TwoHeadedBoy

Use that Hero Merit trick I taught you, you can do it once a week, and then do TF's to convert merits over and stealth 5 tips a day. You'll have it in no time.

Man I wish someone told me this earlier. I already got both the hero merits

Oh well, I guess more astrals couldn't hurt.

lmao.

For the Tri Form build I posted earlier, the opening farming 'chain' is Eclipse>Sunless Mire>Dwarf Mire>Quasar>Small Blue>Stygian Circle. After that, the chain is Dwarf Mire>Nova Aoes>Dwarf Mire>Nova AoEs, dropping to human for Sunless Mire/Quasar/Eclipse as soon as they're up, and Stygian Circle when needed. Binds are helpful. Unchain Essence is optional.

I think my Human Form Build might even be doing better AoE damage via my Orbiting Death slotting/Reactive/Unchain Essence and the immensely superior ST chain focused on bosses (S Blast>G Well>S Blast>E Drain.) That's the build I can solo level 52 AV's with.

Yeah I can get behind this- I've only had a chance to briefly test it out, and I had my tri form build on. Especially with Dwarf/Nova having an aura that looks like the LF aura already, it can be pretty difficult to tell when the buff expires. Same could be said, really, for any full body auras in human form.

edit: It was pretty obvious when my HP crashed, though.

Glad you could make it dude. I hope we keep seeing you.

If you're able to use mids at school, feel free to shoot me a PM if you need help with any changes.

The thread as a whole is full of people soloing AV's/Doing cool things on their Warshades so really any post works. I can't tell if you're being snarky because you had to go through the hard labor of scrolling down a few inches or if you were asking a legitimate question, so I'll reserve further response until you clear that up.



Edit: I just noticed the top post linked to the one person doing trivial/pointless things and then bragging about it and posting in the thread. Sorry about that. Let me be more specific.

Warshades can solo level 52 AV's, possibly higher.

That is true in a broad sense, I suppose, but if we're talking about the 'high end' of performance as you have indicated, the gap almost completely dissipates.

Human Form Warshades have the DPS to solo leevel 52 AV's without any pets whatsoever. Granted, that's with fully saturated mires, but even without them on a team VS. AV situation a Warshade can still contribute a pretty nice amount of damage. Human Form is also capable of very nice survivability via defense and HP bonuses; My build sits at 35% s/l defense, and 28%m/21%r/22%aoe. Its' HP is 1 below Brutes' base, and it caps eclipse for 85% resistance to all damage with just 5 targets. Anyways, just food for thought.

The point still stands that even with ED capped damage in your attack, proccing that excessively costs you full slotting of purple sets for optimal recharge bonuses to focus on defense with your other slots.

Also if you made a mod on my build I'm sure you could find some way to fit in Provoke- Mocking Beratement and Perfect Zinger both provide decent recharge/defense bonuses when 6 slotted.

Meh, I haven't bothered figuring those things into my builds or build assessments since I don't have any intention of using them. "pay us money 2 increase ur statz!!" just doesn't sit well with me-- I mean, feel free to sell costumes... but.

Yeah being able to hold aggro is nice, it's yet another area where Warshades have an advantage over Peacebringers (via Orbiting Death/Inky.)

Provoke would probably be nice to work in--I have it on my Human Form Warshade, but the main function is to keep aggro off my pets. I don't worry too much about team mates because I'm greedy. Barring the Keyes trial, which is probably the primary exception, you have one thing to take into account: "Do I need my team mates? Is my build good enough where I can finish pretty much any content on my own without them?" (I took Vengeance for a reason )
Oh, I'm not saying that the procs aren't beneficial, I'm sure the stats for those individual powers are wonderful... The only reason I don't like them is that they are, to me, effectively wasted slots that could be used more effectively via using purple sets to ED cap all your main attacks, with nice global recharge to boot, and room for res debuff procs, so that you can rededicate other slotting to defense...

Kheldians with capped resistances and good defense to boot are probably more survivable than most tanks-- Especially considering Warshades' mitigation capabilities and Peacebringers' "lol I just capped my HP in human form" ability.