Dechs Kaison

I'm going to suggest the performance shifter proc if you only put one slot in nova. Works out to 0.2 end/sec recovery. Not bad.

You can put hasten on auto and bind your w key to "+forward$$powexecname practiced brawler".

That way, anytime you try to move forward, practiced brawler will try to fire.

I'm not going to comment on your build (I doubt I'm qualified), but I will answer these questions.

I picked superspeed for stealth and ease of travel, and because I already took hasten. Flying in nova is a bit slow, and I normally don't want to shift just to start traveling, but I use it when I want to AFK travel. TP can be a bother for short distances thanks to overshoot and correction.

Concealment was picked for places to put the LOTG recharge bonus.

I only use human form for the control powers, stygian circle, mire, and the occasional quasar.

Let me tell you a little story about monkeys. More specifically, monkeys and bananas. Even more specifically, monkeys, bananas, and behavioral studies involving high pressure water cannons.

A bunch of scientists did this one day, probably because they were bored. They put four monkeys in a room and fed them something a lot like dog food. It was everything the monkeys needed to survive, it just didn't taste very good. After a while, the scientists put a basket of bananas in the center of this room.

The catch was, as soon as one monkey went to get a banana, the others would get sprayed with very high pressure, painful streams of water. What the monkeys figured out was simple: Stop the other monkeys from getting bananas. As a result, the monkeys that were getting sprayed beat the crap out of the monkey trying to get a banana until he stopped. This pattern continued for a few weeks while the scientists kept placing fresh bananas in the room. One monkey would try to get a banana, and the others would stop him to save themselves from the water.

Eventually, all the monkeys stopped going after the bananas, despite how many fresh batches there were. At this point, the scientists (still bored) took one monkey out of the cage and replaced it with a new monkey. This monkey instinctively went for the bananas and, even though they weren't being sprayed with water, the other three monkeys started beating him up. The new monkey tried to get a banana a few more times, each time getting beat up, until a week later when he stopped trying.

Then another "water monkey" was taken out and replaced with a second new monkey. This new monkey tried to get a banana and was stopped by all three other monkeys. This included the one who had never been sprayed with water. The same pattern followed as more monkeys were replaced, one at a time, until the room was full of monkeys that had never been sprayed. Even more could be replaced, and generations later, still no monkey would eat a banana.

What was the point of all this? Well, with people gathering at the trainer, maybe there was a reason at first, maybe not, but regardless, that's what we've always done. And we're just a bunch of monkeys.

Five or more masterminds means you should be moving in five or more directions.

The caves have different paths, just fan out a bit.

Fix'd.

EDIT: No it wasn't.

Oh no, it'll be full customization.

Some people will superspeed as neon pink with bright green hastened hands. Others will turn the effects off.

Hey, we can do those too, but the primary discussion here seems to be comparing kheldians to scrappers.

Might as well do this same challenge with blasters, tanks, corruptors, masterminds, dominators, stalkers, VEATs...

EDIT: My point was, it's rather obvious that a defender's goal is not DPS. A kheldian, while not pigeon-holed, is oft portrayed as having the goal of DPS.

Yes it is. Devs have stated that pool powers are next in line, followed by epic powers.

Well, it's not a "click and I go boom" power. The self destruct is really only triggered by defeat, like the nemesis bots. This isn't a clone of the cyborg pack power that says "I'm going to kill myself to make you die." It's a "If you kill me, it's going to hurt."

This. I want my Assbot to inspire more fear! And make a bigger mess of the black market when I walk by.

THHHHHIIIIIIISSSSS!!!!!!

You mean how no one likes a stormy using gale/hurricane/tornado? Yeah, I don't want that to happen to my warshade. I especially don't want toggle team buffs that only work in human form. "Why did you go dwarf?! I lost my softcap!!!!!" No thank you.

I was more leaning to passive contribution like modifying the inherent, or more clicky team buffs. Clicky teambuffs includes modifying powers to the point of severely violating cottage rules, so that pretty much leaves the inherent in my eyes.

Please, just read this. You'll thank me later. And of course, you'll thank Plasma for his excellent guide.

You'll have to forgive me, but aside from one single target heal, a -recharge debuffs to sort of keep the team alive, and decent leadership pool modifiers, I'm not really seeing what us Kheldians give back to the team. As far as blasting/controlling/tanking, even in our impressive combination of roles, isn't so much "giving back" to the team as it is "doing our part."

I don't know about you, but I'd like to see our inherent work both ways, i.e. the PB gets a damage bonus for a tank and gives the same damage bonus back, while a warshade receives a resistance bonus and gives the same back. Perhaps cut the benefit to as low as half for each.

Hrm, I kind of like this more! It'd be nice if Kheldians gave back to a team.

None of this really surprises me, but I'm still very interested to see the numbers. Will you be able to provide comparable analysis from the blaster/tank side of things?

I'm going to say that if the Nova proves to be 75% of an equal budget blaster, that's more than enough for me. The same is true for the dwarf/tank comparison.

I'm with the Princess here. I'll gladly take any numbers you can come up with, even if it's straight SO build to SO build. Just don't compare an IO'd nova form to a SO'd blaster (obviously).

I also agree with the three comparative cases she presented, although Dwarf with pets and whatnot could be very hard to analyze with any amount of accuracy.

I would suggest comparing a high recharge nova to a high recharge AoE blaster. Then, stick with that same high recharge WS when going to dwarf, and compare it to something like a SS tank who would also be built for high recharge.

Only four powers, but really, how many powers do you pack into a typical blaster attack chain?