TwoHeadedBoy

I didn't see many of our regulars online tonight, basically it was just Stone and Exercitus. Granted, I didn't actively try to recruit either because someone decided to form an Underground trial in Vigilance at our normal starting time.

I know stuff like this happens and people are definitely entitled to run other trials, but personally I think it's just in bad taste to form a trial at the exact time when a weekly trial event is run... Especially if you're active on the forums and within the Protector community, which this person was. On such a small server, it's hard enough to put together a league for this kind of stuff as it is.

I paid 1.25 billion on the market tonight, buy it now price for a Gladiator's Javelin Toxic Damage proc, because I wanted it now and it took me like a day and a half to make the money anyways. Inf is abundant and I don't think enhancement converters are going to change that.

I think what converts will do is normalize the price of purples- I see them settling in somewhere between the prices of the "good" sets and the "bad" sets, obviously with the "good" sets still being a bit higher. I also see the "big three" PVP IO's dropping down to be in line with the rest of their respective sets, again slightly higher.

This is obviously all speculation, but either way I'm not worried about having to hoard inf.

My predictions.

The Hybrid slot is going to be vehicular travel powers.

The Mind slot is going to be a choice of massive single target debuffs.

The Vitae slot is going to let you boot anyone who does not have at least the same tier of Vitae as you offline in overcrowded zones. It is also going to grant "boot offline" protection from anyone using Vitae at your tier or below. (The duration of which the people kicked are unable to log back in will depend on the tier of Vitae used on them.)

The Omega slot is going to be fingers.

I think buy it now price for GA on the market board is still 2.5 billion but I expect them to drop soon. You'll see them going for 2 billion flat on the auction house because that's the maximum bid you can leave in game. They're mostly sold on the forums.

As for the panacea proc, I would say that is selling for 2 billion everywhere. There were several for sale on the market last week and I paid a flat 2 billion and got one instantly at level 50 for my Warshade, as there were several more for sale I can't imagine people on the forums asking much more than that (unless at a lower level.)

Be nice to Stone if you want my help. That's my buddy.

My Warshade can solo any enemy group he's tried on 54x8 with bosses, but the sticklers (Malta, Arachnos) get difficult when I'm just trying to finish a mission, easy mode for him is 0x8 with bosses turned on.

Leveling up new characters is a different story. I have a Dark/Dark defender in the 30's who I'm working on and he's best suited for 0x3 with no bosses. When I leveled up my Fire/Mental Blaster, it was +1x2 with bosses most of the time. Basically my difficulty changes based on the character I'm playing, I would never say that I absolutely do or don't leave bosses on or off at all times.

Granted if I'm just stealthing some tips for the quick merit, everyone turns it down to -1x0 no bosses, no questions asked.

Yeah, the "pace" issue is totally gone as you level up more and he obviously didn't play long enough to see his attack chains/etc fleshing out.

I thought the review was fair enough also. I particularly agree with his comments about the camera and maze-like maps/poor directives, those are some of my biggest pet peeves with COH.

The first goal for any Warshade that plans to IO out their build should be getting perma Eclipse. Even with Spiritual Core paragon, yours is missing by 12 seconds. It's best to have more overlap than that, as a reference point.

You say you don't want to spend a lot of cash, and yet you included two of the most expensive enhancements in the game with the Gladiator's Armor 3% defense and the Panacea proc.

You seem to be worrying more about some (quite frankly) directionless build goals than slotting your powers properly.

You say you want strong single target output? You might start by getting yourself a single target attack chain. That means you need to slot Essence Drain primarily as an attack. You also might want to rethink your Gravity Well slotting. The 2 Basilisk's Gaze are giving you e/n defense that isn't helping you reach 32.5 or 45% e/n defense. (You instead decided to focus on f/c/a for some reason, which I'll get to.)

Your Dark Extraction is gimpy as heck. It's sort of a "must 6 slot" power. 4 Expedient Reinforcements and 2 SA's are a great way to slot it, but 6 Expeidents work for some builds.

The best way to slot Eclipse is with 2 Nucleolus Exposures and 2 common Recharge IO's. There has been a lot of discussion on the board about this so feel free to look around on your own for the explanation. Why the heck are you trying to build fire and aoe defense w/ that Aegis slotting when you haven't even reached your (presumed) goal for e/n defense?

Your build goals are just giving me a headache. I see you 6 slotted Gravitic Emanation for AOE defense when your Eclipse isn't even perma.

I'm getting the idea that you have never actually played a Warshade, so you have no idea how to build a Warshade. If this assumption is correct I suggest starting off by playing The MFing Warshade to level 50. At that point, if you're still enjoying your Shade and you're still considering playing a Human Form Warshade, check out The "Complete" Guide to Human-Form Warshades. Both of those guides provide great insight into specific slotting approaches, play styles, and all around awesomeness.

We don't really give builds away here. If you post a build you've worked out for your character yourself, many would be glad to help it. If you are just looking to jack a build someone else made, it would probably be best for everyone if you did your own lurking.

Well. You guys pissed him off now. Good job.