One thing I noticed after I posted the build, I have two loose slots in that build. Not entirely sure where to place them yet, but I also regret saying Human/Dwarf biform for just a mez breaker, as I went over Dechs' MFing Warshade guide and remembered that its really going to be either Human with dwarf for a set mule, or a tri-form. I'm looking at a roughly 1 billion inf budget, though if need be I will be able to stretch it up to 3-4 billion...Though not without some kicking and screaming. Apologies for the shoddy work on the build I posted.
My circle is more like an egg. . .a handicapped egg. - A math professor
....And insert massive embarrasment here. I just realised I posed this same question a few months back, then pushed it off to the side because of other shinies....>< Lord I need better memory, not better builds.
My circle is more like an egg. . .a handicapped egg. - A math professor
For the sake of answering your question, I suggest Tri-Form builds using a playstyle similar to the one in Dech's guide. Human-only becomes significantly better only in very expensive builds.
I don't have access to Mid's, but some general thoughts:
You'll want Dwarf Mire to be well slotted for double mires. If you want the more foolproof version of double mire, slot Dwarf attacks up as well so you can use Dwarf form and avoid errors that make Dwarf Mire expire too quickly to be leveraged. If you want the best way to use double mire, hit Sunless followed by Dwarf Mire and then immediately go Nova for the AoE attacks.
You'll want Nova AoEs to be slotted well. Don't bother wasting slots on the ST attacks because Human is better for ST damage anyway.
Get recharge set bonuses. Lots of them. You want Sunless Mire and Eclipse to be perma so that you have high survivability in all 3 forms and insane damage buffs all the time. That's the main goal of the playstyle after all.
I tried something like this a long time ago and ended up deleting the character because I just couldn't handle the long form shift animations. It was, however, very impressive. YMMV.
@Rorn ---- Blue Baron ---- Guardian
Alright, I've been working on this warshade build for awhile now, and I've also been playing a partially IO'd, mainly common IO'd Warshade human form to see how it plays out basically. I'm not entire sold on the human form only, as I seem to be getting mezzed quite abit, and I don't want to be relying on the clarion destiny, so I built in at least 'some' status resistance. I've also gone for a somewhat medium budget build, with my defenses sitting at 17.5%, not quite what I'd like considering how much I get mezzed. This brings me to wonder if it would be worth looking into a human/dwarf combination, spending the majority of my time in human form however and using the dwarf as a set holder/double mire/mez breaker. My goal is to eventually purple the build out, but at the moment I can't afford it, so I'm just trying to figure out what the general opinion on this kind of situation would be. Any advice or even rebuilds would be appreciated, as I am mainly looking for something that will be very soloable, but also able to be a team player when need be.
My circle is more like an egg. . .a handicapped egg. - A math professor