Stone Daemon

It's called balance and game design.

You can't have powers that, in and of themselves, let you attack without the possibility of reciprocation. Just think about it. And keep in mind, this is a pool power. You cannot have attacks that do extreme AoE damage on a pool power, nor attacks that heal for the same amount as you damage (unless the damage was minor). And let's not get into how psychic powers or "healing shots" make sense in "Gun Mastery."

If you want to make up powersets that could conceivably be added to the game, you should probably play it a bit more, and study the other powersets.

You realize that most of those are incredibly broken, right?

I have no idea what a druid is, as I have never played WoW. That said...

As you level, your tactics will have to change. There are lots of powers that you will get that are what I like to call "Game Changers." Gravity Well is one of them, Gravitic Emanation is another. The biggest ones, in my opinion, are Gravitic Emanation and Eclipse.

Let's pretend you're 50, for a moment. Like Jeremia said, you'll want to start your fights in human form. Position yourself carefully to the mob, and unleash Gravitic to throw them all back stunned. You can skip using Gravitic if the enemies pose no threat to killing/mezzing you right away. You then rush forward and Eclipse/Mire. At this point, you can Gravity Well someone (or move to dwarf, depending on the difficulty of the opponents you're fighting). You can take out a troublemaker with Gravity Well, or use it to take out a minion and use unchain essence and summon your pet. You can switch to nova and blast the rest of them, or you can then go into dwarf and bash some heads. I generally favored Nova form more than dwarf, unless there was a hard target I needed to bash, and the double mire would be useful in keeping my damage up.

For low levels, you'll be relying on Nova to kill your enemies before they kill you a lot, and then on Dwarf post 20 to survive mezzers. You'll want to keep an eye on your life/endurance and use Stygian Circle as necessary. And of course, use your human powers to control the battle.

Obviously, you'll be switching back and forth through forms a lot during battles. You have to keep your eye on Mire/Eclipse to make sure to use them whenever they wear off, and summon our your pets, use your mezzes as necessary, etc. So yes, there is a very good reason to have those abilities on your bar. You WILL be using them.

It's a bit melodramatic to say that you shouldn't do any missions at all until X level. While Quantums/Voids can be difficult, they're by no means difficult enough to hide from them by staying out of missions. Besides, they spawn outdoors, too. Like I've said, I recommend teaming. If teaming is impossible, use inspirations liberally when you need to. If you run out of inspirations, play carefully, or get new ones.


Quite the opposite. There are a few AT's out there that I have no fun playing. Even more power combinations that I can't stand to play. For example, to me, Trick Arrows is absolutely no fun until Oil Slick Arrow. But I digress...no, warshade starts being fun as soon as you get into the zone of playing it.

He's saying that you won't be awesome from the get go. Advice to keep in mind with a lot of late blooming powersets, I'd say.

The power itself isn't useful, because by itself it's not that great, and on an endgame build, it's absolutely useless, as with Eclipse your damage resistance will be capped anyway. What the power is good for, then, is to be able to mule unique IOs to help with other things. Knockback protection, for example.

You should really look past your first couple powers, then. Eclipse, Dark Extraction, Unchain Essence, Sunless Mire...there are many powers that hasten will help you on.

Grav Snare is a power choice that is something of a personal taste pick. If you like it, fine, go for it. A lot of kheldian players don't waste their time or slots on a limited use single target immobilize power. You get better powers for crowd control, anyway. What he is saying, though, is that you will have other powers that will probably need those slots more.

Not everyone likes Tri-forming. The problem you're facing, then, is that you're reading a guide to being a tri-former. If you don't like it, don't take it. Simple as that.

Personally, I prefer that the game doesn't automatically switch my power tray. What lots of newbie kheld players don't realize is that a good tri-former is not just a flying squid, or just a crab, or just the human form. You can be all three. In other words, you don't want to stay in one form 24/7, or you're just limiting yourself. And then you really WILL be just a weak blaster.

That advice is mostly for vets, because they'll have lots of freebies. The reason for this is, after you have access to Nova/Dwarf, you can respec and put slots into their attacks starting at level 1. A useful trick, no?

Auto. Also called auto-fire. You hold the ctrl button, and click on the power, and it will activate as soon as it's done recharging (assuming you're in human form). Very useful on certain self buffing powers.

