I've now altered it slightly, since testing of it made me realize endurance recovery/usage could be improved (as well as recharge), and I really, really, really missed Inky Aspect. That, and regeneration bonuses weren't as important to me as achieving better endurance and working on the new "timing" of this build.
I have no earthly clue how I'm going to get 2 billion for the PvP IO, but that IO did allow me to change around some enhancement slots to further improve on the build, so I guess I'll just have to start saving! :P
Code:
"Alien"
| Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1608;727;1454;HEX;| |78DA65945B4F135110C7CF76B7942D8502BD00222D2D22A5A5850A6854D480C40B8| |2458BFA649A852EB0492D84026A62BC254663F4C5EB03F103F8E2E7F1C1AFA0A23E| |A2AEB33B7FDA8D6DD2FC6667E67FCE9999B33B7767DAF7E9FCA333426A395BD22A9| |5C20D6DA3B2AA15754F7EC9D0CB4BBAA05F68B24476AEAC17A6F565BD5CD1A7B68C| |52D14391E87E7A21B76C458C6D3D73EDD6E286562A4CD1729B916A9C958EF8E4D68| |6269AE7D7D64A9973C6CAEAA6515EF1DA4FF9755D2FFA6C7356D7D6C9EFDF7F28EA| |B49AB12E3A69EB11FA3FF609FC4C97982028B21806B3E0969523D9396ED149468F2| |25C1D4C254E1C2046990D116632C6DC26ADC45A4542AC01B146681BFB98C123B210| |595A9BFA22F39964799E105784370F5E61FA16984F687D37E72AEE6197AD6FC9802| |3CCD634B32F0BD2FA1E3E93F0C484ED8B934F659FA4A6D8D70A3EA33D9AEC0698EE| |A6DFBC86CF641EF8CB3CF807DC634604D77297B4CDD8AB3924D93E89F6F2A33E3FE| |A6B475D41D419467DCF49DFC6B9EE36E44690DB7B1584A637C17BC752CCA7A40D60| |B601CC32F2DF8CEF514E886B93436F59177EC73CF41A7CC3BC4DB91D9865C749F67| |59E008F23778239788AF982345D984FD738FB0E8F81A3E051E6C031E67DD274639F| |EE39C466C14B58FF32339DC399A9A73DE8730FFAFC92D689A2CFD15DCCFE27F88B9| |9FCC17C40B971EE838863EE0FC9D72FC976FFFAD1AF21308D1C85F64DE0DE24C6AD| |981043D8BF8D62298EB952FBB171E89113A09C0C9F51CA7CA0B3041431BCC30C7AF| |81DB5CE3482FCAFDEEAFB24A4349FE17BCD274BA7F17E5EE477AA7D8639789DF5DF| |9CFA04EB779DFA57B8D7987D167721FB1EF75BA97E2F6481FB18C37D8CE13E26717| |77BED5CBBA766B2A6B31E4DAAA8CE93ADF38CD679C6EA3C334E8F8F4F39EBF4A9EC| |9B57F011B32AC7F4D4D6EA97C65CA0B88AB8FA051AAF35178EDF74D89AC35E74D87| |B6192C1FE1CA8D91742353B15ACD91F1D39FF00516FE5B3| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades
The way you play changes your IO slotting..
|
76 characters and Twenty-four 50s later, I still love this game.
AlienOne's Human-Form Warshade Guide (Old guide+New guide = 12,000+ views!)
