Adeon Hawkwood

Actually it's 250. While it is pricey it doesn't really bother me. Shivans are easily available as a summon for when the road gets rocky, the HVAS can be reserved for special occasions when a Shivan alone is not enough.

As Cat said only set bonuses and globals stop working, your high level enhancements do get scaled down in effectiveness however (but due to the way the scaling works, slotting low level IOs doesn't really help).
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Exempl...n_Enhancements

Very few. Oh I'm sure people do it from time to time but for any serious marketeer it's unlikely to be a good use of slots.

Conversely though people don't play Kheldians as much because there aren't as many options. They have one primary and one secondary. With dual builds there isn't a lot of incentive to have more than one or two Kheldians in your roster (some people do, but they're the exception not the rule). Conversely every other AT has between 5 and 10 primary powersets and a similar number of secondaries. That means there are a lot more varieties in playstyle which encourages people to have more of each AT (to use an extreme example a FF Def plays very differently to a TA def).

I agree, my AR/Dev Blaster has both Beanbag and Taser and the damage they do is horrible. Clearly they should both do total focus levels of damage since that is their primary purpose. *sigh* Just be glad you have multiple stacking mezzes in your Primary, most Blasters have to rely on a combination of powers from their primary and secondary to mez a boss.

True dat. It also depends a lot on the situation, some items come up rarely enough that if you see one it's often worth paying the buy it nao price. For example last night I purchased a BotZ level 10 Kb reduction at the buy it nao price even though I have no clue what I'm going to do with it. The supply of them is low enough that it's worth buying one when it's up rather than waiting and hoping one is available next time I decide to IO out a squishy character.

No it'does give defense when solo, however I'm not sure what the value is, I thought that it was 3.75% but now I'm not sure. The thread Shadow linked says 2.5%.

In that case it sounds like a bug, you probably should file a bug report.

Ah very cool

I've done that. It only bugs me if it's a reasonably high value item (over 1million at least). The being said I'm still cheap enough to get annoyed about overpaying for common/uncommon salvage even when it makes sense. For example last night I payed 300k for an unquenchable flame and was very irritable about this despite the fact that I know having a 20mil IO up for sale a day earlier is almost always better than trying to save a couple of hundred thousand on salvage.

But some people like platypuses the way they are so it would need to be an alternate form not a direct change.

You made a case for not liking them. Both Lord Mayhem and I have made a case for why we like 'em on our Blasters (for pretty much the same reasons).

I don't know about you but I do not consider a 7% (with slotting) To Hit debuff useless unless you are already soft capped on defense (or teamed with a Dark/Dark defender). Not to mention it can be used to get glowies that are surrounded by enemies. Stealth effects are suppressed when you click a glowie, but if you debuff the enemies perception instead you can get glowies that you wouldn't be able to with stealth alone.

A confuse would be an interesting effect though.

While build up and aim are useful for snipes they aren't required. AR/Dev blasters still benefit from Sniper Rifle despite having neither Aim or Build Up. Also, Dominator snipes do higher damage than blaster ones in partial compensation

If a Kheldian is a liability to the team the problem lies with the player not the AT. I suspect that the liability you're referring to is Cysts, and honestly they're over rated. My Warshade can easily solo a Cyst and my TA/A can if EMP Arrow has recharged. I don't have any high level Scrappers or Tankers but I'm sure a well built scrapper or tanker can solo one easily. As long as everyone leaps in and attacks any halfway competent team should take down a cyst just fine. Remember, cysts don't kill teams, panic and timidity do.

As for them not being unique, how many ATs have the capability to switch from the firepower of a blaster to the resistance of a tanker in 2.03s? Sure, single form Khelds aren't particularly unique since they mostly fill the same role as a Tank/Blaster/Blapper depending on their focus but a dual form Kheld is easy to build and can add flexibility to a team when the going gets tough.