Dechs Kaison

To my knowledge, Domination can be activated anywhere above 90%.

So? The sets don't play anything alike. I want to make a tank character with built in +recharge, that's very hard to hit, has scaling resists, and doesn't wave a shield around.

Is that wrong to want because "Shield numbers are virtually identical?"

This.

Stone Armor, hands down. That is, if you're only worried about surviving the enemy. If you'd like to do it without the offensive and mobility penalties, then Dark Armor is your best bet, as it provides a wide array of strong resists, layered defense, control auras, debuff resistance to all sorts of things, the best heal in the game, and it has to die twice for it to count.

Indeed. Warshades, to reach their fullest potential, walk a razor's edge between awesome and dead.

To quote myself from my guide, "If you aren't using Stygian Return every time it's up, you haven't found enough bodies yet."

Likewise on virtue, Brawl/traps mastermind ready to help out. Unfortunately, my -res debuff (acid mortar) does damage, so I'm not sure the character qualifies.

It is an annoying bug. I've gotten into the habit of mashing E until I'm big and lobstery and doing a mire (I've since reworked my dwarf bind to include firing off dwarf mire, so pressing the button like mad makes sure I fire off the mire ASAP as well as getting me into dwarf through multiple mezzes).

Yeah, once the fuel dies, I find my ST damage lacking, especially since I only have one Nova ST attack slotted. I have been known to drag other spawns to an AV, though. Most teams like to skip to the AV anyway, so I keep working backwards a spawn at a time.

Regardless of the team I'm on, I tend to be the first one into any spawn. If all I get out is the double mire unchain essence because the team is heavy on AoE, so be it. I'll summon a pet and Nova my way through the next spawn. Third spawn gets a quasar. Usually, unchain is ready to go again for the fourth spawn and the cycle repeats.

Sometimes I'm the only one around, which is fine by me. "You seven go that way, catch up when you're done over there."

Personally, when I farm, it's on -1/x8. All I look for are purple drops, so level 49 enemies are A-OK in my book. They die faster and give me less to worry about. It's best to look for groups that don't have a lot of mez, but with -1s, even dwarf mops up pretty quickly.

No, thank you. I'm always glad to hear I've helped out. Really warms my heart to know I've created another purple chaos engine of squiddy doom.

There is some good reason behind it, especially for illusion control. Personally, I think masterminds would be most versatile, but the thing they lack most is control.

That's what really puts the controllers (again, particularly illusion) ahead. All controllers do damage and with containment and epic pools, comparable damage to defenders and corruptors. Few defenders/corruptors can put out AoE control anywhere near what a controller can. Masterminds, on the other hand, can "control" aggro through provoke and the mitigation of bodyguard mode. The illusion controller has indestructible pets have taunting attacks.

It's a tough call. If it weren't for illusion, I'd say masterminds hands down.

Wow. Thanks for the praise and getting the link out there before I could.

Glad to see you're enjoying it already. I can't take a look at your build now (Mids was not deemed necessary in the eyes of my employer), but I can say that Joe offered some very good suggestions. My guide does cover a few build methods as well.

I hope you find everything you were looking for, and that it helps you to enjoy your warshade more than ever.

Agreed. -Regen doesn't help much against normal foes, but I maintain that -res certainly does. Things like -tohit, -dmg, and -rech help to keep team members alive long enough to do the damage required as well.

I don't know why this didn't come up sooner. What's more versatile than a whole team anyway? Particularly Bots/traps, as it has the widest array of debuffs, controls, and damage. Amazing potential here.

Hey. I am allowed one use of hyperbole per day.

I was only offering contention with the second sentence of your post. Controllers do damage, arguably less than other ATs, but still certainly more than "enough" when coupled with the vast array of tools they have.

Yeah... until -regen and -resist account for more damage than actual damage.

What you're saying works for normal mobs and some AVs, but when it comes down to the really hard targets, there's no damage like debuffs.

Granted, all the debuffs in the world won't actually kill a target. The right debuffs, though, and brawl becomes sufficient damage.

Well, I have what I'm told is one of the better warshade guides available, so I suggest you take a look at that. It'll help immensely with regards to play style. The link is in my signature.

Also on my blog is an article about how I've RP'd my warshade, so that may spark some ideas for you. There's more to come as I get around to it.

Unless versatile includes dealing damage.

Also scooped.

Incarnate abilities at this point are not build dependent, so yes, one cardiac core can be used with all three builds.