Novella

Originally Posted by Brynstar

It will also increase the stun duration from Dreadful Wail and Total Focus, and don't forget how nice it is with Aid other. Lots of uses for a blaster.

Originally Posted by PrincessDarkstar

Overall I think PB's and WS's should be more closely alligned, with PB's being 35-40% of a Warshades total power but constantly, with Warshades being allowed the higher peaks due to the inherant danger in casting their powers. The other differences would be that Warshades have controls as mitigation but PB's have the heals.

Originally Posted by kendo

here's one of the binds I am trying to use

/bind numpad1 "powexectoggleoff dark nova$$powexectoggleoff black dwarf$$gototray 1$$powexectoggleon sprint$$camdist 25$$bind lshift+lbutton powexecname shadow step"

I also have binds set up to drop to human form and trigger eclipse, stygian circle or mire, along with binding shadow step. they are all doing the same thing, creating the teleport targeting circle

Originally Posted by Imaheroe

rofl. good one.

The problem with going SS is you need to take flurry or hasten. flurry sucks. Hasten is great but I don't have a need for it on my claws/SR, so why even dip into that pool?

Ask yourself this, "Why do all the SR builds include Dodge and Lucky? There must be a reason.

This is like someone taking jumpkick to get to SJ. Sure it may look funny. and ya its an attack, but really?!! I cringe every time I see someone waste a powerpick that could actually be helpful in buffing defense and having a spot to put really nifty IOs

Originally Posted by kendo

darn, no luck

tried every combination of shift, lshift, lclick, lbutton, with quotes, without extra quotes, moving the teleport command around within the larger bind string. and I still get the targeting circle and an extra teleport at the end unless I hit <esc> or let it expire.

oh well, guess I will just have to get used to it. not game breaking or anything, just frustrating because I know there has to be a way to get it to work.

may try saving a bind file and calling it instead of building the key bind into the larger bind. didn't think it should make any difference but worth trying

thanks for trying to help everyone

Originally Posted by kendo

I will give it a try with extra quotes within the quotes then and see what happens.

and yep, I have the bind set to numpad1 because, in general, it's working. but does show how easy it is to have a typo in a long bind string :-)

thanks for the help all, will post back if I get it working correctly

Originally Posted by HomsikPanda

there is no hero side masterminds or hero side soldiers of arachnos, also the inheret abilitys can make all the difference, for example a brute and a tank, they are pretty much the oposite of each other as far as powers, brutes have offense as thier primary and defence as thier secondary, tanks have defence and then offence, and stalkers have thier hide ability..... and i'm not interested in the other 2 >_>;

Originally Posted by dume

I read through most of the claws/sr ones I could read (so not the codes you paste into mids) and 90% of them were using CJ+SJ with no hasten , that's why i asked..

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

Cimerorans are a bad day to most defense sets. SR users sitting at the DDR cap laugh at them. Those that aren't at the DDR cap are too busy dying to laugh.

Originally Posted by kendo

thank you for the replies, 37 and Obsidian. are the quotes needed, or even possible within a longer string of binds? the full bind is something like:

/bind numpd1 "powexectoggleoff black dwarf$$powexectoggleoff dark nova$$gototray 1$$powexectoggleon sprint$$camdist 25$$bind lshift+lbutton powexecname shadow step"

assuming that "s have to be in pairs, would (can) the end of that bind be: $$camdist 25$$bind lshift+lbutton "powexecname shadow step""

Originally Posted by Steel_Shaman

Thanks for the advice. I hit 38 last night and built out both my Tri-Form and Human Form builds with level 40 IO's. I usually wait until around then as the 40 IO's are roughly +3 SO's in strength.

And you're right about Eclipse. As soon as I got it I jumped into a spawn of Fifth Column to try it out. Hitting the resistance cap was very very nice.

I've only managed two 50's over the years, and I stopped playing both of them almost as soon as they hit 50. I can easily see me not doing this with my Warshade. He's the only character I've played thus far that I'm truly interested in maxing out with sets. It's going to take a while to do so for both builds, but hey, Paragon City isn't going anywhere.

Originally Posted by Bud

13% DDR is virtually nothing when theres 72% still there...
Also Grant Cover from SD adds 13% DDR and alot of people dont take that power.



This isnt an attack, im just tryin to figure out why yous think they're so important.

Originally Posted by Bud

Why though?

IIRC the max amount of resist you get from em all is 30%, which is nothin to turn your nose up at of course but i dont plan on spending that much time with with the majority of my health bar gone...And the second i pop a green the resists might as well not exist.

It dosnt seem worth it IMO but im lookin for others opinions to help me decide.

Originally Posted by Steel_Shaman

I'm looking forward to Eclipse at 38 to see how it affects things. Probably around that time is when I will start slotting some sets too. I'm just using regular SO's at the moment.

Originally Posted by Zorn

So I feared. Flying is not an option to me, everytime I do it I feel that I am wearing fook me boots . I just cannot stand the idea of flying around and fighting with melee oriented attacks. Also skill that burns out my all endurance is not an option to me because it leaves your toon too vulnerable. I guess I am pretty much still banging my head to wall with pure human PB and there is no solution unless there will be developmental intervention to skills . I stick with my dual form build, it is playable but wont shine when compared to other AT's. Nova damage is ok and sometimes I feel that I can outdamage poor playing blasters but I guess it is just an illusion of grandeur.
I have max slotted Nova and Dwarf for set bonuses. Going to finish those and probably then switch back to Warshade which seems to have lot of more potential than PB.

Originally Posted by firespray

After looking a little more, I'm thinking ice/elec/elec looks good. I plan to take frost breath, ice storm, and static discharge too, I can't stand blasters with no AoE. My other question is do I really need 4 holds? I don't solo much if that matters.

Originally Posted by MentalMaden

Each his own indeed.

Although I might recommend finding new tank friends.

Originally Posted by Local_Man

When I'm teaming, there is usually a tank on the team. In that case, the added damage actually provides more benefit than the minimally shorter recharge. PA becomes more of a damage power than anything else if you have a good tank. (Of course, a good tank will know to let PA take the alpha in difficult situations, too.)