Tank Build: Muscle or Armorer?

[Skyep]

Im running a tank build and want to know what is perk deck is easier.

[ZE no-morph]

Muscle
coz 75% panic
pick an lmg , no supressors on any of u r guns

[Thermal Lance]

Armorer.

[dedsir]

crook

[Skyep]

Originally posted by BlindSpot:

Muscle
coz 75% panic
pick an lmg , no supressors on any of u r guns

I go like full tank build so Im basically using minigun and rocket launcher

[Lebhleb]

Originally posted by Unoriginal:

Im running a tank build and want to know what is perk deck is easier.

Both is fun, Muscle provides regen and panic which stuns enemies, plus with jokers its a fun regen.
Armorer gives 300 armor with 2 sec invincibility after it is destroyed [cooldown of 15 sec] and unlike Anarchist it doesn't lower HP, its also cool but it doesn't excel really.

[CEPHY]

Personally I'm going back and forth between Stoic and Anarchist for my tank.

Anarchist is great as long as you have even a bit of armor, but after that you're toast.
Stoic is... taking some getting used to. The damage delay is great but without medkids you're doomed.

[The destoyer of worlsd!!!]

I think Armorer is held in higher regard in general

Also, I'd probably go with Kingpin over Muscle because of the utility of the Injector, but if you didn't get the Scarface Character Pack before legal problems ensued, then whatever

[NeEd4FeEd]

If you are new Armour will give you room for error and help your developing play style then you can transition to anarchist and other amour gating.

Stoic is the ultimate tank but is completely opposite were you need to listen for ticks until you get a feel it and muscle memory and has room for a lot less errors due to DOT but understand that no perk deck will stop you from going down if the lords at Payday want it to be so and your team!

To answer the question Armourer.

[Mustard Seeds]

Muscle can get 600+HP and can tank 2 armour shots with some DR, that's 6 effective hits on DS, paired with hostage taker you're in safe range to heal 200 HP quickly most of the time which is around the damage units should be doing and you can HP tank green dozers.
Downside? expect to be targeted around every corner or the moment you peak.

Armourer on the other hand is only 4 effective shots total even with frenzy, is only great f you know how to armour gate and play passively.
Downside? everything if you can't manage to armour gate consistently the 2 sec invul is more consistent than anarchist and safer to use but since has a long cooldown don't rely on it.

Stoic and kngpin are on the same boat, both are beast when it comes to tanking damage regardless of how you set them up, so if you don't like any of the downsides of muscle or armourer go for any of these.

Originally posted by CEPHY:

Personally I'm going back and forth between Stoic and Anarchist for my tank.
Anarchist is great as long as you have even a bit of armor

Anarchist isn't even an armour deck despite giving a lot, is an armour gating deck.

[Gandalf360one]

The most op one is Stoic.
Anarchist is overrated *caugh *caugh.
Armorer is very nice (can also be played with berserker to be more op).
IF you dont play with berserker you can and should play with stoic > armorer > muscle > other perk decks ( XD ).

[Lanxcapo]

Originally posted by Mustard Seeds:

Anarchist isn't even an armour deck despite giving a lot, is an armour gating deck.

depends, op didn't specify this to be ds or dsod, so if it's dw or lower anarchist can work with an ictv tank set up, why you would use anarchist over armorer at that point is beyond me but it gets the job done well enough

[Mustard Seeds]

Originally posted by lanxcapo:

Originally posted by Mustard Seeds:

Anarchist isn't even an armour deck despite giving a lot, is an armour gating deck.

depends, op didn't specify this to be ds or dsod, so if it's dw or lower anarchist can work with an ictv tank set up, why you would use anarchist over armorer at that point is beyond me but it gets the job done well enough

I mean if we're talking DW has the same exact breakpoints as armourer, biggest difference being in letting you tank one shot more armour shot while armourer is on HP ironic enough, but the regen is way, way slower, if we are talking anything lower than that, then yeah but even suits or LBV decks can get tanky under the right circumstances.

[Marceloid]

Muscle is easier imo.

Grab hostage taker / Iron Man for extra bulkiness.

If you wanna go past DW and tank some stuff, i recommend Kingpin (if you have it) or Stoic!