Black_Assassin

If you don't have the capital to invest you really shouldn't bother with human only. You get way more bang for your buck playing triformer. https://dechskaison.blogspot.com/2011/01/mfing-warshade.html

In that case, I would recommend just a standard Tri-former. Human buffs squid and dwarf with +tohit/damage/resistance and offers the nukes and mezzes Squid dishes out damage safely from range Dwarf protects human/squid and offers another +tohit/damage option https://dechskaison.blogspot.com/2011/01/mfing-warshade.html This is an old but gold guide. Read through and understand the concepts etc, and then get playing and learning how to be a MFing Warshade 🙂 I would also recommend Lauci's guide and the Kheldian sub-forum generally. https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/23-peacebringer-amp-warshade/ Once you get the gist of Warshades, the powers etc and how to use binds etc to manipulate the class, I would recommend exploring changelings which are explained in Lauci's guide above. I wouldn't recommend a human only build, its just so sub-par in every performance metric.

What kind of warshade we talking here?

I would probably run this: Dominator (Mind Control - Psionic Assault).mbd

So I would do something along these lines: Drain Psyche is 3s off perma, so with 1 stack you essentially have limitless endurance. Fold Space to pull mobs in to your kill zone. AOE is from Creepers, Psy shockwave and ROF/Fireball ST is from Stranger, Mind probe, Psionic Lance and TK Thrust Please note the unorthodox slotting in roots is because I wanted to fit the +damage proc in but was already at 5x 10% recharge bonuses. So used 5 of the non-superior Domi ATOs and then superior +dam proc IO to increase the proc rate. If you wanted it slotted for damage instead and didn't care about the +dam proc, you could slot Cupid set for the 8.75% So this is Dominator (Plant Control - Psionic Assault).mbd

I really like @Auroxis build above, but if you wanted to have a crack with Ice mastery for more theme you could do something like below: HP is capped when Hoarfrost is up which also gives you a big heal like energise above - no endurance reduction though 😞 I always like to run superspeed so gone with that and CJ but YMMV Ice mastery gives you access to build up! so that recharges in the same time as Blizzard to give you a strong nuke booster. Still got the pet Frosty to mirror the adept pet taken above. I went with 3 damage procs in LS since it is going to be a lot of your damage potential spamming that. Fold space is there for pulling more mobs into your rains Would probably end up running Ageless Core with this despite the Vigor Core Alpha slot. Defender (Storm Summoning - Ice Blast).mbd

Exactly why I went for it. Works really nicely!

I have psi on my psi/sr and dark on my dark/dark. both are solid options tbf, just they bring more utility vs elec which is just pure damage

So we are saying here that we don't need to maximise our damage in the build because (iTrial) leagues will be dropping lores on hard targets? I mean I guess so, but then the logic extrapolates to might as well just slot SOs because lores will help with the hard targets. Why even bother getting set bonuses? Just use barrier core to help with your survivability. But this then is new logic being applied, because its completely irrelevant outside the end game. Which you haven't mentioned before as something you are interesting in building towards. So which is it? Even then, that makes no sense. Why wouldn't you maximise performance if you could? It isn't like my build I posted above is significantly more expensive or cheaper than just slotting full sets as the meta was back on live servers. (I will concede on the wording of maximise performance that you could argue that chasing defense bonuses will maximise performance in survivability, but I will reinstate my point earlier that just huffing purples and using barrier core and being maximised on damage will perform much better than being built for survival and then being limited on your damage) Help me to understand the build philosophy here, because I must be missing something obvious that you're seeing (because I cannot currently understand)

I said what I said to highlight that your view is not logical. If you don't believe that, then that's on you. As the others have said, what you said earlier regarding lazy level 50 builds and building to exemplar just don't make sense. If you want to exemp below lvl 30 all the time that's a totally fine way to play. In that case by all means, use your later picks to get attuned set bonuses etc. If you are playing any content from lvl 30-50 and you aren't taking epic/patron pools and their associated high DPA attacks then you are objectively gimping your damage potential. Again, that's fine if you wish to do that. I do not. Which is why I build the way I do, and then posted said build above. Am I being unreasonable here?

So because exemplaring is "on your mind" you don't take the most powerful attacks available to you? How far down the levels is your cut off point? Skipping the nuke because you can't have it on DFB? It just isn't a logical argument.

Not the wisest take here. The melee attacks are the strongest single target attacks available to Sents and the PBAoE's are also equal to what is usually on offer from the primary. Similarly, energy and body mastery are great at what they do, but you're still sacrificing something i.e. huge single and AOE damage opportunities. fire armour cannot really stack any meaningful defense without making serious sacrifices to your damage output. 1-4 purple insps will boost your survival exponentially more than 4 red insps will boost your damage. Therefore, imo, you're better off doing what fire does best. This is damage, healing and resist/max hp. Don't try to waste time and inf filling the defense hole when insps are plentiful and free. Also burn and fireball will be helping with knockdown to help mitigate some damage. Can also slot the ragnarok KD hi rain of fire if you wish.

Just for reference, this is how my fire/fire sent it slotted. It works relatively well so far. Sentinel (Fire Blast - Fiery Aura) 2.mbd

I would run this, since it affords you a damage aura from Elec mastery and a strong ST melee attack. It is also your strongest DPA attack once your build is slotted: Don't bother chasing any resistance set bonuses. You will be relying on the scaling resists provided by Agile and the Reactive Defenses IO Sentinel (Dark Blast - Super Reflexes).mbd

I've had a Fire/Fire sent forever stuck at lvl 26. I logged it today and realised that it was actually lvl 50! but had only been levelled up to 26, so I will be slotting that soon and enjoying another sent 🙂