New Dawn

I got both AR/Dev/Mun and AR/NRG/Mun, and also I have an NRG/NRG/Force with the concealment powers. I also got Sonic/NRG/Force with full Leaderships.

Yep I have more 50 Blasters than anything else and with all the natural concepts like Ice/Ice. I should live in Blaster section really.

But what can I recommend? Well it looks like I would recommend NRG Melee. It goes nice so many concepts, nice with concealment pool and leadership pool.

My AR/Dev/Mun is my complete and total utter Gadget concept. I am greedy about concepts. She is a sweet toon and I am on top of anyone trying to change what she can do, pretty much cos I like how she is and playing a Blaster differently to all my others. She is my Forum namesake an all.

I think you are already decided on NRG Melee, so go for that. Devices is something I recommend a soloer or someone with an interest in trapping. Look at a huge group, work out the maths of how to do the whole lot quickest, predict the AI. Defeat all with barely a scratch.

Following what Plainguy has said. I have a Traps defender and Mastermind. They do not have to survive by the same methods as a /Dev so they don't. I pretty much skip the Mines on them really, the Mortar, the Poison Gas Trap, the FFG is most of what I need. So having a /Dev and /Trap or Trap doesn't mean a repeat game.

The thing with this is with some AVs by being close enough to use Emanation you could be subjecting yourself to their better attack chain thus losing survivability. In order to gain greater survivability you might have to rely on Nova Bolt. I also had particular AVs in mind as I do not expect Novas to go about demolishing every AV. In fact one in particular that I predict the Nova can do, I do not fancy Human forms chances against. We shall see.

OFC these days crap builds incarnated have pretty much got an I win button anyway so nothing anyone does amazes me.

Johnny Butane has had the same issue with Tankers that he's been going on about for a long long time, they've never been adequately addressed as far as he is concerned. At some point certain things never change and that must indeed mean a no.

I fought some Disorient resisting groups today. If that's all I saw, then I'd think the power is poo. I can imagine someone getting Pulsar and getting that kind of result and respecing it out asap but that's not all I see. Also got my PB a farm mish that my WS can get, this'll be interesting as I wonder what times to complete map will be.

I took AIBs build, gave it survivability. Took 2 single target attacks which give 145 and 245 damage added them, which gave 391 damage, divided that by the two activation times put together which was 3.432 and come up with a DPS of 114. 5 mins work.

I am a controller freak. I would gladly put aside any personal defense for being able to better defend a team (unless its my soloing build which ofc would milk PGAs sleep and keep that perma. It's sleeping, it aint hitting me whilst I deal with this guy and I call that Minus-too-much-Dam-to-handle). In a team if I get aggro then either someones down, which could be my bad or someone ain't doing their job. Cup half full I prefer to assume people will be at their best, but anyway being the control freak my EMP is amazing and often, power boost can work on that only too well.

So for me worrying about my defense might be okay in a solo build. Worrying about support is what I do in a team build.

Flash Arrow is -6.25% Tohit at base, where Manuevers is 3.5%. Flash Arrow is irresistable so is equal to -6.25% Defense, almost twice that of Manuevers. They both take Schedule B enhancements so Flash Arrow always offers more for less potentially.

You're giving other people a free Weave with Flash Arrow and that's better than Manuevers.

Flash Arrow lasts 60s so no need to spam, it'll all depend on how quickly you get through one mob after another as to what its eps is. Your Manuevers constantly on is .39eps with no end slotting, Flash Arrow for 20s fight cycles is 0.39 with no end slotting.

Flash Arrow is more bang for buck given a 20s Fight cycle and some what lower plus should someone be wreckless in where they position themselves in regards to the perception range of other mobs whilst starting on another group, you could of prevented it with -perception. -90% perception to mobs that can't see further than 55ft gives them 5.5ft of view. The unnecessary accidental pull is something that can catch teams out or other defender types out but I know people should really know not to get close to other groups or be aware of blind spots. In the lower levels that's sometimes a lot to ask for.

You may well of been fine in the lower levels and may well have no need to exemp. You may never get an unnecessary second group wiping the team out before your eyes but for me Flash Arrow a Primary Power will always outrank a Pool Power or an Ancillary counterpart as they almost always normally do. Especially as AVs don't resist FA either.

