JohnnyKilowatt

As long as Dark Blast comes over with the cones intact I'd be happy to screw the rest. Mass cones of death!

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Does this have any utility?

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It's for when your tanker doesn't want to be told to herd.

1) Gather up a bunch of enemies.

2) Wait for your allies to attack them, assuming you will hold aggro.

3) Use salt crystals from the earth APPs, slotted with placate.

4) Profit.

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To nuke or not to nuke?

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The only answer is to put it on auto and throw away the key.

It would be nice if electric melee got a tweak, yes.

For the mean time, my 50 elec/elec brute just camps out in the RWZ. lol Rikti trying to kill an electric brute (well, everyone is good at at least one thing).

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Plus in Mid's, even with the DoT, T-Strike shows more damage than FSC (I compared Brutes since they're the only ones with the sets).

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I'm not sure if Mid's shows it, but only your targeted opponent receives the full damage from Thunderstrike. The AoE, which hits other enemies near your target, only does a portion of the damage.

Hope this helps.

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Also, can you imagine hitting someone with invisible [insert ranged attack]? PvPers would sure [insert extreme verb] it.

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I would be willing to accept all colors reset to original in PVP zones, if that's what is needed to get us clear auras/powers everywhere else.

I had a blapper with Invoke Panic once before. Unfortunatley, the fear effect doesn't last long and it has high end-cost and recharge. It's not all that great.

On the plus side, the fear powers should thematically look good mixed with sonic. The single-target fear power has you growl at them, and Invoke Panic has you howling at the moon. Cool stuff.



Presence pool is hilarious on teams as well.

"Pull?"

"Sure" (uses provoke)

"wtf?"

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Fireball + Fire Breath will drop most minions, if used correctly. I know you can't melee them if the're dead... but personally, I can live with that sacrifice.

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That's the way I do it as well. Fireball -> Firebreath -> Blap the remaining Lt / Boss.

There's no need to waste blaps on minions.

Of particular note to the blaster version of lightning field, the radius is much larger than the brute version (if you've used that before).

Take care when using blapper lightning field on teams, as the size of the field may grab extra aggro from the edges of the fight if you're not careful.

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Step 3: Spam AT lfAE team or lf AEfarm until you get on a team. This is the hardest part at low levels, but once you get SB, you are golden.

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You forgot to specify that you are a KIN. Most pug farms have heard of KINs and speed boost does something cool, but won't realize you aren't using it until you get a few levels out of them.

Yea, Ragnarok is really good at making an attack feel "powerful". Fireball is fun as well, with a BOOM followed by a chunk of guys flailing to the ground.

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I thought everyone used their username as a password?

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brb. I need to change the code on my luggage.

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Why do the girls of the Carnival (I don't think the bottles do it though) die holding their heads?

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Originally, they removed their head and handed it to you. But apparently giving head didn't go over so well.

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I want to play a character that epitomizes the essence of a Blaster.


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What you want is an Electric/Fire blaster. Take all the point blank area of effect attacks, skip the hold. Name him Debt Card or something like that.

(yes, I've done this before)

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I was on a LRSF and even with double bubbles and elude (and widows)

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There's your problem. You're stacking defense with defense and defense. That's only one type of damage mitigation.

Try this: Replace those forcefield bubblers with some resistance buffers such as sonic resonance or thermal, and get back to us. Instead you'll be posting, "lol, the ITF is too easy, this game needs more challenge."

Dark also gets Siphon Life for the loltastic finisher.

"I will shake my fist at you ... TO DEATH!"

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arent the devs nerfing acc this issue?

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That's standard protocol. Every time a new issue gets released, dark melee's accuracy goes down by 1% every hour until someone posts about it on the forums. The devs have a betting pool for how long it takes for that post to show up.

If there wasn't a market, there would just be some other way to get what we want.

I find it very difficult, no, impossible to believe that we would get the invention system the way it is now with no effective way to make sets. Perhaps a recipe-swap that lets you trade extras in, or a more aggressive merit system, or whatever.

The market is still fun to screw around with, so I'd miss it for sure. But it's not the only way to make the invention system possible.

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I know that softcap defense is around 45% but I want to ask how good it is without any form of healing or damage resistance except inspiration. It would be a blaster fighting level 52 LTs.

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Bolded the key part. Yes, softcapped defense plus intelligent use of inspirations will get you through regular-sized groups of enemies, including 52s, just fine.

Now, if you're referring to those silly "fight ridiculously large ambushes of 50 lts or more" AE missions, it will take more than that. I managed to do one of those with a defense-based fire blaster by using lots of tactical maneuvers to corner traps with rain of fire and bonfire (to limit how many enemies could get line of sight on me), as inspirations alone would not keep up. Don't expect to win those missions by only push buttons with no strategy.

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Which one is best paired with an illusion/rad controller?

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With an Illusion/Rad? That's like a wet dream come true for a blaster.

I'd go IgnorePrimary/ElectricBlapper, just because I _can_ in that situation.

You might as well play whatever combo looks cool to you. I have yet to find any blaster combination that doesn't solo well with new defiance.

Just take your first two powers from the primary; those will still be usable (along with the first power in your secondary, which you are forced to take) even if you get held, stunned, or slept. Note that if you are looking at older guides, pre-issue9 or so, the early blasts have changed significantly since then.

The only time you won't be able to use them is if you get knocked down. Assuming you are soloing story arcs, you will get enough merits for a guaranteed free -knockback recipe by your late teens.

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Geocities is closing

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Well shoot, there goes every "Mr. T vs. _____" website on the planet.

Headbang Melee / Air Guitar Defense for corruptors, obviously.

It depends how much jousting you do. Many combatjuming/hurdle blappers never spend more than a split-second in melee, attacking mid-air as they pass by. If you time your blap drive-bys while your target is in the middle of a ranged attack, they won't have a chance to melee you because they are stuck animating the ranged attack.

I wonder if rogue-Positron has been standing in Steel Canyon for a while now. He looks so creepy with his helmet off. I saw some children crying as they walk by him.