Stone Daemon

Well, Sept isn't going to come anyway, we may as well do another shadow shard tf.

Unless someone has a better idea?

Awesome

Keeping in mind that you'll have to actually pay to unlock controllers in the first place, the battle maiden farm is great for that combo.

I prefer then characters.

Haven't taken the human form AoE's in years. Never thought it was worth it, and it seemed counter-intuitive. The main draw of human form is for single target damage--and you get that from melee. Why, then, would you use a weaker version of your novas attacks to knock them away from you?

On strictly human-form PB's it might be different, but on a tri-form (especially with instant form change coming up) it would be a waste.

He's got a point, though. If someone has to pay 300 a run, chances are they aren't going to be too receptive to short, efficient runs. They're gonna want the most bang for their buck in that deal.

Now, if it was 300 over X amount of time, that would be something else.

I don't know...there are a few options. I would have to look at what I could do, see if you could make up the 10% recharge somehow. The only things I can think of at the moment would lose you a bit of SL defense.

I could look into detailing alternative IO's in my Mids' guide, at some point.

I'm not a big fan of pulsar myself; I don't consider 2 mags of stun worth a 3 second animation time. If you don't like it much either, it can be switched out for another set with a good recharge bonus. It's all up to you.

Yep, Light Form gives you a buttload of knockback protection, and with it perma you need not worry about it. 4 mags of inherent protection should cover you just fine for when you're not running it.

The PVP IO is pretty cheap right now (like 300-500 million, last I checked), but if need be can just leave it off until you're ready to buy it. The purples can be switched for cheaper counterparts, like Mako's bite proc for the hecatomb proc, or stupefy in place of Absolute Amazement (if you were going to keep pulsar). But frankly, most of the high end items you should probably just obtain via hero/reward/astral merits. I save hard cash for the cheapie stuff that isn't worth getting via merits.

In the end, the build itself shouldn't be viewed as a "finished" product--rather, it's more of a template to work off of. Of course, if you have any other questions/etc, I'd be happy to help further.

Haha, alright. That should be doable.

To answer this question specifically, though...

People have gotten along without perma-lightform for all these years. If you got along fine without using it back then, you can do so now. They haven't changed anything on PB's that would make it less effective in surviving.

I was curious as well.

On one hand, I completely disagree that building your character with enough recharge to perma lightform is "not standing on your own feet." It's a build choice, and frankly, it's a smart one. There is a small crash that is easy to deal with, and the power itself is weaker in effectiveness terms than, say, Unstoppable is. In fact, using it if you're in danger of dying is what would make it an "oh crap" power (which is what you intend to use it for, yes?), when in reality, you'd be using it proactively and leaving it on permanently. It can no longer be labeled as such, any more than Eclipse could.

On the other hand, this is your build, your play style, and your choice. And you are entitled to all three.

Well, the thing is, your nova form is basically useless as is right now. If you were taking it to set mule stuff and planning on being human only, that would be one thing, but yeah--defense debuffs on your damage form? Not good.

Another thing is this--even if you don't like light form for whatever reason, you're going to want a lot more recharge in your build. Hasten, too, obviously. (I know some people dislike the glowing hands effect, don't know what to tell you if that's the case, aside from hiding it with auras and such.) Human form attacks are incredibly slow, and if you want to stick to that form mainly, you'll be sitting inactive a lot in between attacks.

Anyway, I can take a look at it later when I get to a computer with Mids', if no one else beats me to it.

Your argument is flawed. A babysitter doesn't get to walk away with anything but money. A person getting PL'd and gets refunded their money, however, gets to keep all the xp THB earned for them.

As his base designer, I've had plenty of opprotunities to see him in action as he prestige farmed. He's at least as fast as most of the SS/fire brutes I've seen in action.

Granted, I don't go seeking farms much, but it's definitely fast. And it's the first time I've seen World of Confusion actually be useful.