Dechs Kaison

Oh, in that case, can't you just move the window off screen? Drag it down near the bottom so the tab is still there for you to pull back up later.

Either that or just take the half merits and switch to a different character before running your third raid next time.

You bet your hindtentacles it is.

Just wait until you pick up Stygian Return. It practically begs you to get in over your head.

I ran an Apex last night as my 'shade and he had just as many defeats as the rest of the team combined because I couldn't be bothered with waiting for teammates to catch up to me. I did not, however, spend any time in the dirt. Defeat just meant I got a free health/endurance refill and 10 seconds of invulnerability.

He should get used to it.

He is a peacebringer, after all.

Group Fly's problems:

Prohibitive endurance cost.
Absurdly high -tohit penalty.
Flight mode (and -tohit penalty) enforced on all members in the very large area, prohibiting some powers from being used (e.g. Footstomp, Grounded) and making the use of others difficult (e.g. All Traps).
As a group travel power, it is impractical. Easily obtainable temporary jetpacks are as fast and provide more freedom, as they do not drop you if you are not following close enough or lag out.

My proposal:

These changes address many of Group Fly's problems and make it a usable power. What this doesn't do is make it a practical travel power. Seeing as it isn't one right now and that there is no use for a group travel power, I don't think that's a problem.

Group Hover, as I'm calling it, would become a combat power, an excellent tool for support characters to keep their teams safe. The proposed defense bonus is less than Maneuvers. It's equal to that of Hover, but scales off of the ally buff modifier. The smaller radius is to allow use of this power without filling up a room, which means people who don't want to fly don't have to.

Thoughts?

I agree, but I'd like to mention this is a dangerous road to start down. If build up is accessible in nova, why not also in dwarf? And if build up works in forms, why not let warshades use Sunless Mire in forms? What other powers should be usable in forms? Heals? Shields? Stygian Circle? Light Form? Eclipse?

I will say that I don't agree with light form locking you out of forms. I don't think you should be able to activate it while in a form, but it should bloody well carry over into them. Eclipse does, and that's not entirely game breaking...

Group fly is outdated. It has no benefit that cannot be provided by temporary powers. Further, its benefit is far outweighed by its penalties.

Here's my idea for Group Fly: Call it Group Hover, remove the -tohit and make it so everyone near you gains flight at hover speeds and a defense bonus on the order of maneuvers. Make the radius a bit smaller than it is now. This will allow group fly users to set up a sphere of protection that doesn't fill the room. People who want to hover under the safety cushion can, while melee people (particularly footstomping ones) can stay on the ground.

You know, this is a unique way to look at it, but I certainly agree.

Both, actually. About half the value is "suppressed" when you are no longer hidden, but the other half if always active. I'm unsure on the exact numbers right now.

The only dumb questions are ones you don't ask.

Just last night I sent this over the Virtue TFs channel:

"Apex with room for three. Tank or a brute would be nice. So would a controller/defender/corruptor/MM. Or a dominator/blaster/scrapper/stalker. Could also make use for another kheldian or a SoA."



STF, LRSF, Apex, Tin Mage, Shard or Synapse TFs... my rules haven't changed.

Any build, any budget, no exclusions.

I believe he's referring to the fact that Inv can be endurance drained. This is only a problem in pretty rare circumstances, but the hole is there. 25% resistance to endurance drain and -recovery is nice, but not enough to keep your blue bar alive when you're being sapped.

Then again, the sapping effect has to actually hit you to work, and Inv comes with a lot of defense.

Then again again, WP has no resistance to endurance drain at all. It has a lot of +recovery, but that definitely isn't enough when you're hit with -end.

Gah, I did forget this; it completely slipped my mind. Yes, do this. By the time you've finished killing the minions in dwarf form it should be recharged for a second shot where I did remember to mention it.

You're half right: the best survivability is in Eclipse. There is already survivability in the tools you already have, it just isn't as much. You're still a couple levels away from one of the best tools, though, which is Gravitic Emanation.

Right now you're at a level where you can't really solo like you're trying to. You don't have SOs, which is a major factor. Stygian Circle is also an incredible recovery power you're just one level from having. For now, when you're soloing, you'll have to rely a lot more on dwarf's survivability. Lead off with the human mire like you've been, but stay in dwarf for a few of the dwarf mires. You should kill all the minions quickly doing this and leave yourself with just LTs. Now you can drop forms and Gravity Well the strongest one (so you have a target you can ignore for a while) or the weakest one (kill it outright, but possibly overkill damage). This is typically where you will Stygian Circle, but maybe before the Gravity Well, too. You resume the fight at full health/endurance. Anyway, there's only a few of them left, and with your heaviest human attack on recharge, now is the time to switch to nova. Then again, Sunless Mire might be recharged in there somewhere. It's worth throwing that in when you can.

That should help, but really, I recommend sticking to larger teams (at least until Gravitic Emanation) for two reasons. The first is your lack of survival tools right now. A team not only shares aggro, but provides you with the inherent bonuses that will make you awesome. Hell, you could end up with capped resistance in dwarf. The second reason is the faster experience gain. Simply put: Larger teams earn XP faster. Take some time to form a few TFs. Hey, you want that accolade eventually, right?

Fix'd.

You can get one on the relative cheap (several million): The Steadfast +3% defense IO.

The price of the PvP IO, however extreme, is not solely a function of what the IO does. It has a lot more to do with the IO's rarity. Then again, if the IO didn't do anything, no matter how rare it was it wouldn't cost a dime.

Even the basic enhancements from PvP sets are hundreds of millions. They may be good, but not that good. They are that rare.

Oh do I know this feeling. It usually takes between one to three Stygian Returns before I'm back into full swing after a long break.

I've said it before: If you do all the right things at all the right times you'll be unstoppable. Is there room for error? A little. There's a very fine line between awesome and dead, though.

If blasters are a "support class," then so are crabs and doms.


It sounds like what you're looking for is a ranged damage dealing tank, often called tankmage. Also often called an MFing Warshade. There's a guide in my signature.

MFing Warshades.

Good point. You remember that scene in Episode 3 where they were going to arrest the emperor and finally had him beat? Mace Windu (Sam) was standing over the emperor, pointing the light saber at him, and he was saying something. I don't remember what he was actually saying, though, because all I heard was:

"I'M A MUSHROOM CLOUD LAYING MFer, MFer!!!"

"I'm tired of the MFing snakes on this MFing plane!"

"English, MFer, do you speak it?"

There's a guide in my signature. It's a specific way to play a warshade.