First Tri Form WS and what form do I use and when?
I find the ability to triform in a single fight duration and fire off as many AoEs as possible makes the warshade fun.
But in some teams:
1) Pretty much no sooner have I double mired there is nothing left to hit or;
2) Mobs are left or made spread which considering that some of the most die hard anti-herding players love to see herding when they play a Warshade that really isn't good;
3) You enter a team and either they are better off with you tanking or you are!
The as and when of things is situational. I'd rather get to double mire and use lots of AoEs.
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Well U know to use Lobster for tanking, Squid for shooting, but then whats the point in human form? A bit of both maybe?
Your typical tri-form WS uses human form mostly for clicky buffs, and fights in nova or dwarf. Hence fast form switching is important to master.
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Don't forget the mezzes. Gravimetric snare, gravitic emanation, inky aspect, that's a lot of control power in the hands of a damage AT.
Gravimetric snare is a fairly beefy melee hold, useful for voids and quantums. Consider picking up Super Speed to stack with Shadow Cloak for complete invisibility, so you can zip right up to a quant and hold him. On the SS note, Hasten is extraordinarily handy for a Warshade. More pets, more double mires, more AoEs during double mire, faster Eclipse.
Gravitic emanation is considered by some as the best soft control power in the game. It's a very fast animating cone disorient power with knockback. Stacked with Inky Aspect, a PBAoE disorient toggle which saps your health, you can mez bosses.
Dark Extraction is another human form trick. Slotted for recharge and with Hasten, you can keep two pets fairly reliably. They're pretty much mini Nova-forms, with damage dealing cones and AoEs.
Stygian circle is what you'll go into human form to use the most. Anything more than three corpses nearby and you just filled up your health and endurance. Who needs stamina, eh?
There's also Quasar, your nova, which does almost as much damage as the Blaster Energy/ nova after a double mire.
With all this utility you may be asking what the point of Nova form is if you're doing so much in human form. The simple fact is that Nova has a fairly large damage and ToHit buff. Plus, you're getting four powers for the price of one, and the ability to slot Nova powers at level 1 when using a respec.
As soon as you get Nova, make some macros or binds. I use macros myself, but if you have the buttons free, binds will work just as well.
/macro Nova "powexecname Dark Nova$$gototray 4"
Put all your Nova powers in tray 4 and bish bash bosh. Then...
/macro Hum "powexectoggleoff Dark Nova$$powexecname Gravity Shield$$gototray 1"
Put that macro in tray 4. It will return everything to normal and activate Gravity Shield for you. Dead handy. Remember to put the gototray command in last, as commands after that seem to delete themselves after a logout. Don't ask me.
When you get Dwarf form, you'll want to make macros for that as well. Just put all your Dwarf stuff in tray 5.
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Ty for that ^^
Now I can make sure I don't mess up my WS 
Really enjoying my lowbie (14) WS now. DOs and Sunless Mire have made the character really enjoyable. I'm currently enjoying the "TP in human form, Mire, Dark Nova form and AOE death" mode and looking forward to the mezzes in Human form.
Human form I'm skipping most of the Blasts and sticking to mezzes, shields (and cloaks etc, but I skipped Orbiting Death) and the clicky buffs. Once buffed quick-switch to Nova form for AOE death. Once I get Lobster Form I'll do a bit of light tanking/alpha absorbing (wouldn't have been hard to out-tank the pair of useless tanks I had on a PuG last night) ,switch to human form for another Mire and then Nova for blasting them to bits.
I took Necros binds and have turned them into bindfiles for quick form switching and contextual form binds.
c:\binds\human.txt
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c "powexectoggleon Gravity Shield$$powexectoggleon Shadow Cloak$$powexectoggleon Penumbral Shield"
v "powexectoggleon Dark Nova$$bindloadfile c:\binds\nova.txt$$gototray 4"
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c:\binds\nova.txt
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c "powexectoggleoff Dark Nova$$powexecname Gravity Shield$$bindloadfile c:\binds\human.txt$$gototray 1"
v "powexectoggleon Dark Nova"
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So when I'm in Human form c switches on my various shields and cloaks. V switches me to Dark Nova form & changes my bottom tray to the Dark Nova tray (tray 4)
When I'm in Nova form C switches me back to human by switching off the Dark Nova toggle, switches on my Gravity Shield and switches the tray back to Tray 1 (human form). V makes sure the Dark Nova toggle is on as yesterday I had a few times where the Tray switches but I didn't go into Nova form. So being able to frantically press V repeatedly made sure I shifted into Nova after a Mire.
Once I get more shields I'll add them to the human.txt C bind so they'll toggle on too with presses of C. And once I get lobster form I'll add that as a bind file too so B shifts me into the lobster (or I might alter the system slightly depending).
With being able to have up to 9 trays on screen at once after issue 12, you could probably do away with the tray switching binds if you have a big enough monitor.
I really should do something about this signature.
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With being able to have up to 9 trays on screen at once after issue 12, you could probably do away with the tray switching binds if you have a big enough monitor.
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It's more to have 1, 2, 3, 4 etc easily mapped to whatever attacks are viable at the time really. I tend to prefer keybinds along the bottom row of the keyboard anyway, easy thumb access (oo-er). My MM and even my Grav/TA binds are there too.
I just rolled my first WS and it's a Tri Form (in the making) and I wanted to know what forms to use and when just so I don't get bored like most people do