Da_Captain

Fair enough, good explaination, right now working on an Elementalist concept and he need earth, lightning, wind, ice, and fire. Well I like the Earth Primary better than the Fire plus it is the only one I haven't taken far. Storm pretty much covered 3 in 1 all I needed was some fire so I figured APP for that, but I am liking the Earth APP much more, good thing for dual builds, eh?

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

I will give you the short range, but overall I think Fissure is a better power, KD and Stun, faster recharge and less end cost

It is resisted by a couple late game foes some preatorians, arachnos, and the carnival, but the wait til 47 is pretty rough

Considering how this is the controller forums and only 2 primaries don't have an AoE immob, foes shouldn't be able to run, but it does come with a long recharge timer, but ice also has Ice Breath.


On my trollers and doms I tend to think of shields as a mute point, as to me they both play an active defense roll, and I like for them to mez before being attacked, however, def > res, but from what I have seen it is the coolest looking.

depending on your secondary you can get it from there and it is on a real long timer, but I guess other than damage this is what it offers

I don't like self rez powers means you plan on dying, however, death is unavoidable, but at level 41 most of my toons are past the point of being almost unkillable. Personally Healing Flames would have been a better option.

Overall Fire is best for long range AoE, Fire resistance, and end refill in combat. Thanks

You may want to consider some AoE defense as ranged attacks are only for ST ranged attacks, also Psi is a non positional attack so I would stay away from those types of AVs.

I is possible to softcap range and AoE defenses, not sure if you can do it on a Fire/Fire, but since that is your fav, I would say at least get to the softcap for range.

You left out each of the forms getting 4 powers each so that is 8 more powers for the Khelds. Out of those two pools they are really only missing 4 powers

The number of powers isn't the reason well not the whole reason, but it is the forms, the forms and their inherent fill in the holes that are in the AT. Epics for Blasters give them defenses and mitigation, because a blasters role is damage from range and melee. Scrappers and Tanks get range attacks and mitigation, because their role is melee damage and defense. So on, but what holes do Khelds have, range damage? Nope that is what their primary is for or Nova form. Melee Damage? Nope Primary and Dwarf form. Defense? Nope Dwarf Form and secondary. Mitigation? Nope Primary. So what would an epic have to offer the khelds? They get 3 teir 9s Nuke, pets, and God Mode.

The only justified differences are the KB and the Range. The reason why it has a larger endurance cost and longer recharge is due to the higher mod (look at what happened to some of the dom powers). But that still doesn't justify them not being the same power, Hurl Boulder is different in damage and KB for Tanks and Trollers does that mean it is a different power? No it is still Hurl Boulder it is just that one is for Tanks and one is for Trollers. Same instance here Mace Beam one is for Bane Spider and one is for Brutes.


But to bring things back on topic I played with this move last night, I hate it. It is very high on the end cost and does not crit. But the no crit thing doesn't surpise me because none of the other melee pool powers crit with VEATs either like boxing, Air Sup, etc. I could see me taking it because I like have the Patron pet and it will probably be used more than Mace Beam Blast, but I probably wouldn't use it on anything other than a boss or higher.

With some range and AoE defense you can blast safely from range without harm but without forms of mitigation to keep enemies at range that would be useless. The ST immo is good for one enemy but not for groups.

I have only really taken 4 blasters to 50 2 different primaries though.

I will say this Fire/Fire without some form of defense/IOing is going to be rough, but that was with the old defience and just old haven't really touched him since he hit 50 in like i5 or i6

My next project was Fire/Dev, this was much better I don't feel /Dev slowed me down, it actually felt pretty fast and safe. Targeting Drone makes for a great passive to hit buff, you won't miss much. Cloaking Device helped get to the Range/AoE soft cap slightly easier. Caltrops + RoF combo is sweet. With softcapped range and AoE this guy was pretty deadly from range on test he can solo up to + 5 people without much trouble. I also have some good recharge on him too and he kinda spam Breath and Fire Ball after dropping the Caltrop combo.

