Chyll

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Comments like these quickly lead to the troll bucket for flat out silliness.

I had hoped to get a level or two on my current dominator tonight, but I think I'll go play my blaster when I get home from work, and take out bosses lickety-split and laugh to myself about how shouldn't be able to do it. I think I'll up the difficulty for grins too.

(Oh, and I've never leveled a fire/ blaster.)

Dragonkat's description sounds very plausible from my years of experience.
The mob delay, plan and tactics, the use of mitigation over blind reliance on magical orange numbers...

I won't pretend to argue that's not true... and I love to scarf reds when I scrap. But I scarf reds on my blasters, too: it is fun. But, my point was more about when the going gets tough inspirations are useful - they are a valid part of the toolset.

No, I don't think so. There are multiple comments above from folks about playing off of the +0/+0 setting.
(And I've played soft settings on some solo tank time due to the time to push orange numbers on some spawns, to answer the specific question.)
I fiddle my settings up and down on all characters, blasters included, without meaningful worry. And as I noted, comments above refer to examples off of the default.

I don't start really having fun and enjoying any AT - including blasters - until the 30s. Not sure about this wall of which you speak...

Oh, dear, no its not IMHO. Not at all.



I am headed out the thread door agreeing to disagree with these arguments, and convinced that there are those out there that do not have the soul of a blaster. Which is fine.

Great example. Probably one of the better ones to highlight for this discussion. (I'd probably argue that Carnies are worse, but Malta are always fun to pick on. I'll stay with it.)

I have solo'd Malta many times. In fact, as my submission for "glutton for punishment award" I soloed Crimson's and Indigo's arcs back in the I7/I8 days before I could make a break free whenever I wanted, and before I could fire my lower tier powers thru mez. And toggles don't drop like they used to either. (Mez used to suck suck SUCK for a blaster. suck hard. true story.)

Okay, that was an ice blaster, so I'd just freeze the sapper or 'slinger and then pound the other, but mitigation is mitigation. Any energy blasters out there? Bet they KB the one and go for the other... etc. etc.

Challenging? Yep, no argument. Make me cry that blasters are broken? Nope.

And I'll repeat - great AT to learn with - learn tactics, mob abilities, and to appreciate the benefits of other ATs that play differently (on a related note, playing a defender after a blaster will really lock in the lessons...)

Now, when I pull my old namesake blaster out for fun it is just that: FUN.... because now I play with a fraction of the fear of mez that I used to, because I have 2-3 powers I can use through the mez... laughing at whatever held me (I always imagine the look on their face "but I held you!"). Toggles/armor on APP equipped blaster don't drop, so there is no damage spike like used to accompany the mez. If things do get iffy, then out comes the break free, pop a green, kite away from melee, or whatever. With your example, if there is a sapper then throw a blue in the mix and mitigate him again.



I think the point/result of the conversation is for those that embrace the blaster AT and learn it there just isn't the issue that is perceived by some to be there. To one extent or another this is true for all ATs. Blasters are just far out there on their limb - giggling like maniacs and making the rest of the ATs nervous - having fun. Just leave us be, and all will be well.

Blaster don't NEED mez protection. They get to keep blasting away, even while mezzed. They are nearly mez immune, with no toggle or endurance penalty required.

edit: (and I'll echo the [break free] comments if you feel you have to use all your leet powers as quick as possible... that's even easier now with the combine three tehnique that never existed when I leveled my namesake... and for that matter neither was the current defiance... blasters are so much better than it seems many give them credit for)

The first character I leveled was a blaster, and I have told more than one person some variation of what Airhammer said so well in the years since.

I get what you are saying, but you may be missing the point.
I play my corrs to balance my damage and buffs/abilities. Shocker, having team mates helps!

I play my blasters to mete out some big orange numbers of doom. Shocker! Having team mates still helps!!!

Oh, and do I like a kin on the team? You betcha. But I like lots of other ATs and sets too. Not once, not ever, have I broadcast looking for anything specific.


Bah. Your mileage most definitely does vary.
I've never felt 'behind' on my blasters compared to anything. I like them just the way they are.

It is meant to be immersive, they have talked like all along.

I'd say the disparity at this point is more about keeping a distinction between these ATs that are both notable in their pet-itude. MMs get control, controllers get a Pile o'Mez.

Dalantia hit it on the end:

Clearly these puns are fashionabull.

*shrug* just saying that more likely to get positive response with a different tact.

Having worked a customer support desk... I know that pain from both sides of the equation.

But Devs and the front line grunts are two different animals.

Speak for yourself.


A bug, or something not WAI is not false. The implication with false implies intention to mislead.

OTOH, this is a nice addition to the ongoing discussion that there is something going on with the running code. I would hope you sent in a /bug report at the time so they could pull data on what was going on...

This, spectrals tick me off. I have felt that particularly redside, it comes in handy. And most of Dark Blast or Dark Melee characters have taken it to get past the spectrals resistance.

The redraw often annoys me enough though, that I admit that I usually take Sands.

Usually I'm better at interpretting online sarcasm, but I admit I missed it completely this time.

I have no excuse really, I was probably lulled into a knee jerk 'stop them' reaction because I have actually seen those very things seriously asked for too many times... or maybe I needed more sleep... or maybe... um, the sun was in my eyes

This has been mentioned, sure, but the OP pretty much nailed all there true 'most requested' features.

server merge? not likely. They'll play with cross server teaming (mentioned in the video) before any merge. this is a deceased equine.

And again, the Elec control/ sleep is an entirely different animal than any other sleep in the game, plus according to the description it grants END to your team mates in its area - so back to the OP's point... read the powers and make appropriate decisions.