TwoHeadedBoy

Think I teamed with you once doing some radios with Pete in PI, and I'm pretty sure I've seen you in Protector Vigilance a couple of times. Glad you are enjoying Protector... I made my first character here and it has been my main server ever since.

If I feel like making quick cash off of alignment merits, I just do the 1 merit for 5 35-39 recipes. I often get very nice stuff in there and it's usually more bang for my buck than spending twice as many merits on an LOTG or something... I just do those when I need one at level 25 for a build.

I only skimmed this, but just wanted to say I think that human only is even going to be better exemplared below light form if it has purple/PVP's in the build- Nothing should be thrown your way that a break free macro can't fix. Basically when top end IO's are taken into account the issue you're mentioning disappears.

On lower budgets though, I still suggest using level 25 LOTG recharges to help you out for exemping and I could definitely see having a separate tri form build... not that it's strictly necessary.

I am very fond of running combat flight especially since I use both detonation and scatter in my AOE chain, it's nice to be able to hover above spawns and reduce KB when possible.

Yea one of the benefits of softcapped human form for Khelds is that both have access to the best single target chains (and have the survivability to pull off AV soloing). I posted in another thread that my shade is doing ~220 DPS with a full mire and before pets are taken into account.

Something you are missing out on by dropping -res procs from PB single target attacks is the ability to debuff AV's, I find the fotg -res in Orbiting Death will provide a much higher value than the same proc in solar flare.

I'd rather you not post my builds for reasons I've mentioned in other threads that I don't wanna get into.

And my Warshade gets his status protection from Clarion.

Edit: Even given a fairly even playing field with what you took into account, something else to keep in mind is that my Warshade will inevitably bring much more damage to teams given the disparity between dark extraction and photon seekers. If they're kept alive, I have 3 of them out at all times with ED capped accuracy and damage, plus reactive fire damage ticking 75% of the time on their attacks and the SA build up proc.

I personally don't mind the aura- I think it's visually helpful, especially when people are summoning their Warworks on Incarnate trials, and more recently I've caught the bug of people summoning their Cimerorans on ITF's, but if I weren't doing the same they would confuse the hell out of me-- Since I know what to look for though, I'd call the "ghostly aura" nothing if not helpful, heh.

Your price is too high with the recent price drop speculation, imo. I personally foresee PVP uniques (Panacea, SW, Glad Armor) dropping down to around the 1 billion mark within a month as a standard selling price.

Edit: And also, your thread title is confusing. Alignment Merit roll, pulling PVP IO's? What? Seemed to me like you were referring to the "random roll" at first.

I was just looking over another thread and it looks like this build should be taking flares instead of fire blast for the ST chain. I've always used my Blaster for AOE because I didn't have the survivability to tackle AV's/GM's/etc in the past, but I will update here once I get around to finishing this build and taking it for a spin.

I would love to have Void Hunters for my Warshade.

There has been a lot of discussion about what Peacebringers need recently, so I wanted to talk about what Warshades need. Everyone else is free to post what they'd like to see also.

1.) Shorter animation times for form shifts. This is something we were already told we would get, and I think it is really needed (especially for Warshades.)

2.) Toggle suppression- Offensive toggles (Inky Aspect, Orbiting Death) should stop working in Dwarf and Nova form, but shouldn't have to be retoggled when switching back to human form. Defensive pool toggles and Shadow Cloak should continue to provide a defense bonus in dwarf form- Human form with provoke is a better tank than dwarf right now.

3.) A taunt aura for Dwarf form, and auto-taunt in all attacks. It has higher HP than most top end human form builds, but that's not enough of an attraction to make it worth using. If it could legitimately tank it would serve a real purpose. This wouldn't make Tanks any more irrelevant than brutes already do.

4.) Gravimetric Snare changed to an AOE immobilize. It would have great synergies with all of the Warshade's powers, and be used for the first time in Warshade history as something more than a "remove from tray" or possible set mule power.

5.) Essence Drain needs a buff desperately. As it stands right now, Ebon Eye, the level 1 blast, does more damage than E Drain, and the heal is too puny and insignificant to be worthwhile- Especially with Stygian Circle and layered stuns. When you look at how awesome Siphon life is by comparison, it just feels insulting.

Anyways, that's my top 5 list. I feel that Warshades would be on an even playing field with everything else in the game (barring the issues with the inherent, which I hate. It serves no real purpose- I think that should be changed so that if anything, all team mates offer status protection... That way I might get some use out of it. Lots of people have better ideas about that though, so I'll leave it alone.)

The only thing we need now is for our fluffies to be controllable like lore/mastermind pets, and for them to have eclipse. No one would ever play anything but a Warshade.

Microcosm estimated 50 dps from fluffies, I'm assuming that was per pet and both my build and AIB's build have the recharge for 3 fluffies at a time constantly once the third is summoned the first time, so that would give us both around 370 DPS, in an ideal world and without Lore pets... Pretty insane.

Edit: And if we ever get instant form change animations and toggle suppression, we could run dwarf mire with the human chain... That might even be enough to solo GM's without lore pets. >=)