PBs have been described as something of a Blapper (Blaster that gets into melee) but the reality is that you're melee prowess is as good, if not better, than your ranged. You won't do the same damage, but you won't get killed if the enemy stares at you aggressively. Personally, not switching forms kind of defeats the purpose of this unique AT so jumping to Nova to really lay down the hurt is kind of the point.Īll the while, you're coasting with mez protection and 85% resists, which a Blaster would kill for. What you gain by staying in Human Form is the ability to keep toggles on that improve your survivability and/or boost your damage/accuracy. If you want to do the same in Human Form, nothing is stopping you, but the results are less impressive. Coupled with global recharge, a Nova Form PB can regularly sit at ~+180% damage with a 1.2 ranged attack modifier and spam its two AoE attacks nearly non-stop. It's not as high as Build Up, but it lasts 30 seconds and is essentially permanent. Nova Form can be further boosted by Inner Light, which can easily be made Perma, which offers an additional 72% damage. However, Nova form has a 1.2 modifier, higher than Blasters, and will do 120. So, for a hypothetical attack of 100 damage, the Blaster does 112.5 while the Human PB does 80. 8 modifier to ranged attacks (versus the 1.125 that Blasters get). No one will mistake a Human Form PB for a Blaster in raw damage output.but they might mistake the Nova form for one. In short, you’re not just a tank, you’re also a very sturdy AoE platform. You can hit them with one of your 5 ranged attacks, nuke the whole crowd of enemies, or send one of your little death balls (Photon Seekers) after them. If an enemy begins to flee, they have to run after it: you don't. What the Tanks/Brutes don't have is the myriad of AoE/Ranged attacks you do. Yes, Light Form has a 50% health/endurance crash but it is easily mitigated with the 1 of 3(!) heals a PB has access to and Conserve Energy which cuts endurance costs in half and has a 50% up-time with just one slot. They don't get Punchvoke, true, but Dwarf form has Taunt that auto-hits enemies (not in PvP).
PBs can out-tank a Tanker or Brute against the more exotic damage types and plugging the Psi hole isn’t that hard.
To further emphasize the above, here are some comparisons:ġ5% Psi (from set IO bonuses, otherwise 0)ħ5% Psi (from set IO bonuses, otherwise 0)Īn Invuln Brute/Scrapper is even less than the Tank without outside buffs. You have two Nukes, 3 heals, permanent 85% resistance to everything, no Endurance problems, and can get back up if you get killed every 90 seconds. You have permanent Build Up (Inner Light). You can dish it out in melee or sit back and fire AoE at range. You can solo 8/+4 content or work great on a team. You don’t need bodies, you don’t need buffs, you don’t need Defender heals.
What you give up in pure specialization, you gain in not having a single true weakness (at least none that can't be addressed) and being able to do just about anything at the drop of a hat. They're a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none AT that could be replaced by any other bona fide AT.Ī well-built Peacebringer is not a poor facsimile of a Tank, Scrapper, or Blaster: it's 80% of all three at once. In the eyes of the general population, they're something of anomaly: not quite a Scrapper, not quite a Tank, not quite a Blaster, and definitely not a Controller or Defender. Peacebringers, on the other hand, have never had quite the same reputation. With this mentality in place, the Warshade became a purple cloud of death that few, if any, other ATs could emulate as you capped your resists, spit out fluffy pets of doom, and murdered hordes of enemies faster than whole teams. It was not your build, set IO's, or ability to shift forms that made you a MF'ing Warshade but a mentality: Must. The MF'ing Warshade by Dechs Kaison was a cornerstone in Warshade play and revolutionized the mindset of the AT by putting into clear view that, as a Warshade, you're a freaking rockstar.
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