Laucianna

I fully get the idea to make them easier to get used to, but to me that has been one of the biggest enjoyments out of playing a Kheldian, to start off a bit lost and overwhelmed, always running out of slots and building horribly, but through learning the AT I would like to think I've become pretty good at it. My point is the learning curve to me is something that should remain as much as possible for all the EATs as I would hate for them to be died down to more basic ATs ❤️

The inherent made more sense during the live days since it was a lot harder to get things like perma lightform, damage cap etc. But in the Homecoming days it is pretty darn useless 😄

It favours what makes the AT unique which similar to MM our inherent should encourage, to me if you want to play a human only Kheldian you are better playing a Sentinel, you have more power options and a ton more damage and your inherent is also useful now ❤️ The Mez protection idea is very good (probably too good) but doesn't feel like anything to do with a Kheldian? Maybe on something like a controller/dom where their main thing is mez they could impart that knowledge onto their team on how to resist it, but on a Kheldian it is just a flat buff with 0 ties to the AT. Not to mention shifting will benefit normal Tri Form Kheldians since Changelings won't be a thing come the rework.

True yeah, my bad on saying the focus on Human only, what I meant was basically any thought towards human only. Human only is a niche that ignores the main mechanic of the AT similar to a petless MM, and the MM inherent focuses on what makes that AT unique so it would make sense for ours to do the same ❤️ I get a few people play human only for a number of reasons hence why when I made my suggestions list there was a "minimal fx" option for forms so you could still be 90% human even in forms 🙂

I am still strongly against any Kheldian rework having a focus on human only being just as good as tri form, the forms are what make us unique hence why the inherent should focus on that section. And as much as I love Kheldians, without the changeling binds we are wet noodles in end game content sadly with such weak DPS, in the inital rework post I put the number differences of DPS and it's painful to see, we need a proper rework that increases our DPS and the usefulness of a lot of our features, inherent most of all 🙂 I would argue the weaknesses for both Kheldians is: - Very low DPS compared to other ATs with similar rating - Pointless inherent that doesn't work solo, and is useless in end game content - Weak/No Mez protection The WarShade case is what the AT is about so I wouldn't class it as a weakness, that is it's unique selling point and it pays off with just 4-5 mobs around you ❤️

Updated - 10/04/2024 - Updated section about my playstyle including rotations, stats, and content ran with it. Also updated it to my most recent build, build 20 ❤️

But you have the Start vendor selling better buffs for something much simpler to get that lasts up to 8 hours and is in a ton of zones? The Start buffs are more expensive but majority have influence and not a set list of different salvage needed to craft the empowerment buffs.

I do like the idea of a visual element to show your achievements in game and this would be a nice way to do that, but I feel like it wouldn't feel unique to the player since the Devs control the layout yours will look like everyone else who has done similar things. Saying that something less personal like a exhibit dedicated to the player character opening up, where they show displays of achievements you have done with little plaques and souvenirs (Like items of power in the base menu) would make sense on why you don't control it ❤️

It's a QoL thing above all others, it's not making the game super easy it's just making something less tedious ❤️

Honestly I don't tell them, in most content the people who can heal don't get to do it often so if it helps make them feel important then I am happy to let them panic over healing ❤️

Not sure how many are aware of actively use the empowerment buffs you can get from your SG base by using Salvage to craft it, but recently I've noticed some really good ones on there that would be super useful, if they lasted more then a single hour. You have things like double XP and the defence Amplifier from START that you can "buy" multiple of to a maximum of 8 hours which is great to grab as you run past one. It would be nice if you can stack the empowerment buffs up to 8 hours too if you have the salvage, to me it would make nice use out of SG bases and a imo forgotten feature whilst not being game breaking ❤️

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Updated - 07/04/2024 - Added a section for Playstyles to help people decide ❤️ - Lauci x

I do love the idea of building Shift but I feel like it might be too complicated to implement in it's current form. To me it would be simpler to do the following: PeaceBringers: Generates 15 "Shift" each time they shift forms to a maximum of 75 total "Shift". For each point of "Shift" you gain 1% End Reduction and Recharge Reduction to a maximum of 75% WarShades: Generates 10 "Shift" each time they shift forms to a maximum of 125 total "Shift". For each point of "Shift" you gain 1% Damage and Accuracy to a maximum of 125% Also for the decay I feel it should be the other way around ❤️ WarShades atm have that drive of constantly needing combat so having their shift slowly build up will make them want to crave battle more to keep it capped since it takes a while to build up. But PeaceBringers can have a break if they want because it builds up rather quickly, so each AT would lose "Shift" at 1 point per second but the forms generate a different amount of shift.

What I'm suggesting isn't changing the how the AT works though, it changes how we will perform at level 50 mostly. The difference I think we have is you believe they are balanced right now, which is fine it's your opinion, but the majority of Kheldian players I know that also know the AT believe they are not and have shown multiple times how they are not ❤️ When I get home from work I will try to get more data to hopefully help convince you 🙂 Also FYI: to everyone please don't make this toxic and have the GMs lock it, we all lose then ❤️

A tanker can out perform us in all of that I believe. The character creator screen is a loose guide yes, but when we are doing almost half the damage of someone in the same ranking whilst doing more work, you have to admit there's an issue right?

Dominator have control and Sentinels are tanky. They should do as much damage as Homecoming has listed them as, this isn't me saying they should be on par with them because of my own views, this is homecoming rating them the same damage despite Kheldians being far lower.

