PrincessDarkstar

This is exactly my line of thinking too. I have lain awake at night pondering builds and IO's and influence and failed Mo runs etc. If I didn't take it seriously I wouldn't be able to enjoy it.

You have to understand it isn't life of death, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously.

I am not sure how pathing works on a Mac to be honest. When I get time (Next week likely) I will have a look into it and make a file for you that should work. Then I will give you that to test and we can see from there. I really want to get this working for you!

Macs are evil though, so if it doesn't work I will advise you to burn it and buy a PC

Leaving a team to me without even giving the Kheldian a chance makes me think you are in your early teens. It is a very childish attitude.

Hating KB is one thing (Heaven knows I hate it myself) but you seem almost allergic to it, especially when you consider that of the KB users Khelds and energy blasters are the most preferable, since the things they hit are also going to die soon.

Again this is your childish attitude surfacing, the distractions are very minor and nothing compared to what a Kheldian can bring to a team. You have either teamed with some bloody awful Kheldians, or haven't given them a chance.

Uncontrolled KB is awful I agree, and I have kicked people and left teams before, but a sensible adult would judge the player not the AT.

Secondly a scrapper who aggro's the entire room is only in the wrong if they cannot cope with it. Many can and do just as well if not better than some whole teams. Again judge the player not the AT.

This I can understand a little more, I don't think they are more or less effective than other AT's, but you are overstating the drawbacks.

I actually don't think you have given them a fair shake. KB takes some getting used to if you are to do it right. In the right hands it is a very powerful tool. If you had taken the time to learn how to use it you might find you actually enjoy the benefits it brings to your toons.

I think Bill Z Bubba summed this up very well below:
So if you think a Cyst is slowing down a team then you either are not handling them properly, or need to realise that they are just the same as any other mob and give xp.

This sums it up well for me. You are childishly putting anyone who has KB powers into a group. You hate KB and will avoid it as best you can rather than learn how to use it well.

None of the dedicated Khelds on this board scatter mobs, make missions take longer or cause teamwipes, only those who don't know what they are doing have that effect. It sounds like you don't know what you are doing.

Lastly: I have been a little harsh here, because I really hate posts like yours claiming KB is evil and therefore Khelds are bad. I hate KB myself, but only because I don't trust most people using it, I know I use it well and I know others who do too.

So I would say to you, get over your fear of KB, learn how to use it properly and only avoid those people who dont use it properly rather than whole AT's.

I am going to guess those benefits may be limited to badges. Any tangible benefit would be heavily criticed and wouldn't last long I don't think.

Happy I was of some help

If you are solo, or have enough time try waiting around for a 2nd Black Dwarf Mire (Sunless Mire > Black Dwarf Mire > Single target attacks > Black Dwarf Mire > Quasar > Blue > Stygian Circle). That way you will have a damage capped Quasar and then fully recover in seconds

Try:

Human Mire > Dwarf Mire > Smash stuff > Dwarf Mire > Damage capped Quasar

I thought I would use this as a good example of the thought processes I like using.

When you next play look at how often you use this taunt, do you find that you can hold aggro without it? Do you end up mainly tanking single foes or small groups or AV's?

Unless you find yourself main tanking for large groups I think you can get away with only 1 slot in this power, especially once you get enough global recharge. I would stick a Taunt IO in it and let accuracy be covered by Black Dwarf Mire, and recharge covered by global bonus'. (I only have one slot in it and I can hold the aggro on AV's or groups easy enough unless someone else really wants it, and anyone capable of taking it off me is usually capable of handling it - scrappers mainly)

Then you have saved yourself 3 slots to go elsewhere.

Alternatively do you find that you use it a lot? Then consider adding 2 more slots for the 7.5% recharge bonus from I think Perfect Zinger.

Apart from the initial experimenting to see the missions I would expect almost every character to end up as a vigilante so they can access both sides rather than staying on any particular side.

I think a year or so after GR comes out there will be very few true heroes or villains aside from the roleplayers.

I am quite bored at work so thought I might as well!

Dark Nova - I don't think a tiny bit of recovery (By reducing the endurance cost of the toggle by .11 eps) and 5% tohit is really worth 5 slots. I know you did it for the +recharge, but you can get that recharge elsewhere I feel.

Winters Gift: Slow Resistance - You may as well get that slotted somewhere, maybe Black Dwarf Step

Ranged Defence - I don't think it is really worth slotting for it unless you are going to make a good go of it, anything less than 25% I wouldn't think is that much use, so I would save the slots from Shadow Step and Shadow Recall

Gravatic Emination - I guess it is a playstyle choice not taking it, but I really couldn't live with not having it, no matter how little I use it.

Quasar - I would 5 slot this with Obliterations saved from Dark Nova, and obviously take earlier so you can fit the slots in.

Black Dwarf Mire - I would swap one of the Obliterations with either a pure EndRdx IO (13.2 end every 5 seconds will drain you blue bar fast), or go for the purple proc (Which is amazing if you have the budget). The melee defence from the 6th slot is wasted imho.

Black Dwarf Drain - With your level of recharge I wouldn't think this power was used in your normal attack chain, so would be best used for pure healing, and therefore I would slot it with 5 Doctored Wounds, and maybe some accuracy.