And further modifications:
Code:
I think I may actually go with this one, as it offers the best endurance gain to usage ratio, gives me Inky Aspect, perma's both Hasten and Eclipse, and still maintains the S/L defense softcap.| Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1608;730;1460;HEX;| |78DA6594D94E53511486F7694F292D656E19445A5A404A4B27018D8A31207140101| |4D42BD3147A8026B5102635314E89D1183146137D066FBC51A38FE285AFA0A25EA2| |D6D5F3FFD093F424CDB7FAAF61EFBDF630756BDCF3EEEC83534AAB3B9DCFACAFA7A| |F65D6D6973359C339BB90330A0B8692CF379A177BBA60A4C78D45A3B06E8C6DE6F2| |59A778027BE1E9E9C59227B765C4AFDC985FCBE4D363526EC3BFEF47A6C53FBAB99| |651B5332B2BF9F899DCD2F246AEB0E436FFCDAE1A46D6639A93466655F4FABD3F59| |43AAE556559B0C9D94DF438FE257546A44A0DBD56649D34CCDA1DAC4E8D495AD15D| |443C23E6100ACF2839120B825B91A72758DBE2AFAAA995BDD0D7A0FDB954A496DE9| |831D73B0DB6704215DB967C94BA0670E7C24F51D88D51D099B995F17279360430CE| |C4E9152DF8939296750995A48341734CD1585D6403E91316ACC06141D357F50C353| |040FFC030FFE257741BFC25A6E4B6E2DEADA6A874BFD54AA7F187D4DF834334693B| |1EBB9DE7AAEB789EBF472DD2D5CEF53A9D78858472363FD8CEDBA4C32A72B8CB904| |A3E063C96D66AF9ADF636DFE4F60CF07F22398F80CDE911C1FD66EF3BD409D966D7| |0E0397853625AB9C7AD27A0B51D278F813D2360FF49F099E4B4732EEDC3D00E0D91| |83E411B0EF287857723A384EC7147D93E405D6BF08C6A63957E96D27F7B5937D1F6| |0DFB7A55E807D0FECF06CFC227F83919FE03D890DA10F2AC473715FB45ECD6EF6A6| |977765808C314697F1C3DCFF30F73FC179A4388F468989728E51C6C4E86B165F9CF| |731CE3CAF1377B5A42519F7CDBD7FCF9416C3D83FCA9A4D3B8F3B669B009BAE22EF| |BB352F8CBC9DB266D75EF29CBF0253AFC9373CEFFAFE7B61573C8F419EC720CF638| |467B7CB8C357B588CE89677A6289F4A5628A90A65B04219AA5026AC8A07B39CB46A| |2E68333A1FB5D2CAB95BAE86FD97A738277E17FDAEAFCC7197F608FEEB163B63B1E| |72DF66E8BA4D1FED25CB6CFF9CA76D45BB6DF5A62FE030C3FE73D| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
Also, further testing has just solidified in my mind that although Ebon Eye and Essence drain are great damage powers, I just don't use them that often in my attack chain--I sometimes use Ebon Eye when taking down an AV with a team on a TF, but I never use Essence Drain at all, and prefer Dark Detonation to it for AoE.
Personal preference, I guess...
"Alien"
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades
The way you play changes your IO slotting..
|
76 characters and Twenty-four 50s later, I still love this game.
AlienOne's Human-Form Warshade Guide (Old guide+New guide = 12,000+ views!)
If you're just going for s/l it's more beneficial slotting Kinetic Combats than Reactive Armors because you get a greater defense bonus for the same amount of slots. I was able to get you a full Hecatomb set into G Well... I dropped Vengeance but the lost LOTG was made up for w/ Hecatomb. (Wouldn't worry about vengeance much on a softcapped build- You'll find it largely unnecessary most of the time.) The defense was made up by 2 slotting tactics w/ reticles, yadda yadda, long story short: You get a bit more recharge and keep your defense and now you have a single target attack chain.
I switched your defense slots to Enymes because it lets you get more defense for less slots, which helped with things like working a -Res proc into OD and getting optimized enhancement values for your pets. It's also nice to have the extra recharge IO in Eclipse for exemping.
Edit: Doh! I just noticed that Vengeance was on your favorite powers list. I used to always feel like it was tremendously useful also, but I noticed once I started playing high defense builds that it really wasn't as necessary. I can still see not wanting to drop it though, I'll play around some more and see if I can't fit it back in to my "version" of your build. 
