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I'm glad they did something different a lot of the powers ATs are getting are just rehashings of things already in the game, Blasters get something new and unique and from what I have seen is that it can give a better benefit than Build up can and lasts longer. You can almost make it perma and for 30 seconds you get a large damage boost.

If you take the power and replace it with buildup I don't see any reason to take it. Mental is better, Energy is more proactive, Fire has more damage, Ice has utility.

What's the budget? Are we talking 1 billion, 200 million? 10 million?

Do you have any toggles running? Because with the -end you're going to have all your toggles drop, it's why I dropped the Nuke on my blaster, I go from S/L/nrg/range defense softcapped to the survivors dropping me quickly so you go from high resistance, high defense, high regen to just high regen so you're playing a balancing game where you trade 3 really good types of mitigation for 2 minutes to only 1 for 10 seconds or so as you retoggle.

DP will allow you to recover endurance immediately however so if as it expires you can pop a few purples to make up for the toggle drop you're good.

A thought comes to mind however that if at the end of the time for FoN you use the Nuke then you still detoggle but there are fewer survivors, you're still going to pop a blue and retoggle but spawn death would be your second form of mitigation on top of the regen for that downtime.

Here's the thing, blasters can farm but they aren't the best, not because they can't do the damage but because of survivability, a couple hits lucky or otherwise from a boss can take you down even with DP up, however it is possible to farm with them and I farmed all weekend on mine. To farm easily on a regular map you want 2 AoEs that are up every spawn, this means Archery, DP, Assault Rifle, Fire, Rad, Electric, and Energy all could work although some are slightly better than others (Crashless Nukes may give the edge to the others).

AE however is a different story, if you're running an ambush farm you want an AoE chain as best possible /MM again makes this easier and DP helps keep you up. Fire and Rad are your best bets but Rad gives you more attacks so a chain is easier to put together. On my Fire/MM I have an issue finding time to eat inspirations because I'm always hitting a power it seems.

If you're making a blaster just to farm, don't, make a brute don't invest much in it and have fun. If you're looking for a blaster you can play outside of the farms, want to invest around 200m in it and play then Fire or Rad would be your best bets.

As an aside I can't play Brutes outside of AE and I only use them for it. So I soft capped my blaster in s/l/nrg and range have near perma DP and spent the weekend farming for purples and soloing a hero's hero arc where I took down all the AVs solo, with set bonuses and the incarnate abilities blasters can do pretty much anything.

Thanks @Cornerstone. Great trade, will do business with again in the future.

Purchased thank you @Cornerstone

You can update your original post if you have another one to sell, it's only the 3 posts down.

Congrats on your first post Pandaface!

I farm with my Fire/MM/Mace, can ticket cap an ambush map between 2:30 and 3 minutes (including load times). I also farm Council for purples. Softcapped in s/l and the build is under 200 million. The future build is Fire/MM/Mu still softcapped in s/l, adding electric fences for a 3rd AOE, and 43% s/l resist. The only hindrance to the build is the price at 11 billion, but hey 90% of my time in game is spent on the character.

What I don't like is that it's up to the discretion of the mods. I don't think anyone would have a problem if all profanity was removed. The problems with some of the rules is that it allows for gray area. Profanity and personal attacks should be easy to remove not complicated. If something gets censored remove it and PM the poster with a generic message

"We're sorry this post was deleted profanity is not allowed on these forums"

And with personal attacks do something similar:

"We're sorry this post was deleted it contained personal attacks on user name."

And personal attacks should not include

"I don't like how the mods are handling forum rules, I think they should be more black and white and expand on their communication with those who get moded. I know they have a lot to do but I think the system could be streamlined a little more and the community could be improved."

I don't mind if this is moded however

"The forum mods don't do their job."

Siphon Speed, inertial reduction, and Speed Boost, i'de like to know how those compare to travel powers and how they affect the other travel powers. Anybody run tests on these?

Is there anyway the issues that the guides were last updated for could be added. I think it'de help in deciding which guides have the most accurate info.