.  I know it has some very good debuffs, but again, I just don't like it.

I think all tanks can be viable, well except for my Willpower/MA tank, that one dies more than my others when I have MT trials with it.

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Sure, it would be NICE to be able to get to 90% Resist S/L, E/N, F/C and T/P (if practical) ... but is it always absolutely necessary (or GTFO)?

Nah, getting to 90% isn't required.  My fire tanker "Scoria" who has MT'd a fair number of trials is 90%vs S/L, 82%vs Energy, and 47% vs Toxic/Psi (Psi really only comes into play in MoM trial).  In UG there is a lot of toxic damage so I am constantly pushing my self heal that also adds Toxic Resist (even when I'm at full health I'll keep popping it off).

During the "MoM" Trial I do have to pick up some extra resist enhancers for when I'm pulling Penny and getting her set up.

Now my Electric Armor tanker, she is pretty good in all her resists except for one.  Toxic.  That sits at a lowly 25%, so I had to come up with a more permanent way of correcting that.  As it stands she is the only tank that I have Force Barrier, but with all the Toxic damage in UG that was the best option to "fill the hole".  But again, I've MT'd UG (which IMO is the most "dangerous" of the trials), with her more than a few times without issues.

And I had to split the images.  *sigh*

Ok, one thing I noticed is I am not 90%vs cold, only 86% (NBD).

The key to these numbers is having "Superior Might of the Tanker" +Res Proc in the power Irradiated Ground.  Since Irradiated Ground is a "pseudo" pet it procs constantly.  I am always at 2 procs (as you can see in the photos) and am at 3 procs quite often (which then gets my Cold resists max and Neg and Psionic resists up to 80%).

I am not running Cardiac or Resilient in my Alpha slot.  If I did, then I would be even closer to max, but as Kismet said I am at max resists as it stands for 90% of the game/trials.  Why waste the Incan slot on a few points in Neg and Psi when they don't have much of an impact.

RA's sustain is good (better than DA's for sure) (I have corrected that part in my build description).

After some testing around with Radiation Armor Secondary and checking some different builds by other people i still do not get the resistances Atom mentioned.  Unless someone has a template that covers the weak spots in the resistances Cold, Negative and Psionic i will still favour DA over RA. I also found that i like working with DA better as slotting is more straight forward.

 

Mids doesn't show what the true numbers are in game for Atom.  So I took a couple pics (hopefully you can read them, had to shrink them down quite a bit to meet the requirements of this board).  Just Atom standing around in  Ouro.

[Both are endurance hungry but Dark Armor provides you with endurance debuff resistance, meaning that it is unlikely that you drop toggles (which keep you alive) due to some mobs sapping you.]

b) Dark Armor as Primary
Dark Armor has the highest resistances outside of Stone Armor. Without the not-being-able-to-move-about-part. After that it is Radiation Armor. Both are endurance hungry but Dark Armor provides you with endurance debuff resistance, meaning that it is unlikely that you drop toggles (which keep you alive) due to some mobs sapping you. It also has a great heal at a decent cooldown.

Ok, I'm going to call BS on this one.  Rad Armor is not endurance hungry.  It has one of the best endurance recovery powers in game, Gamma Boost, that you get at an extremely low level. 

Right now at 50 my Rad/Rad Tanker "Atom Bomb" sits at a Recovery Rate of 5.67 end/sec with a Debuff Resistance: Recovery Resistance of 86% (which all the resistance is coming from Gamma Boost, I don't have a single endurance resistance enhancer in my build).  Throw in all the endurance he gets back from the various enhancer "Procs" and he has endurance for days.  The only time I have endurance issues is when I get hit by the Hamidon's unresistable endurance drain. 

Additionally as for Dark having the 2nd highest resists, again I'd have to say it is in all how you build it.  Right now Atom Bomb is sitting at 90% vs everything except Negative and Psionic and both those are sitting at 75% each.  This isn't a competition because in the long run a few resists points here or there don't make a huge difference, but to make a statement that Dark resists are the 2nd best in game flat out, is incorrect.