TwoHeadedBoy

Your best bet is the market (search for nucleolus exposure or synthetic nucleolus exposure) but you can also get them from Hamidon and the synthetic equivalents from the STF and LRSF.

Obliteration is hardly a good choice for reducing endurance use. Frankenslot with Dam/End IO's, it's what I do.
It should be used as a control power, not an attack. You can use it to reposition spread out mobs to optimize your Eclipse and Mire executions and Emanation combined with Inky is insanely powerful, letting you permanently stun groups while you destroy them.
Clarion can be perma'd.
I'm going to quote Dechs on this because I think he gave the best response I've ever seen to this issue:

In other words, Warshades kill so quickly and stygian circle is up so often that endurance consumption is hardly an issue. I used some PVP sets in my build to supplement recovery during single target fights, but I wouldn't call that strictly necessary.


You wouldn't need to drop the Decimation set, keep the 5 pieces for the recharge bonus and use a Nucleo in the sixth slot.
I never run tactics because I have all the +tohit I need from Mire, but it's nice to get Vengeance and I 2 slot it with recticles for the easy defense bonus.
It lets you tank for your team mates and keeps your pets alive combined with controls more effectively than anything else. It lets you pull mobs together for self buffs and lets you pull runners back to you. Very valuable.
Warshades are notorious for outliving their team mates. You will get use out of Vengeance, and it also takes an LOTG+ Recharge.
I would say to shoot for s/l instead of Melee, they come hand in hand but if you can get s/l up to 32.5 you'll be able to soft cap it with one small purple effectively making you as survivable as possible against most attacks regardless of their position.
Stacked Mires and Dark Nova are the best AOE a Kheldian is capable of dishing out. My human form build only started competing with my old Tri Form builds AOE when it procced the heck out of everything with expensive goodies and slotted t4 reactive.

I don't think that budget defines what you can play, but usually when people come to the forums looking for build advice they're looking to get the most out of their character with what they have available to them. I couldn't in good conscience tell people to buy a Mustang that doesn't run when I could sell them a perfectly fine Focus for the same price, if you follow my analogy.

Oh right. That's the day before the elves and whatnot. *Mumbles...*

Yes, I suppose it would make sense to push it back.

The Devs have recently taken to selling enhancements for real life money, and I'm assuming with the trend of selling progressively nicer stuff over time they'll be selling Purple and PVP IO's soon. If someone comes on the board looking for help with a build, takes the initiative to contact me, etc. with any questions I don't mind helping them out but I would not feel right enabling a bunch of people to mindlessly clone my Warshade. I worked hard on it after all.

You might want to redirect your cheers towards said Warshades (Plural) soloing high level Arch Villains, 54x8 Malta, Arachnos, and Carnies. Warshades are able to compete with any high end set at max investment- Just like Fiery Aura, the most overpowered Melee secondary at the same investment threshold. Are you gonna rag on FA too?


Uh. I hope you don't hurt yourself.
What did you just say? For your magic WS making they... I don't even think there's any point in quoting you anymore. I'm hoping you do better this time!
Good thing my Warshade stacks resistance debuffs... And Super Strength, in case you were wondering, is widely considered the most powerful melee set in the game. Spoiler: It also does one of the most commonly resisted damage types. So does Dual Blades, if I'm not mistaken, which is the current king of DPS. Warshade damage output is less resisted than both of these examples, which are obviously great ones... So I hardly feel that you can use potential NE resistance as something to negate a Warshades ST potential.
I have a FOTG -Res proc in my Damage aura and a 25% -Res from my t4 reactive. That means I'm capable of stacking resistance debuffs. I don't think that team mates are completely useless- For end game content they're obviously necessary. You originally quoted a post that I made to demonstrate the self sufficiency of my Warshade during soloable content set for teams and with teams.

What? Sure I did.

......HAHAHA. Your "big challenge" is Circle of Thorns? My Perma Sunless Mire buffs my toHit through the roof. I just... I can't even take you a little bit seriously anymore. I mean. Come on. Circle of Thorns?
Sure, Scrappers put out the best ST damage in the game. I never disputed that. I just said that my Warshade can compete with Scrappers- Not touching the highest sets numbers but surpassing many of the lower combinations, and keeping level with the moderate combinations.

