Miladys_Knight

Hover got a big boost to base speed not too long ago. You might be capped for hover speed now.

It's an average of 5ish% if you are using it in an AoE AND if you are continuously attacking AND if you have an optimized attack chain AND if you are hitting no less than the optimal number of apropriately conning mobs.

I have an energy blaster that has one in Explosive Blast I ran a few tests of my own with it and soloing normally for that blaster who has the power optimized I averaged 3.67% increased recharge.

My Arch/Dev has it in Explosive Arrow and does not have it optimized. He gets .42%. (He doesn't use Explosive often. Time bomb + RoA on spawn 1, LRM + RoA on spawn 2, Trip Mine + RoA + Fistfull + Explosive on spawn 3)

My FF/Dark's secondary build has 3 full sets slotted mainly for the set bonuses. 2 are in AoE powers (Repulsion Bomb and Torrent), 1 is in Force Bolt. None of those powers are optimized as doing so would have dropped me below the soft cap on defense. That toon averages 2.78%

As I recall, someone here did the math on it, and it comes out to an average of less than 5% global recharge with an optimum attack chain. Non-optimum attack chain or not attacking continually gives less of a bonus. Most of the player base knows this, that's why its nearly junk at WW.

Force Feedback is a special proc. It was nerfed pretty hard by the devs. It's effects supress now.

For info see.....

Force Feedback Proc

I believe the "set up containment" is in reference to Hot Feet.

No, spraying napalm does both and both powers should be combined into one that does both. If you wave it back and forth on your target it burns in a cone shaped arc that ingnites every thing burnable in that arc AND the fuel that hits the ground continues to burn on the ground.

Well 0s are ok so long as there are lots of them and it's preceeded by at least one 1.

A more thematic way to solve the problem would be to put Build Up in the primary and Aim in the secondary. This would, however, make AR/ combos worse rather than better. Unless the developers would be willing to combine the effects of Flame Thrower and Ignite. Replace Flame Thrower with Build Up and make Ignite an area targetted power that leaves a burn patch where it is targetted but still does it's usual cone type flame thrower damage on top of it

Make a female toon with the martial arts power set.

Reduce the height slider on the toon to minimum.

Fight normal sized "human" opponents.

Use Cobra Strike. Your above wish has been granted..................

Flares is actually better. The additional ticks of fire damage from Blast aren't guaranteed. Both powers can be fired while mezzed. Take them both, use them both, love them both.

Firesword is an excellent single target power very capable of finishing off mobs that enter melee with you. If you are planning on spending any time in melee range (and you should /Fire is very good for that) you may wish to re-evaluate this.

Also as a note, I've been running a Rad/Fire recently and running hero stats. I have Irradiate, Fire Sword Circle, and Combustion all slotted identically. I had identical numbers of activations of both Combustion and FSC but was surprised to see that I had been doing about 13% more total damage with Combustion. Irradiate blew them both away but mainly because it had about 30% more activations

Your primary and secondary are all attacks do you really need another one? You'll probably have attacks sitting in your power tray that you never use especially if you have a decent amount of recharge.

Blazing Bolt is a highly situational power and even more so if you are going to be in melee alot. There are better powers though this makes a good set mule.

Consume is good if you plan on using Inferno as often as it's up. Aim + BU + Inferno, then pop a catch a breath as you are on the way to the next spawn, consume when you get there and continue on with the mayhem. Its a play style choice more than anything. If it works for you, go for it.

Burn is another one of those situational powers. Using it for the immobilization protection severely cuts down on your DPS. Anything else has similar problems. Minions, lieuts, and bosses will run out of it unless they are immobilized. In the time that it takes you to Immobilize + Burn a minion or lieut you could have killed the entire spawn with your AoEs. It's ok for immobilized bosses, good for Immobed EBs and it's also good for AVs since the avoid magnitude is lower than their protection to avoid. They'll still run when the run AI kicks in though.

