RogerWilco

It's not always the words themselves, but they way they are used that makes me not understand what it being said.

For example:
I am going to guide you along the leveling path. Characters don't start at 50 with a full compliment of IOs. - Assuming IO means invention enhancement recepies, I assume I don't have to worry about those in the start of the guide.
Absorption doesn't really do much and is not optional, but that's allright because you need a place to put a Steadfast KB protection IO anyway. - Huh, what? I have no idea what is being said here.

Recently, pool powers have opened up at level 4, so Hasten is a good option. - Ehm, why? I don't seem to have any abilities that would benefit from it, all my abilities have recharge times of less than 10 seconds.

Gravimetric Snare might be nice if you had the slots to devote to it. - Actually I used it a lot, crowd control and battle field control are king in this game.

With the level six ding you need to pick up Dark Nova. - Ok. I didn't know that, so I picked it up at level 10. It was a big contributing factor to stop playing my warshade. I don't like the looks, and the attacks are boring, all use the same sound and purple beam. It's like a boring version of my fire/fire flying blaster. It trades some defense for being to more easily outrange your enemies, especially melee types. It does nothing to help against Quantum.
Not switching to a different bar when switching forms automatically is cumbersome, but can me circumvented with a macro.

The next thing to do is a respec if you have one. - Or just use the second build? I suppose he means a respec token, otherwise you need to be level 24, right?

Somewhere in this phase you'll want to grab Hasten, provided you didn't at level 4. Put it on auto - Huh what?

Other notably good powers here are Sunless Mire, Shadow Cloak and Gravity Well. Mire is a clone of the tier 8 power from dark melee, except you get it at level 12. It gives more damage bonus over time than Build Up with just one enemy. Saturated, it's like holding down the build up button for 30 seconds. Shadow Cloak is great for all the TFs you'll be doing since recall friend is an inherent power too. You can pick up Super Speed to have full stealth on the cheap. Gravity Well is a medicine. At this point it treats quantum-stomach, but later it will provide relief for sapper-aches and surgeon inflammation. - This entire paragraph needs a translation for me.

I have to break you of that bad habit before you even get it. You do notdo not shift into nova when your team needs a blaster or shift into dwarf when your team needs a tank. Never, have forms. You no never, not ever think of yourself as a character who shifts into forms as the situation arises.You are The MFing Warshade!
You are all forms at all times. Thinking anything else will cripple you without you even realizing it. You are never stuck in one form. Nova thrives on human and dwarf buffs. Dwarf protects human and nova. Human fuels dwarf and nova. Embrace this idea. - I stopped playing World of Warcraft because this could no longer be said of Druids. It's why I tried the warshade.

I will not go into detail about the 20+ portion of the guide.

I like playing shape/role shifters. I've played World of Warcraft for 5 years and my one and only character above level 10 there is a Druid. I would like to like the Warshade. If it's any indication, my character is named RogerWilco, I was hoping to make it my main character. But some of my other characters are now nearly level 30, and I can't get myself to log in my warshade, all of my other characters are more fun.

With the other Archetypes you get all kinds of different abilities, at level 4-6 you feel like a super hero/villain already. Even Trick Arrow is cool once you get the Glue Arrow. My Warshade just doesn't feel like that at level 10, even the different attacks you have all use the same sound and are very similar in appearance. He feels weak and unorganized. There isn't one ability yet that made me chuckle or go wow that's cool. Every other character I made and played past level 8 has made me do that.

Maybe I need to level something else to 50 first, like it was originally intended.

The Warshade spends to much time between hospital and mission door. Even my Archery/Trick Arrow Defender is more fun solo and he struggles compared to my other characters.


Thanks for all the advice, but my Warshade gets shelved until I figure out what to do with it. Not just because of how much of a struggle he is to level, but also because I don't like the looks and sounds.

Nice description.

You might want to check if that's really needed. When I went from 10.4 to 10.6 I officially also needed to go to 10.5 first, but unofficially 10.4 -> 10.6 just worked, Apple even acknowledged it in some support article. It could have been that this was only for 10.4-10.6 though.

Personally I preferred Snow Leopard over Lion for what they did to Spaces and a few other things.

