Dechs Kaison

I'm not as good with human form builds as I am with triform (MFing Warshades), and I don't have mids with me here at work to give you a thorough analysis, but I do see a few things that jump out at me.

Health shouldn't need more than one slot, but at the very least you should drop the third slot, as it is largely wasted thanks to the ED cap and further by your Spiritual Alpha. The same thing goes for Hasten; that third slot is really wasted.

I really don't like to see Stygian Circle slotted for heal. It will already fully heal you off of a Boss or just two minions, if I'm not mistaken. Endurance Modification gives you the most return out of the power. Endurance reduction is important (so you can fire it easier after a Quasar), as well as recharge. You do get a little heal enhancement from your Spiritual Alpha.

I think you're trying to build a little defense, but I don't see the Steadfast +3% defense IO in there. Again, it's hard for me to tell since I don't have mids here.

You can slot Eclipse a lot more efficiently. Use any two Acc/Rchg from endurance mod sets, then any two Res/Rchg. Add one more slot for common Resistance. You should now have great accuracy, capped recharge, and a lot more resistance enhancement in just five slots.

I don't see Quasar anywhere. That makes me sad.

Overall it's pretty good. I've made a couple minor changes. I don't think you need the extra slot in tactics, you'll rarely turn the power on, and next to Mire buffs, the 2% damage bonus is pretty much worthless. I'd like to see some accuracy in Sunless Mire and some in Eclipse as well. I'd also like to see some more enhancement in Dwarf Mire, as you'll want some damage and recharge in it. I took two enhancements out of Stamina; you really don't need any recovery since you have Stygian Circle, and the free stamina + proc is more than enough extra. I changed the generic end mod in Stygian Circle to the Eff. Adapter End mod; that doesn't change the enhancement value, but it gives you some bonus HP. I also stole a slot from Vengeance for Dwarf Mire.

If you haven't seen it, I suggest you give the guide in my signature a read. It's meant for the tri-form warshades out there, and I'm told it has a lot of good information. I cover everything from tactics to enhancements.

Ok, I would put the purple set in Dwarf Mire as opposed to the human one. It recharges faster, so you get more chances for the proc to fire, and it hits harder, so the enhancement value does more for you.

The best fluffy slotting I've been able to find is four Expedient Reinforcement and the DMG/RCHG from the purple set and the purple proc if you can fit it.

For more general slotting advice from my guide:

Bill, I'd be behind this 1000%.

No, that's not a typo.

I've run exactly five Ice Mistrals this week. One of them had a bugged mob because we knocked her through a wall. The GM responded in less than five minutes.

Any tank with hover and taunt.

Praetoria is the perfect world.

In the perfect world, the Devs didn't design the train wreck that became kheldians.

Cole used his awesome Well powers to eradicate all traces of kheldians from his dimension.

That's just my speculation.

*Casts Mortimer's Thread Revival III*

Seriously, I have an epic tale that feeds my ego.

This week's WTF was Ice Mistral and my Dark Armor tank needed a Notice of the Well, so I rounded up as many people as I could find (turned out to be a team of six) and we started steamrolling while still being set for x8. There was a pain corruptor, a willpower brute, a thugs/arrow mastermind, and another corruptor. There was someone else but I can't even remember the AT. Things were going great right up until the fight with Archus.

For those of you who aren't familiar with the SF, Archus is a CoT mage who starts to summon ambushes of Behemoth LTs as his health wanes. We dropped him to about a quarter of his hit points, which spawns the last of three ambush waves, before people started dying. It wasn't really the ambushes, though, that killed people. We had "stealthed" to Archus and maybe pissed some mages off along the way, because three or four regular spawns of mages had caught up to us at that time.

Anyway, the moment of epic scrapperlock hit when I failed as a tank and the rest of the team was dead. Of the others, the brute went down last and it was then people started teleporting out to the hospital while I fought what bosses got priority through the aggro cap. I could count six Succubi and at least three Death Mages. Let me just say that confusion makes using Dark Regeneration a little hard.

Regardless, through confusion, placcates, and sheer inability to click on the target I wanted, I fought my way through that entire crowd. I used Eye of the Magus. That wore off. I fought for a little while longer as my health steadily fell. I popped a few orange pills to get back into a pattern of gaining more health than I was losing. They wore off. I'm down to three Succubi when I notice the team has started to zone into the mission map together. Rather than risk another charlie foxtrot, they fought their way to back to me in time to help me with the last Succubus and a few Behemoths that were still standing. Once that mess was clear, we turned back to Archus, who had regenerated back to full health. A minute later, the SF was complete.

Mind you, this solo battle against 9 CoT bosses and endless LTs was at level 40. I was missing my top two power picks, my cardiac boost and my level shift. Yeah... Dark Armor Sucks.



So anyway, with all this WTF madness going about, one of you has to have an equally epic tale. Let's hear 'em!

Riveting tale, chap.

I once did a similar thing with a Necro/Thermal, with everything colored to a light blue-green-ish "spirit fire." Worked out really well, but the concept never really took off.

If you're going to be multiplying these Judgment Nukes by eight, then be sure to do the same for the other powers. Those interface debuffs will reach full stacks right away. Eight people alternating Destiny powers will negate the need for buffs. Why take anything but blasters if you can softcap and have heavy resistance buffs, and be able to stack -res and -regen on the AVs full time?

Incarnate powers are going to trivialize content, not team roles or ATs. Anyone running a full set Very Rare abilities is going to be a god in our normal content. That's why the raids are going to get much harder. We're going to get trials that require these abilities. You're going to need the blasters on your team buffing your tank with Destiny so he can survive. You're going to need the controller nuking every 90 seconds because your team won't have enough damage otherwise. The blaster is still going to be doing more damage than anyone else on the team, he's still going to be as needed as he is now.

To get the most damage you want Shield/SS with massive recharge. Double stacked rage and full AAO is looking at a permanent ~250% damage bonus. With enhancements on top, you've reached the damage cap (Don't forget that damage enhancements are included in the 300% damage cap).

Considering you're a willpower/SS, you're only going to have 160% damage bonus from double stacked rage. Global damage bonuses are stupid small. If you managed to get 5 of the largest without going into purples, you get 15% damage. Yes, that's on all the time, but it's a bit overshadowed by the 160% I mentioned earlier.