Anyways here are the changes I would make:
Code:
| Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1608;728;1456;HEX;| |78DA65945B4F135110C7CF76B7D69616286DA15C0B5568A1505A41898A215CE2058| |B548BFA649A852ED0A496A6A5A889F196182F116334D107FC02BEF8A2463F8A0F7E| |0515F511B54E77FE6D377693CD6F76AE67E69C3D0BD7E7EC6F4FDD9D1252E36C462| |D149297D57C615D4D6996C44A5ACBAE68821ECF7486E4C5AC969CD356B56C419B29| |A633290B597C15F7E4E26AD992DED2C217AF2EE7D54C7286D26DF654ED1C69B04F1| |7F3AA70C4373632E193E9B5F5CD7476CDA67F25729A96B2EB624C5373A46FAA7CA4| |34CA96CE092F958ED07BCF2EF09484982428B228967592AE938497846E4598DA985| |B6493D826A443B21051B2511F32E790E538C1AF085B82693F0F2E31EF53BC997D15| |F3A8498F6F0C831166F30818651EA0FC16D4B4F4095DE7279D156BB48658D7023EA| |41A0D7A032573C36FCED15262BAFF827F98AD7BA0E05E6E50AC83F39A1C13E57908| |E1F548BACDEB664A54BB09FD36A1DF0EF4D981BEBBD0EF63CAE744BFCE01AED5156| |0F60C812130C87C40312EC4B8DE714FBD1FC1F7E00766DF27E64D8AF170CF26CF33| |CED3B70D3E655E239F36EECDDC761CB33D061E052799074F30A3533C972714DB8E3| |5B51F86CF3838C61C38024E306F514C27D7533A17608B310367C173E022F68166DB| |8D7DED9EE0F33888F96F533E1FAFC1ECDB65FFC19FE02FE6D00F700A9C653EA2583| |F62FDD8B361ECD9F005107B37EAE29EA35EE61D8AED97647DBFFBF18F8C54883357| |A142EB0F62FD419C9F51ACDF49B6106CA1FF6CB7A94698F74F8491CB65E17FB4EC1| |FD9A13E5CB4A6D7CCAF36C37F38C2FEDF6B3A937486848022F6CD8397B8CE37635C| |90E3766B3A597ACEF3DAFF027CC9B4BDC2D955AAF7852C304713E6A8608E0ACE7EA| |FEEABF7541A520CF74C891E11A9D344EB3463759AF13ACDBC5163E755C68C3A2BEB| |E20A2EB572E798B0B5B97A739596C86E85DDFA053136FD0ED4ED570CB26A90970DF| |25E2B8541FEECAAC9A73D3539E4AEC96F0C3EFF00835CE98D| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
Yeah, it's on my fav powers list not because I feel a "need" for it, per-say... It's just that I've seen it be quite useful on Task Forces for keeping the rest of the team alive, which can mean the difference between a task force taking 45 minutes and a task force taking an hour and a half....
One of my friends alerted me to the Enzymes thing...doh! I never even knew about that until today!! I'm kicking myself now, because I'd already bought 4 of the others by selling some enhancements off of other toons. >.<
"Alien"
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades
The way you play changes your IO slotting..
|
76 characters and Twenty-four 50s later, I still love this game.
AlienOne's Human-Form Warshade Guide (Old guide+New guide = 12,000+ views!)
Quote:
Well I mean.. You could also spec into Provoke. |
Originally Posted by AlienOne
Yeah, it's on my fav powers list not because I feel a "need" for it, per-say... It's just that I've seen it be quite useful on Task Forces for keeping the rest of the team alive, which can mean the difference between a task force taking 45 minutes and a task force taking an hour and a half....
|
I know I'm probably "beating the dead horse" a bit, but I missed the heck out of this power when I didn't have it. I really think that Provoke on a high end Warshade is one of the most glorious things I've encountered and played in the game.Quote:
|
One of my friends alerted me to the Enzymes thing...doh! I never even knew about that until today!! I'm kicking myself now, because I'd already bought 4 of the others by selling some enhancements off of other toons. >.< "Alien" |
I had stated a long time ago in a thread long forgotten that if the developers ever saw fit to add another build to the two we could already switch between, I'd use it for either bi-form or defense-based experimentation.
YES!
I've always ran a Chaos™ (haha) human-former on my first build and a tri-former on my second build that's a little more "exemp-able-friendly."
I just returned to the game after a long hiatus (dang school!), and noticed that we now have THREE builds we can switch between!
Well, after a few conversations about builds with several members of the Kheldian community, some insight into defense-based builds via TwoHeadedBoy, and a ton of experimentation in THE NEW RELEASE OF MID'S HERO DESIGNER, I've finally come up with a satisfactory human-only build that softcaps S/L defense, maintains a good bit of damage (both ST and AoE), and doesn't get rid of some of my "pet favorite" powers like Super Speed and Vengeance.
*Note*
Hasten is still about two and a half seconds from perma, and I do realize that I don't have Apocalypse slotted in Shadow Blast. Between pulling all the purple sets off of a couple of my scrappers, a friend of mine who quit the game giving me the Kinetic Combats, and buying the rest from the market, I ran out of money, and can't afford to get them. However, the damage is still close to maxed out, I still have a 6.25% Recharge bonus, and there's a chance for Build-Up in there that I think might slightly offset the fact that I don't have a purple set in there.
Questions? Comments?
"Alien"
76 characters and Twenty-four 50s later, I still love this game.
AlienOne's Human-Form Warshade Guide (Old guide+New guide = 12,000+ views!)