Windenergy21

I personally go for higher regen on my blasters. They always have some form of mitigation to get enemies from killling you. Blasters do have a higher HP to boot for starters. However, like i said with mitigation, and even pay more attention on teams as well, i find the regen to be ultimately more helpful.

For one, when you are going for a "defense" build, the blaster has no defense powers to start you off outside of devices and cloaking device. So you start out with nothing, to get reasonable defense you are gimping your build to do so in some way shape or form. Secondly, you'll most likely be going for ranged defense. Which while solo, ok can be nice, but on teams especially, there is usually a melee tanker or scrapper or the like that will start the fight anyways, leaving you mostly with either aoe defense to worry about, or just a few pop shots. In which case the regeneration lets you attack, take a few hits and heal up.

There is always aggressive vs passive playing. I like to play aggressive, but if you do, for say go in melee to use some powers (which btw, would be getting aoe and melee attacks on you, not ranged for the most part, or of which it wouldn't matter) then you go in, use those powers, take a couple hits, then when you back out to use your ranged powers, your regen will help you get your health back up.

I find it much easier and more reliable on a blaster to have high regen, and to use mitigation forms to keep my blasters alive. The only time i'd find building for defense reliable enough would be if your going to try capping your ranged defense on a hover-blaster or mostly pure-ranged build. Otherwise I'd defenitely go for regen, which is usually hand in hand with Max hp bonuses anyways and often times cheaper.

I would definitley go AR/ice for multiple reasons. One, when you get IOs, i can pretty much chain burst/slug without hasten and its good enough for ST, and you can use buckshot for how fast it recharges and animates and its fairly low end cost as your 3rd attack if need be. Ar has lots of aoes, and lots of things to keep you busy.

With ice, first off ice patch is about the only way to get decent use out of ignite. That said after the ignite nerf its not terribly necessary but nice to have. With the AR/ice combo, for starters, it gives you build up, mix it with FT and FA and its gravy. Then the next big boon is shiver. Shiver is undoubtedly one of the best mitigations and controls available to blasters. Just shiver, and the mob is severely slowed and -recharged, then you can just focus on blasting away with your AR and not worry about redrawing all the time.

Then as to epics, of course with AR munitiions makes the most sense. With /ice and freezing touch, cryo freeze ray lets you hold bosses by stacking, and even has the same icey block hold. They just work so well together thematically and playstyle-wise. It does even have FF/IS for more ST attacks if need be, but I never seem to need them. On long fights chilblain i find to actually be a better attack as it immobilizes them in the process and you don't have to go into melee which is definitely not AR's friend. Another bonus to the ice manipulation style of play you can do by using shiver then focusing on your AR attacks.

Most things that you say are a bonus, can actually be self defeating too. You say you mostly solo. Well, from there, you can set your missions to +8 team members for one. So aoe can still be a huge factor. But also if you're not setting for high mobs, then you're self defeating your soul drain as it won't be getting a large drain/buff off the mobs.

Also as to any type of a safety issue, if you're not fighting larger mobs even solo, then you shoudln't really be having much problems no matter what primary you have.

Perhaps i think you might like IO'ing a Fire/SR or Claw/SR it'd rock your world :P

Ok just going off your most recent build as you seem most set on those. For one, lucky is WAY too late, the scaling resistances and extra defense of it and DDR are far too important to put off.

Elude when you are pretty much at cap already, and slotting it for end mods too. SOOOO much a waste of a power and slots.

Your build is also missing charged brawl (which better than havok punch in dps/dpa) where elec is already not the best, but with it is still enogh, but iwthout it, and you'll be hurting.

What you'll want to do, is also focus on regeneration, with capped defense, you won't need aid self for anything.

And with general end redux slotting, i really fail to see where you need that much recovery. My elec/shield, who even has FA running and manuevers, and CB for an extra attack doesn't run out of end hardly, and you with SR would not need manuevers, saving there, and truth be told for most things don't even need FA on. And this is with less than 2 end/second.

Recharge, the build i'll show you, almost exactly the same. The main powers that even really would use it, bu/LR, are about 1 second slower, thats all.

