Dechs Kaison

Quickness was just due to luck of the draw. I had a window of opportunity while I was at work which just happened to be right after you posted. I try to at least look at any topic about the softcap, considering the guide I wrote on it.

Edit to add: Other than the resistance, you are correct in your understanding of -tohit and +defense. They operate in exactly the same fashion when it comes to the final tohit chance. There are subtle differences, though, which I'd like to highlight.

-tohit benefits the entire team, but often requires a hit check of its own. RttC does not, but has another limitation in range. Finally, there is the resistance to keep in mind. Defense is a buff you place on yourself, therefor is always the same value and always has the same effect on your survival, regardless of the foes you fight. -tohit, being a debuff placed on the enemy, will vary in effectiveness dependent upon the level of that enemy.

No. Against higher level foes, the -3.5% value is resisted. Anything over even con makes that 3.5% value smaller just because it is a higher level than you are. AVs in particular resist 85% of most debuffs, so against an AV your RttC is only giving you 0.5% effective defense.

Highlighted is the fallacy in your argument. What you have listed are not flaws, but design features.

Mez cannot be added to the human forms. It will severely diminish the purpose of the dwarf form. This is not a flaw, this is smart design. I'm sorry to hear you cannot deal with mezzing enemies. It must be terrible for you to not be able to play blasters, corruptors, or any other AT without mez protection.

Voids were created as a part of the story. They were out of line when first introduced, but not by any means a flaw. They were working as intended, and now the intent has shifted to make them much weaker. I'm sorry to hear you have not learned to deal with voids.

As far as passives not carrying over, I can only assume you mean fitness. Fitness, like any other pool power, cannot be used in either of the forms. This is working as designed, and cannot be considered a flaw. I'm sorry to hear you are unable to slot endurance reduction in your attacks.

A flaw would be shield charge doing more damage than intended as a result of an incorrect value, or mastermind caltrops accepting two types of damage sets, or any of the shenanigans which can be pulled off through use of HOs. Most of these flaws have been corrected.

All together now.



PUSH!

Joking aside, I wholeheartedly agree. If Fitness is becoming an inherent power, then it should carry over to forms. Hell, I can fire a Dimensional Grounding Ray from my tentacles, why can't I be fit?

To be honest, I feel like I'm being greedy and selfish asking for it to carry into forms. My MFing Warshade doesn't have health/stamina, and I shudder to think what he'll be capable of with it. Right now, the only thing that slows me down is not having enough endurance and no bodies to feed off of. Even if it didn't carry into forms, I'd throw the Numina's unique in health and have the buff on all the time (yes, I switch forms more than often enough).

Nice try at setting up anyone to disagree with you as a zealot with an invalid opinion. You want to make a suggestion? Be prepared to hear what's potentially wrong with it.

This sentence shows a great deal of ignorance. All forms are currently usable without any investment. You seem to fail to understand the basic design principles employed here. The dwarf form is not meant to be a replacement for a tank and that the nova form is not meant to be a replacement for a blaster. As a hybrid AT, there are sacrifices to be paid for versatility.

First, all three forms already do have their own unique abilities and benefits, but please, don't let me stop you from showing ignorance.

You know, Light Form already is this. Seriously, it's unstoppable, complete with crash, and you have all kinds of melee and ranged powers you can use while this is active.

A Peacebriner is a pocket scrapper/blapper, and doesn't need Light Form to do this. Don't look at Light Form as a transformation power, and please, do not try to turn it into one that has its own powers. We're already starved for slots as it is. Terrible idea, with obviously little to no thought put into it.

You already have some AoEs in Bright Nova; Build Up and Dawn Strike are available in the human form. I see what you want here, and that's to be a blaster in this form. Guess what? That's not the point.

The human form has a wide range of capabilities, but is not as effective as any of the ATs who have just a few of these capabilities. Going into Bright Nova trades most of your capabilities for the damage of a blaster, in the form of higher damage modifiers and a damage bonus. Anything more would be an imbalance. Or would you prefer to keep your low damage modifiers when shifting into nova?

What damn slow movement? They move at normal character speed and have teleport. You're suggesting to add mez protection to them, which they already have. Dwarf Form does not need, nor should it have, a taunt aura or an unstoppable power.

Again, you need to understand that a dwarf is not a tank. It has taunt, and all its attacks have taunt components. That's more than enough to serve as an off-tank when played intelligently. Giving them more capabilities than this would result in imbalance.

You don't do a good enough job explaining what you mean here. Choose a path? So at 24 you decide whether you get nova or dwarf? What happens to the tri-form people?

Further: Standard Code Rant. You don't understand the implications a massive design overhaul of the entire AT would take. Even if your suggestion here were a good one, it probably wouldn't be done because of the time and resources required.

I'd like to think the Warshade would raze the bar to the ground, but close enough.

I really like your compare and contrast, especially point 4. The Warshade is aggressive because he has to be in order to excel. Everything a Peacebringer does, however, is deliberate and strategic.

My other analogy is to cars. Warshades have a low acceleration, but a high top speed. Once he gets rolling, there's a powerful momentum carrying him forward. Peacebringers, by contrast, have the high acceleration and a debatably lower top speed. Power is there as soon as you hit the gas pedal.

Ok, enough rambling. You wanted constructive criticisms and a review of sorts. I don't have as much experience with Peacebringers. I have one floating in the low 40s who has gone all human from day one. Here goes nothing.