Most everything seems more on par with Tankers when human form, except for the PBs extra range attacks which have greater range with them. AoEs which ofc hit multiple targets which ofc means damage multiplication which ofc adds up. Then there are the additional flexibilities, no wonder it is to me that PBs aren't as tough as Tanks for what they can do in total.

Lets put a PB in a team where it has superb end recovery rate and hps rate be it regen or heals from a defender, it could potentially outperform Warshades with the same benefits. So the KB is calming things down and so is the level and rate of Stun. Warshades rely on mobs dying, numbers of mobs, PBs don't. PBs don't have to exist in the thick of everything as much as Warshades to reach an overall sustainable peak. Maybe on a PB it may pay to stop thinking like a Warshade I dunno. Given Arbiters qoute, farming is not the goal with PBs. If PBs are doing that then opps.

Human form has secondary effects (or lets just say effects that isn't damage) now all those effects to a creative mind can pull things in favour of a team. The creative mind can come up with dynamics to turn a tide for even the weakest looking team against seemingly insurmountable odds whilst the caveman mind just knows it wants to run in and hit things with a club, eat dirt, res and hit it again. Those secondary effects should help remove the wonder of what human form is for to the creative mind.

I get a lot out of my Pulsar, some people writing it off don't even have it, some have it but then don't really slot it and those who do have it and slot it well, have a Warshade and they're seriously happy with the stuns -> pretty much want their PB to do the same stuff when it's meant to be different.

I perma mezz most minions, thats a good lot of attacks not coming my way, it's a lot like hard control to me as they can't be damaged out of it or woken etc.

I'll stop it here incase my internet dies.

Oh I wouldn't either, it's just a way to get the defeats down and in a way it's going into how things could of been done before everyone got incarnated and IO setted. My Khelds do have some powers for the simple fact most other peoples don't and should I of filled a team of random people who showed up, without the guarantees of them being 50+1,2,3 or 4 with all the extras that offer an advantage I would of been able to help create the dynamics that the often skipped powers within the sets, allow. As it was my PB had a proper Antagonize and a mate of mine had np with doing a quick second build for barely anything or anytime. It's just a case of using what was on offer before all the mod cons make it a damn sight easier for those who like to run in and spank. The powers are there for a reason, to make things doable and I doubt many have used them in conjunction with eachother. I do know previous all Kheld teams failed before incarnates came out, the dynamics were on offer because the powers were on offer and other reasons for failure was turnout.




No actual need to Snare Recluse, you tank him near where he is, snaring is more when you have a low ceiling and a tough time tanking an AV. It could aide to get started on Scirocco and Ghost Widow a bit better. Black Scorpion and Mako are basically grounded AVs and so limited by their travel powers and so a straight aerial kite about an apex is all that's required. You should be able to beat them down with less trouble nowadays compared to when the sets were designed.

Pets can include:

Amy(5 off), Warwolf(5 off), Shivan (5 off), Snowbeast, Lore Pets, Signature Boss pet (5 off) which you can get from being a veteran. Nukes from Warburg, Lore Pets. It's almost as if you could of sat back and twiddled thumbs whilst they got on with it nowadays.

For me, I planned for a PuG of whoever I can get which might not have all that, or any of that, to make lighter work of everything. 6 people with builds of whatever and me with a build that has what they don't have is what I looked to do, a friend who I did say went to a birthday party that night, knocked up an inexpensive build to act as a duct tape trick archer practised with me on Tanking them AVs using a Dwarf with just him as support and that was that.

If you did come across people with those powers, it maybe worth testing things on future trials, for it maybe worth trying to get the All Kheld Mo done and any luck reliant methods can be ruled out for more sure fire methods.

I am pretty confident, when I led the first all Scrappy one (to avoid an all tanky one cos I don't tank with other tanks normally), no one had special builds, no one used temps, incarnates weren't about. I had the theory and the theory worked. We did it with as little as 5 defeats which on a first attempt was reasonable and let us know that even without all the mod cons a Mo is feasible. Other attempts made by people have included several pets, nukes and a good 40 defeats.

So tactics are here as a suggestion, which aren't always straight forward to pull off anyway should you ever go for an Mo, even if not or you do things another way, no biggy. All I know is I got little reason to play or even to look into Khelds now myself now and so may as well be open with my ideas (which I had been doing off and on subtlety anyhow.)

