Tanker

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.

Faction: 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 (Issue 12)
• Fiery Aura
• Ice Armor
• Invulnerability
• Shield Defense (Issue 13)
• Stone Armor
• Willpower (Issue 11)

Secondary Power Sets

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

• Battle Axe
• Dark Melee (Issue 12)
• Dual Blades (Issue 11)
• 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

See Also

• Tanker Strategy

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