Levelling strategy question
Personally speaking, I go TriForm. Seeing how useful Nova can be when your Kheldian is sidekicked by high-level characters, and yet you can blast and debuff at the same time, I'd say that Nova is very useful and its worth taking even on a temporary basis, especially if you're going to use the 2nd build to be just Human/Dwarf.
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My PB is 25 at the moment, almost 26, and I never took Nova. A friend advised me against skipping it if only for when I ran into quantums and voids, but beyond taking on a seeker and losing pitifully at low level, I haven't missed it. I hit hasten and build up and blow the smithereens out of Q's and V's, and regular groups have, thusfar, been no problem at all.
I have no IOs yet and only a few DOs that haven't been outlevelled. No SOs. It's been fine. YMMV, though. Actually, at 20 when I took dwarf, I sort of wish I'd taken stamina first and dwarf at 22, since stamina was the only area I ever really felt a sting.
I felt I should add that I've almost entirely soloed. I did a sewer team to 5 or 6 and I've joined in one one radio mission. The bank missions have been a blast to solo since previously I'd been playing a controller and didn't manage to solo a single one
I'm trying a human-only PB now for concept reasons (it's actually a Kheldian-built power suit being worn by a human so while it can duplicate many of the powers, it can't duplicate the form shifting), but generally I find nova form extremely useful. If you go WS it's your ONLY means of using flight as a travel power and it's AoE damage is very useful on teams.
I also find it very useful for tanking. Seriously. My Tr-Form has a 40.5% ranged defense so I can survive a ranged alpha pretty easily. So I open on a large spawn with scatter and detonation to draw my initial aggro, then shift to dwarf form as they're closing to hold it (and as a bonus, +3 minions are generally already half-dead by the time they get into range of my flare).
If I were going to solo it, I would take nova. If I were planning to team, I probably wouldn't bother because it doesn't take that long to get to 20.
total kick to the gut
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This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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perma jump is ---> /up 1
Howdy. Quick question here. If you were planning on creating a human/dwarf build for either PB or WS, would you take the Nova form to help along the road to level 20 and then abandon it via respec or dual-build later?
Just curious, and thanks in advance for any replies.