Dechs Kaison

I disagree that it's that much of a problem. Play with your friends, close the broadcast tab, and you're in your own world. Hell, sometimes it's fun to RP about the out of character characters.

Erm... chance to disorient in stamina will only have a chance to disorient the "target" of stamina, which is you. I think it was changed, though, to not have any effect in self affecting powers.

Thanks for the compliment, but I am by no means the sole authoritative voice when it comes to warshades.

But let's just take a moment to look over all the choices.

There's Cardiac, the endurance/resist tree, but that doesn't provide much benefit. Thanks to Stygian Circle and the upcoming inherent fitness, I doubt any warshade will be hurting for endurance. Slotted eclipse can cap resistance with five enemies; the resistance bonus from this alpha choice isn't enough to make it four. Even the benefit to Dwarf resistance is minimal, you get almost another 5% resistance. It also enhances range, or fear/sleep/intangibility. Are there any warshades begging for that?

Next we have Nerve, which highlights accuracy and also benefits things like defense buff, fly speed, as well as hold, taunt, and confuse duration. Yeah, I'm already done talking about this.

The first alpha choice with potential to benefit is Musculature, which sports an intriguing damage boost. The other bonuses might as well be sparkle unicorn powers, but that's ok, damage is still great. Assuming you ED cap your powers, this will still give you 30% more damage enhancement, right? ... Not exactly. The damage cap is still 400%, which means 300% in damage bonus will cap you. The 95% from enhancements counts against that, so in all reality, you only need 205% damage bonus to hit the cap. One saturated mire brings you 112.5% closer to the cap, meaning you only have enough room for 92.5% more before bonuses start to get wasted. Nova form's 45% bonus and a few teammates or a second mire from dwarf will do the trick. Musculature looks very unappealing at this point.

I wouldn't care what the fourth tree was; at this point I'd take anything else for my warshade. I turn the page to see the the Spiritual Alpha Enhancements in all their glory. I was sold at recharge, but to see it coupled with stun and healing? I nearly fainted.* There's even the option to go a little lighter on the recharge and add some slow enhancement to everything we have that slows, which is everything.

I'm convinced the developers said "Let's design one of these things just for warshades. It'll help them overcome the performance gap between them and their peacebringer cousins." Ok, that last sentence went too far.

And I'm sure they didn't have any idea how nice that looked for warshades. Kheldians are below even stalkers on the priority list.

*Just kidding.**

**But not really.

Seriously, this alpha slot was made for us. We all want more recharge, this has it in heaps. A whopping 30% that won't be diminished. My 'shade will be able to chain Dark Nova Emanation and Dark Nova Detonation seamlessly.

Think about how many powers you have with stuns.

Also, if I'm right on my math here, with this alone Stygian Circle should heal you to full off of one LT. Essence Drain and Black Dwarf Drain just got a whole lot better.

Editing in my thought process from a few posts below:

This.

This is incorrect. Just roll up a super reflexes scrapper and pop an enhanced elude, and you'll see numbers much higher than 45%.

It has nothing to do with where the buffs come from, and everything to do with the point at which the majority of the benefits disappear.

Edit: Damn do I feel slow.

You are correct. This is why it is called a soft cap. Defense can be added after 45%, but it offers no practical benefit until other things start to interact with it (defense debuffs or tohit buffs). If it were a hard cap, any bonus above 45% would offer no benefit at all.

There are PvP effects on everything. It's called diminishing returns. The more powers you have buffing a certain attribute, the less effect each one has. Somehow that was supposed to level the playing field or some such, but I'd rather not start a PvP mechanics discussion here.

Suffice to say, PvP CoH is a different game than PvE CoH.

I didn't communicate well enough. I'm not "looking for more." I'm extremely happy with what I see, and I find that useful enough. I just had a feeling there was more to it that I was missing.

Not something I was aware of, but certainly useful.

This feature alone was worth downloading for.

Just found the checklists. This is awesome. I like how easy it makes finding what badges I have left to get and where they are or what I have to do.

Is there a feature that filters these for the power granting accolades and their requisites? I only have one "badger," but I'm always interested in getting my +HP and +end on any character.

I am looking forward to all of them. This project has turned out to be nothing short of phenomenal in my eyes.

You can, it's just called dismiss.

The thing is an embodiment of fire. All it can understand is destroy.

Likewise serious and meaning no insult, but I'm amazed you need that level of control. Ok, so all I have is a high level bots/traps to speak from, but still, hear me out.

I tell them to follow me in bodyguard mode. I initiate every fight. Occasionally there is a boss which needs to be focused on, in which case I press my attack macro (it leaves the drones in defensive follow, only ordering Assbot and Prots to attack (also leaving them in defensive, so when they lose aggro they will immediately fall back into bodyguard)). I also have a goto defensive bind that sends all my robots to a single spot, used for AV fights to keep them out of AoE range, but in BG and Triage Beacon range.

Oh yeah, I really want this. I hope they add some in the next issue or two.

And how about some unique IOs that only level 50s can slot. Call them ultra rares or something like that.

For those of you who may not have seen it, he means this one:

I have seen a great many variations of this quote in the sigs of many. It held a place in mine for a time as well.

Kelenar, for your sake, I hope no City of Heroes character ever becomes aware of you.