DreadShinobi

1) You said glass cannon blasters. By that I assume you mean blasters built for +rchg and +dmg with no defense. If you just meant Blasters without defense, you should have said that.

2) You said glass cannon blasters flat out were not viable. They are and I provided an example.

3) Both discussion about blasters with IOs and blasters without IOs is important, you can't just ignore a major part of the game.

4) Even on just SOs (and comparing said blaster to other ATs with SOs also) a blaster will do just as well on teams as any other AT, even if they are built entirely for dps with no mitigation powers.

5) A blaster shouldn't be having any issues when soloing on missions set for 1 player, regardless of being IO'd or not. If you want to make a case against blasters not being able to solo missions set for x8 without IOs (since other ATs can) then that's fair up to the point that soloing on x8 is technically above balancing standards.

Glass Cannon blasters are viable. Way before incarnates my fire/em blaster (built entirely for +rchg and +dmg with no defense) came very close to soloing the LGTF, and the only reason I didn't finish it was because the Honoree stalled me out with his Unstoppable (at which point I promptly gave up, since I was going for master and I hadn't died up until that point, I didn't feel like completing it without master). And that's probably the most difficult situation for a glass cannon blaster, on teams (especially those with good support) a glass cannon blaster will be able to perform just as well or better than a softcapped blaster.

I had provoke for a while on my nin/dark MM. Ninjas being significantly squishier than bots making provoke arguably a better fit for such a powerset compared to bots. I dropped it and don't miss it. All that really matters for my nin/dark is that I'm taking the alpha and not my pets, since after the alpha strike everything is debuffed to hell or stunned, at which point it doesn't really matter what they attack. You don't need provoke to do this. In a similar vein, Time buffed bots with enemies sitting in Time's juncture/distortion field shouldn't really mind taking aggro either.

VS is an untargettable pet. Any aggro it generates goes directly to you.

That would be cool too. I don't know much about code, but I'd take either of the 2 options in this thread over what we have currently.

Doesn't matter. Whether it's working as intended or not, doesn't mean it can't be changed.


If they could somehow code the suppression to not take effect if the recipient's global is yours or someone on your global friend's list that would be a great improvement.

I won't be holding my breath any time soon, but that doesn't mean it's a possibility.

This. Especially AoE confuse. Nothing is more entertaining than watching an entire mob destroy itself.

There are no attacks that deal both psychic damage and lethal damage. Softcapping Lethal defense won't help you deal with psy damage.

Just keep in mind that the majority of mezzes are ranged, so softcapping ranged defense eliminates most of them, meaning you won't be getting mezzed very often at all.

Your benumb has 109.5% acc. You're not going to be hitting anything important with that much accuracy. Using Aim to make benumb hit means you're wasting more than 1/5th of Aim's damage buff. Benumb is very important for it's -regen, -dmg (which isn't resisted), and -special, even resisted, it makes a huge difference against AVs. Especially a +3 AV you're going to be wanting to kill it's stats as much as possible.

Yes. I have heat loss slotted specifically so that I am end sustainable with just a single target.

I play in melee. Hovering is slow and kiting is annoying, unless you have to do so. Playing in melee also makes it even easier to keep things in rain of fire and sleet. I also have perma soul drain which adds alot to dps. If there is ever a kineticist on the team you're going to want to be in melee anyways.

Indeed, I don't like damage procs in sleet either. I would switch to rech/end IOs instead of a rchg IO though. Your sleet costs 18 endurance, which is alot if you don't have alot of heat loss targets.
I'm not really putting alot of slots into regeneration. Ice Shield and Glacial shield aren't slotted the way they are for the +regen, they are slotted that way to have good enhancement value for buffing other people (18% def buff). The regen is just extra. Taking the meds pool would mean dropping leaping, speed, fighting, or leadership, none of which is an option for me. I don't really need a self heal anyways, sitting on softcapped defense with high resists (for a corr) means even my low 10 hp/sec is typically enough for most situations. Simply carrying a few greens covers everything else.

If Hover blasting with Aid Self works for you though, then that's great. It is definitely a viable way to build a fire/cold (there are many )

So you're saying Fire Breath, Psychic Scream, Tenebrous Tentacles, Fistful of Arrows, Buckshot, Empty Clips, Energy Torrent, Electron Haze, Howl, Siren's Song, and Frost Breath are all bad because they aggro enemies. God forbid.

Wow. Yeah, I didn't notice that when I skimmed the build. 4 is typically enough, but if you have the space for 2 more -kb IOs 12 does make a difference for certain things. (lambda turrets, idf levitates, and rikti pylons are the first things that come to my mind) My SS/Fire just runs 4, but if I had more space (which I might when I upgrade my build with ATOs in i22) I would definitely pick up 12, since I'm typically tanking everything. On corrs and such 4 is great, but on a Brute you're going to be getting hit with alot of more hate, meaning alot more knockbacks will be aimed at you.

The devs do have souls, who knew?

Yes I noticed that.

When I had my fire/fire scrapper I personally hated it because if you didnt outright one-two shot things everything would run away in up to 16 different directions. That wasn't fun at all for me. You might have had fun with it (I did too, in certain situations and when playing on +0 speeding TFs), but it is worth noting that not everyone would like being put into a situation where everything runs away from you as soon as you start aoeing if you're on +2 or higher. I never said anything about fire/fire being the best or not.

Should be doing this.