But my old Macbook is from 2007, so I can't really compare gaming performance. If CoH does run a lot better on Lion, then I suppose I'm happy to have Lion on my new Macbook after all. I can say that CoH does run in Ultra mode at 1680x1050 on my AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB Macbook Pro 15" with Lion very nicely.

I think this is still an issue. I mostly use Word and PowerPoint, but I indeed think that the VB scripts don't work on the OSX version.

But for MS Office 2010/2011, I've at least not gotten any compatibility issues between the OSX and Windows version, like I had with the 2003/2004 and 2007/2008, where a .doc file written in MS Office 2003 format in MS Office 2004 for Mac would just not render properly in MS Office 2003 and vice-versa.

In general I found that before Office 2011, OpenOffice was often more compatible with MS Office than MS Office itself.

I find that the latest version of MS Office for the Mac, the 2011 version, does work quite well. Earlier versions were sometimes very buggy and more importantly, incompatible with the Windows version of MS Office! I've also used the OpenOffice version for OSX, haven't tried NeoOffice or LibreOffice. It works just as well as on Linux or Windows, so it's kind of nice if you use all three operating systems, like I do.
I think this is true. I don't think the Air can run CoH. I have a Macbook Pro with the AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB and can run CoH in Ultra mode 1680x1050, but my old Macbook has an 8600GT and can't run Ultra mode. I think the Air's graphics power is more comparable to that one.
I don't need Crossover or anything like that. I use the NC launcher and game download from the website and it works perfectly. It uses some wrapper around a windows install, is that what you mean with the cider wrapper? I find that it works fine as offered from the official website.
This is true. For example when OSX asks you if you want to replace something, it does mean what it says. It doesn't do a merge like Windows. but I find that OSX was really easy to adjust to, as it's design is very consistent and minimized the times it bothers the user.
I only use Skype so I don't know.
I don't know that one, but then I don't do much serious writing at the moment. LaTex has a MacTeX install, which I use in those cases.
I've got the default GroupWise client from work that I have to live with and otherwise use mostly webmail.
I completely agree. Especially if you can do it over a (wireless) network and not an USB disk. I've got a NAS from QNAP which supports TimeMachine, and it's really easy and nice.
I've got this thing called Temperature Monitor. I was worried about temperatures in the laptop, if I played for an entire evening. But as long as you don't restrict airflow, the temperature seems to be ok (70-80 C) even after hours of gaming.
Not really needed, although it does have a fully functioning Unix underneath with python and lot's of other nice stuff.
I program for a living, but I don't specifically use the Macbook for that, it's nice that it runs nearly all the tools that are available for Linux, as that's the platform I do most of my programming on, but otherwise, I use it as a normal desktop.

I have read the guide, but half of it uses terms I don't know.

I've gotten my WS to level 10 and did a few missions with using the Dark Nova form. I don't find that it helps me much. The flying sometimes outranges melee enemies, but the real problem are still the Quantum dudes.

Each time I encounter one, I get a hospital trip.

I also don't like the looks and the sounds, so for now I'm just giving up on the Warshade, I have 13 other toons that are much more fun to play. I've tried everything except Peacebringer, and find this by far the hardest and least interesting to play.

I think measuring heights in Mohawked Dragons would be a nice standard.

I think that's harder than you think.

Decorative versions of the expensive base items would be cool. Getting some of the items that are only in Praetoria as base items would also be very nice. The newer designs would allow for a base that feels more 21th century, instead of 1999.

Let's do some more levelling then

I was assuming that this kind of content can be run by mixed Hero/Villain groups, but maybe you can answer that one as well?

Another question. Are there any ATs or powersets that are usually hard to find? I now have a couple of characters around level 20, and could give priority to levelling some of them. It would be good, to avoid getting stuck in altitis.

Thanks for the reply and good luck.

Yeah. Union Roleplayers seems to be a friendly bunch, and indeed the timezone is an issue for me. Initially I started on Infinity, but noticed activity picking up around the time I went to bed. On Union I actually meet other players, even as a Villain.

I know this is a bit of a late answer, but I wanted to make that clear, for anyone else who might stumble upon this thread.