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Other way around, resist lowers the damage, defence is like a dodge.
I wouldn't bother slotting the resist - S/L defence (very common damage types) is better than the Fire/Cold resist (cold is very uncommon, fire, uncommon-ish).

You can quite easily just live with Neutrino Bolt - it's fast recharge and animation time means it chains quite nicely on its own.

Neutrino Bolt :

Brawl Index: 1.6667
Recharge: 1.5s
Animation: 1s
Cost: 3.12

X-ray beam:

Brawl Index: 2.77778
Recharge: 4s
Animation: 1.67s
Cost: 5.2

Hell, going on that alone, I'd forget about x-ray beam, chaining the two doesn't add a great deal. However x-ray beam is GREEN LASER EYES and therefore has a huge cool factor - many enemies will find you too cool for school and simply give up and die rather than face you.

That's why I took it

Hey, that's not such a bad idea! You might find it a little hard controlling where you end up, since SJ is pretty fast and goes very high - you could easily end up out of range. Nice idea tho, worth a try! I might even respec one of my guys to it!

Energy, by a long way - toggle dropping attacks with very high damage and quick animations. Add to that buildup and powerboost, just the icing on the cake.

Looks good, but I'd forget about punch - Air Superiority is much better, it has the same damage, recharge, end cost (maybe bit cheaper?), but with higher change to knockdown.

I thought the graphics stayed but the sound went?

Cheers What about follow up? that looks pretty smart on paper

Unslotted it should increase HP by 40% of the casters total, just like dull pain and the other powers like it

I've started yet another character, Claws/SR. What claws powers are good, what are ones to avoid? I've heard things that conflict with the info I've got on the hero planner about animation times and whatnot, so any help would be appreciated.

Cheers, Irrad

In mass PvP, MMs are very very good! The general confusion means people won't be running away from you as much as in one on one PvP.
Just try not to get killed and let the pets do their thing!

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forcefield is probarbly OK, since all the FF powers are usually activated out of combat, ignoring force bolt.

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Sonic Siphon, Sonic Cage, Clarity and Liquify are all things you'd use in combat though.

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For some reason I thought your were talking about the Force Field set

Is that even available to corruptors?

forcefield is probarbly OK, since all the FF powers are usually activated out of combat, ignoring force bolt.

Irradiator doesn't know how old he is, he lost his memory and has very damaged skin from acute radiation poisoning. He feels old tho

Haz-Mat, my corruptor is a 30ish family man, just trying to make enough money as a hired henchman for some supervillain so he can retire.

N-Forcer, my Warshade, is about 25. Well, his host is anyway.

Ankou, another corruptor is about 500 years old, while the spirit possesing him is much older.

I've got a crapload more characters too, but those ones spring to mind fot this topic

Ouch, 2 attacks up until 26, I wouldn't want to do that one without respecing to it at some high level!

If you do ever want to go to the lower level PvP zones it might be worth shuffling some of the attacks in earlier.

Dunno, but I want a screenie!

Hell, any experience on the cold set would be good.
On paper it looks really solid, I have to say - really heavy on the slows and debuffs, with some nice shields and a kinda heal thing.

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Yep, it's somewhat, erm, interesting to see all 3 Drones, both PB's and Mr. Stompy open up with their AoE's as their first attack on a spawn...

The opposition seems to just melt away, assuming it's not conning yellow, or a lieutenant or higher, or just resistant to energy damage (damn Crystal type DE )

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They melt away when they're conning purple too :P

Take all henchmen and upgrades as soon as you can, everthing else is extras.
Slot henchmen with 2/3 acc and 3 damage. Protector bots can have different slotting - I've gone for 2acc 2dam 2disorient, but that's only useful when you get to 32.
The fist upgrade power is good right out of the bag - put a recharge or end reducer in it.
The 32 upgrade has a long recharge, so 3 recharge reducers should be in it.

Good idea, except for the nightmares I'd get from them. Akira made toys a very scrray thing.

They'd possibly be worse then clowns.

Well, I've just recently got my Ice/Dark up to the level where you get Freeze Ray. It's much much more fun than the Ice/Ice Dominator I started, but then I tend to prefer characters that have a lot of tricks up their sleeves. Ice/Dark has them apenty! Possibly more fun than my 32 Robotics/FF MM

This time it's for real!

Grats to Quasar, the founder of our SG, No Such Agency!

Hurrah and then some. Nice one getting a Kheldian to the big five-oh!