Now there are two ways to the build i'm going to show you. Originally i have it with lightning clap, and maneuvers (better end than the elec/shield as mentioned still) but it can be a TOTALLY fun power if you're messing around and know what you're doing hehe, plus it gives good rech/recovery/defense bonuses within it. PVE, you'll problaby never need to run maneuvers for most things, its there for super tough/debuffing enemies, but like i said with the end redux on the powers you won't much notice it at all.

The other option, which overall boosts your survival decently, is swapping out lightning clap and maneuvers for tough, with a steadfast 3% proc in it and and 3 reactive armor. Since like most people from the looks of your other builds you'd seem to more-so go for the tough build, though to each his own, i can show the L-clap build if you'd like. I'd suggest making an alternate build with it, when you use it and hear the noise it makes, see the animation, then all the drunkard enemies its quite fun lol. So here's the build i'm talking about. regeneration rate is over a tic every 3.5 seconds, with capped defense, and tough stacking with your scaling resistances, somewhat preventing the jumping of them too, and how much regen this biuld has, you terribly won't need aid self.

This build is quite impressive so I hope you consider it, even has 2 slotted PB, so leveling it up won't be as much of a pain. My only thing about the build is how quickness isn't till 38. while nice to have, don't let this put you off, the way the build is, trust me how everything else listed prior is more important. Well actually, if you pick up the ninja pack and get ninja run, i'd put superjump at 38 then bump quickness sooner. You could even drop SJ completely, and pick up lightnign clap at 38. Slot it with an accuracy. You won't have slots to spare in it, but with base slot as acc, FA, and your acc bonuses, it should hit decently for those fun times you want to use it.

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Elec SR Tough: Level 50 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Electrical Melee
Secondary Power Set: Super Reflexes
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Charged Brawl -- T'Death-Acc/Dmg(A), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx(3), T'Death-Dmg/Rchg(13), T'Death-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(31), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(37), T'Death-Dam%(39)
Level 1: Focused Fighting -- LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(A), LkGmblr-Def(5), DefBuff-I(7)
Level 2: Havoc Punch -- Mako-Acc/Dmg(A), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx(3), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(11), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(19), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(37), Mako-Dam%(39)
Level 4: Jacobs Ladder -- Sciroc-Acc/Dmg(A), Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(5), Sciroc-Dmg/Rchg(7), Sciroc-Acc/Rchg(19), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(36), M'Strk-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40)
Level 6: Agile -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+(13), DefBuff-I(15)
Level 8: Thunder Strike -- Sciroc-Acc/Dmg(A), Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(9), Sciroc-Dmg/Rchg(9), Sciroc-Acc/Rchg(15), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(34), M'Strk-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40)
Level 10: Practiced Brawler -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(11)
Level 12: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 14: Super Jump -- Jump-I(A)
Level 16: Dodge -- S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(A), S'dpty-Def(17), LkGmblr-Rchg+(17)
Level 18: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 20: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Numna-Heal(21), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(21), Heal-I(40), RgnTis-Regen+(46)
Level 22: Stamina -- Efficacy-EndMod(A), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(23), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc/Rchg(23), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc(34)
Level 24: Focused Senses -- S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(A), S'dpty-Def/Rchg(25), S'dpty-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(25), S'dpty-Def(48), S'dpty-EndRdx(48)
Level 26: Chain Induction -- Mako-Acc/Dmg(A), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx(27), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(27), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(31), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(37), Mako-Dam%(39)
Level 28: Lucky -- S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(A), S'dpty-Def(29), DefBuff-I(29)
Level 30: Build Up -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(31)
Level 32: Lightning Rod -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(33), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(33), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(33), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(34), Oblit-%Dam(48)
Level 35: Evasion -- S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(A), S'dpty-Def/Rchg(36), S'dpty-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(36), S'dpty-Def(43)
Level 38: Quickness -- Run-I(A)
Level 41: Focused Accuracy -- GSFC-ToHit(A), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg(42), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg/EndRdx(42), GSFC-Rchg/EndRdx(42), GSFC-ToHit/EndRdx(43), GSFC-Build%(43)
Level 44: Physical Perfection -- Numna-Heal(A), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(45), Numna-Heal/Rchg(45), P'Shift-EndMod(45), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(46), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(46)
Level 47: Kick -- Acc-I(A)
Level 49: Tough -- S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(50), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(50), RctvArm-ResDam(50)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Critical Hit
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Set Bonus Totals:

