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I'm personally fine with the powers the way they are, but then again I am a fan of KB so I have a positive bias towards it. So of the powers would just look dumb having KU rather than KB. Dawnstrike is an explosion which would expel enemies away from you , not up from you. From a common sense approach adding KU doesn't make any sense whatsoever. To me these changes seem like proposals to satisfy people that hate KB without looking at the common sense of the change. Sure AS has KU, but its also KD since one point of the power is that it was intended to be a power that flying players used to KD other enemies that closed to melee on them. That's not really a good example to use when trying to justify changing a PBs already good albeit inconsistent KB. I agree it would be nicer if it were more consistent, but in all the years I have played one its never been an issue to me.

Before Light Form was made perma I played by Peacebringer (human form) 1 to 50 as my main and completely IO'd her out. Anyone that says playing PB's is bad is either retarded or only likes playing easy to use characters such as Dominators. I've been told a couple times that I have the best Peacebringer build people have seen. That makes me feel good considering how many people have negative feelings towards Peacebringers. They are effective in any team AND with Cosmic Balance you are always receiving a buff of some kind to make you even better.

If you know how to play a Blaster or Scrapper then you can play a Beastbringer. My PB has perma Light Form, Inner Light, and Restore Essence, and is a complete monster. She had perma RS before the change so that made it nice having capped HP, but the changes just made PBs even more powerful than they already are.

As for KB, I love it and have always loved it. Pop some +rech procs in your powers and you could potential cap your recharge without any buffs. I love Warshades too, played two of them human form only, but ended up deleted each one post-40. You can't compare them at all, but if I were to compare them I would roll a Peacebringer each and every time. That being said I still think Eclipse is the best tier 9 power on the game and has been for a long long time, but the LF timer shorten puts it on par if not ahead of even the mighty Eclipse now.

I may be the only person, but I don't think anything needs to be done with Stalkers. I wonder if this change is only being implemented due to people not making as many Stalkers as other ATs?

Granted being able to use AS with no interupt and have superior damage does sound wonderful, but if that happens then what about the damage for AS while in hide? Will it get a buff then because what would be the point of using hide and AS when you can just do superior damage while unhidden and still have a chance to critical due to AF?

I still find forms inferior to a human form even at exemp levels. When you factor in Cosmic Balance at lower levels you still get excellent resistance without having to use toggles unless you want too and there is no need to change forms constantly for any reason.

No worries I don't think you're coming across as a noob. If you don't know you don't know, nothing wrong with that.

Light Form is best if slotted randomly. Slot 4 Res/Rech IO's in it and you will get the best return for resistance and recharge. If you plan on taking the shields you might wanna do 2 Res/Rech + End/Rech IOs for the best mix of resistance, recovery, and recharge. I didn't take the shields since I don't really respec to levels where my recharge is effected AND with Cosmic balance my teams are always made up of people that I get resistance buffs from.

Anymore questions feel free to ask.

Alright, that makes sense. I was completely looking at it wrong.

I made my Spines/Willpower solely as a farming character back when Willpower first came out and I love her to pieces. As has been pointed out previously, IOs can alter the performance of the character a lot and the Willpower secondary offers a completely different playstyle than the sets that give you a damage aura, etc. I would recommend Willpower over Regeneration for various reasons, but Regeneration does have its pluses.

First off you have overslotted some of the powers, Light Form being one of them. Also you don't really need the shield if you plan on going with a high recharge build. If you plan on exemping a lot then fair enough, but outside of that you don't need them at all. Using Light Form and the inherent power you should hit about 82% to smashing and lethal damage and then cap out to everything else except psionic damage.

From the patch notes:

Peacebringers


Combat Flight now correctly provides defense to all types of attacks.

Luminous Blast

Build Up has been renamed "Inner Light". It now grants a large damage and ToHit bonus for 10 seconds, and then a moderate damage and ToHit bonus for 20 seconds thereafter, for a total of 30 seconds of boosted damage.

Photon Seekers cooldown has been reduced from 300 seconds to 180 seconds.



Luminous Aura: Quantum Acceleration

Added a new power available at level 24: Quantum Acceleration.