If you are looking for Immob protection Combat jumping is superior for the blaster. The end cost is negligible and it gives as much immob protection as you are likely to need. (If you get immobed while running CJ you have a more serious problem with incoming damage than with the immob) CJ also gives a little defense to all positions and accepts some very useful set IOs.


With power customization you'll eventually be able to color the epics. You are also not stuck with a particular epic the way you are with your primary or secondary you can respec in and out of them or even use your second build to have which ever one is more beneficial.

For Fire/Fire Ice Epic and building for smashing/lethal defense is a good idea.

Force Mastery is also a very nice epic for a Fire/Fire.

If you go with the Fire epic make sure that you take Rise of the Phoenix. You'll use it frequently.

If you can adjust to TP for travel it is excellent for Fire/Fire (though it makes it hard to use Breath of Fire). Teleporting in with Hot Feet running works very very well.

It works quite well. Mine is level 38 and I've only got 3 entropics and 2 sandmans slotted but it's more than enough to replace the health from those mob attacks that get through. I don't have Hasten or Medicine Pool on that blaster and he's quite safe while soloing.

Edit - almost forgot to mention for the rest of the readers (I'm sure Fleeting all ready knows). If you get slept and the proc in your tier 1/2 activates it breaks the sleep.

It's a crashless 1/2 strength nuke that you can use at snipe range and it's an extra one since its in an Epic pool. It's recharge is 240 seconds compared to say Thunderous Blast which has range 60, a 360 second recharge, and has an end crash.

I really like LRM on my toons that have munitions.

I just wish that it would accept snipe sets.

This. Also possibly a TA/AR defender you can build and set your attack chain for massive redraw by alternating primary and secondary powers. You can slot Slug, Buckshot, and M30 for KB, Burst for defense debuff etc.

A Kin/Energy defender would also be a non-optimum choice especially if you slot for knockback. You could spread the mobs out really well so that all your mob targetted buffs are mostly useless.

I would definately go defender so that you get the nearly useless inherent power.

Though if your goal is to be annoying try a grav/FF controller. You can slow a team down to a standstill by keeping force bubble on, wormholing the mobs on top of the squishies or into force bubble so they bounce off and spread out and lets not forget that you can also alternate Dimension Shift with Detention Field so that your team can't kill any thing.

I have a level 50 Arch/Dev/Munitions that I mostly soloed to 50 and I got there with out even getting the first debt badge. My first and only blaster to do so.

1) It's insanely easy (though time consuming) to solo EBs. AVs are a different story. Soft capped ranged defense isn't essential. My blaster runs about 5% defense to all positions though I do have Aid Self. There are 2 ways to build. Both are mostly dependant on play style. You can go low recharge/high defense or high recharge/low defense (which is what I did).

2) I went with Aim and skipped TD mainly for the damage boost. The hit buff is nice but not essential. The sets that I slotted had lots of accuracy bonuses to go along with the high recharge, Archery has higher base accuracy and I slapped a Kismet unique into combat jumping. Rain of Arrows is a Psuedo pet as is Caltrops, Trip Mine, Time Bomb, and Gun Drone. None of those powers get any benefit from TD because the pulses don't last long enough. Rain of Arrows, Caltrops, and toe bombing with Trip Mine do benefit.

Aim is the place for the Gaussian's unique. If it does proc it will be proccing right before you let loose your massive AoE volley rather than some time while you are standing there resting, setting a time bomb, or otherwise picking your nose.

My Aim is 5 slotted. It has the Gaussian unique, Rectified reticle unique and 3 pieces of adjusted targetting.

3) You'll want all the arrows except the snipe. The snipe takes too long to cast and doesn't do enough damage to serve it's purpose with out build up in the secondary. You'll also want both Fist Full and Blazing as early as you can get them. Blazing for tough targets and Fist Full for multiple mobs that are stuck in caltrop patches.

