Dechs Kaison

My bots/traps is softcapped to ranged and AoE. My pets are doing the fighting, but I'm doing the taunting and getting hit.

Bots/Traps.

Take all pet/upgrade powers, maneuvers, FFG, and get the pet defense IO.

All other slotting/powers is superfluous.

This topic is now over.

I think the only problem you had with my comments was the "even then, he can only half tank." Nothing else I said was contradictory to what you've presented. Actually, what you said enforces my point that you can't expect a PB to tank unless he stays in dwarf form.

Generally, if a team is looking for a tank, the leader doesn't scan for PBs. I have never, while playing my PB, been asked if I had dwarf form because the team needed a tank. I haven't ever been on a team that felt they needed a tank and got a PB who would dwarf the whole time. Anecdotal evidence, I know.

As for a dwarf only half tanking: This was bad wording on my part. Yes, a dwarf can hold aggro as well as any tank, but its survivability and damage output is much less than a comparable tank. A dwarf is capped at around 60% resist and has one self heal. Fire tanks (arguably the least survivable) have a similar heal, comparable resists, but they can take tough/weave and combat jumping.

Please don't take me for a blind man. I may have only mentioned my PB, but I am indeed familiar with the capabilities of its distant cousin, a Black Dwarf. My warshade is a tri-former, and I have tanked with it. Having also tanked with a dark armor tank, I guarantee that the dwarf pales in comparison. But that's not the point of a 'shade. A 'shade is a swirling purple mass of doom, leveraging the abilities of all its forms to lay waste to anything foolish enough to stand and fight it.

It is also occasionally called to tank for a short while, and does so begrudgingly.

And I'd rather have both so the PB does not have to hamstring itself by staying in dwarf form. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

If you want a tank, get a tank. If you want a truly versatile character, able to unleash a vast assortment of death or handle a metric ton of aggro as the situation needs, get a PB.

I couldn't agree more with these statements.

Sounds to me like you don't know about the shift+click teleport bind.

/bind shift+lbutton powexecname teleport

Hold shift, and teleport to wherever you click!

Ah. My apologies. You may be correct.

This cannot be true. There is a hard cap to speed. Super Speed can reach the hard cap. The best Ninja Run and Siphon Speed can do is match it.

Oh, good point. You know, even Super Jump is pretty limited here. Not many of the islands are within jumping distance of each other...

You're going to love PBs. My PB is all human, and he plays like a /regen blapper. Open up with a ranged salvo then charge in with the pet-bombs and scrap it up, switching back to ranged to finish off the stuff I sent flying in all directions.

Really, you've got it all. You have ranged/melee single target/AoE attacks like a blaster, but you've got shields and self heals to stay alive. Hell, even a godmode power, complete with mez protection.

Anyway, you had specific questions...

As Bill said, Dwarf is your mez protection. I make due without it. Have there been times I wished I had Dwarf? Yes. Have there been times a team said "GTFO, you don't have dwarf and can't tank."? No.

Generally, if a team wants a tank, they don't look for PBs.

Radiant Strike and Incandescent strike are your heaviest hitters. Radiant Blast is a strong ranged hit as well. Your shields will be useful in human form (especially since you won't have dwarf), as well as the heals. Nova form will benefit from Essence Boost.

I like Proton Scatter and Solar Flare. A lot. Slotted the -res proc in them to help my damage out.

Photon Seekers are an excellent demi-nuke.

Basically, use Nova if your team can keep you alive with buffs / enemy debuffs and all you have to worry about is damage output. Human form will be more resilient and allow you to take a few more risks.

And nothing says you have to stay in one form all the time. Just one example: Nova form in, guns blazing and attention grabbing, then shift to dwarf when you get mezzed, heal once, go to human to heal again, build up incandescent strike something, essence boost and go back to nova.

Remember, tanking is more than taking alphas. It's all about keeping aggro controlled, clustering groups to leverage your teams AoEs, and staying alive. With that said, there is no way a team can expect a PB to tank unless he stays in dwarf form all the time, and even then he can only half-tank.

I play my human form PB is like a blaster with scrapperlock. I usually beat the tank to the spawns to dish out as much damage and create as much chaos as I can. Just because I'm the first one in, does not mean I'm tanking.

Well, like I said, I play a human form PB, so there's not much I can give you. I've been considering adding nova to the build. It would be great to shift to nova every once in a while for that added oomph of AoE ranged damage.

I hope I've helped. Good luck, and have fun.

This is not correct. Anything attacking a player, including another player, has a base 50% chance to hit.

Any player attacking a critter has a base 75% chance to hit.

Any critter attacking anything has a base 50% chance to hit.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Attack_M...#BaseHitChance

What? And "Hey, you're 50, go ahead and slot your purples." isn't enough for you?

Yes. Golden Girl, and Golden Girl alone, is enough reason for me to not support the resistance. I abhor that kind of ignorant zealotry.

I'm not falling for Tyrant's tricks either. I'll work for whoever pays best, morality be damned.

Um... purples?

I think this one wins.

Read what I quoted. He said that kheldians didn't need any power pools.

Steelclaw still has a unique forum title...

So I'm guessing that you were somehow ignorant to the fact that you actually posted this in the City Life forum, and that your thread was forcefully moved to the Suggestions and Ideas forum?

They drop all the time, it's just hard to recognize them since they often drop as three enrages, or three insights, or three sturdies...

I have superspeed and shadow cloak to stealth on TFs. Yes, it works perfectly. No, I do not need more stealth effect. I've never used the concealment powers I've picked, and they don't even sit in any of my trays.

He beat me to it. Shadow Cloak takes one, Combat Jumping takes another. I needed three more powers that could fit LotGs. Concealment pool!

I know what you mean when you say you want more slots. When building my warshade, I specifically looked for powers I could take that didn't need any slots. Concealment powers, combat jumping, and even superspeed all fit the bill.

*Ahem*

And...

*Ahem*