Azrath

Eben Brooks: Beat up the Scum My friend the big badass Fights badguys out in RV I'm not high enough to pass So I'm stuck here farming XP I don't have epic pools I don't have diddly squat. It's not having what you need It's knowing what to slot.

*looks down at waistline* The older I get, the more I want that power.

All Incarnate abilities, inherent abilities (Hello Fitness) and Accolade powers remain available in squid/dorf form.

I'm a Warshade, so I can teleport. But I took Super speed for the stealth, and then Combat jumping for a luck of the gambler mule vertical assist alongside nebulous form. But I really like flying. And I don't get a lot of use out of Resucitate anymore... And yes, I did take the medicine pool simply because I had baked-in Recall Corpse Friend and teamed with a Blaster a lot. Hmm.

Given how stealthy Shades can get, and our ability to stack Sunless and Dwarf mire, quite a lot of fights as a Warshade start with the phrase 'Double mire into X" where X is something nasty in the AoE department. Double Mire into Quasar, Unchain is a popular way of dealing a lot of AoE damage, but I'm rather fond of double mire into (nova) detonation

Super speed gives 35 feet of stealth. Coupled with Shadow Cloak (35'), you're generally well-protected against detection from anything short of Giant Monsters & Turrets (100'), sniper-type enemies (149'). Putting a Stealth IO in brings you up to 100 feet of stealth, so as long as you're more than a foot away, giant monsters can't see you. Activate Nebulous Form (cyclic 20' of stealth) and even GMs have a hard time picking you up. At that point, the only things spotting you are sniper-type enemies; as well as Knives of Artemis, Rikti Drones, and Rularuu Sentinels (All of whom flat-out ignore Stealth) And ambushes, because they always know exactly where you are.

Heh. I was on a team here on everlasting and I'd just MF'ed the hell out of a spawn while the rest of my RP team was recovering from the prior fight in a long hallway. Stygian'd back up to full and cut loose with my battle cry. M̴̧̪̲͓̙͕͉̟̾͆̄͋̋̊ȗ̵̢̪͎̮̓̽̆̎͗͘͜͠ͅs̶̩͋́͂͑t̵̛̼̟̽̕ ̷̳̥̦̮̙̼̍̍f̸̧̪͔͖͔̚̚͝i̸̜̿ń̶͈̲̓̊͐̚d̸̮͕̺̖͊̾́̄͐̍̈́̕ ̴̡͒̌̊̋́́m̵̠̳̲͎͔͓̗͗̆ṑ̴̮͇̈́̃̈́̕r̷̨̛̥̲̩͇̺̙̓̐̊̅ę̴̢̯̣̫̮̦̯̎ ̷̼̹̩̹̥̦̰̎̿͛́͊͂̓̚b̸͎͒̓ó̶̡̭̀d̸̬͙̯̘̙͂́ͅĩ̸̡̈e̴̗̥̘͌̿̾s̷̟̩͕͉̥͉͍̀̃͂̈ Team Lead: ...Uhh... you OK there Penny? Another player: She's fine, she's a Disciple of Dechs. Of course, by then I'd run off into yet another spawn...

Elaborating on this (because we're warshades, everything we do is elaborate); essentially everyone else picks one character, but we're a trio tag team. Our decisions aren't just 'which power will be available next for my attack chain?"; we have to consider which of our forms we want to be in at any time, what buffs are available / expiring, and which powers we want to enhance with those buffs. A scrapper runs up to a spawn and might lead with a debuff or aoe before dropping into their attack chain. A Warshade ghosting up is thinking "Ok, do I want to double-mire into a nuke-corpse nuke; or eclipse-mire into nova cone/aoe; or hold into..." About the only consistent thing about Warshade combat is that we end with Stygian Circle and Extract Essence before going to find more bodies.

Hey look guys, Jack came back!

On the flip side, the character designs, logos and such are trademarked; and trademarks only last for 10 years, need to be renewed in the middle of that; and only survive if you actively defend them. Which, you know, NCSoft hasn't been doing because they just threw everything in the trashbin and walked away. But I'm a Warshade, not a lawyer.

There is a particular sort of person who will cling to a grudge until it dies of old age; then take it to a taxidermist to have it stuffed and mounted so they can pass it on to their grandchildren.

What AT lets you pick mind control and assault rifle?

Coy and Pan are about as fast as Ninja/Beast run + sprint; but as mentioned detoggle everything else so you can't stack them with sprint (and possibly Swift/hurdle, but I'd have to double check). Panther lost its stealth component. Basically they're million-inf roleplaying toys.

Welcome home.

A Kinetic Melee / SR brute was my first and highest Incarnate on live. It's particularly potent on Brutes because every single attack, in addition to building Fury, also decreases enemy damage and increases your own like a mini Siphon Power. Who doesn't love more damage, faster?