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Should be noted that while this combo is insanely destructive it also causes things to run away like no other because /FA on scrappers has no taunt aura.

Brute: SS/FA SS/Elec TW/Elec
Scrapper: Fire/SD DM/SD
Blaster: Fire/MM Fire/Elec
Corr: Fire/Kin Fire/Cold
Dom: Mind/Fire Plant/Fire Plant/Psy
Troller: Fire/Kin Ill/Cold

I KNEW I was forgetting some energy types when I was writing that post, I was totally blanking, and now I feel stupid xD

The mag 2 protection means you have protection from any mag 3 hold (since base protection is 1). It does help and is worth taking if you have room for it, don't mind the end cost, and aren't using clarion. It also reduces the time that mag 3 is on you, meaning it will wear off quicker before you get hit with another helping to prevent stacking.

The single most awesome thing Acro will be protecting you against is Dominate and Blind (very common in Rikti and Carnies respectively) because those holds ignore positional defense, but it helps out with alot of other things too.

That's an "if" not a "when" and a "can" not a "will" and an overall extremely presumptuous statement assuming the blaster /will/ die no matter what.

It's most likely a very large contributing factor as to why theyre releasing it when they are.

Well, if we're going to split hairs like that then we'd technically need 3 energy typed judgments: Energy, Electric, and Radiation

Just fyi, I'm not against having one implemented, I'm just saying it wouldn't be very good.

Basically what you want is Snipes to work like the Stalker AS, except making it significantly more complicated and more difficult to code.

It's completely fair. If you're going to compare two ATs in terms of dps (or anything else) you can't just ignore half of one of the AT's abilities.

Also, on rikti pylon thread the highest blaster dps and the highest scrapper dps were both at about 300 without incarnates factored in.

Their dps is equivalent, however the scrapper is more survivable, but you can't say the scrapper is both capable of putting out more dps and being more survivable cause that's not true.

A psy judgment would already have enough issues, considering the enemies that do resist it resist it so heavily, and the enemies that do resist it are mostly endgame where judgments would be used. Pretty much any robots and psy based enemies would basically be a giant middle finger to your judgment.

Then again, I wouldn't put it past them if they still lowered the damage or gave it a long activation or a bad secondary effect.

Yup. Same

I want blasters to be buffed just as much as the next person, I just think we need to be reasonable about it.

You either buff what is falling behind or nerf what is ahead.

My preffered method of balancing is to buff what is falling behind up to what is on top and then if the situation presents itself make the game harder to keep things challenging, with the weakest link brought up to par it can be alot easier to make the game harder without a certain portion (or at the very least limit that portion) of the game feeling ostracized and unable to keep up.

Unai's Demon Farm was removed from the game. If you had it at the time it was removed you keep it, but new characters can't get it. Also if you switch alignments on a character that had it you will lose the mission and will not be able to get it again even upon returning to hero alignment

edit: Actually Black Assassin reminded me of something, it might have been from Harvey not Unai, I can't remember, either way it was removed from the game so the above still applies.

Before they revamped Maria, she offered 2 missions on the outdoor warrior map. 1 was Battle Maiden and the other was diffuse 15 Bombs. The new versions of those missions (I forget if there is one or two, but there is at least 1) use the same map with the same enemy group with the same spawn placements. Except in one of them you get statesman as an ally at the start of the map, which actually makes it superior if you don't mind his knockback or have a way to prevent it, he's great for fire/kins that run that map since fire cages prevents his knockback and they get alot of mileage out of his fulcrum shifted damage.

Acrobatics is an answer to issues of many powersets across many ATs not limited just to blasters before IOs come into play. Should effects similar to acrobatics be spread across more pool powers? yes, definitely, but that's more of an issue of the pool power system we currently have being so shallow.

Blasters don't /have/ to take clarion. I never said they did. It is a very good option for them though, as it is with many other ATs. I have clarion on 6 of my 8 toons and none of them are blasters, especially my corruptors which love having clarion. Additionally not all content favors clarion. Things like the ITF don't need any break frees or clarions at all, whereas things like the LGTF are full of mezzers where running clarion is a very good choice. You're right non-VIP can't take clarion, no AT can take any incarnate power. Without being VIP my ss/fire brute and fire/time corr isnt end sustainable, my fire/cold corr isnt softcapped, my kin corr and trollers dont have mez protection, etc. Losing incarnate powers when going f2p is a disadvantage to everyone including but not limited to blasters.

Blasters benefit more from team buffs than any other AT. This is actually one of my favorite qualities of them. A buffed blaster can be terrifying. Now if you're *relying* on those buffs, then that's your problem, not the AT's problem.

Obviously team buffs don't exist when solo. Then again I don't have issues soloing on blasters either. If you're having issues turn down your difficulty.

Corruptors, Controllers, and Defenders only have access to similar amounts of defense depending on powersets before IOs as well. Softcap doesn't really come into play without IOs except on certain defensive powersets. Without IOs a resist shield is much more beneficial anyways, so I'm not sure why you would even take mace mastery in the first place. If you're going to use defense on a blaster you should be using IOs, if you aren't you should be using a resist shield. If you are going to use IOs and want the defense to deal with mezzes build for ranged defense, it's not that hard to get 45% ranged defense.

Correct, but that goes the same for any other AT. If the point you want to make is blasters don't perform well without IOs then that is a fair point to make, but you can't completely disregard the blasters that do have IOs and even the non VIPs who can get liscences to use them.

Shouldn't take 3 shots to kill a minion nor 6 to kill a Lt. Use your t3 blast and your melee attacks. If you fear it's going to take longer than normal to take down a troublesome target mez or knock it back first.


No idea what you're trying to say here.

All blasters have access to either knockback (energy, em, hard control (archery, sonic, psy, rad, ice, elec, dp, beam, AR, devices, /elec), or damage (fire, among others) to outright kill hazardous threats
It is available to anyone that needs it. so Yes it absolutely does help equalize the playing field.

Some ATs will need as many breakfrees as blasters. Using your breakfrees isn't a bad thing, I know for a fact my kin and thermal toons (among others) chugged just as many breakfrees as my blasters did before clarion.

You certainly implied it.


I agree they need fixing. However I won't sit idly by while other people completely overplay how bad the situation blasters are in. They /do/ need help, but it's not as bad as many people are making it out to be and mez (being completely manageable) is not the biggest issue blasters have.

Blasters have a secondary that is meant to be used. A secondary that does an extremely good job at filling out an attack chain with hard hitting attacks. You can't really compare maximized attack chains without factoring in blaster's secondary.

I like how you don't mention anything about defiance in your post or anything about clarion or anything about team buffs or anything about ranged defense or anything about killing the mezzers first or anything about mezzing/kbing the mezzers first or anything about acrobatics. All of which can reduce the number of break frees you need to use for when you actually do /need/ to use one, so the number of break frees you need becomes a reasonable amount.

Blasters aren't as helpless as you make it sound.

Ironically Power Thrust is in the same set, so /em blasters can still quite easily neutralize single bosses even without mag 4 total focus.

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edit: wow that red hurts my eyes, sorry, but too lazy to edit!

Fire/Elec Blasters could pull 300+ dps before interface and with no -regen. That was on par with top scrapper combinations (saturated DM/Shield) at the time.

They specifically said it wasn't going to be today.


gg.