Quantum Acceleration is similar to Afterburner.

This allows Peacebringers to select this power if they wish.

This power now provides a moderate amount of defense, improved flight control, and -fly protection, but has a 30 second cooldown once toggled off. This power can now accept Defense enhancements, IOs and Defense set IOs.

This power will not allow the user to fly unless the user has a flight power active.

This power's long help now clarifies that this power's flight protection is only granted while Combat Flight, Energy Flight, Quantum Flight or Group Energy Flight is active.



Light Form has been redesigned. Its cooldown has been lowered from 1000 seconds to 300 seconds, but its duration has been reduced to 90 seconds to match that of Eclipse. The recovery bonus from the power and the status protection from the power have been moderately reduced to compensate for the drastic increase in uptime now possible. Additionally, Light Form now persists when activating White Dwarf or Bright Nova.

White Dwarf now protects the player from status effects as soon as its animation begins, preventing the power from being interrupted.

Solar Flare and White Dwarf Flare are now generated by the Peacebringer's hands instead of their feet, and can now be used while in midair.

I'd remove the form simply because I don't like them. I would either remove them and add another utility power or just take them out completely and add something else to Kheldians. In the end with the recent changes there isn't anything wrong with either of them so I can't see the devs doing much else to them power-wise.

I figured that this had already been brought up, but I guess not. When I asked more people in the game that have been here while they weren't even aware that it didn't affect Combat Flight.

Not sure if it has ever been addressed, but how come QA has no effect on Combat Flight even though in the game description it says it does. When I look at the in-game numbers my speed does not change when that power is active on CF versus EF.

Yeah its lovely. I love the change from Build Up to Inner Light. I am able to get that perma. When I first saw that it has a diminishing effect on it I was truly amazed and thought I was tripping.

Its time like these that I wish we could auto two powers because I have forgot to click Light Form when its back up because I was in the middle of dishing out some Kheldian punishment.

The devs definitely came through BIG TIME with this buff.

Well the not turning into a ball of light didn't really make me think differently because there have been glitches that have prevented that in the past.

So far I am loving the Light Form change and Inner Light totally rocks.

I've been gone for quite a while, but I decided to go through my characters today and redeem rewards. I clicked on Light Form and started to fly to City Hall to log out for the bad, when suddenly it recharged while I was still in Light Form.

Now immediately I thought this had to be a glitch so I clicked it again. Once again it recharged while I still had it on. Perma-Light Form thank you devs (if this is really a new form of the power).

I am hoping this change was made to bring the power more in line with the awesome Eclipse that Warshades have always gotten.

I wouldn't touch the powers since I think the powers are fine as they are although changing the order as some of you have pointed out would be nice. Having "Hide" become inherent would be ideal and I would also increase the defense of the power to be base 7.5%. I would also raise their base health just a tad.

Otherwise I think Stalkers are fine as they are.

On my Ice/Elec Blaster I focused on ranged defense and the Thunderstrike set is great for that since you double dip in the ranged defense twice within the set. Take your toggle so you can get the Steadfast +3% def and if you can get the Gladiator 3% you can get yourself +6% from just 2 slots. Do not take Fighting just focus on ranged and those two special IOs and you will be set.

Back in 2007 I posted an idea for Dark Control and a secondary to accompany it. I figured with all the new changes to the game and the advancements of technology over the last couple years I would revisit the idea.

Again I present Dark Control and Visceral Essence. I haven't touched the original idea, this is more like a general blueprint that the power sets could take.

Primary

Darkness Control

Shadow Shard – You call upon dark energy which you can fling at your foe, causing moderate negative damage. The shard of negative energy is able to lower your foes accuracy for a short while. Recharge: Fast Damage: Moderate

Shadow Rapture – Your foe is trapped caught in a haze of negative energy, unable to move to defend himself; your negative energy causes moderate damage over time while lowering the accuracy of your foe. Recharge: Moderate Damage: Low DoT

Shadow Crawl – You hurl a ball of viscous negative energy that explodes on impact, causing damage to the target foe and any foes in the vicinity of the explosion. Aside from taking some damage from the explosion, the foes are caught in the dark fluid and immobilized. Shadow Crawl reduces the effected foes recharge, accuracy, as well as minor negative energy damage over time. Recharge: Slow Damage: Minor DoT