Our great and wise leader

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I went for dark matter detonation cos it looks a lot like the nova form blast - similar damage and all that, so it can't be all bad, besides, it's another handy blast to have while in human form.

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Nonono...the damage is pathetic (similar to Shadow Bolt I think) and the end cost is HUGE!

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Alright, I'll specialse the human form slightly, dark matter detonation is outta here!

Happy Birthday!

Ahhh, I see! I'll do a little shuffling of the powers then.

Cheers for the advice

I went for dark matter detonation cos it looks a lot like the nova form blast - similar damage and all that, so it can't be all bad, besides, it's another handy blast to have while in human form.
Is unchain essence really as powerful as the nuke? The Hero Builder has some dodgy info on some of the WS powers. If you then I'll certainly be adding recharge to it

Not an easy thing to do, coming up with this - Warshades have so many tricks at their disposal!
This build starts off as a Nova, then when Gravity Well and Black Dwarf become availaible, human and dwarf forms will see more time.

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Exported from Ver: 1.7.3.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder - (http://home.comcast.net/~SherkSilver/index.html)
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Name:
Level: 50
Archetype: Warshade
Primary: Umbral Blast
Secondary: Umbral Aura
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01) --> Ebon Eye==> Acc(1) Dmg(3) Dmg(5) Dmg(5)
01) --> Absorption==> DmgRes(1)
02) --> Gravimetric Snare==> Acc(2) Immob(3)
04) --> Orbiting Death==> EndRdx(4) EndRdx(37) EndRdx(37) Dmg(43) Dmg(45) Dmg(45)
06) --> Dark Nova==> TH_Buf(6) TH_Buf(7) TH_Buf(7) EndMod(9) EndMod(9) Fly(36)
08) --> Starless Step==> Acc(8)
10) --> Shadow Blast==> Acc(10) Dmg(33) Dmg(34) Dmg(34) Acc(40) Rechg(42)
12) --> Sunless Mire==> Acc(12) Rechg(21) Rechg(25) Rechg(31)
14) --> Shadow Cloak==> EndRdx(14)
16) --> Dark Matter Detonation==> Acc(16) Dmg(36) Dmg(37) Dmg(46) Acc(48)
18) --> Gravity Well==> Acc(18) Hold(19) Hold(19) Hold(21) Acc(34) Rechg(36)
20) --> Black Dwarf==> DmgRes(20) DmgRes(29) DmgRes(29) EndMod(42)
22) --> Stygian Circle==> EndMod(22) EndMod(23) EndMod(23)
24) --> Nebulous Form==> EndRdx(24)
26) --> Gravity Emanation==> Acc(26) DisDur(27) DisDur(27) DisDur(42) Acc(43) Rechg(43)
28) --> Inky Aspect==> DisDur(28) Acc(45)
30) --> Unchain Essence==> Acc(30) Dmg(50) Dmg(50) Dmg(50)
32) --> Dark Extraction==> Rechg(32) Acc(33) Dmg(33) Dmg(48) Dmg(48)
35) --> Quasar==> Acc(35)
38) --> Eclipse==> Acc(38) Rechg(39) Rechg(39) Rechg(39) DmgRes(40) DmgRes(40)
41) --> Swift==> Run(41)
44) --> Health==> Heal(44)
47) --> Stamina==> EndMod(47)
49) --> Stygian Return==> Heal(49)
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01) --> Sprint==> Run(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Acc(1)
01) --> Shadow Step==> EndRdx(1)
01) --> Dark Sustenance==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Rechg(2)
10) --> Shadow Recall==> Range(10)
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06) --> Dark Nova Blast==> Dmg(6) Dmg(13)
06) --> Dark Nova Bolt==> Dmg(6) Dmg(13)
06) --> Dark Nova Detonation==> Acc(6) Dmg(11) Dmg(15) Dmg(17)
06) --> Dark Nova Emmanation==> Acc(6) Dmg(11) Dmg(15) Dmg(17)
20) --> Black Dwarf Strike==> Acc(20)
20) --> Black Dwarf Smite==> Acc(20)
20) --> Black Dwarf Mire==> Acc(20) Rechg(31) Rechg(46)
20) --> Black Dwarf Drain==> Acc(20) Heal(31) Heal(46)
20) --> Black Dwarf Step==> EndRdx(20)
20) --> Black Dwarf Antagonize==> Acc(20) Taunt(25)
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