Dechs Kaison

I'll echo this.

DA is no more an end hog than SR for what it gives you. On top of that, nowadays, Dark Regeneration's endurance cost is almost negligible because of the Theft of Essence proc.

The fact of the matter is, Dark Armor is capable of really awesome things.

Yeah, all of this. Cashless T9s would need to be rebalanced. I would expect a fixed recharge at the very least if they did remove/lessen the crashes.

Before you make statements like this, would you mind trying to prove them?

Yeah, I think this is what I'll be going with... for these reasons even.

I wish I had more to add.

Nice Strawman fallacy here.

We're not 'terrified of change,' but thank you for trying to misrepresent my argument.

I'm opposed to the wrong change.

But there's nothing to discuss if your entrenched position is defended by fallible logic.

None of this post is cool.

I have seen end drain as an effective control mechanic, it just takes a lot of work. The proper way to fix that is not to replace the mechanic, just design it to work better.

You don't realize all the implications of a change like this.

First, and most obviously, not all form powers match up to Nova/Dwarf powers. Sure, for a PB, it's mostly straightforward, but what about a Warshade? Warshades have Gravitic Emanation and Dark Nova Emanation, but one is a stun and the other an attack. With your scheme, how could I possibly slot it for both like I do now?

Likewise with Black Dwarf. Gravity Well might match up to Dark Dwarf Smite, but where does Strike come from?

Second big problem is that your change would actually weaken Warshades and Peacebringers. Suddenly, PBs lose their third heal power, and can't use Dwarf Flare right before Solar Flare. Warshades lose Double Mire. Peacebringers won't be able to string ranged AoEs of human and Nova continuously.

Third is the fact that a lot of us like having extra powers. If I had to choose to take Incandescant Strike and Solar Flare because I wanted to be able to have an attack chain in Dwarf, it limits my build options. As it stands, I can replace IS and even SF with something I will use, but still have all my Dwarf Attacks. My Warshade doesn't take Dark Detonation, would that mean he couldn't use Dark Nova Detonation?

There's a few posted in my thread, about ten down in this section.

Dude, as much as I love what you're trying to do: Welcome to the internet.

Seriously though, before we can even think about 'fixing' kheldians we need to define what the problem is and prove it exists. Smiling Joe did a ton of math comparing warshades to PBs a while ago, and it's helped bring PBs up to par with WS, but now we're talking about putting them on par with everybody.

The thing is, I'm not convinced PBs are not on par. Sure, our damage is kind of low, but our survivability is ridiculously high. How do we prove that our damage is too low for the amount of survivability we can obtain?

I can't answer that.

Linky to my build.

Linky to my guide in the sig.

It's cool. I got this.

Well, in the opposition's (my) defense, they are.

Vote for me.

That's all I got.

Sure, why not?

These are fantastic.

He mentions optimization and you suggest Java.