Dechs Kaison

Last build I just handed out I charged 800 million inf for. I'll give you a heavy discount, so just 500 million inf for a "SOLID" build. I know it's still a pretty hefty price, but I'm sure it's worth it. Watch my Dark Armor Sucks video to see what my builds are usually capable of.

Or, you could do some work, post your own, tell me your build's goals and I'll tell you where you can optimize, free of charge.

I saw your post in the kheldian section, so see my answers there too.

I'm going to suggest you go with the warshade, but I'm further going to suggest you open your mind to the tri-form possibilities. The void/quantum enemies are not something you need to worry about; you have all the tools you need to deal with them. Tri-forming will allow you to adapt to the situation as needed too. Since your friend is a defender, you'll get a lot of mileage out of being able to tank for him. Likewise, the status protection in nova form will be a godsend.

My warshade was, hands down, the most enjoyable ride to 50 out of any character I've ever played.

And your warshade will love the speed boost. Every warshade craves more recharge.

I love your threads.

Hey guys, popping back in here with an update. There's a ton of awesome in Praetoria, which is very distracting when you're trying to catch some good footage of purple doom. Also, the tip missions. Good Lord, the tip missions. These are the things I wanted for my villain since day one. Wow, are they fun.

I did, however, take my warshade to vigilante, and I gotta say that the purples helped. I met up with Valorin for one of the tip missions, which we stormed through on +0/x8 difficulty. The freaks are heavy on stuns and most of the spawns were +1, which made it annoying. Valorin definitely has a handle on his warshadey-ness, that much I can say for sure.

I have to admit, I don't notice the set bonuses as much. Before the purples, I had a tiny overlap of Eclipse. Now it overlaps a little bit more. What I do notice are the procs. They fire often and are very potent when they do. I'm amazed by how much of a difference they make.

Thanks again, Organica.

Oh, and for that picture of the build that took me too long to get uploaded:

I gotta throw my opinion in for Dark Armor being the toughest tank out there, if you're willing to spend the influence.

It's a heavy resist set that has enough defense to easily softcap positions through IOs. It has in set control and the best heal in the game. It also won't worry about exotic damage types, since it has toxic and huge psi resist. It also has +perception, endurance drain and recovery debuff protection.

On top of all that, you have to kill it twice to actually kill it.

EDIT: I'd like to add a little caveat that this will be the toughest tank that is still useful. There's no denying that a Stone Armor tank hobbling around in granite with rooted and earth's embrace is tougher than my tank, but all that survivability doesn't mean a damn if you can't actually get to the enemies. Teleport can mitigate this, of course, but I prefer my constant mobility.

Ah, another topic I have to answer to. Yes, Dark Armor tanks, built and played well, can be some of the best tanks in the game. I've got a video in my sig if you want to see some of the potential of DA.

One of the best things you can get is the +endurance proc from Theft of Essence in Dark Regeneration. And yes, I'd generally slot some more end reduction in your attacks.

Also, that PvP IO is likely going to be hard to come by.

Bill beat me to the topic by a long shot (and thanks!), but yeah, that guide is intended to be appropriate for all audiences that want to get into a Tri Form Warshade. In my opinion, that's the best way to go. Again, that's only an opinion.

Slotting is going to be tight, but you can get a lot of mileage out of "one slot wonders" and frankenslotting (using set IOs as if they were hamis).

Tri Form and human only are the most popular variations, I think... but human/dwarf and human/nova are both viable. Leaving out nova reduces some of your damage potential and leaving out dwarf removes some of your buffs and mez protection, however, you'll be able to slot more human powers that way and make use of passives like Stamina or toggles like Maneuvers.

You're more than welcome to PM me or /tell me in game to ask any questions you like. If you're on Virtue, I can even give you demonstrations. Hope to see you around, have fun being purple!