PrincessDarkstar

Me too, that is a great name!

I think someone already mentioned that at level 10 you are still getting a good chunk of the early tohit bonus (And the Nova tohit bonus) so the -def wont be too big of an issue. The slow and -recharge on the other hand from a Warshade make a big difference. At low levels most mobs don't actually have many attacks, so slowing the ones they do use is a very good tactic, and stopping a melee toon from getting close to you is great (Though the fly also helps here not every mission has high roofing).

The PB heal is good, but for farming most people would prefer slotting the attacks, so the heal would only be of limited use I think and the +hp wouldn't be that big at level 10.

Lastly the human immob power from Warshades can be really great. Immob the void/quantum, pull the rest of the mob, destroy the rest of the mob and then solo the void/quantum.

This.

As many blasters as I have levelled into their teens, and even knowing how powerful they can be at high levels there is nothing I have yet enoutered with the low level killing power of a Kheldian in Nova form. Pre-i16 posi runs where you had a Kheld and a kin were so much easier than when you were without either of them.

I would put my vote towards Warshades because the slow really helps against low level opponents too, and negative energy is slightly less resisted than normal energy.

But from level 6 you get two good fast single target attacks and two great AoE attacks that give a perfect attack chain right from then. At level 10 you can respec and put all your slots into the attacks, possibly even ignore the single target attacks and just 6 slot those AoE's! Add onto that an increased chance to hit and a massive 45% damage bonus! And flight is a great ally to keep you out of trouble.

Also you can put the Performance Shifter: Chance for +end (If that is available at level 10 - I can't remember) into the form slot, which I think works out better than either an endmod or endrdx.

The downside is that you get the void slayers/quantums, but the single target attacks do KB and are a good way of dealing with them, you just have to pay a bit more attention than normal.

One other thing to remember is that with i16 exemping down gets you powers up to 5 levels higher, so you could get to level 14 then run the 1-9 flashback missions with more powers (And that would probably change the choice of AT), depending what kind of rewards you are after.

Now that would rock!

The good news is that you can reach even the heights of perma-Eclipse without purple sets. The only thing purple sets bring extra is that with larger recharge bonus' they let you free up a few slots.

I don't think many people take pools to fit sets in, Warshades are best concentrating most of their slots into key powers and just using power pools that don't need slotting.

In my case I went for the medicine pool, hasten (A must), superspeed, combat jumping (LoTG holder), superjump, and some of the stealth pool for more LoTG holding goodness. All those powers only have their standard slot, but I use them a lot and spend most of my movement time using SS + SJ, I use the rez from the medicine pool a lot and even grant invis gets use on MO runs or when ghosting.

Recharge is the way to go imho until at least perma-Eclipse (You know that - but it is worth reiterating).

After that there are some that go for ranged defence if they spend time in Nova, and some that go for +damage, but personally once I got the level of recharge I wanted I just frankenslotted the rest of the powers so I could have good numbers. I don't find any other set bonus' worth it at the levels you can get.

About to leave work so can't yet. This also vastly depends on how you prefer to play.

Some kind of -KB IO, just to prevent you being blasted out before you can get Eclipse off, and then personally I always try and fit the purple damage procs in where I can. Even if you aren't going to fork out for a while purple set I think the procs are so awesome I wouldn't miss them. Especially the chance for fire damage in Black Dwarf Mire.

Only being mezzed for 50% of the duration helps a lot, it means you are less likely to die while mezzed and have more chance to be able to heal once the mez wears off.

It is about as good as a human only build can hope for I would say, though since the protection doesn't scale well anything over 100% is probably not going to be noticed.

I am slightly, but at least we aren't VEATs!

The most important bonus for a Warshade in any form is recharge, so that pretty much answers your question about Hasten

Also you will probably be dropping to human at least after every mob for a second or so, and Hasten will just autocast whenever so you won't really notice. I don't.

Yes I have noticed this across all levels. Thought it was just me!

See I never carried around break frees or anything, I just judged the situation and went into Dwarf when I felt it was needed, I would get stunned now and again against things like freaks but against Rikti I would just try and play clever against small groups, or use Dwarf in the big dangerous rooms. I do exactly the same now but the ability to switch to Dwarf is just a new bonus.

I guess like you explained for human form, yes the changes had an effect on mechanics but they never affected the way I played, just reduced the time I spent stunned.

For someone who prefered to sit in Nova and get annoyed at being stunned it probably did have a big effect, but those people judging from really old posts seem to be the ones who gave up on Kheldians.

That is what I was trying to say

Sorry that wasn't what I meant, I was just referring to what kind of builds benefitted most from the changes. My tri-former and I would wager most tri-formers didn't even flinch at the news, but it was good news for human only builds.

Other AT's didn't even pop into my head.