TwoHeadedBoy

Bah, I already lost over 10% recharge on this build from my previous spec, I don't think I'd be able to run my attack chain with any less than what I have. Also even w/ the Agility alpha my recovery is just barely where it has to be for prolonged single target fights.

I appreciate the input but ranged defense to me isn't worth it for those sacrifices, as 32.5% to s/l/e/n is going to cover me against the majority of the attacks in the game regardless of their position.

I think that the unresistable damage is pretty annoying and I think that it would be best if they simply used exotic damage types (toxic, psi, etc) combined with the higher hit chance of Incarnate enemies I think that would be a more reasonable way to do it.... Either that or giving tanks inherent resistance to otherwise "unresistable" attacks making them more desirable and somewhat alleviating how favored Brutes are for high end content.

Overall though, I really do like the trials. I think they're fast paced and fun and the structures are much more interesting than everything else in the game. I would much rather do an Incarnate trial with engaging mechanics than do a task force that required me to "go to mission, defeat boss, find glowie, defeat 10 enemies, repeat" for an hour or more.

Re: The knockback issue. Why not change it all to KD in the current powers, and then also give Peacebringers a 1 second recharge Power Push clone, that way all the people who love playing their Peacebringers because they like knockback, griefing team mates, and making the game less enjoyable for everyone else don't have anything to complain about. They can still have their KB and the rest of us can have more effective characters.


And to address buffing the forms, I came by something that seriously needs to be looked at with both Swarf forms. Last night I was doing the Maria Jenkins arc on a team of 3: My Human Form Warshade, AIB on his Tri Form Peacebringer, and a Tri Form Warshade. We had AV's turned on. During the AV fights, I was consistently able to pull and sustain aggro off of both of my team mates who were in Dwarf form, using Provoke. AIB was able to get it back off of me when he taunted excessively, but I was just as able to pull it back off of him.

This leads me to what is wrong with the forms. I've always said that Human Form Warshades had the potential to compete with Dwarf form in filling a tanking role, and this confirmed it to me. Looking at the Wiki, Dwarf form has the same threat level as Scrappers, which is 3, and Human Form is at 2. I really think that Dwarf needs to be given an increased threat of 4 to be on level with Brutes and Tanks, and it definitely, absolutely needs a taunt aura. When my Human Form Warshade can tank for 2 Kheldians who are in Dwarf form, there is a problem.

I have a level 10 SOA on Virtue that I'm using as a market alt but I've been seriously considering actually playing and transferring him so I can get in on this.

I just wanted to share this because it's an idea I hadn't tried out before and I thought other people might be curious. I'm pretty sure this is something Microcosm probably did like a year ago, but he was also notorious for being twelve steps ahead of everyone so I won't beat myself up over it.

I did this respec for my Warshade this morning after planning it out for a few days. Once Bionut made me aware of the Agility alpha ability enhancing defense and recharge I collected some things to craft the t3 version. This power isn't available in mids yet but a good way to view the subsequent numbers is to equip a branch of spiritual for the 33% recharge buff and nerve for the 20% defense buff, switching back and forth accordingly.

Anyways, onto what exactly I tried to do. First I thought I'd be able to keep my s/l defense softcapped while building energy/negative defense up to the 32.5 mark. This proved to be too much, so I decided to go for 32.5% s/l/e/n defense across the board. I know I've told people not to try for e/n defense in the past, and that's because it's very hard to do without gimping some other aspect of your build. It took me quite a while in Mids to figure out how to get this to work out right.

Let's talk pros and cons. Energy damage is very common in the end game, so being able to be softcapped to it with 1 small purple means I'm likely to stay softcapped to it during Incarnate trials with all the buffs that are flying around (or two small purples.) This should be a great survivability multiplier for high end content.

Now for the cons. The best way I found to reach this goal was to use Reactive Armor sets instead of Kinetic Combats. The bad thing about not having 45% s/l defense is that I am more susceptible to defense cascading from lethal damage (notorious for defense debuffs.) I also lost a lot of the HP bonuses from Kinetic Combats, which I tried to make up for by building up extra regeneration.

The next things I wanted to work back into my build were Provoke and Essence Drain. The attack chain I was running on my s/l softcapped build was Well>Eye>Blast>Eye which is the highest DPS available to a Warshade, but I decided to switch back to the Drain>Blast>Well>Blast chain to help improve my survivability due to lower defense to s/l and lower HP. The DPS is slightly lower but it's not a spectacular difference (I'll post maths if anyone wants to see it.)

My Peacebringer is still missing three pieces of Armageddon and 2 pieces of Ragnarok, but I put most of the bids in today. I splurged and paid a flat 2 billion on the market to get one of the Panacea procs posted for my Warshade so I had to leave some lowball bids. My PB will be done in a couple of days so I'll post more about the philosophy when that happens.. Suffice to say that it is very similar to the philosophy applied to my Warshade.

In the meantime I'm going to post both of the builds for people to look over. Since they are both still in the experimental stage and there's a good chance that I'll respec them around I don't feel like I'm compromising on my "never post a final build" philosophy.

Another thing to mention is that these builds, coincidentally enough, both ended up best suited to "pure human form." This doesn't mean I'm going back on how I view taking Dwarf for set mules- For an s/l softcapped build, which I very well might go back to, it's the smartest way to do it.

Before I forget, there's another neat thing about this Warshade build. It's able to run ~50% resistance to s/l/e/n damage without an Eclipse target to speak of. Pretty convenient.

Edit: Another note. You might notice the 6 slotted Expedient Reinforcements in dark Extraction and Photon Seekers. You might not like it. I don't like it either. If anyone has a plan on how to get my 2 pieces of SA back in there, well that'd be cool.


Peacebringer build (edited to link to the right build- Thanks new dawn)

Just something really quick

I just wanted to pop in to say that I think it's utterly silly when people complain about loot farming. People who farm for drops/rolls/etc are doing a service to the in game economy. They are generating recipes/enhancements in moderate to large quantities and making them available to the rest of the player base. In this particular case (PVP farming) they are potentially providing extremely sought after items.

I'm glad you quoted that, Stone. It's been much too long since I've read the MFing Warshade. I think it might be the best guide written in COH history, and I'd still be saying that if Dechs wasn't my friend.