Rad/Fire this is not a live combo yet but I had to try it out and I will say this at level 39 if you are slotted correctly you will be AoE death. With Fire Aura and Hot Feet running, do irradiate, Neutron Bomb, Combution and FSC this can effectively take out up to LTs and put a dent in bosses.

Rad/Energy/Elec this also is not a live combo but this is a deadly combo as well good job at range, Boost Range helps this combo out a lot as does Powerboost. With Powerboost near perma I usually hit that before I go into a fight and start of with Stun and Cosmic Burst on two targets or the Boss. Boost Range helps get more effectiveness out of Static Charge and Electron Haze. Power Boost also boost the defense of Maneuvers and Weave.

Those are just some tips with those sets, but honestly as a blaster there are three ways of survival on soloing with a blaster.

1.) Kill before being killed, you can use IOs to build up damage and recharge so that you can pretty much kill a target before they get a chance to do some good damage on you. Me personally this has not been an effective method, as Blasters already have low hp and close to no defenses is doesn't take much to get down to low health.

2.) Use mitigation and other active defenses, this way you are pretty much playing like a Dominator if you are familiar with CoV, you pretty much use mezzes and mitigation so that the enemy does not get that much of a chance to hurt you. This is an effective method, very effective with Ice and Elec, Ice you can slow them so that by the time they get another chance to attack they are dead. Elec = Sappers I have seen some good elec blaster and defenders keep mobs drained.

3.) Last but not least, my favorite, using IOs to build for defense it is easy to get softcap S/L with Ice mastery and Kinetic Crashes, but you can get positionals softcapped with IOs easily.

Yeah they inherent Fly and TP which locks them out of the Fly and TP pools, I guess because they didn't want them having the same power twice, which is real funny when I look at the Bane Spider Branch.

Honestly something really needs to be done about Mace Beam and Mace Beam Blast, those are two exact copies, I don't care wether they change the one in the primary or the patron Banes should not have exact copies of the same powers

They have more powers than any other AT in the game, I am willing to go as far as to say they have an epic pool built in. Also they get two free powers that don't cost a power pick.

Yeah, when you hit the softcap you don't need to worry too much, also 2 level 50 resistance IOs + the steadfast will take you to the redzone.

Can't you put that Steadfast in True Grit?

Yeah true there but can only have one of each, but they still give good benefits, and they are the cheapest of the purple sets, but what I gave could get you perma before you hit epics and the whole build would still cost less that one of the purples.

But when you hit 50 if you have the money those two sets are a big recommendation.

Another good thing about purples is the bonuses go all they way back to level 1. I only have one dom that I have invested 5 purple sets into I think he can go as far back as level 23 and still be perma, level 7 if I had a Rad Corr.

I use to ask myself the same question while I was playing my rad, but it all came to me.

In comparison to Fire, Rad has better AoEs, both the cone and the Targeted AoE come with -Def components and extra acc, meaning that you won't be missing much, but most blasters shouldn't miss much with Aim and BU, but it is great for your team as well. Instead of a location based AoE like fire has that scatters everybody it has a PBAoE and once it hits they eat all the damage.

Lightining Field is good but Fire also has Blazing Aura and Hot Feet, on top of two PBAoEs to go with Irradiate and Neutron Bomb, so far at level 27 (don't have hot feet yet) but this combo kills masses quickly

Don't feel bad I remember when I first started playing Dom's I was slotting holds with damage enhancements, don't think IO's were available when I was playing that way, probably would have ignored them. But we all start new and make mistakes, if you can play with it and like it, it shouldn't matter. but the advise you get here is for the best, and will get you to where you want to be.

The thing about Mace Mastery, that a lot of people tend to sleep on is the fact that of all the Patrons, it is probably the best EB killer, the -res from P Ray + the Proc added with your damage and the pets damage, all that with some great defenses. Makes them not such a chore, and with the i15 Dom buff, you can work on things other than recharge, all you need is a comfortable 80 - 90% to get perma (if you want it) and then build for other things like damage, recovery, whatever.

You lose about 20% on regen, but you have permadom, for longer controls with more mag, and soft cap defenses with a small purple or powerboost, plus a bit more on the damage boost.