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  1. Stone Daemon
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bionut911 View Post

    What types of abilities would benefit a tri-form Warshade?

    And no, I don't mean things like "toggle suppression" or "knockdown." I mean regular powers like melt armor, mez protection toggle, slow auras, ect..

    -Thanks for any info you guys can provide!
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy View Post
    My Warshade taps into the essence of your soul to debuff your regen by 500%.
    What he said, and a Mezz protection click, like Psi Mastery's Indomitable Will.
  2. Stone Daemon
    Not to mention the requirement of having to reaffirm your morality.
  3. Stone Daemon
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison View Post

    I get to swing a concrete lollipop. What could be better?
    You stole my weapon of choice!
  4. Stone Daemon
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by twistedlogic77 View Post
    I don't like playing scrappers/tanks/brutes/veats/keldians/stalkers. Things that I really love in gameplay is the ability to actully defeat boss targets quickly and effectively.
    That's...umm....


    Wait, what?
  5. Stone Daemon
    Last time I checked, the incarnate issue release didn't say:

    Incarnates: Now you'll have 20% more fun!

    You like it, or you don't. You use it, or you don't. It's just more content.
  6. Stone Daemon

    Toxic Damage

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by GuyPerfect View Post
    No, but Penumbral Shield is.
    Ah, does it grant toxic resistance? My bad then, haven't had that power in years.
  7. Stone Daemon

    Toxic Damage

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by GuyPerfect View Post
    When Toxic was added to the game, certain defensive powers were given moderate-to-light Resistance to it. This was usually in the form of self-heals and godmodes, though Dark Armor and Warshades got consistent protection to it through toggle powers.
    Nitpick: Eclipse isn't a toggle.

    Interesting read.
  8. Stone Daemon
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bionut911 View Post
    I love how I look on google images for good pictures of dwarf and nova form...and find this on the second page...
    Haha, nice. I tried it myself, but I couldn't find that picture. However, on the 5th page of "City of Heroes kheldian triform" I did find this:



    There were also screenshots from Kheldian Fridays scattered from page 1 onwards.
  9. Stone Daemon
    I'd imagine we have until March, at the current rate the SSA arcs are dropping, until States bites it. But yeah, count me in. (If you make it a master I'll bring Stone)

    Edit: Ah, nevermind, I see they're killing him off in #5. Kinda early there, wow.

    Edit#2: And thanks for spoiling it for me. >_>
  10. Stone Daemon
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Redlynne View Post

    And I'm not asking for "make *ME* a build to play" ... I'm asking for "what do YOU (all) do in the builds you want to play?"
    Apparently, no one else in this forum is inclined to "show their work" so that other people can benefit from their experiences (and not just myself).
    You do realize that us just throwing down our builds for you to see is basically just making/giving you a build, right? You can argue that it's not all you want, but any real difference would be semantics. What we are trying to do (fruitlessly, it seems) is give you recommendations/ideas without doing that. And frankly, it'd probably be pointless to throw our builds down for you, because mine (and probably New Dawns) has several sets of purples. Which is something you didn't want, according to your OP.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Redlynne View Post
    As any Mids' Jockey who has tried to deal with the Slot Crunch of building a "decent" Tri-Form Peacebringer knows, the major challenge is figuring out what trade-offs you want to make. What powers are you going to give up on getting? What powers are going to be less than optimally slotted (ie. less than 6)? What Sets do you use? How is does the build exchange "power" in one area for "power" in another? And so on and so forth.

    These questions can only be answered in a holistic sense by being able to examine and cross compare entire builds, so that you can see the trade-offs being made and the weighting of value for different aspects to different purposes ... because with a Tri-Form Peacebringer, you can't HAVE IT ALL in a single build. You have to "compromise" somewhere on something to get advantages in different areas.



    I had hoped that by "offering to go first" we could have a discussion on "where do we go from here" with Tri-Form Peacebringer builds, what their advantages are, what sorts of variations are possible ... and so on. Apparently, I'm the only person on this board who has any interest in this topic. No one else is willing to engage in a discussion on this topic that involves a "show your work" aspect to it so that everyone can learn from shared experience.