ST oriented Scrappers though, would be hard pressed to accomplish the other things I've pulled off with my Warshade.
Uh.. rest? What the hell is wrong with you?

Nope! But I chose to, because I can.
A Tank not dying? Sure. A Tank being as useful as my Warshade on a team? Hell no. I am more survivable than any high end tank build in the game. I also do high end DPS, and can permanently control entire spawns whenever I feel like it. A tank is simply incapable of that amount of contribution, and I say that as I level up my Elec/MA Tank who I am very fond of.

(An edit to say that tanks are better at one thing, which is holding high level enemy aggro. When it comes to even level enemies I can control them effectively, making the role of a tank irrelevant, but during certain content it becomes more difficult to consistently apply the needed mez to *completely* fill that void.)

Surely a Kin/Buff Bot/Whatever you're talking about can contribute a lot to a team... That is, a team who has a use for their contribution. My Warshade solos some of the hardest enemies and enemy groups in the game, on the highest settings. He doesn't need buffs to be god. He's just god all the time.
I leave mobs stunned and low on health when I finish them off, 4 pieces max, before I head off to the next spawn. I'm sure that the dazzled Scrappers can handle at least a few enemies without me... Or did you need help with those too?
My Warshade solos Cysts in his sleep. If you ever wind up on a team with me, and you can't handle a wee little Shadow Cyst, please feel free to whine, beg, whatever it is you're doing now and I'll take it out for you.
Uh.

I do need to interject quickly to inform you that my Warshade has a current market worth of ~20 billion. You missed a zero.
...Until he dies.
...Until he dies.
Nope, cause I beat him to the alpha strike.

Edit: Wanted to elaborate on this...

I believe in Karma. As such, I believe that it is relevant to COH. Warshades are grieved by Peacebringers knocking things out of their buff radius with their silly and 100% unnecessary knockback. Likewise, though, I think that Tanks are grieved by Warshades. When a tank gets to a Warshade spawn, everything is either stunned, dead, or an extracted soul working for his team.

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Wow, I guess you're just not cool. You don't even smoke, do you?
I looked at your build and your Hasten was perma 2 slotted w/ Spiritual Core Paragon- Which you had equipped, making it part of your build.

Without accounting for Force Feedback, your hasten w/ spiritual is recharging in 112s (120s duration) with 3 slots and recharging in 114s w/ 2 slots. Perma either way. Without Spiritual Core Paragon your Hasten 2 slotted misses perma by 7s.
You have a level 50 build. Unless you make a separate build using low level enhancements (I've heard ~33 is good) you are going to make sacrifices. Perma Hasten is a build goal aimed for high end optimization.

Even without Posi Blast and Obliteration sets, your Eclipse is Perma at any level at which you have the power, assuming your LOTG +recharge IO's are low level.

Please don't doubt my infinite optimism. >=( We will do it, and it will be EASY!

Haha, yessir. I think your guide, as is, is already an invaluable tool for Warshade advice. I've linked people to it both in game and on the board frequently... And no part of me doubts what your Warshade has already accomplished and what he'll accomplish in the future.

You're definitely more than an asset to the Kheldian community, and I'm really looking forward to this guide being finished. New Dawn seemed to be making some comments at points that were directed at me specifically, so I just wanted to take a second to address that (It can be bedlam around these parts, sorry that I let it interfere with the intent of your thread.)

Anyways moving forward, have you considered a more Q/A format? What feedback about specific things you are looking for to make the most complete guide you can?

I just wanted to address this implication- I sort of have to comment on it. You seem to be saying that I am of the opinion that Warshades are only capable of one thing- What that thing is, based on the rest of your posts/attitudes pertaining to my build goals, is "AV killing and farming." I feel like I need to clarify my approach to building a Warshade to avoid my posts being taken out of context/misunderstood in the future.

You'll see me posting a lot about single target damage on the board, because it's something I personally feel is important. It's not the only thing, though, not even the majority of what I love about my Warshade.

