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Originally Posted by AlienOne

Here's to hoping i16 will change that in the purples dept.

Originally Posted by AlienOne

1. Take off penumbral Shield and Twilight Shield.

No real reason to have these powers if you're goig to be blasting in nova form for the damage spikes. I've found that the more toggles you have to activate every time you switch forms, the more aggravating and bothersome it's going to be for you. Besides that, the more time you're spending activating toggles, the less time you're spending doing damage. If you're planning on spending a lot of time in human form, and then switching to nova last second for the last few "pop, pop, they're dead" hits, you need to invest a few more slots in the human form powers. If you're spending more time in nova form, you don't need those extra shields, obviously.

2. Building on the first point--since you're using the other forms (nova and dwarf), There are some other power picks here that are of basically no use to you. Health and Stamina are a couple. They don't carry over into nova or dwarf form. They ONLY benefit human form, and if you're not spending any significant amount of time in human, then there's no use for you to have those powers. Dwarf and Nova have their own built-in endurance recovery, and you can slot for that.

3. Nice slotting on Quasar (I don't personally use it for various reasons that I'll expand on in my upcoming human-form WS guide), but it's a great hi-damage power that you can take for a tri-form, and one that I most certainly would not discourage anyone from taking. However, you're forgetting Unchain Essence! You gotta slot that up some more... That's your "mini nuke," only you don't have to worry about a large end drain with that one! Number 3 on my "top 5 fav powers on a WS" list. Slot that junk up.

4. Dark Extraction is some great added damage for you even while you're in nova and dwarf form. Definitely slot that up more... You should be able to have two up at all times (sometimes three for a short time, depending on your global recharge), and they can constantly be pounding away at the enemy while you do what you need to do in any of the 3 forms. Very important power to slot up.

5. Waiting 20 seconds for Stygian Circle to recharge? Not good, my man... 6-slot that junk. Get it up as often as possible, and (personal preference) I'd personally put end mods in it rather than heals, because its heals are already pretty large--larger than your endurance recovery if you don't put some end modifiers in it. In my SC, I have 2 recharge IOs, and 4 Performance Shifters. My recharge on it is less than 9 seconds, and if in the vicinity of only 3 dead bodies, you can recover 240% health and 118% Endurance. Without a single heal slotted in it.


6. Eclipse. You need to put a lot of love into that power. It's your bread & butter for survival, and you need to have that thing recharging as often as possible (much like Stygian Circle). I have 2 recharge IOs in mine, and 4-slotted Impervium Armor. My recharge on Eclipse is 84.7 seconds, and it will add over 50% MORE resistance to all categories when only hitting 3 enemies. This is easily enough to cap out smashing and lethal resistances, and usually gets the rest of your resistances up to around 55% to 70%, depending on which category it is. Add 1 more enemy in the mix, and you're nearly capped on everything.