Tanker

Tanker
Primary	Defense
Secondary	Melee
Inherent	Gauntlet
Base HP	1874.1
Max HP	3534
Primary Sets	11
Secondary Sets	22
Epic Power Pools	10
Modifiers (at level 50)   Melee Ranged Damage Scale 0.950 0.800 Damage Buff 0.100 0.100 Defense Buff 0.100 0.075 Resist Buff 0.100 0.075 ToHit Buff 0.100 0.100 Damage Debuff 0.070 0.100 Defense Debuff 0.070 0.070 Resist Debuff 0.080 0.075 ToHit Debuff 0.070 0.100 EndMod 1.000 1.000 Fear 1.490 1.490 Heal Other 96.381 96.381 Heal Self 187.407 Immobilize 1.192 1.192 Knockback 2.596 2.596 Sleep 1.192 1.192 Slow 0.800 0.800 Stun 1.192 1.192 Taunt 2.050 2.050 Threat Level 4.0 4.0
Limits (at level 50)   Max Min Damage Resistance 90% -300% Status Resistance 10,001.01% -300% Status Protection N/A N/A Damage 500% 10% Defense 225.05% -100% ToHit 200.35% -100% Recharge Rate 400% -75% Regeneration 2500% 0% Recovery 500% 0% Stealth (PvE) 200 ft -180 ft Stealth (PvP) 571.5 ft -180 ft Perception 1260.6 ft 0 ft Range 500% 25%

Overview

The Tanker can take it and dish it out all at once. The Tanker primarily can absorb vast amounts of damage, and hold his own in a fist fight. But the Tanker lacks any long range punch. The Tanker would prefer just to charge straight ahead anyway.

The Tanker's power sets are:

Primary: Defense
Secondary: Melee

Tanker Stats

Survivability

10

Melee Damage

7

Ranged Damage

2

Crowd Control

5

Support

3

Pets

2

Power Sets

Primary Power Sets

A Tanker's primary power sets are designed specifically for defense. They are:

• Bio Armor
• Dark Armor
• Electric Armor
• Fiery Aura
• Ice Armor
• Invulnerability
• Radiation Armor
• Shield Defense
• Stone Armor
• Super Reflexes
• Willpower

Secondary Power Sets

A Tanker's secondary power sets are designed for melee. They are:

• Battle Axe
• Broad Sword
• Claws
• Dark Melee
• Dual Blades
• Electrical Melee
• Energy Melee
• Fiery Melee
• Ice Melee
• Katana
• Kinetic Melee
• Martial Arts
• Psionic Melee
• Radiation Melee
• Savage Melee
• Spines
• Staff Fighting
• Stone Melee
• Street Justice
• Super Strength
• Titan Weapons
• War Mace

Ancillary Power Pools

• Dark Mastery
• Earth Mastery
• Energy Mastery
• Fire Mastery
• Ice Mastery
• Psionic Mastery

Patron Power Pools

• Leviathan Mastery
• Mace Mastery
• Mu Mastery
• Soul Mastery

* Patron Power Pools require villain alignment to obtain.

Inherent Powers

• Gauntlet taunts the target of Tankers' attacks and enemies nearby, increases the Radius of most AoEs by 50% and the target cap from 10 to 16, and the Arc of most Cones by 50% and the target cap from 6 to 10.

Historical

This section contains information about changes that took place in Homecoming: City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes.

• Tankers have been in the game since Issue 0, originally a City of Heroes archetype. Their original primary powersets were Fiery Aura, Ice Armor, Invulnerability, and Stone Armor. Their original secondary powersets were Battle Axe, Energy Melee, Fiery Melee, Ice Melee, Stone Melee, Super Strength, and War Mace.
• Arctic Mastery, Earth Mastery, Energy Mastery and Pyre Mastery were added to the game in Issue 3.
• Dual Blades and Willpower were added to the game in Issue 11.
• Dark Armor and Dark Melee were proliferated to Tankers in Issue 12.
• Shield Defense was added to the game in Issue 13.
• Electric Armor and Electrical Melee were proliferated to Tankers in Issue 16.
• Kinetic Melee was added to the game with Going Rogue.
• Bruising was added to the Tier 1 power of all secondary power sets for Tankers in Issue 18.
• The Patron Power Pools were made available to Tankers in Issue 18.
• Super Reflexes and Martial Arts were proliferated to Tankers in Issue 21.
• Street Justice was added to the game on October 4, 2011.
• Titan Weapons was added to the game on December 6, 2011.
• Staff Fighting was added to the game on April 17, 2012.
• Bio Armor, Psionic Melee, Radiation Armor, Radiation Melee, and Savage Melee were added to the game in Issue 25.
• Claws, Katana, and Spines were proliferated to Tankers in Issue 25.
• Bruising was removed, Gauntlet was redesigned, and Tanker Damage Scale and Damage Cap were increased in Issue 26, Page 4.

See Also

• Archetypes
• Tanker Strategy
• Scranker

External Links

• Summary and Analysis of Tanker powersets
• Archetypes documentation on official City of Heroes site
• Official City of Heroes Manual as a zipped PDF file