    So I'm giving up on it.
    I don't like to do this, but here you are. You want a build? You get one. This isn't MY build, but I took your build and made some changes to it, with your restrictions in mind.

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  11. Stone Daemon

    Kheldian Fridays!

    POST-ACTION

    Late post!

    Apparently everyone was busy doing other stuff this week, so we didn't have enough people for a Numina. Instead, we ran a dev choice AE arc. It had AVs. Fun!


  12. Stone Daemon
    That THB makes some sweet kheldian builds
  13. Stone Daemon

    Santa Pictures!

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    And if anyone tries to cut in line, I have holiday themed boom sticks. Just sayin'.
  14. Stone Daemon
    For what it's worth, I've actually tried this on one of the many respec's I've burned on my peacebringer. It wasn't for me.

    I liked having all the slots I could possibly need for the forms/powers, but in the end it felt rather gimped, and had a bunch of wasted "utility" powers that either cluttered up my tray and/or were useless if I actually wanted to use it for some reason. YMMV.
  15. Stone Daemon
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Redlynne View Post
    While all that is true, it also means that no one else can learn from the cleverness and insights you've discovered in your build, can't take the lessons you've learned, chop them up piecemeal and make use of them in their own builds in new and different combinations, and so on. No one (else) can use your experiences to make their own builds better, or learn from what you already know.

    And that's a shame, really.
    Perhaps you didn't quite understand what New Dawn was trying to say? Here, read this bit:

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by New Dawn View Post
    With my builds they suit me, they're what I am happy with doing. Redlynne may just as well look at mine think "I couldn't play that". None of my builds are what I think other people should play at all, we should all derive our own conclusions to what we need, be challenged and hopefully overcome any challenges on our own merit.
    If your build works for you, great. If it doesn't, you can ask for advice or builds, but people aren't obligated to provide the latter.

    I would suggest making a mental list of what you want to do with your build, and then work to make that list possible via Mids'. If you can't make it happen, you can either ask for help getting another pair of eyes on it, or you can readjust priorities/expectations.
  16. Stone Daemon
    If your build works for you, far be it from any of us to tell you otherwise. For what it's worth, I think your first build would make a decent cheapie build, though I'd personally use something with more SL defense (and still have perma hasten/LF), if I could.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Redlynne View Post
    ... or were you planning on keeping me (and anyone else reading this thread) in suspense about the awesomeness of your (unpublished in this thread) build?
    I don't think this response was warranted, though I suppose it's possible I'm misreading a tone.
  17. Stone Daemon
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mattwo7 View Post
    Wait what? When did this happen? Or did I just overlook it?

    Edit: wait they're not inherit?
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Freitag View Post
    Hero Epic Archetypes

    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.

    Warshades
    • Umbral Aura: Shadow Slip
      • Added a new power available at level 24: Shadow Slip
      • Shadow Slip is similar to Long Range Teleportation.
      • This allows Warshades to select this power if they wish.
    • Black Dwarf now protects the player from status effects as soon as its animation begins, preventing the power from being interrupted.
    • Shadow Cloak - This power now provides defense to all types of damage, rather than just positional defense.
    Welcome to i21. And no, why would they be? Kheldian versions of TP Foe and Group flight aren't inherent, so that sets a precedent for optional travel related powers. Afterburner and Long distance teleport aren't given to you for free in the pool power list. There is no reason to assume they would be for kheldians.
  18. Stone Daemon
    There is a lack of high end (or if you prefer "state of the art") tri-form builds because high end builds make tri-form not just inefficient, but weaker than a human form would be. You are looking at the symptom of the latest round of buffs and thinking it's only choice, rather than practicality.

    Softcap and perma LF is quite easy with the right sets...on a human form, anyways. Perhaps you just need to play with Mids' some more.
  19. Stone Daemon
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MissKyo View Post
    Since I didn't see it anywhere in the thread...