I really like it. The whole thing is great. It's interesting to start with some talk about IOs, but it really is worth thinking about from day one. I also agree with suggesting nova, at the very least to push through to 22. Breaking it out into different sections after that was likewise an excellent idea. Powers take on entirely different meanings with variations in forms.

Under the Triform section in the sixth post, you mention Leadership is becoming inherent? I'm ... not sure ... but I think you mean fitness. There's a few times your guide mentions taking stamina, so you'll have to weed them all out. (Reminds me, I have to remove the one mention of it from my guide)

I don't see any mention of the Cosmic Balance inherent. I'd like to throw out one of my old sayings: "A Peacebringer is what the team needs; a team is what the Warshade needs." (The last part is no longer true because the warshade can up his difficulty to include more food.)

What I mean, though, and I think is worth including, is that the Peacebringer's inherent is a potent tool to rounding out a team. My Warshade is jealous of the utility that Peacebringers get out of their inherent. The way I play my human form Peacebringer is largely dependent on the team makeup. This is probably even more true for multi-formers.

With a couple offensive players on the team (a common occurrence), a slotted dwarf form sits a capped resistance. Similarly, it only takes a few defensive characters before the damage bonus is really noticeable.

Of course, you know all this. You'll likely word it better, too.

Anyway, bravo! Thank you for your wonderful contribution to the community.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. One of my goals was to be a true guide to creating and playing a character. Warshades are complex beasts that deserve a thorough explanation and to simply say "here's a build, be uber" would be quite the disservice.

Thanks for mentioning the great way to avoid binds and macros. I'll be sure to add that in when I get a moment.

It is an acronym for a ... colorful ... pairing of terms. Here, I shall provide examples from famous movies in which Samuel L. Jackson has played.

"English MFer, do you speak it?"

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

You caught me, and I openly admit to being inspired by the tone of his guide. I've long wanted to write a guide for Warshades but was having trouble getting started. I recently started playing LoL as a PvP fix and stumbled on that guide. I liked the "plain English" approach he took. It was brutal, ugly, unprofessional, but honest and effective. I read his guide and couldn't help but hear it spoken by Sam Jackson while I thought "This is the exact mindset of a Warshade!"

He is not the first to take that tone in a guide, nor will I be the last.

Best thing I can do is link to my build I posted on the forums here.

I find there are two ways to slot Dark Regeneration, depending on how you want to tank and where you feel you have trouble.

The first way I know assumes you have trouble tanking large groups of foes. In this method, you focus on end reduction and recharge with a hint of accuracy, knowing that in a large group of foes, you'll always hit enough enemies to fill your health bar even without heal enhancement.

The second way fits more accuracy and healing at the cost of some recharge, and is intended to work better against tough targets, such as AVs, EBs, or monsters. Since there is only the one target to heal from, you need to be able to hit and you need it to heal a lot.

Overall set bonuses to aim for: Taste really. Go for recharge and recovery if you intend to make the most of Dark Regeneration and the control auras. I went with a focus on defense and found that I hardly use Dark Regeneration anymore, and I have forgone the control auras entirely.

*Ahem* Dark Armor Sucks.

It's not the knockback that's the problem so much as the fact that you are sacrificing your tank's already anemic damage by slotting sets that enhance all the wrong parts of an attack.

At the risk of derailing the thread, I'd like to just say something on this topic. I'm not a sports fan. I can't tell you the last time I've watched a sports event on television that wasn't my home team in the Superbowl/Stanley Cup games. Despite this, I do understand where this "we" comes from.

Imagine yourself as one of the players on the team. It's a big game for you for whatever reason. You run out to the field in your home stadium... but you don't have a single fan in the stadium. No one cares. Imagine there's not even anybody watching TV to see if you win. What's worse, the stands are filled to the brim with fans of the other team. You and your team are the only people who are trying to win, but this other team has an entire city cheering them on, willing them to win.

There's an energy there. I don't know what to call it, but these teams wouldn't play near as hard if nobody cared. Every fan counts.

Fine fine, I'll say something.

I don't have a DA brute, but I've managed to make one of the toughest tanks I've seen with DA, mostly thanks to the exotic resists. It has the best heal in the game, and one of the best things for that heal is the Theft of Essence proc. With that slotted I've found that Dark Regen sometimes fills both bars.

In my opinion, DA has more potential than any other armor set.

Supposedly, DA is sub optimal for brutes because the control auras hurt fury. I've heard just as much evidence against this as I've heard theories for it, though.

My bottom line, if you're having fun, you're not doing anything wrong.

It is clear to me that you do not understand the results of force multiplication.

This is just how I lead teams. Redside or blue, rule three is "If you think you can handle it, you're free to go for it." I don't care what you do on my team. I play tanks, an MM, or a warshade. All the characters I play are self sufficient. Kudos if yours is too.

For the people that don't feel like going off on their own, I suggest they stick near me. When I'm on one of my tanks, I typically have the all the aggro I can get my hands on. If I'm on my mastermind, you'll get FFG and plenty of cover fire and the comfort of knowing that I took and spam Provoke. If I'm on the warshade, well... I play him to be the guy running off on his own. Taunt does not make its way into my MFing routine, but I will certainly pass you a wakie and clear a three room spread so you're safe.

An MM at level 32+ running anything less isn't doing something right.

Kelenar said it best. "I tried teaming once, but the bonus pets it gave me wouldn't follow orders and kept talking without /petsay."

"Hey Dechs, doesn't the tank usually take the alpha?"

"I am a tank. With lasers!"