TwoHeadedBoy

The only posts I've read by you have been based on the premise of, "Hey everyone!~ Look at me! I'm a girl! Did you guys catch that?! I'm a GIRL you guys!"

I personally suggest that you at least consider bringing some insight into your forum contributions. Having one Golden Girl is bad enough, and in defense of all her useless snarky posts, she at least knows pretty much everything about COH lore. I don't see an excuse for you.

Wrong on the first part, right on the second. Desirability is subjective- I don't think it's fair to make a general assessment about an Archetype as a whole because personal capabilities/build/familiarity with content are all equally contributing to the overall notion of "usefulness."

I can certainly tell you that on Minds of Mayhem, my Warshade is out-DPSing all the dead Scrappers and Blasters who were too busy pre-queing their attacks to think while they play, avoid the environmental damage, and stay alive. I can also tell you that I'm more useful than the folks who die at the end of Keyes Island during a badge run, while I'm teleporting held leaguemates out of the Obliteration Beam.

When it comes to non-end game content, Warshades can essentially solo everything, so any argument for uselessness is null and void. My Warshade, and many other Warshades, can solo level 53-54 AV's without temps or Lore pets. We've also been known to solo the hardest enemy groups in the game on 54x8, so there's no logical grounds for dismissing our damage output or survivability.

When it comes to usefulness on teams... If DPS, AOE, and off-tank isn't enough, we can also permanently stun entire even-con spawns at a time (the only time I can't do this on teams is during Incarnate trials, and those enemies have insane mez protection.)

In a nutshell, I'm sensing that the OP is misinformed/ignorant of the capabilities of my preferred AT, which is leading to a misdiagnosis of "usefulness." I'll let others speak in defense of their AT/sets of choice, but this is my two cents.

Umbral Blast/Umbral Aura all day.

Unfortunately, I'm thinking the design intention was "Peacebringers are really good at knocking things back!" which was probably a great way to mitigate damage in the minds of people who implemented Knockback in the first place. Unfortunately, that concept is not one that translates to the current game environment.
Well I think that Human-Form Warshades play like Dominators do, and are harmed in the end game the same ways that Controllers/Dominators are in that it's harder to mez Incarnate enemies. Overall though, I think that Warshades compete with Dominators in terms of control and compete with/exceed many melee sets in terms of survivability. Our damage output even competes with Brutes/Scrappers/Blasters, but it's very circumstantial in that it relies on very squishy pets.

Really, Warshades would be perfect in my eyes after toggle suppression, shortened form shift animations, and some obvious changes to the inherent (mainly changing all resistance bonuses to defense bonuses.) I would also like to see Eclipse carry over to Extracted Essences. Peacebringers on the other hand... Well, I addressed that in my last post, and while I feel that the i21 changes helped them out a lot I still think the AT is a mess.



Ignore New Dawn... Known troll on the Kheldian board.

I can see energy blast being useful on a solo blaster who needs the mitigation from KB for survivability. On a decked out and practically unkillable Peacebringer the knockback does nothing but hamper progress. Scattering mobs decreases the amount of targets that can be hit with AOE powers- And, like I said, one of those AOE powers is melee range. That means you not only fail to hit the target cap in your AOE's after the alpha strike, but you also need to reposition yourself constantly every time you use your most powerful AOE attack. As a reference point, my Warshade's damage aura clears mobs faster than a Peacebringer.

When you have a melee AOE power, the way it works is that you need to use it from melee range. It's sort of hard to do when the power itself, plus all of your other attacks, knock everything out of melee range.

Hey, can you blame me for wanting to like my Peacebringer?

Both?

Even this isn't the case in my opinion. I had the inf. to take full advantage and more of the Peacebringer changes, AND I didn't mind playing a human form build... But guess what? It was still clunky and awkward. I had two very important melee powers in Radiant Strike and Solar Flare. Not only did all of my other attacks grief these powers... they even griefed themselves with massive knockback. Not to mention griefing the rest of the team, but I stripped him down and retired him before I got to bringing him on non-casual/with friends teams.

There was that other thing too. The constant HP crash that comes with Perma Light Form is totally manageable and I laugh at anyone who complains about it, but the endurance crash is a serious issue. Light Form was clearly redesigned to be perma-able, so it stands to reason that conserve power being the only endurance recovery tool available to mitigate the -end crash should have its duration and cooldown matched to that of Light Form.


The bottom line for me is that the synergy and flow of a Warshade is simply not available to Peacebringers, no matter how badly I wanted it to be. I spent billions of infamy and hours in Mids working on my Peacebringer, because I wanted to like him so badly... But every time I played him all I could think was "My Warshade could deal with this situation more efficiently and comfortably." It just became an exercise in futility for me.

Hey look, I was right, or close to it at least.

Might want to post what server you're on, and/or in that server's forum for better results. I think I saw you broadcasting for this on Freedom earlier but it might have been someone else.

A few million? Try a couple billion. (That's for many single IO's in my build. Estimated market worth of the whole build is ~20-30 billion.)

And no, the devs haven't committed the sacrilege of pay2win Purple/PVP IO selling yet.

Ah, I have a level 40 Claws/Dark Brute that I neglect the heck out of. My SS/Fire makes him seem like an impostor Brute, hah.

I dunno... Grey Pilgrim is no joke. Did you see what he did yesterday!?

Haha, a friend of many of us here and occassional poster, AIB, soloed a GM with Lore Pets, so the "with pets" bar is set pretty high.
I retired and stripped down my Perma LF Human Form Peacebringer pretty recently after dumping about 12 billion into him. Perma LF is great on paper but the end crash and KB drove me crazy. The only way I'd consider playing my PB again is if the cooldown on conserve power was reduced to match the cooldown on LF and the KB was changed to KD on the AOE powers.
Clarion is a wonderful thing.
If he's a human form Warshade, you can have both! See the build I posted.

Haha, well thank you. I have been slowly trying to configure an AE mission that lets me solo the whole Freedom Phalanx at the same time as level 50 heroes, but I can't figure out how to get them to spawn in the same spot, and Longbow make for horrible buff food.

Bobcat.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=273460


Forgive the crappy quality of the screens.

I don't find any of those things are necessary on teams. Which brings us to:
With no team mates, I follow the code passed down to us by the great MFing Warshade: FIND MORE BODIES.I have soloed a level 53 AV without Lore Pets, and I still haven't tried at 54. Grab a group when it's time to Mire, and then go back to bashing AV skull in. It's a wonderful thing.

Certainly on teams it would be rude to my companions if I kept intentionally drowning them in aggro that they can't handle, but I'm the MFing Human Form Warshade, and I can always find (and swiftly neutralize) more bodies on my own.