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I really haven't felt any significant advantage from dwarf form on my WS.
Maybe it's because I move in stealthed and open with Gravitic Emmanation(excepting a Q/V which will get a Gravity Well before I use Emmanation)
I then proceed to Mire/Nova blasts/Human blasts/Stygian
And the fuzzballs take care of anything that may have been neglected.
When there's a boss toggle on inky and then open with Gravitic.
This keeps me incredibly safe, and I still have the Option of using Eclipse should I want to.
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For surviving a large alpha strike, dwarf form (slotted for resistance) beats out human any day. One reason I don't open with grav wave is because it sometimes scatters enemies instead of tightly grouping them.
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I usually like opening by teleporting into the middle of a large group of enemies and firing off Eclipse. When doing this, the resistance for Eclipse kicks in before any enemies can react and deal damage to you, so it ends up being incredibly safe. Follow up with a mire, switch to Nova form, and congratulations, you're a tank-mage!
I usually (when soloing) open with teleporting into an enemy group with Dwarf, then hitting Black Dwarf Mire, then my Eclipse key-bind (dropping me to Human form and executing Eclipse) and my Sunless Mire key-bind and once I'm fully eclipsed and mired (as much as is possible post-I13), I switch to Nova or Dwarf, or stay in Human form as the fight requires.
Using Black Dwarf Mire before Eclipse simply gets me some more accuracy points, not to mention damages the enemies just that bit more before the 2nd Mire, and I find every little bit helps. Black Dwarf Mire stays on after Eclipse so even Sunless Mire is more accurate and does a bit more damage... seems like a win/win scenario to me. 
I believe that a Kheldian Gold Standard should be based on SO's, and for anything above that... there's Platinum!
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I really haven't felt any significant advantage from dwarf form on my WS.
Maybe it's because I move in stealthed and open with Gravitic Emmanation(excepting a Q/V which will get a Gravity Well before I use Emmanation)
I then proceed to Mire/Nova blasts/Human blasts/Stygian
And the fuzzballs take care of anything that may have been neglected.
When there's a boss toggle on inky and then open with Gravitic.
This keeps me incredibly safe, and I still have the Option of using Eclipse should I want to.