Skip powers from the secondary instead. Super Speed + a stealth IO means that you don't need Smoke Bomb or Cloaking device. +Acc set bonuses mean you don't need TD and Caltrops means that nothing is getting close enough to Taser (and if it does a Trip Mine should be blowing it up). Skipping those end sucking toggles means that the blue bar gives you no troubles. Gun Drone is another playstyle power. Personally I find the endurance costs and annoyance of constantly recasting to be good reasons to leave it out of my build.

4) Time bomb is an awesome power if you are playing as a stealthy trapper. A time bomb set in the middle of a spawn and then moving behind a wall and casting RoA from out of line of sight will eliminate an entire spawn with out a single shot being fired in your direction. A boss might survive but if you put a trip mine and caltrops at the corner of the wall you used that will finish him off with out him getting a shot off. (Usually the run AI kicks in though in which case Blazing Arrow finishes him off).

If you take Munitions Mastery you can use some kind of nuke type damage every spawn.

Spawn 1 gets a time bomb + RoA. Poof gone.
Spawn 2 gets a LRM and when they get to the caltrop patch they get an RoA (and a trip mine if you set one).
Spawn 3 gets 2-3 trips mines and a caltrop patch. RoA, the Trip Mines, Fist Full and Explosive cleans the field.

By that time Time Bomb is recharged again.

How to take out an EB with out suffering a single attack....

1) Set up all the trip mines in one stack that you can before any of them self detonate.
2) Stealth behind the EB and plant Time Bomb right behind his feet.
3) Run back to your Trip Mine pile and drop Caltrops on top of it.
4) Count to 3.
5) Hit Aim
6) Animate RoA.

If you timed it right the third tick of RoA will be landing when the Time Bomb goes off but the EB won't have moved. The explosion will toss the EB onto the pile of Trip Mines. If you fire Blazing Arrow as the EB is landing on the trip mines the EB should be gone. Sometimes you might have to follow up with a single Snap or Aimed Shot to finish it off.

Something no one else has mentioned yet and I built just for the wild AoE KB and the high damage modifier is a Energy/Elec/Fire blaster.

Slot Torrent and Explosive Blast for KB, Lightening Clap and Thunder Strike for KB, and Bonfire for KB.

All 5 powers 6 slotted with Kinetic Crash give you 15% extra run speed, 12.5% more smashing resistance, mag 15 KB protection for yourself, 30% more regen, and 35% more global recharge. It also gives 173.95% higher KB magnitude (after ED) which gives you lots of personal KB chaos.

Damage slotting is only ~70 percent enhanced which is noticeable but the extra mitigation (and the set bonuses) from the KB Chaos more than makes up for the extra time required to defeat the mobs. The only weak spot is when you are up against things that are immune to KB.

IIRC someone ran some calculations and having a force feedback proc in one power averaged out to being a little less than 5% more global recharge. Dependant of course on your attack chain and the proc supression timing.

Your best bet will be to put it in Explosive Blast so that you have the largest target cap available to ensure that it will proc most often when you need it most. If you can get Explosive Blast's recharge down to 5.83 seconds (including global +rech bonuses) you'll hit the supression window pretty well against an average of 5 targets with that recharge speed.

The Explosive Strike chance for smashing damage proc may be a good replacement for the Force Feedback procs in your other powers.

That's not always the case. There are several common salvages that are still low in terms of market availability and they fluxuate still based on time of day and day of the week.

The market looks very much as it did pre-AE at this point.

Fire/ is designed to be played in close or melee range.
/Kin is designed to be played in close or melee range.
Stone Epic gives you a melee attack and a short ranged AoE.

You'll want to focus on defense, probably Smash/Lethal since the Stone Epic lends itself well to that.

Pick up the pool attack from your chosen travel power(s) or take and slot up the attacks from the fighting pool, proc out brawl, and go to town.

I'd also reccomend using your alt build. Set one up for melee soloing and the other for teaming.