Aid Self - Do you use this power? I would swap it for Stimulant, which may at least get used once! Failing that I would slot it for heal, since you aren't likely to need to spam it in any situation where it isn't going to get interrupted.

Stygian Circle - If you have any spare slots after the above I would get some recharge into this power.

Resiscitate - I would swap a few power picks around so you pick this before you start on the Concealment pool, unless you are picking low level LoTG's for exemping? I like having this power available as soon as possible (IE: Lvl 24).

Edit: These are pretty much all nitpicks aside from Nova/Quasar, the build is actually quite nice for a Nova/Dwarf heavy build.

Again I agree and disagree.

Getting melee, ranged and AoE defence covers you against everything (Almost) but since most attacks have a smashing or lethal component S/L defence will do you a lot of good if you haven't got the budget to aim for capped positional defence. Especially when you add in Scorpion Shield because you don't need too much in the way of +def from set bonus', so it is quite cheap to cap S/L (And the S/L set bonus' are quite common).

So although capping all the positionals is preferred, you can get by well enough with just S/L, and do so on a very limited budget.

I find that line of thought interesting, it makes perfect sense yet I never even thought of it in that way for one minute. The actual losing of human powers in forms etc seems perfectly reasonable to me, in fact I found the forms had exactly enough powers.
I think the VEAT's leadership toggles are rubbish, game breaking, overpowered nonsense designed to please people who can't deal with subtelty so my opinion is biased. But I really like the Kheld inherants, they help the Kheld become better and help the team in that way. Just because you don't have a buff doesn't mean you bring nothing to the team.
Actually I don't think they went very far down that road at all, looking at all the tools there is damage, control and survivability, reminds me of controllers and dominators, but more skewed towards damage.
I know it comes across as 'lrn2play' but both types of Khelds have wonderful tools, they just need using correctly.
The most important advice I tend to give to a new Kheldian player is to focus on what you want to do and don't let yourself be spread to thinly, that is where the feeling of not being able to do anything comes from. 30 powers 3 slotted is nowhere near as good as 20 powers 5 slotted and 10 powers 1 slotted.
The first thing I would say here is that the forms do not need to be used mid combat, you can just find your role in the team and stick to that form without being a leech.
The next thing I would say is post up your particular bind problems and there will be someone here who can help you. Binds help a lot, and yes the interface should be much better, but since it isn't I would make every effort to get the binds sorted. This will particularly help with your 1-6 keys, because they can swap to do the right thing at the right time and once the initial binds are set up it needs no thought at all.
Again I think this is just an unfortunate way of viewing the forms, though probably generated from the interface needing upgrading for Khelds. Personally when I swap to Nova I don't need any other attacks. Nova is for damage and you have a great attack chain right away, why have a 5th power if 4 are enough?
I can see why you feel you are missing the human powers though, but a flying Nova with Dwarf level resists, 3 AoE's, 2 PBAoE's and a perma-able mag 3 stun would be overpowered. That is without counting the instant access to heals.
The biggest failing of Khelds is that they need to be played with thought and experience, and the interface does not help that in any way.
I would say the problem you have is threefold:
A - You haven't got Nova, which especially at low levels does godly damage. My Warshade can make a Positron run go faster than getting a kin with speed boost can.
B - You have probably tried to slot too many powers and spread the enhancements too thinly.
C - You are low level, the human attacks are very weak and you haven't yet got stamina. Nova normally takes the reliance away from the human attacks and stamina will help the endurance problem, but I didn't find it worse on any of my Khelds than any other toon.
The solution to this issue is to persevere with trying to get binds to work, they can be tricky and do go wrong from time to time but since they work the same for everyone there must be a way we can help you. Then pick up Nova form, slot the attacks in it well and your experience WILL change. Even if you never drop out of Nova till you hit 50 you will just be a blaster without his secondary, and I have played blasters like that before.
This is probably a bug that needs fixing, any corpse targetting powers should auto-target. Dark Extraction does, and if you kill a living target it should remain targetted when you hit Unchain Essence.
Other than that I know it is repeated advice, but there is a bind and with effort you should be able to get it working. There is just no way that a bind that works for one cannot work for another unless you accidentally did something wrong, even then we can wipe all your binds and start you from scratch with copy + paste stuff.
I actually like the way they did that, though I think I am the only one. The reasoning is probably because PB's have never been able to TP, but when the Nictus underwent the transformations they lost the ability to fly and gained the ability to TP. The forms are racial memories so as long as dwarfs could TP inherantly then they will remember how to do it in that form, same with Nova.
I think you are an unfortuante victim of the way the game UI works, it really does not help a newbie Kheldian.
I am @Princess Darkstar on Union (EU) if you need help, and AlienOne is right, there may be a lot of arguement on the Kheld boards but it is from passion, and there is nobody on here who would ever refuse to help a fellow Kheld.

Last thought: If you haven't been totally put off Khelds and want to give them another try I would seriously suggest making a post about your bind troubles. We can help you sort that, and then we can help you with the rest. Especially on your Warshade in the 30's it is worth it. You are not far from Eclipse, the best power in the game imho

This is my experience too.

It was confirmed somewhere that they are all new models.