Dark Burst – You are able to channel an explosive burst of pure negative energy which causes high damage, as well as severely lowering the target foes accuracy and defense to energy and negative energy. Recharge: Slow Damage: High

Shade – You are able to phase into a corporeal form resembling a shadow. This shadow form provides defense to all types of damage, as well as a moderate boost to negative and energy resistance. While in this form you are hard to see but can be detected at close range. Recharge: Long

Visage of Darkness – Peer into the mind of your foes and bring forth their worst nightmare. Foes targeted with this power will have there recovery, recharge, and damage decreased for a considerable amount of time. Recharge: Long

Hands of the Shadows – You are able to call forth spectral essences to hold your foes in place. This power is able to affect any foe near your target. Since the spectral essence is pure negative energy, the target foe is more susceptible to negative energy damage. Recharge: Very long

Dark Attunement – By focusing your energy, you are able to boost your holds, debuffs, and recovery rate for a while. This power does come with a drawback. Since you are so in tuned with the dark aspects of your power, you are highly susceptible to holds, and immobilize powers. Also, you are highly vulnerable to energy damage. Recharge: Very Long

Mire Imps – Using complete mastery over the nether-realm, you are able to summon forth 3 shadow imps to do your bidding. Shadow Imps are able to be healed and buffed like any other ally. Shadow Imps are able to assist you with range or melee powers. Shadow Imps are highly vulnerable to energy damage. Only 1 set of summoned imps may be present at any given time. Using this power while imps are present will cause your imps to despawn and be replaced with a new set of imps. Recharge: Very long

Secondary

Visceral Essence

Dark Empathy – Your connection to the netherworld allows you to sacrifice some of your health to heal an ally. Dark Empathy also grants a boost to health and negative energy resistance of target ally. Recharge: Fast

Dire Drain – While you toggle this power, your recovery rate is lessened, but the target foe suffers a severe reduction to their regeneration and recovery. Dire Drain also affects foes in range of the target, causing them to suffer a reduction in their regeneration, but at a moderate level. The stronger the foe, the greater the strain on your recovery due to harder concentration on your part to maintain the drain. Recharge: Fast

Eye of the Ethereal – You channel the spirit of a specter into a target ally. This specter grants a boost to recovery, regeneration, damage, and defense. Since this specter is non corporeal, target ally suffers a huge penalty to accuracy as a result. Recharge: Very long

Negation – Target ally is infused with negative energy which causes a temporary phase into the netherworld. Target ally is infused with such a level of negative energy, negative status effects are cancelled out for a while. Negation also grants target ally with stealth and defense to negative energy and energy damage. Recharge: Slow

Essence Convergence – When you activate this power, you merge with the target foe linking of your essences. When you are attacked by the target foe, you only sustain 25% of the incoming damage, and the attacking foe will sustain 25% of the damage dealt as a response to attacking you. The longer this power is activated the more taxing on your endurance it becomes. Recharge: Long

Crossing the Divide – You are able to revive a fallen ally with Crossing the Divide. Revived ally is possessed with dark energy which increases the ally’s strength, resistance, and regeneration. Once the divide is crossed, the revived ally will become weakened for a short while, losing 50% health and endurance, as well as becoming disoriented for a short time. Recharge: Very long

Spirit Asylum – You use your powers over the ether to create a spirit asylum at a location in your area of effect. Each time a foe is defeated, the spirit of the foe is drawn to the asylum, and all allies in the area of the asylum receive a boost to their accuracy, damage, defense, recharge, recovery, and mez resistance. Recharge: Very long

Well of the Furies – When you activate this power, your powers cost no endurance for a long time. During the time this power is active, you also receive a great boost to the secondary effects of your powers. Recharge: Very long

Through the Mist – You summon a large mist of negative energy to the foes location. All foes caught in the mist are overwhelmed and suffer massive damage while in the mist. Movement speed and recharge of enemy attacks are severely reduced. Damage: Superior Recharge: Very long