Because our damage cap is so low that the boost from the team is pointless when doing content at end game, and the resist bonus is only useful for Psi damage since we have light form to fulfil said resist, compare it to almost every other inherent that doesn't stop working even if you are buffed to cap on everything. The scales are great it's the lack of high damage powers we suffer from due to a mix of super slow animations like incandescent strike or the fact they have super low recharge (meaning low base damage), to the point most high end builds will have to pick up Cross Punch to fill in for some of that damage. Same issue as the two points above, that +45% damage is pointless at high level due to us having a low cap and again with actual damage of the attacks, if we just went off the damage scaling it would mean Squids are the highest ranged damage dealers in game which we all know is far from the truth 😄 So we are not equal to other damage dealers in our cap and in end game content it is capped instantly from barely any buffing due to it. The data points are just the base surface you are looking at, not the actual damage numbers of attacks. For actual numbers: Base Dominator melee DPS rotation: 68.93 Base PeaceBringer melee DPS rotation: 51.69 Base Sentinel ranged DPS rotation: 72.94 Base PeaceBringer ranged DPS rotation: 40.25 Our damage should be equal to both of those ATs in that regard going by the rating Homecoming suggests to players but we fall massively short in both. The trade off is losing changeling which is currently something that allows us to do good damage (Not the best) and have some extra tankiness due to procs in the forms. At the moment without changeling as much as I love them, Kheldians are bottom of the barrel to the point play a scrapper or even a sentinel to do a ton better then them.

Our damage is 100% upsetting without changeling and yes we have -def debuffs on all our attacks but so does pretty much every other powerset have a bonus thing on attacks (Radiation is also -def, sonic is -res (Much better), fire adds a dot etc) And being in a team really doesn't boost our damage greater then anyone, if anything we suffer as a lot of other damage ATs have higher damage cap hence why I suggested an upgrade to the cap 🙂 Allowing us to do good dps without relying on changelings is what I suggest for damage and the trade off is the changeling binds ❤️ The devs know we need a buff otherwise they wouldn't of given us back the changeling binds when they took them away by mistake in the past.

Without changeling binds our damage is far below what it should be, with changeling binds I think we are in the ballpark of where we should be on damage and tankiness. And the devs have stated they want to remove changeling binds but have kept them in until Kheldians can get a rework that will make them better then dead weight ❤️ So this post is sort of a wishlist from myself of what I would like to come in the rework as I feel like I can give a solid opinion for PeaceBringers, the devs may look at it and take one or two things or nothing at all but wanted to get it out there 🙂

I get that but if Nova gives you detonation for free why would you pick the human only version unless you are going a human only build? The whole stats are over the place but I view them as what the devs are intended that role to fill (Whether it does is another matter (Most of the time it doesn't)) So I wouldn't personally suggest buffing them to try and fit in line with that ❤️ That's a whole debate in itself that isn't limited to Kheldians 😄 I remember it here a little while back and it got quite heated so I am staying away lol

Not letting me copy this into mids hun 😞

Personally I don't understand the duplicate power issue, why would you pick up both human detonation and nova? It feels like it would be just wasting power slots to me, you also then have the issue of them both using the same cooldown which messes with the WarShades double mire as you will only get one. To be honest anything with the shields that would make them more desirable is okay in my books, even more mez protection or debuff protection I am more then happy with ❤️ From what Homecoming have ranked PeaceBringers as is where I am getting the 2 from, and if we had 3 little turret summons (With enough recharge they can even get 6 for a little while) each firing off an attack even if it's nova bolt would be amazing but to me feels a bit strong for something that is meant to be 2 in that section (Not saying I don't want this, I would LOVE this but I don't think they will add it sadly) The inherent is honestly 10/10 imo and I honestly hope they include it ❤️ And this may be an unpopular opinion, but I like the fact we have Knockback, when building a Kheldian you have to be smart with slots and powers and I feel like this also factors into that, whether you say f it and don't convert anything for max damage, only convert AOE to stop the spread, or be super safe and slot it all. It adds another layer of customization that I personally enjoy 😄

Thank you so much for the suggestions!!! 1A - I am fully for ❤️ Making them inherent will make it clear this is the selling point of the AT too! 1B - I am less for as atm there is enough slots to make a powerful build, it just requires the person so slot it smartly which is part of the difficulty of a Kheldian imo. 2 - Personally I would prefer Debuff protection in the shields as we get mez protection in Lightform and Dwarf so the shields will still not be great at max level if it's just mez resist. 4 - I do agree there should be more powers useable in the forms but personally I don't mind dropping out of the form to power them as it encourages form switching. 5 - Whilst I would LOVE this! I doubt they will since they want us to be a 2 on pets and that would make us a solid 6 imo. 6 - I would want Glinting Eye to stay the same, but Gleaming Bolt could become a Gleaming Barrage to give us the melee starting option that carries over into dwarf ❤️ 7 - Pulsar feels like a lost cause and some powers will be (Energy group flight for instance...) But if they turned it into a toggle that did a stun aura like Entangling Vines I think from nature, that carried over into the forms and in Dwarf it was used as a taunt aura that would make it SUPER useful imo! Love the inherent idea! Would be nice if it related to the form you are in, so switching to nova gave you more dmg/acc bonus, switching to dwarf gave you more recovery/regen, and switching to human gave you more recharge etc 😄

Updated - 03/04/2024 - Updated my build with my most recent one, an infinity changeling ❤️ - Lauci x