doomrider

My main, my warshade. I will never be able to truly replace him.
If and once the servers go black, he will cast his host body aside and drift through space as a nictus essence. A final departure.

Me and Stone are sitting in pocket D Freedom. GET ONLINE guys!

Sunday 4pm est. I can do that, hope to see you all there for one last ride.

Something to consider would be doing a respec.

As a tri-form it's not a bad idea to do one once you're in the mid to late 20's and focus slots in your control powers in human form (g. emanination and g. well). Specifically I found slotting g.well as a hold or frankenslotting it for damage/hold helped while leveling up to help. As anything that wasn't stunned I could throw the hold on immediately after and keep blasting away in nova, this came in handy when i'd stun most of the mob but the mezzer or sapper would be missed.

Slotting dwarf attacks as to use this form for your ST damage while you level up. This will help with your problem of always feeling like your dying, pre-eclipse. So if it comes down to you fightning stragglers with no bodies nearby, you'll have an easier time staying on your feet.

You could also consider taking any slots you put into your ST nova blasts and only slotting the cone and aoe. Thus leaving you with additional slots to put into dwarf attacks, leaving you with dwarf for ST damage, nova for aoe and human form for control at the moment.

Last but not least, inspirations. Not just managing your inspirations but using them regularly and making use of inspiration combining macros will no doubt make things easier. Anytime you have to spend combining inspirations manually, is time you should be spending finding more bodies. Hesitation will kill you.

Hope that helps.

Creepers can be hard to tell if they're following you, but you should start to notice roots spawning near the enemies feet when you encounter new mobs. That's pretty much the first indicator they're about to pop up again.

They do have a duration of 120, but this is pretty easy to make permanent. They also highly benefit from damage procs If IO's are you're jam.

Seeing as how my search fu is weak I'm just gonna pose a question:

Has anyone tried slotting both the overwhelming force kd proc and the ragnarok kd proc in whirlpool?

Triple damage proc'd carrion creepers are a thing of beauty to behold.

Fire/Rad Controller(s). A real bucket of synergy. Get a whole team of em, then see what they do

Imagine choking cloud + hot feet x8 plus all those debuff toggles. Oh man... *runs off to play his fire/rad*

I'll second what Dechs said about kinetics, you really do only need one per team to floor the dmg bonuses of your team, in the case of a mostly brute team I can see 2 at most if your goal is to stay at damage cap with very little downtime. Now if you were to play a large outdoor map and pair off a brute for a /kin corr into 4 groups then see how fast you could finish it, that might be interesting.

Typically though, debuff sets, particularly ones that have -res are going to noticeably stack better for clearing mobs/content.

I would enjoy a rich array of purples and maybe reds to color my powers with. That would be neat.

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woo... I really felt like this thread needed some nonsensical jabberings in l337 to really lighten the mood. Hopefully this hasn't been TOO obnoxious.

Welcome back dood! I just came back from a break too. It seems as though egad is a little inactive these days, or at least the couple times I've logged on. But yeah were still around.

I23 and the soon to be released kb/kd IO is going to be giving me more reasons to respec yet again. A few possibilities still remain however:

Whether or not I want to drop dwarf form being used as mule currently on my "mostly human" WS,or keep it to take advantage of the instant shift back and forth. As much as I don't like my toggles switching off, having 2 taunts (provoke being one, dwarf being the other) and being able to essential decide at any given time whether i want more burst aoe (dwarf mire + dark detonation w/ kd io + unchain essence) or toggle OD and have more sustained dps for longer fights.

All this at the cost of defense toggles which wouldn't be on during the first playstyle. I'd have an easier time keeping fluffies alive no doubt but I'm not convinced the trade off of defense vs aggro control + burst dps is really worth it at this point.

This theory is nice and all from a versatility standpoint, but I could build more heavily for survivability by just going pure human form.

With all that being said I'm definitely considering making a second tri-form build.

Decisions, decisions. Either way, curbing the kb in detonation and potentially taking the melee tree of hybrid for the taunt aura is gonna make my shade even tankier than he already is All the while, instant form shifts make me wanna throw even more money at this toon and make him a tri-form alt build.

Not to downplay willpowers effectiveness as a set, but It has to be one of the dullest powersets conceptually IMO. As much as its kind of the silly putty of defensive sets concept wise. Then again I don't play melee at all really anymore, I prefer active mitigation but to each their own. If I did roll a melee toon I'd almost definetly roll dark armor of which I'm addicted to rolling and never finishing.