Kheldian power pools.. Why?

Ok so I've had this WS that I finally got to level 50 after a 4 year hiatus with him. That being said I want to build him up so that he can be good but I don't want to have to spend purple money on him if I don't have to.

Seeing that a few of you have dedicated yourselves to the ins and outs of the kheldian I have a few questions for you.

1. What power pools do you take? I guess that you are taking pools to fit set IO's in, but do you also take power pools for the powers themselves? Why do you choose one pool over another?

2. Aside from recharge, what sorts of bonuses do you try to get for your build (or more specifically a tri-form build)?

3. For a toon like the one I want do you have any Mids (new version plz) suggestions simply b/c I'm lazy? It seems most of you tend to slot powers themselves over Dark Nova/Dwarf.

4. Are there any proc's or other IO's that despite the cost are essential/ Very highly recommended as they make the kheldian "that much more" to play?

Thanks guys for your help. I'll be trolling the boards and keep looking at the other build threads also..

I always get knockback protection, preferably a level 10 Steadfast for Absorption. If I still felt like I was getting knocked around I would toss in a Karma KB Prot into Shadow Cloak.

I always add Performance Shifter +end to Nova and Dwarf as low a level as possible plus an End Mod from it to get 5% movement increase from each.

I like to toss Devastation Chance to Hold in my ranged attacks.

I've been putting in at least 2 LotG Recharges, though I could probably work in 4 easily.

I get Lockdown Chance for +2 Mag Hold for Gravity Well.

I 4 slot Impervium Armor as much as possible to get the extra endurance, recovery and Psionic defense and by using the IA: Psionic Resistance I don't let Carnies get me down.

Apart from those I look for ways to boost my health and my damage through set bonuses.

But I tend to be in the forms and pop to human to mire and gravity well and stygian circle so I focus my form attacks on actually doing damage.

Also I would add I think Ragnarok Chance for Knockdown is relatively cheap and nice for either of the Nova AoE attacks.

Here's my build for my triform shade: It's definitely not cheap, but it's a ton of fun. I realize it's not quite what you were asking for, but it only took me a few seconds to post it so I figured, why not.


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I have watched Mr Enigma's build in action, It's very very good all the things a soul sucking machiene needs and more.

Thank you I'll check it out after the weekend.

Here's my tri-form Warshade build. It's a little bit off the beaten path ...

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What makes this build so different from the more typical is the lack of Hasten and the widespread leveraging of Recharge Debuffing (via Pacing of the Turtle proc). There's "enough" recharge reduction in the build to allow powers to cycle "effectively" for attack chains without being wasteful (ie. powers sitting in the tray recharged but unused due to animation times). This makes the attack chains relatively efficient in terms of allocation of resources. And best of all, it makes use of only a single purple IO (for Dark Extraction), which makes it cheaper overall than many other builds to fund.

Human form ... CONTROLS(!) ...
Nova form ... BLASTS ...
Dwarf form ... SCRAPTANKS ...

With a Tanker on the team grabbing aggro, I can stay in human form and shadow the Tanker with Orbiting Death and Inky Aspect running ... making the Tanker's life so much easier while simultaneously dishing out a surprising amount of damage through Orbiting Death. This lets the Tanker (and the rest of the team) focus on the "heavy" threats (LTs and Bosses) first ... and if the tide of battle begins to shift against us, I can always shift to either Nova or Dwarf forms as needed to allow my team to regain the initiative.

With Shadow Cloak, Nebulous Form, a Stealth IO (in Sprint) and Shadow Recall ... I can help a team "ninja" a mission with a remarkably high degree of safety, even in lower level Task Forces.

And best of all, I can go full bore constant attack in Nova or Dwarf form and not have to worry (much at all) about endurance issues. Simply using the Black Dwarf Antagonize in the attack rotation is enough to bring my endurance usage very close to the break even point (if not slightly positive, situation depending) ... which allows me to Scrank quite effectively in Dwarf form (and have for multiple Task Forces where I was the only "tank" protecting 6-7 squishies).

It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...

Thank you all for the replies and suggestions. For right now I'm dumbing down Mr_Enigma's build. I see he has some great stuff in there. I'm keeping the non-damage purples and I'll try to get all 4... yes four LotG Recharge speeds.

Accuracy and damage are up with a little reslotting into Hasten to give me a 183.8% with hasten up. I think with dancing between forms I'll be able to keep it up for a good amount.

The build will still run over 1 billion, but that is acceptable considering one damage type purple set can run you into the Billion category alone.

@ Redlynne: Thank you for your build and even more so for your take on why you made your build. I've saved it and will be looking at it in the future or maybe even as the alternate build for the character. I like how wou choose to make each form stand on it's own, and that way you are useful no matter what form you are in.

Redlynne, can you publish that build in a way that someone on a Mac can see it? We can't use Mids. I'm curious to see it.

so as a partial answer to the question in the first tread.
One power pool to contemplate taking is the:

Concealment pool simply for slotting Luck of the Gambler. For the same reason people also take the

Jump pool for Combat jumping, and the

Speed pool for both Hasten (which is preetty much an all archtype Standard) and for also getting superspeed as both a travel form and also to hold a stealth (if it can still)