    I won the Iron Tailor. Not sure how...I would have voted for Globetrotter myself if I could have voted. o.o

    I totally got some new ideas for costumes from the other contestants though! Thanks guys!
    Er, oops. In my defense, I was realllllly tired and was looking forward to only 6 hours of sleep until the next day's event started
  20. Stone Daemon
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by AIB View Post

    Stone Daemon wants a Nemesis Pony Mount (With glowing nictus eyes);
  21. Stone Daemon
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zaloopa View Post
    Funny, it sounds like Sept was actually the most heroic one on the Hero team.
    No, see, we knew that the two ladies in that tf had been brainwashed (it was obvious from the way they wouldn't shut up during combat), so we just went about the most efficient way to make sure they get immediate medical attention.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy View Post
    So...which one is Stale? Terrance, or Phillip?
  22. Stone Daemon
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by doomrider View Post
    Just wanna extend my thanks to everyone who came out to make my first Kheldian Friday one of the most fun nights I've had in a long time.
    Stone, Layla, AIB, I know I'm forgetting some, thank you guys so much!
    Protector already feels like my second home. Keep up events like these and It might have to become permenant hehe.
    We don't have the cash to do these constantly, but I can promise you a spot on the TF's we run (kheldian and otherwise) if you stick around.

    There will be a small event in February for Layla's B-day, though. You heard it here first!
  23. Stone Daemon

    Kheldian Fridays!

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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ColTech View Post
    Just stumbled on this thread at it looks like a fun idea!
    Is there a standard meeting place to form up?
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy View Post
    There's really no standard meet up place, we usually coordinate in our Kheldian Fridays channel or Protector Vigilance. Usually someone will post in this thread ahead of time with what we'll be doing next, so just standing by the contact around start time (10 est) works too.
    What THB said. Both of those channels are open to join, so go ahead and do that and feel free to say hi to anyone you see on, if you're interested in joining the fun. I'm thinking Numina for this week, unless something else sounds better.
  24. Stone Daemon
    We started off the day by splitting up--I ran a Synaptic Synpase with three other electric weilding heroes, and Layla ran a couple villain TFs.



    After the Synapse was over, I put together an all mastermind ITF. It was, well, over the top. There were robots, zombies, and demons, oh my!




    Afterwards, me and Layla joined forces yet again to run the Mortimer Kal together, with a dominator superteam...well, we would have, but we had two teams worth of people that wanted to join us! So, we split teams and ran it. My team finished in just under an hour, but unfortunately team #2 had problems with the AV's and called it quits after several tries. Sorry guys




    Next up was Septipherans Pylon Challenge! First place winner went to Donovan Cosantoir (@Dr. Scrap), second place to Ms Halflight (@Black Leather Angel), and third to Warrior Adept (@Taunting Monk). Good job guys!

    And lastly, we ran the Good vs. Evil Lady Grey Task Force! In a move that surprised nobody, Septipheran spend most of the TF being largely useless as an evil agent on behalf of Zaloopa. The villain teams technically finished faster than the hero side, but I maintain that the heroes won the contest because we called it in first. Also, heroes always win. Always.




    I'm disappointed to add that nobody (save a late minute entry from @nodoze, whom I appreciate the efforts of) bothered to attempt the Scavenger Hunt, so it was canceled. We will instead put our minds toward an event that we consider more people will take part in sometime soon down the road.

    I'd like to take this moment to thank @Black Leather Angel and @Stargeek again for their generous donations towards the event, and all of our event runners for helping bring a little something to this event (and giving us time to rest in between TF's and such). I hope you guys had a good weekend, I know I did. Happy holidays from Stone and Layla!

  25. Stone Daemon
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy View Post
    Can you use your magical Stone powers to edit into 2 different videos? For those who weren't a part of it, myself, Stone, AIB, and Dechs took on a 54x8 patrol-loaded mission complete with a level 54 AV Bobcat. It was pretty epic.
    Xfire won't let me edit videos, and I don't have any video editing software