Redlynne

NOTHING else in the game brings The Power Of Purple to a team like a Warshade.

I've been playing my warshade (Ms Terry) through BAF runs all day (MoBAF badge, yay!).

What I bring to the team/league is ... whatever the team/league needs. During the Prisoner Phase, I just wind up Orbiting Death and Inky Aspect and stun (Minion) Prisoners even before they spawn out the door. This then makes things easier on my teammates to mow them down before they can run (or stumble away at running speed). Let me guard a door where someone is laying down Caltrops and we're golden!

This sounds an awful lot like the "Follow doesn't ever close to Melee Range because it'll stop just short of Melee Range" when Flying/Hovering. Hmmm...

Can it be? Have the Devs finally found a reason to take Greater Ice Sword ... for its 9 ft Gauntlet radius? o.O;

Oh, who am I kidding ... there's never a good combat based reason for taking Greater Ice Sword ...

Clockwork vs IDF vs Seer vs Warworks

I presume that these iPets aren't all identical in terms of buffs, performance, etc. ... but there's absolutely no way to know that for sure based on the information that Paragon Studios has given us (which isn't so much "bare bones" as much as "calcium deprived powdered mixtures"). It would be really nice to know what the various iPets actually *DO* for you in better detail ... so as to be able to make an educated choice based on merits (as opposed to just pure Fashion Sense).

Mind Control Tier 9 = Mass Comedy

Earth Control, as has been said many times, is a very *obvious* control set. When you do something, "the earth moves" (thanks to your subwoofer) and your screen is covered with crumbly bits. Everything that Earth/* does is very flashy, with lots of graphical feedback.

Mind Control isn't like that at all. In fact, the "flashiest" think that Mind Control does is put purple bubbles on heads when it confuses hostiles. And even that isn't always that obvious a thing to do. Mind Control is very subtle in its graphics (to the point of being TOO subtle!) ... but never think that just because it doesn't make the camera shake every time you do something it is somehow lacking in power. Mind Control has an amazing selection of powers, pretty much all of which are worthwhile "out of the box" which can be made superlative with slotting.

I haven't tried */Storm or */Radiation on anything yet, but I have tried */Trick Arrow ... both on a Controller (Grav/TA) and on a Mastermind (Ninja/TA) ... and let me tell you, it's nothing to write home about. For complementing "hard control" powers, Trick Arrow is remarkably weak. Sure it's got Ice Arrow, but Ice Arrow has a ridiculously long animation time (so as to let you "admire" the frosty arrowhead, I suppose) and a pathetically short duration coupled with a really long recharge time. You practically have to 6-slot Ice Arrow as soon as you can, just to bring it up to par! Aside from Entangling Arrow (single target Immobilize) and EMP Arrow (AoE Hold) ... that's pretty much *IT* for hard control support from */TA. Worst of all, Trick Arrow is really, at heart, a Team Support powerset, meaning it's far more valuable to a team than it is to a soloist ... much like how things work out for Empathy (for example). Teams can leverage Trick Arrow's debuffs (such as they are) much more efficiently than a soloist can.

This must only apply to Male or Huge characters, since I'm not encountering any changes with the Female "Ha HA!" taunt.

I'm NOT looking forward to trying to do the new content with my Ninja/Trick/Soul Tankermind. I suspect I'm going to have to do exactly what I had to on the Apex TF ... which is to abandon the pets as unworkable and simply become a Raptor Packing poor man's Debuffer, since without my ninjas, that's all I can do.

The Underdog may be the first time I've seen a really well done "Rocketeer" styled retro costume done RIGHT. Kudos.

I am submitting Leggs to this contest.

Uh ... I wouldn't call this little effort in sharing of mine a "guide" per se. At best it falls under the heading of "what worked for me" so I'd think that calling it a "guide" would be pushing it. "