TwoHeadedBoy

The answer is: Yes. You get tons of cred for this.

This also.

Very glad about the ixp though, I stopped working on my Blaster's lore slot out of frustration. (He has his t3 crafted already and about 17% xp, and I already paid for 2 other slots with inf/threads.)

You aren't alone, my friend AIB's Warshade uses both the leadership and medicine pools, and he gets good mileage out of both. Personally, I play my Warshade as a KA-BAR with little to no time for acting like support class. My team benefits from my presence because everything is usually dead before they can toggle on Hover. If my team mates live long enough to get killed, it means the situation is a bit tougher- But that's ok, because this is the point where I hit Vengeance and it's back to regularly scheduled programming.

How is that applicable? You're equating the amount of h34lz to survivability. How is your saying that PB's are more survivable than Warshades because of how many heals they have any different than someone saying a traps defender sucks because it doesn't have any heals so it's not defending right? You're taking one tiny tool that can assist in survivability and using it to leverage your entire point, which is flat-out incorrect.

Dechs if you're looking to have your highest DPS attack chain in human, why not drop Nova and use the extra slots/power choice to achieve that goal? Just an idea.

Are you one of those people who posts "LF Healerz" in broadcast?

I gave up on those because my kheldian questions seemed like they would be infinitely ignored anyways. Was this something actually discussed, or just a quick comment made before moving along? And was it just in reference to balancing Peacebringers with Warshades, or of the overall need for both AT's to be balanced with the rest of the game?

Or maybe you're making generalizations about an entire archetype you've evidently never played based on your limited experience encountering people who were doing it wrong.

That would be like me saying "Blasters do less damage than defenders" because I was once teamed with a blaster on a trial account trying to figure out how brawl worked while the defender on our team was killing stuff.

That can be said for anything in the game. A well played anything is going to perform better than the same exact thing when poorly played, Peacebringers and Warshades included. The point is that a well played warshade can outperform a well played peacebringer (in pve) almost all the time.

I have no idea what's giving you the impression that your PB is more survivable than a warshade. With what, light form? Every so often when it's up, I guess you'll be as survivable as a warshade is all the time with eclipse. But then your HP and endurance crash, and you won't be able to use it again for like a week. Oh yea, you also can't change forms while it's up.

Dech's guide covers the entire leveling process for Warshades... I followed it as I built mine and had a blast the whole time. The goal when you start a new character is usually to play it until it's fully realized, and have it be as effective as possible. I feel like it's very misleading of you to say or imply that Peacebringers are more survivable than Warshades when the opposite is the case.

I'm not saying PB's are bad- I have a PB that I enjoy playing, and it's much more challenging to stay alive when there is no way to permanently cap resistance to all damage, or hit the damage cap regularly... Warshades live longer and kill faster in almost any situation... The exception being single target AV fights.

Kheldians are complicated no matter which way you go. If you're looking for a straightforward character without a huge learning curve, Peacebringers and Warshades aren't for you.

Edit: Talk about heals? Warshades get Stygian Circle, the most effective self heal I've ever seen. It's so effective that it becomes inadvisable to take our targeted heal (which we also get) because we don't need it.

Not only is Stygian Circle awesome, but it recharges so fast you won't know what to do with it. Peacebringers would probably even get more mileage out of it since they take so much more damage than warshades do...Once again, except every so often when light form is up.

If you're ever on Protector I'd be happy to give you a demonstration.

I'll have to talk to my friend about it, his is a clone of one he was using previously (he recreated it and set the bosses not to rez) and I alternate between the two (I like the rezzing bosses solo, because I spawn them as LT's.)

I know it took him a bit to figure out how to get the exp/ticket value where he wanted it, but this was quite a while ago and we didn't really talk specifics since I'm completely oblivious to that part of the game.

I was gonna say "clever..."

I know how defense works, I should have specified that I don't make my own farms and I'm 99% sure that the two I use both have enemies who do part smashing and part fire damage. That being the case, it seems much more practical to build up s/l defense (if I'm not building positional) than fire since it can be helpful in places besides the AE building (and be useful while I'm in there, too.)

I find that the most effective BAF trials use choke points instead of doors... Personally, I like to stay in nova form during prisoners, it's where my ranged blasts are. I always make sure to drop to human when extraction is up, and maybe use grav emanation.

I've found that as I got used to the trials, my Warshade became much more effective during them than when I originally posted this. I had only just started running them at the time and just didn't understand how they work as well as I do now.

During BAF, the beginning is easy... I like to be the first or one of the first in every group. I find that there isn't much point in trying to stack mires because by the time I finish the clunky and unnecessarily long dwarf animations, the group has already been steamrolled and the rest of the league is half way through the next one. Usually I'll just eclipse>human mire and then alternate quasar, unchain essence, and judgement every few groups. On a smaller league that isn't steamrolling I will stack mires and nova blast.

Nightstar is easy... Buff off of the adds, and maybe even concentrate on them exclusively if no one else is proactively doing so. If I'm not needed in that department, I'll just use them for buff food and then beat up the AV.

Same goes for Siege, and I already mentioned how I handle prisoners.

The beginning of Lambda is the same idea as the beginning of BAF. I used to HATE the sabotage phase but now that I'm used to it I like it... Only on my Warshade, though. My blaster gets destroyed in there.

I've actually found myself soloing crates on more than one occasion- They're all surrounded by fresh bodies and the entire phase is swimming with a constant supply of veng bait. It's pretty much regularly scheduled warshade programming, constant food for eclipse paired with vengeance is good enough for me.

The end of Lambda still annoys me, but that's only because I hate running around like a lunatic chasing after Marauder. There's still stuff to buff off of, but I find the whole ordeal to be a gigantic hassle.