Fulmens

I thought about mentioning that, but people hardly ever want to do something with their money "in a month".

You can pay extra for my redside cash (1 billion blueside -> 850m redside), but I recommend finding a better rate from someone else.

I'm @boltcutter, on frequently but irregularly.

My guess would be the AI somehow sees "Wow, there's something on the player side that's one attack from death. I'm gonna be that guy in the Zig that took a player down!"

So I had 3 things left to craft for my last Heal badge, then Field Crafter would be mine. At that point you know the HULK SMASH feeling where you're paying half a million for stuff and deleting the final product because you just don't want to be reasonable any more. You want to be done.

HULK SMASH ECONOMY! HULK CRAFT !

... hulk not get puny table?

I left out a whole category- the debuff/taunts.

I ripped the head off the nearest Luddite friar, cause he had an expression on his face, and bought MORE salvage at stupid prices and deleted MORE IO's.

So, yeah, if you sold something for 1,000,908 this morning that was me.

My particular bizarre RNG moment came when I took a Force Field defender to the shadow shard to see how tough it is to kill a +2 eyeball boss (hint: it's very hard to FIND a +2 eyeball boss in the shard...) and after a couple hours, there was something really juicy like an Apocalypse triple in my possession. And yet I can play an Elec/Inv brute for days...

I'll go 101 million for the remaining one.

Well, when you're allowing fixed pairs there are a LOT of ridiculous results possible. (Brute and a Sonic/Kin, for instance.)

Fire/mental/ice blaster has about a 10 second cycle on groups of 10 or so, but the incoming damage is problematic. I suppose you could carry 16 medium purples and reload when you run low.
My spine/dark was always on point for a big group, and was also a pre-inventions critter. It's a whole new world out there and I'm sure spine/dark works VERY well.

Note frankenslotting miniguide in sig, if you like that sort of thing.

Dechs Kaison wrote

If "Back in the day" means "four months in mid-2004" you are correct.

The main thing that makes a Blaster isn't really the build- as long as you have all the Build Up/Aim powers you can get, and you use them frequently, you should be fine. I'd recommend some sort of Stealth (Superspeed, IO, concealment pool, whatever) and a KB protection IO.

Mainly it's shooting the right things at the right time, and applying your other active defenses correctly.

Fire/Ice is a good combo of active defenses and firepower, in my opinion. Fire/Elec is all firepower and nearly no defenses, and I love it unreasonably.

There are also good arguments to be made for Archery and Assault Rifle as I understand it, but I don't have any high level blasters using those powersets so I am not the one to make them.

Off the top of my head, there's a Rikti sleep/hold combo. There's a Freak lieut with a sleep. And one of the Crey armor suits may have a sleep in it. I'm not sure because if there is, they wake you up fast and unpleasantly.

Graul: What do you want that build to DO? Very brief scanning shows a number of bread-and-butter powers are underslotted for damage and/or recharge, but if you're building something to throw Rain of Arrows as often as humanly possible and do nothing else, that's not a problem. If you had something else in mind, that may not be the build you want.

Gamina: You also have a couple of powers that are underslotted for their primary function. Frozen Armor needs more Def, Aim and Concentration need more recharge, Fire Breath needs more Accuracy.Fire Breath AND Fire Ball need more recharge. Drain Psyche [basically replacing Stamina?] is kind of a gamble because you're hanging out in melee range of two or more guys to give yourself a slow heal and a ton of End Recovery.

Maybe this build, also, isn't designed to play like a traditional blaster?

One thing that I would expect, just from eyeballing it, is that your end problems will entirely go away. I don't know how you were slotted on your attacks [1/5 acc/dam?] but looks like you've got 40%+ endred in nearly every power.

Another thing, and this is minor I know, is that you could frankenslot Charged Armor and get more for less- four high level Res/End (Aegis, Titanium, Reactive and *flinch* Impervium) and you should be capped on both. I will admit I have trouble NOT putting a Steadfast Res/Def into every build because it's just so good. 6% off incoming damage, bare scant minimum. So you could swap out the Impervium for a Steadfast Res/Def.

For frankenslotting, def/rech is usually one of the cheap ones. Slot Serendipity, Red Fortune, and Kismet D/R and one each generic D and R, and you're capped for both Defense and Recharge, from level 30-ish on, for a few million and 5 slots.