Buff Peacebringers!!

Maybe Im crazy but I really enjoy my peacebringer as is. Slowing down the attack chain would really mess my whole flow up. After i19 and fitness being inherent I will be more than happy with mine, but yea the only thing that I could possibly ask for in a perfect world would be IS changed to a stun.

Im with mercury if you want to increase the recharge on the blast.. then decrease the animation time, increase dmg, and decrease endurance..

I do like the light form change though once i saw strength of will i always though light form should be more like it than unstoppable.


Also they should try to code that when you switch into forms the toggles in human form just suppress to 0 instead of shutting off so it can be a quick transitions switching in forms..

in a pvp zone when i switch back to human i have to turn on 3 shield assault tactics and 2 travels.. you can use binds.. but thats still annoying at times..

but i do agree if you increase the dmg on pb then mez prot will be less of a prob..

My personal never-gonna-happen wish: the kheldian inherent changes from a self-buff to a team-buff, sort of like an auto-leadership power. PBs grant low damage ATs a damage buff, squishy ATs a DR buff, and trollers/doms and mag. buff. WSs flip this.

Then, to compensate for losing the self-buff, both PBs and WSs get always-on buffs roughly equal to what they'd have currently if they, say, were on a team that had 2 scrappers, 2 defenders, and 2 controllers. So, across the board +20% dmg, +10% DR, +2 mag mez resist.

Leave all else as is (although reducing some of the KB would be nice too). No other change really needed (although this change could make WSs even more uber and still way above PBs in performance - maybe PBs should get a few more tweaks here and there)

I think HEATs (esp PBs) would be much more soloable & much more welcome on teams with such a change.

I despite powers with a PERCENTAGE CHANCE for knockBACK. Because you can't rely on them to be effective mitigation, and they'll generally knock the mobs around precisely when you don't want them to. It's more of a detriment than a bonus. If a power is supposed to mitigate through knockback it needs a 100% chance, like Power Thrust. If it's just something added to the power, make it knock down so it has a percentage chance to be awesome, instead of a percentage chance to fling your mob somewhere you don't want.

Solar Flare getting KD would be awesome. The others are fine as they are. I'd love to see both of them have thier animation times reduced for the form changing too, because its far too sluggish at the moment.

Those would be my only gripes, although the 'always on' suggestion as well as auto-buffing the team as an inherent also made me go 'Gimme'

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

I don't know what exactly PB needs or if it needs a buff (could be that my playstyle needs one), I haven't played one often enough. My son even asks, "Daddy, why don't you ever play a Peacebringer?"

I played an old one I had this weekend though. Was just a bit away from 18 and had a boatload of patrol XP. Got to 18 no problem, and made my way to 19. I played solo much of the afternoon yesterday, just running standard missions, no bosses. And...egads.

I think I died more on that character just going from 19 to 20 than I had TOTAL on just about any other character. Ok, maybe that's an exaggeration. But I must have been defeated at least two dozen times (I had picked up the Resuscitation temp power, it was available maybe one out of four?).

It seemed like every group of mobs had the ability to take me down. Three +1 minions, three EVEN minions, Gardvords, Ancestral Spirits, Vampyrs, etc. I did my best and used insps when I had them, but that wasn't all the time. Some missions I'd have to rest/Rest after every encounter. Nevermind the couple of times where the spawn was Ink Man (mez), Quantum Red Ink, Sorcerer (so if I'm not asleep, I go after the Sorc while getting pounded by the Quant, or I hit the Quant only to...have him healed).

I'm bullheaded, so I kept playing until I hit 20. But afterward I remembered why I didn't play him - it just wasn't enjoyable. I *hope* that changes at higher levels.

Gotta keep in mind that pre-22 NO archetype is really performing well due to not having SOs. That being said, Peacebringer's only reliable mez power against Lts. or higher is Incandescent Strike. Pulsar's only a percentage of affecting a Lt., and that randomness can get ya killed in highstakes play.

Warshades get Gravitic Emanation and Gravity Well, and Gravitic Emanation's a cone stun (ya don't have to be in melee) which lets ya take out multiple targets. Honestly, after ya got Gravitic maxed most enemies are dead before your initial shot of it wears off.

Peacebringers have nothing like that. So while a Warshade can cork two dangerous Lts. (I won't even mention bosses), the Peacebringer has to choose one. All the while they're fighting that one, the other is attacking them. This's exacerbated on higher spawn settings.

Again, a Warshade has no problem here. They just stun the whole group.

So apart from the damage buff and duration differences for the two, Peacebringers are subpar to Warshades in mezzing as well.

If ya fixed the damage issue and made Pulsar a Mag 3 Stun, (or better yet a Hold so you can stack it with Incandescent) then PB seems pretty dang fixed ta me.

- Turn Solar Flare into KD, continuing to provide mitigation without disrupting an entire mob.
- Add the same stun secondary effect of Gravitic Emanation to Proton Scatter (the powers are nearly identical in every other way, why no stuns for PBs?).
- Add slight mez resistance to each shield (for WSs as well) that stacks with each shield.

Done.

The real problem with Khelds is that they benefit from a team but the team doesn't get any benefit from a kheld (other than tank/dps) which other ATs do better.

A well built Widow or Soldier can really buff a team but the secondary effects of many WS and PB attack is um KB. Yeah I know PB has -def and WS has -slow but the KB is what I recall the most.

Ask me how long people stick around on a team when you have a Solar Flare spammer scattering stuff. (Okay tanks/brutes spamming Hand Clap isn't popular either)

Yeah, when people say "can you cut down on all the KB?" I say, "umm... That's in like all my attacks."

Not really a good reputation for Khelds to have, I agree.

"Alien"

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Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades The way you play changes your IO slotting..

Disclaimer: I unlocked my Kheldians with my Energy/Devices Blaster, so my perception is a bit different from others.

Positioning myself for an effective knockback is easy for me. The problem I have is that the knockback isn't reliable, and not all powers do it at all. Perhaps that's why some folks have a scattering issue. The KB doesn't go off enough, and when enemies go flying, some people think, "Oh yeah...that has knockback."

I could go either way. Make KB happen more often, or change it to knockDOWN. I like the mitigation and crowd control of KB (like forcing baddies back into debuffs), but it's such a polarizing issue that I can stand KD instead.

How about making Cosmic Balance apply to teammates as well?

Also cut form-changing time in half, please!