Possible New Main, Shield Defense & Fiery Melee Tanker

So I got Titan Icon working.. I didn't really play around with it too much because as expected, I was getting really sad and nostalgic and decided to play some Sims 3 instead. Making houses and buying really nice things for my fake houses do make me feel better. I'll spend a bit more time in the Icon another day. I guess I just wasn't ready for all the feels.

In the meantime, building out hypothetical characters isn't too bad of an activity as opposed to reconstructing the costumes of my old characters, since the hypothetical character never really existed for me to get nostalgic over. At any rate, when the game comes back, I have a new possible Main ready to go: Shield Defense and Fiery Melee Tanker - name to be determined.

Since she's the main, she will be stacked to the gills with IOs, no expenses spared.

Here are the power selections. 

Just a note, "Active Defenses" is really easy to 

I have played both SD and FM in Tanker, Brute, and Scrapper capacities before, but not these particular sets together. Since I know I have enjoyed each power set before, I feel like they would be a great combination for my possible New Main.

I want something sturdy and with enough damage so that I can solo if needed while leveling up. I love me my area of effect attacks, so there's a no brainer on the power choices, really.

Someone else's video w/ the same Primary and Secondary in action. 

***DROOLS***

SD is just a set that is not too hard to soft cap, though that was not a particular goal in this build. The focus is to be well rounded in solo (easy +1x8) and teaming situations. I suppose, depending on how things go, I might decide to soft-cap (45%) the defenses later... and/or share it in another post.

This is with the "One with the Shield" power up. Lots of resists. 

But of course, you can't enhance it for recharge, so there's really no way to get it to perma. Oh well. 

And here were go with just the usual toggles up. 

Not too shabby still. 

Also another thing to consider is that she has a lot of attacks for a Tanker with surplus of attacks beyond the attack chain. If I were to attempt to soft-cap her defenses, the Greater Fire Sword will go away (Incinerate wins out in the DPS vs GFS, if you're wondering). I did sort of build her to have the last 3 powers and the corresponding slots to be flexible in the power selections. Otherwise, most everything will kind of stay the same, I think.

As for her background, I've decided that her origin will be Technology based... the Fiery Melee powers is a part of the Shield which is an artifact from the future that this character found somehow. Yeah, boring. Whatever. I'm just working on the fly here! Also, of course, this character will be a female.

I wish I can play her already!...

Download Mid's Data Link for the New Main