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I always preferred this Blapper playstyle. I've used an all-human build since PB's were introduced and despite all the changes to this class, I still find it to be most effective in pvp.

Nova is great ranged damage but I'm uncomfortable with the fact that all that awesomeness can be erased by one smart guy with a webnade. Dwarf is cool for the extra heal and teleport but ss/sj (and fly as a bonus) provide more than enough mobility in pvp. I know there is no such thing is too much survivability but I've never had the slots to spare to use this option effectively without gimping another area of my build.

The biggest issue for me was the slot crunch that comes with triform. When I make a build I really like to maximize my bonuses and the number of slots in my powers. I could never come up with a triform build that satisfied me. Dividing slots between forms will always leave you vulnerable in one of them and most triforms leave their human form gimped.

Lack of toggles between shifts or a gimped human form is another issue. Triforms become a soft target the moment they shift to use build up, conserve power, essence boost, or reform essence with no toggles up and those moments are guaranteed to come. When I see an enemy triform kheld running around I always take advantage of those moments. The recent form shift time and light form changes make triform a little more viable but they don't change my issues with multiple forms in pvp.

I'm not saying its impossible to make extra forms work because I have seen a few PB's succeed with triform builds. I'm just saying the potential strengths don't outweigh the weaknesses for me.

I was going say I used to do something, but...

Spawn rate is ok, there's a trick to it.

The playerbase didn't approve of it. Many of us were raging about that debuff (along with other things) and it didn't last long. The idea of any dev thinking PB performance was "ok" prior to the changes is more mind boggling to me. I'm just glad the devs are listening to the playerbase again.

I think regens get the most out of this power by instantly recharging the heals and stacking or doubling the duration of IH/MoG. Six straight minutes of T9 powers will be useful for other sets.

I can see this power being kind of useful for builds that have long recharges on key powers. Things like instantly recharging heatloss, dull pain, or hoarfrost for example.

There are still plenty of builds that won't gain much from this power at all.

Inner light can stack which makes it similar to a crashless rage if you have enough recharge. The dmg/tohit values aren't constant for the duration of the buff but they are still decent when they drop. I feel like this is a fair trade for -dmg/-end crashes and the reason why I have to disagree with a rage makeover. Making it clickable in all forms would make sense.

Yes, the new LF has a 50% HP/end crash. You're also correct on the new risk as tracking the LF crashes while fighting mobs. The light form change is going to make people change their playstyle. You're going to want to keep a heal on standby to deal with the crash which means one less heal to use all the time. The crash is going to cause end issues similar to the rage/hasten crashes that SS users deal with.

The goal of the new LF was balancing it to eclipse. After testing this change, I feel like the Dev's found a good balance between those powers.

Yes, Synapse confirmed it on Ustream the other day.

Nerve and Barrier would be the best choices for a defense based character. If you don't think maximizing defense would be useful (and I have no idea why you would), then musculature and rebirth are the standard choices for most PvP characters.

Just an FYI you can stop at T3 with Partial Core Invocation and have perma mez protection. The only difference is the size of the aoe at T4. Some of my friends got T4 when T3 would have been enough to meet their goals.

Ageless and storm elementals at 50. Nothing really from 1-49 except a ton of blues.

It's really simple for me: I use breakfrees and play the character like a Blapper. There's no way to avoid using breakfrees on an all-human build. If you don't want to depend on breakfrees then you should try the hybrid build.

You can't use light form while mezzed.

I've always clicked Dark Extraction to find a UE target since that power targets dead bodies automatically. I'm sure someone else could provide a bind though.

^^^This.

I'm crossing my fingers that CoH Freedom means they may have to address Kheld concerns or risk losing money. New players will hear the playerbase saying "lolkhelds" and they may not be willing to pay real money to try them out. The Dev's might not see the Kheld situation as a big deal but someone from marketing will.

Swap out Starless Step. You will be in melee all the time between inky aspect, pets, heals, eclipse, sunless mire, and the nuke so I doubt you'll have a reason to use tp foe often. You'll have to steal slots from somewhere but its worth it.

Umm, except for Incandescent Strike, the melee animations bear more resemblance to Super Strength, then Energy Melee. Radiant strike is a clone of Jab which means two out of three melee attacks came from SS.

Most PB powers were derived from Super Strength, energy blast, and rad blast. Those sets have alternate animations so most of the work has already been done. I wouldn't be against importing kinetic melee animations as well.

I want seeker AI to be fixed after being broken for 6 years and a recharge reduction. I use seekers as a nuke because the AI is terrible. I would like them to become more like Northern Lights. The Dev's would only change the concept from "zero in on their targets and detonate on impact" to "zero in on their targets, attack, and detonate on impact". The seekers would attack for their duration and detonate as they expire. This would add a simple and useful twist while maintaining the cottage rule. Peacebringer's would pick up the extra pet damage Warshades enjoy and their damage output would probably be more on par with them.