All powers are there for a reason from the looks of things, it just depends on a persons aspirations as to what they feel they might need to achieve them.

10:1 taunt:rechg ratio. 10:1 Immob:Rechg ratio.

It's needless for me to quote but I felt I might as well incase someone posts whilst I am writing, it won't be a follow on post then.

Nova's can get beyond the maximum range of Lord Recluse with slotting. Therefore 8 Novas could of possibly taken out the Gens and AoE'd the maintenence men without the possibility of getting hit from Recluse then followed on to attack Recluse without getting hit nor necessarily causing him to run neither. The speed of it is questionable should everyone of been in Nova but it's also down to how people would of had there Novas.
Also on Inner Circle pulling AVs seperately is kind of easy especially for Novas with the lowest end costing first power, at full range from the side. One AV at a time would of been easier.

Alternatively Dwarf Form has Antagonize which is autohit I believe, so despite PB group fly which does -tohit debuff it would not of missed AVs. In theory, it could of been possible for a grp flied Dwarf to antagonize and by -ranging close enough on Recluse or other AVs where room was available, threat and -range 6 slotted Antagonize would of been good should taunting from a ledge with him jumping and falling be unsustainable. The grp flier could of also been there to Glow Touch for mishaps on any AV. When it comes to aerial kiting AVs other PBs could of been in melee human form simply blapping which has -fly in them limiting flying AVs to the ground. So coming together now, grp fly, antagonize, glowing touch and the blaps aid a dynamic.

Warshades and Gravimetric Snare I would of hoped to aid in ground kiting where possible on tight maps. Kiting can limit what attacks an AV can use especially as -range is in play. Snares quickly stacked could also help a PB Dwarf fall back and be picked up by a grp flier and then fly over for an aerial kite as immobs can be less preferable to -fly and to make sure others aren't effected by the tohit debuffs.

For me between all the powers available to both PBs and WSs there looks to be nothing else truly needed and that's why I believe that no temps, no lore pets, don't even have to be incarnate, don't even have to have anyone IO'd for loads of defense if you have enough insps for getting dynamics in place and its all still possible. Both types of Khelds can do disorient there could be extreme stacking of that so not much defense is needed for the most part.

On the very same day you did it I was going to do it but with less temps or even without temps and a means to low death count through team dynamics as above and that, but it was the grp flier/glow touch PB that went to someones Birthday party that night. I think 2 others were missing as well. Can't really rely on people to keep to dates planned. Now that you've done it, I don't feel the need to do it especially as I am tired of people dropping their names in global channel and then not showing. I don't feel the need to play my Khelds. People give up alot of powers to be all human form but from what I mentioned above those powers often given up are there for some reason and that is probably to allow a all kheld team even with SOs to be reasonably non fail on all pre incarnate content.

I like this idea also, I can't see anyone with Timebomb not liking it tbh. Although time taken to toggle off is time not using Autofire or something which is why it should still be on a timer so that if you don't detoggle it, it will itself.

Failing this change, and I know I could of quoted it before but I came back and run through some dorky numbers, looked at how much the game has changed and with it, the increasing number of better alternatives and decreasing number of situations, I think they should lower the cast time down to Tripmines as a nudge. This will make the dropping of it between the last two tripmines more viable and increase dpa to use it as a preferable alternative to a simple trip. The duration of it could stay the same for now as people will pull to it.

I lol'd.


I like a bit of reality to my game. What effect do snipes have in real wars? They cause the enemy to cover, they cause the enemy to stall, they can cause some confusion and demoralize. If the snipe was from directly in front and within a certain range in our game environment then they should cause the enemy to charge. Snipes could cripple a target at the very least. Stacked snipes should be able to take out a Boss figure and have its group perform a little less tactfully after, perhaps even produce more runners than normal. I do probably have more lvl 50 Blasters than anything else, but I do not analyze them for I just have fun pew pewing but I like real life effects without causing an inbalance.

Since I did it, I thought of improvements to the one I did, like Run/Ends in SS and SJ instead of Run and Jump which caps out. I expect others have done too so whoever ya chose they might still have ideas for improvement.