• 14% DamageBuff(Smashing)
• 14% DamageBuff(Lethal)
• 14% DamageBuff(Fire)
• 14% DamageBuff(Cold)
• 14% DamageBuff(Energy)
• 14% DamageBuff(Negative)
• 14% DamageBuff(Toxic)
• 14% DamageBuff(Psionic)
• 8% Defense(Smashing)
• 8% Defense(Lethal)
• 8% Defense(Fire)
• 8% Defense(Cold)
• 9.25% Defense(Energy)
• 9.25% Defense(Negative)
• 3% Defense(Psionic)
• 13% Defense(Melee)
• 13.6% Defense(Ranged)
• 13% Defense(AoE)
• 27.5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
• 33% Enhancement(Accuracy)
• 10% FlySpeed
• 195.8 HP (14.6%) HitPoints
• 10% JumpHeight
• 10% JumpSpeed
• MezResist(Held) 9.35%
• MezResist(Immobilize) 10.5%
• MezResist(Stun) 2.2%
• 4% (0.07 End/sec) Recovery
• 90% (5.03 HP/sec) Regeneration
• 6.25% Resistance(Negative)
• 10% RunSpeed

i'll help when i get home, at my sisters but you really won't need aid self

That's WAY too easy, like you said, HORRID lack of aoe. I deleted 2 DM toons already, would NEVER do it without a secondary that has a damage aura or shield charge. And honestly, with most secondaries, i'd prefer a more actively mitigating set. DM's debuffs are usually ignored as with SR or shield you can cap anyways, and any other set won't notice it much, especially since you're not doing to the whole spawn, just single or small cone enemies. And the self heal in siphon life, is nice to have, but the sheer fact of spawns lasting longer cause you can't aoe them makes it more or less not worth it.

Agreed the lethal isn't that bad at all really. Burst/slug i believe have higher damage to start than most tier 1/2 attacks. Buckshot recharges and animates so fast its ooey gooey goodness. M-30 has some smashing components to it, its when slotted and added to your aoe chain isn't that bad of damage like people make it sound. Flamethrower is all fire, and full auto is good damage (though they STILL need to put its cone back to a 30 degree cone IMO, the 20 is really annoying for still having a 10 target cap unlike the 16 of Rain of Arrows)

AR is an awesome set. Flamethrower is so full of win especially when you get it, its higher base accuracy and wide cone just annihilate spawns.

If you go AR, i'd highly suggest /ice manipulation. It even lets you get good use out of ignite (though i hate how they changed it) But /ice lets you patch/shiver and then focus on your AR blasting so you don't have to worry about redraw so much.

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The tier 9 so to speak crash isn't bad though, the power lasts 2 minutes, you can cast it, use DP to put you to full, and its ready so you can use it right as the crash is about to happen, getting your low endurance/hp easily recooperated afterwards, usually skipping dropping any toggles if you get DP saturated. You don't use it just cause its there, but when you use it you can get by almost regret free. I only have it 2 slotted for recharge on my build and it more than serves its purpose, its not a heavy investment, but its definitely nice and easy to have.

