Tanker

Tanker
Primary	Defense
Secondary	Melee
Inherent	Gauntlet
Base HP	1874.1
Max HP	3212.7
Primary Sets	8
Secondary Sets	10
Epic Power Pools	4
Modifiers (at level 50)    Melee Ranged Damage Scale 0.800 0.500 Defense Buff 0.100 0.650 Damage Buff 0.100 0.700 Max HP Buff 0.125 0.700 ToHit Buff 0.100 0.700 Defense Debuff 0.700 0.700 Damage Debuff 0.700 0.700 ToHit Debuff 0.700 0.700 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 Damage Resist 0.100 0.065 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 400% 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.

Alignment: Hero

The Tanker's power sets are:

Primary: Defense
Secondary: Melee

The Tanker has High Hit Points and Medium Damage.

Power Sets

Primary Power Sets

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

• Dark Armor
• Electric Armor
• Fiery Aura
• Ice Armor
• Invulnerability
• Shield Defense
• Stone Armor
• Willpower

Secondary Power Sets

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

• Battle Axe
• Dark Melee
• Dual Blades
• Electrical Melee
• Energy Melee
• Fiery Melee
• Ice Melee
• Stone Melee
• Super Strength
• War Mace

Ancillary Power Pools

• Arctic Mastery
• Earth Mastery
• Energy Mastery
• Pyre Mastery

Inherent Powers

• Gauntlet

Historical

This section contains information about changes that took place in City of Heroes: Rebirth. The content provided may refer to City of Heroes Freedom. It is provided for historical purposes.

• 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.

See Also

• 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