Warshade

Overview

Warshades are former Nictus who have left that dark path behind and reformed, joining with a willing host. While Warshades take more damage from most attacks, they make up for this weakness with solid hit points, a good variety of dark energy attack powers and strong defensive powers, inherent teleport, and eventually even gain access to two shape-shift forms. Warshades become stronger when teamed with non-Kheldian heroes, gaining bonuses to their own powers based on the archetypes of their teammates.

Warshades are, along with Peacebringers, one of the two epic archetypes, only available to players who have reached level 50 with at least one Hero. Reaching level 50 as a Villain will NOT unlock Warshades, despite the message you may receive ingame. All Warshades are of Science origin.

Faction: Hero

The Warshade's powersets are:

Primary: Offense
Secondary: Defense

The Warshade has low hit points and medium damage.

Weakness

Quantum Array Gun (Ranged, Negative/Nicti) Foe -Recharge, -Speed
Kheldians and Nictus Players, and indeed Kheldian or Nictus Mobs, are susceptible to Quantum array rifles, also known as Void Rifles. Two of these shots are usually enough to kill a player Peacebringer or Warshade, regardless of the form they are in.

Powersets

Warshades only have access to one Primary and one Secondary powerset. They do not have access to the Flight and Teleportation Power Pools. They also have no Ancillary Power Pools, but they make up for this in the number and variety of powers in their Primary and Secondary.

Primary Powersets

A Warshade's primary powerset is designed specifically for offense. It is:

• Umbral Blast

Secondary Powersets

A Warshade's secondary powerset is designed for defense. It is:

• Umbral Aura

Inherent Powers

• Dark Sustenance
• Shadow Step Gained at level 1
• Shadow Recall Gained at level 10

External Links

• Archetypes documentation on official City of Heroes site
• Official City of Heroes Manual as a zipped PDF file