Oops, would help if I posted it lol

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Elec SR LClap: Level 50 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Electrical Melee
Secondary Power Set: Super Reflexes
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Charged Brawl -- T'Death-Acc/Dmg(A), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx(3), T'Death-Dmg/Rchg(13), T'Death-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(31), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(37), T'Death-Dam%(39)
Level 1: Focused Fighting -- LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(A), LkGmblr-Def(5), DefBuff-I(7)
Level 2: Havoc Punch -- T'Death-Acc/Dmg(A), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx(3), T'Death-Dmg/Rchg(11), T'Death-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(19), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(37), T'Death-Dam%(39)
Level 4: Jacobs Ladder -- Sciroc-Acc/Dmg(A), Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(5), Sciroc-Dmg/Rchg(7), Sciroc-Acc/Rchg(19), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(36), M'Strk-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40)
Level 6: Agile -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+(13), DefBuff-I(15)
Level 8: Thunder Strike -- Sciroc-Acc/Dmg(A), Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(9), Sciroc-Dmg/Rchg(9), Sciroc-Acc/Rchg(15), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(34), M'Strk-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40)
Level 10: Practiced Brawler -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(11)
Level 12: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 14: Super Jump -- Jump-I(A)
Level 16: Dodge -- S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(A), S'dpty-Def(17), LkGmblr-Rchg+(17)
Level 18: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 20: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Numna-Heal(21), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(21), Heal-I(40), RgnTis-Regen+(46)
Level 22: Stamina -- Efficacy-EndMod(A), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(23), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc/Rchg(23), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc(34)
Level 24: Focused Senses -- S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(A), S'dpty-Def/Rchg(25), S'dpty-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(25), S'dpty-Def(50)
Level 26: Chain Induction -- Mako-Acc/Dmg(A), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx(27), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(27), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(31), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(37), Mako-Dam%(39)
Level 28: Lucky -- S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(A), S'dpty-Def(29), DefBuff-I(29)
Level 30: Build Up -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(31)
Level 32: Lightning Rod -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(33), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(33), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(33), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(34)
Level 35: Evasion -- S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(A), S'dpty-Def/Rchg(36), S'dpty-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(36), S'dpty-Def(43)
Level 38: Quickness -- Run-I(A)
Level 41: Focused Accuracy -- GSFC-ToHit(A), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg(42), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg/EndRdx(42), GSFC-Rchg/EndRdx(42), GSFC-ToHit/EndRdx(43), GSFC-Build%(43)
Level 44: Physical Perfection -- Numna-Heal(A), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(45), Numna-Heal/Rchg(45), P'Shift-EndMod(45), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(46), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(46)
Level 47: Lightning Clap -- Stpfy-Acc/Rchg(A), Stpfy-EndRdx/Stun(48), Stpfy-Acc/EndRdx(48), Stpfy-Stun/Rng(48), Stpfy-Acc/Stun/Rchg(50), Stpfy-KB%(50)
Level 49: Maneuvers -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Critical Hit
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Set Bonus Totals:

• 13.5% DamageBuff(Smashing)
• 13.5% DamageBuff(Lethal)
• 13.5% DamageBuff(Fire)
• 13.5% DamageBuff(Cold)
• 13.5% DamageBuff(Energy)
• 13.5% DamageBuff(Negative)
• 13.5% DamageBuff(Toxic)
• 13.5% DamageBuff(Psionic)
• 5% Defense(Smashing)
• 5% Defense(Lethal)
• 4.38% Defense(Fire)
• 4.38% Defense(Cold)
• 4.69% Defense(Energy)
• 4.69% Defense(Negative)
• 10% Defense(Melee)
• 9.38% Defense(Ranged)
• 8.75% Defense(AoE)
• 41.3% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
• 33% Enhancement(Accuracy)
• 3% Enhancement(Stun)
• 10% FlySpeed
• 220.9 HP (16.5%) HitPoints
• 10% JumpHeight
• 10% JumpSpeed
• MezResist(Held) 8.8%
• MezResist(Immobilize) 8.8%
• MezResist(Stun) 2.2%
• 6.5% (0.11 End/sec) Recovery
• 90% (5.03 HP/sec) Regeneration
• 6.25% Resistance(Negative)
• 10% RunSpeed

I wanted to have some fun with lightning clap so came up with this build a while ago. Pretty much capped defense, fractions of a percentage from it for ranged/melee, all the important powers etc. Very fun build.

Aye energy is definitely the better choice there. Plus you can use the knockback to push them into the mines if they are being stubborn. Caltrops + knockback also ensures that enemies won't be getting near you.