Why aren't you playing a kheldian?

I have them unlocked. I've never even tried one.

I don't play one because I have no interest in them. The problem is that they are not superheroes. They are not my character. They are this alien thing that I have no interest in playing.

I don't have that problem with SoA's because I can make the costume and just ignore the SoA part. But I don't want to play a flying squid, or a dwarf thing.

The only reason to play one seems to be "because they are there".

Because they're not Scrappers.

Sonstar and Sonshade get played pretty regularly on freedom. As a matter of fact Sonshade just lead about four MAG farm runs.

[QUOTE=dugfromthearth;4256166]I have them unlocked. I've never even tried one.

I don't play one because I have no interest in them. The problem is that they are not superheroes. They are not my character. They are this alien thing that I have no interest in playing...

...I don't want to play a flying squid, or a dwarf thing.QUOTE]


This is my reason as well. The coolest thing about this game is that we have the freedom to make any superhero we want. Kheldians seem "pre-made", and I have no interest in playing someone else's character.

I have three Peacebringers (a human/nova bi-form, a human/dwarf bi-form and a human-only) and one Warshade (tri-form) in my crew.

Of the four, two of the PBs (the bi-forms) are 50+3 full Incarnates who are played regularly, mostly in iTrials. The human/nova, Anima Sola, is actually my prefered character for running Underground. PB number 3 is a solo-only character on Exalted, so he's a little behind the other two at 26, but he'll catch up eventually. They're very much *my* characters. Being Kheldian fusions in no way hampered my ability to make them, or my Warshade, my own.

My one 'Shade... She's not played like the PBs are, though. Alshain's in the mid-20's and has more or less been completely abandoned. I haven't played her in close to a year.

I'm very fond of my Peacebringers. I "get" the way they work, I do pretty well with them, I like the look of their powers and I love their sound-effects.

I never really got the hang of playing a Warshade. I didn't like the powers as much, or the look, and the lack of flight in human form annoyed the crap out of me.

I've had a lowbie WS for a number of years. I'm just not playing her because I like playing my 50s. Now, with the I23 changes to PBs, I plan to get her to 50 next.

I will say that I didn't want either a PB or a WS until I came up with a concept that involved basically making her into a Galaxy (before those really existed). She's infused with a Nictus that has no personality.

I pretty much ONLY play my PB because it's the most fun toon I can have.

2 great melee's
3 good blasts to chain
1 good aoe
1 good pbaoe
1 good knockback cone
2 GREAT heals
Fly inherent (good for pvp, very underrated)
Light Form
Res Shields
Photon Seekers

What more do I need?

I pvp with Next Spirit mainly because of how clean this build it and fun and it's really hard to kill me unless im on a cool down for all my powers I need to survive.

Most fun toon I've ever played.

I have a WS at 50 and a PB that is...42 I think?

WS. I've been playing him in the incarnate arcs, and I have fun with him as long as there are large groups of mobs that aren't of great consequence. That is to say, not bosses. That becomes a problem in a couple of the arcs though, with the prevalence of EBs and Cimeroran monsters that are forced to be bosses. If there are minions around that's not as big a deal. But solo fights against the Sentinel, or eventually a Mother Keres or Mot? More difficult. The Sentinel battle was a bear, and one which I might not have completed without the ambushes for a little extra fuel.


PB. I feel like I should be playing this character like a blapper that has the benefit of some damage mitigation, but the mix of heals and shields makes me feel like he's just a sub-par regen/invuln mash-up. Oh, w/o the benefit of human-form mez protection, and with less damage than a real blapper (or even the ability to use tier 1/tier 2 when held). And he still comes off as end-hungry to me. Played him some last month, but became discouraged when I found that I had to defeat Nosferatu in Sunstorm's arc - who I think was a level 44 to my 41 mish.

So, I end up leveling different characters or incarnating ones that I feel can progress better (scrapper, brute, controllers).

Why am I not playing my Kheldians? Well, for one major reason.

Kheldians have been assigned a switch or tag or something that causes special enemies to spawn with each enemy group. These are either Void Hunters or Nictus. Void Hunters include the Quantum Gunners who look just the same as everybody else in their group, but also have that nasty Quantum Array that tears Kheldians apart at low levels and is still dangerous at high levels because it delivers a nasty stun effect.

Then there are the Nictus, which appear as either a FAR more effective Dwarf or Nova than the PC can be, or they appear as a Shadow Cyst Crystal.

Because of that last enemy, you will be hard-pressed to find a team willing to work with a Kheldian. Shadow Cyst Crystals interfere with the grind. For inexperienced teams, they can wipe everybody out. For experienced teams, they're a speed bump... Until killing one wipes out half the team.

And from the gameplay I've experienced with the Archetypes, I still haven't seen the justification for specific considerations taken to hinder and hamper the Kheldians outside of a lore that the game has long-since passed by.

I still got my Kheldians to 50. I even got them to +1. I don't expect to get much else done on them.

I LIKE playing them. However, it's not the same fluid experience of playing an Arachnos Soldier. Low damage output, barely enough resistance to be called resistance, low health, weak controls... The idea was that they would be boosted by their teammates, but as I pointed out before, there are few teams that want to deal with the hassle. It was slow going, levelling my Kheldians, and I often caught flak for bringing them along instead of something more focused (or, as it was sometimes said "more useful").

Mate they changed that Void/Quantum stuff YEARS ago. It no longer applies.

Having said that the changes over the years have made playing a Kheldian NOTHING like it use to be in I8 when I came to the game. Sounds like it has been YEARS since you played and you missed all the Kheld buffs most recently last year I21 I think it was.

I don't play my PB because I wanted a human only, and it just didn't work well enough for me, even by level 43. Then I deleted him. Then they buffed the hell out of PBs. Then I cried. Haven't had the chance to go back.

I do play my MFing shade. A ton. Duh.