He's comparing powers between other powersets. Sunless Mire is an area attack that functions somewhat like build up, in that it raises your damage/tohit--but for every enemy it hits. Shadow Cloak is a semi-invisibility power, and if you get super speed (or the stealth IO), you'll be fully invisible to most enemies. With a warshades inherent ability to TP, you can ghost missions. Gravity well is very useful in the sense that it will take problem enemies out of commission, so you can take care of Voids/Quantums before they kill you, and so on with other problem enemies.

And so far it doesn't sound like you're embracing it, if you think the Nova form is just a weak blaster. Read what I said above about making use of all your powers.

Ok.

Frankly, it just sounds like you're not quite sure how to play it yet. I will guarantee you that the first several levels can be quite difficult, but learning how to play a tri-form warshade is a process. Some people become quite good at it, others never quite get it. I would suggest teaming with others a lot until you get to 18-26. Make sure you take a moment to look at the powers you get at later levels, too. If you still finding yourself not liking to play it by, say, 32, perhaps the AT is just not for you.

It's something that grows on you--or doesn't. Good luck.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Peacebringers seem like a mixed bag of tricks, compared to the uniformity of a warshade (if that makes sense).

You shouldn't have to do Scratch's mission to unlock DJ Zero, Ganymede should refer you to him after finishing his missions. Try talking to DJ Zero, see if he gives you anything.

Edit: Reread what you said on the previous post. I guess you might have to do both sides, then. Try asking around for a villains help on your servers chat channel to do Scratch's mission, and try talking to DJ Zero again afterwards.

To focus directly on this--I would argue that there are many power combinations that suffer in low levels solo. Getting a team is generally the best way to get through those levels too. I can agree, to an extent, that kheldians have things a bit more difficult than most, but it is by no means impossible. Just difficult.

I wouldn't call Protector a "big server." Which server are you on? If you're logging in at European evening time on an already small NA server, I could possibly see the problem there. If you're on a EU server, well, I'm afraid I don't know what it's like over there--I've only visited once.

Is it possible you are not using the main channel for the server? There are quite a few server channels per server, and you'll want to make sure you're on the channel with the highest average population for that server.

I'm not sure what you mean, I couldn't find the phrase "phase2" anywhere on Paragonwiki.

I'm also unsure of what you're asking, but I'm assuming you haven't done the event before? If this is the case, you first need to complete Ganymede/Scratch's set of missions (getting help from an alternate alignment character to do so), after which DJ Zero will become available for you to get the Snaptooth mission from. Each time you beat the Snaptooth mission, you can choose from the list of rewards.

It's something I've considered, but I would need to do research to see if the players were there to take part in it.

You're missing the whole point. Global channels. You get on one, ask if there is a tf/team that you could get on (or start one yourself), and voila. People don't have to be in your level range to join you with something. Anyone in the channel will be able to see your post, and will be able to team up with you. If you're not using the tools available to you (that everyone else is using), of course you will have difficulty finding teams.

You'll notice that I said it becomes a bit easier, not "wham easy." Also, I'm pretty sure break frees still drop at early levels. Plus, you know, teaming. Teaming helps.

Do you use the global channels for your server? I find that the community (at least on my server) has by and large moved to that for teaming, instead of sending out random tells to people. Also, you realize that VIPs get a free server transfer every month with their subscription?

That could be useful, if implemented correctly, and was able to be hidden if the player didn't want to use them.

You've missed cool_bagheera's posts, then?

Seeing as how the OP had nothing to do with trials (as it was created over two years ago), I don't see how anything you posted was in any way relevant.

Also:

Technically, I think the reason Warshades get the psi hole covered is because Eclipse has more risk to use. You have to be in the midst of the enemy mob do get adequate protection. I wouldn't mind seeing the psi hole covered/alleviated, though, since PB's have to deal with the crash constantly.

The resistance debuff has been often suggested, but the dual purpose attacks...I just don't see it happening. It would depend on the numbers, but if it was good enough to be useful, it would probably be overpowered. It would definitely make getting confused lulzy.

That sounds awesome...but it would mean they'd get another nerf in damage. I would probably take it though, because as they are now...

Sounds lovely. (The boost does carry between the forms.)