My Warshade can permanently stun entire groups at a time, effectively playing as a Controller.

My Warshade can take alpha strikes and control aggro for a team (plus said control) effectively being a tank.

My Warshade can melt spawns on par with my SS/Fire Brute and my Fire/Mental Blaster, pumping out massive AOE damage.

My Warshade can solo high level Arch-Villains and pump out over 200 DPS before pets are even considered, competing with Scrappers, Stalkers and other high DPS powersets.

My Warshade can stack resistance debuffs through an FOTG proc checking every 10 seconds and a 25% chance for -res from my t4 Reactive.

My Warshade also has the highest damaging pets after Masterminds, who rely solely on their pets for damage in most cases.

When solo, my Warshade has taken down the toughest individual enemies and enemy groups that the game has to offer on the highest difficulty settings.

I resent being referred to or thought of as a "one trick pony," because that is hardly the case. I just wanted to take a moment to express the bad taste in my mouth that this comment left, and maybe explain any animosity that might have been read in my previous posts.

Edit: New Dawn, you also at one point referred to Warshade and Peacebringer synergies and maximizing the performance of one another. I am not sure if you know this, but on my server we do weekly Kheldian Task Forces. Some of the regular participants include myself, Stone Daemon, AIB, and Bionut, all regular members of the Kheldian board. We've done all Kheldian Apex, Tin Mage, LGTF, amongst many other things successfully. Everyone's favorite MFing Warshade and a good friend of mine Dechs Kaison even joined us for a successful all Kheldian LAMBDA Sector trial recently. I am no stranger to playing with and achieving great things with other Kheldians.

Well it's the same thing as slotting Enzyme's (-def) in defensive toggles for the higher +def values. I'm not 100% on this, but I'm almost positive that there was a Dev comment stating that they had no intention of changing how this works. Basically I think that they would have to <complex code stuff> completely re-make HamiO's, complex stuff, and there's no chance that it's going to get changed at any point.
The recharge IO's in hasten don't enhance the recharge of anything but hasten itself, having more slots in it doesn't benefit your global recharge- Once you reach perma hasten there are no additional benefits from enhancing the recharge of the power. Edit: Also, Hasten doesn't stack with itself.

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*facepalm*

I haven't really looked at any of the new alphas and that does seem like a reasonable choice, but imo Spiritual will still be better. If you're running the Essence Drain attack chain, you can ED cap the heal and the damage w/ Spiritual Core Paragon. I would say that without high defense this is actually very important against hard single targets when your Eclipse expires and you are more vulnerable to damage. Don't forget that the healing enhancement also applies to health and your regeneration, so for those slot crunches when you need to 1 slot Health with a Miracle proc (I know I do on my current build) you are still getting an SO's worth of healing enhancement free of charge.

The stun enhancement is also very nice because it lets you slot out Unchain Essence as strictly an attack and still benefit from longer stun duration when the effect applies. Similarly with Inky Aspect, I've had previous respecs that one slotted it with an Endoplasm Exposure and more stun values never hurt.

I'm taking your word about the <whatever it's called again> 33% Recharge enhancement at tier 4. Spiritual Core Paragon provides a 45% recharge enhancement, which is well.. 12% better. As for the recovery aspect, I use a few sets of Gladiator's Armor, a set of Gladiator's Javelin and a couple of pieces of Thunderstrike in my build. This puts me at a comfortable level recovery wise, And as you know my s/l defense is already softcapped anyways.

Edit: You did just give me an idea though. I'm curious to see what defense numbers would look like on a build that used Agility and slotted Defense toggles with Enzymes. That'd certainly be a pretty effective way to get around ED to an extent, hah. If I can throw together a build that softcaps S/L defense and brings E defense up or close to the 32.5% mark I will officially endorse agility. *Made scientist walks off...*

I really try to be pretty zen about these things because I don't like exclusivity/gating/private runs. I know the level shifts are really helpful for all of the trials, but I don't think they're the most important factor. I'd rather have a league full of people who understand what they are doing and are having fun doing it than a league full of 50+3's who don't know what they're doing and don't bother to read up on things ahead of time. "Knowing is half the battle," and all that.