Angelofvalor

I noticed you get aoe shields which seem to look very cool, but in almost every guide I read, is that ice manipulation melee attacks are terrible, I cannot quite see myself using the aoe to slow the mobs so they do not run away while you blizzard and not use a melee attack, anyways I need some opinions on this and perhaps a more current ice/ice build idea since issue9?

Thanks allot everyone.

I apologize Scarlet for this pointless argument if you do searches plenty of threads talk about how blapping with ele/ele has great synergy and many many people follow this path and love it.

Thanks.

Uhhh pre level 20? Expensive powers? Yea maybe only very specific ats like fire perhaps, and if you are trying to constantly attack of course your going to run out of end, but I have yet run into any issues with end on many alts I have tried.

Circuit boy I pretty much stoped reading your post after you decided to get cocky and defensive, you just lost any valid point you had what so ever I do not care how long you been playing, maybe thats your problem you lecture to much, I think I remember you from before, always come in here with a snippy attitude.

Well I got news for you, my experience differs from yours, I will just agree to disagree with you, this is just not worth the effort.

Griff you did not read that right, I said skip 2 powers which is repel and increase density, and yea a few guides recommend skipping it.

And as far as going with the blatant judgement on me for not liking kinetics, never did I think playing a defender was just for me, and kinetics is for you in some ways, kind of silly thing to say, and dark/dark has nothing for you to be quite honest only if you choose to see it that way of course. And maybe your right, maybe it just is not for me, there is nothing wrong with a buffing set but this is a damage set, still calling damage migitation is like saying blasters have migitation, sure it helps but there are other things that can truly protect the group.

And I never had an issue with the fast paced gameplay, in fact it is what I usually prefer.

I think its more of the fact that kinetics is one dimensional as someone said above and no never made it into 30s with one, but here is part of the issue, ok you have recharge, slows, heals yea so what many defenders get heals, extra damage then super damage for your team, now the last one sounds awesome but in many guides people skip to powers which are repel and the mass one I forget what its called so to me the whole point of the kinetics set is sb and fuclom shift, and personally I do not find that fun.

While these are good I do not have the orgins pack yet but wow that one is my favorite, anyone have any others? Decided to try an ice/ice blaster now was not a fan of kientics hehe.

After playing dark/dark to around level 30 I perhaps will go back to him once I finish my ill/rad controller first. Anyways it just feels like there are to little of tools to help my teams, sure it helps your personal damage but playing a defender it just doesnt feel right, I highly enjoyed what tools I could use to help my teams and there where so many tools.

Sure kinetics is fast paced and its a fun and fast ride but it almost feels shallow like its not enough to bring it to 50. I am starting to think it might need a little work, sb is nice and all but its not everything.

That makes no sense, and never did I say anything about being pure blapper what you do is shoot off your ranged attacks first then run in to drain then melee a few run back out range some more and etc, with ss its not an issue, if this was really the case the devs would have seen it as an issue, because any blaster that has melee attacks will never be able to read there full potential unless they use them, maybe archery doesnt need to use there blapping much though.

But what you are saying is nuts, that is like saying an nrg/nrg blaster will loose out on damage if they decide to blap and use ranged attacks.

And just fyi I tried the pure ranged aspect and guess what? I noticed a differance with my damage and end drain in general, you do not need to play an ele if your not going to use your end drain abilities, there are other blasters much better for pure ranged like ice/ice or fire paired with mind or ice and a few others. Ele is only subpar if you do not use the end drain capability to its true potential.

I honestly do not think you played enough to groups, you should not have any issues in most teams blapping in teams, I hardly had issues and found it far from just situational, I do not think you are using the right strategys like throwing ball of lightning first, the electric field helps later levels, then you use oh I forget the name of the power been like 2 years, unless they recently changed some game changing aspect to electric/electric there should not be an issue, maybe it is just your playstyle and you have trouble playing it that way but no reason to mislead others.

And you are the only one I have ever heard that saids blapping is situational the only one.

This is great advice thank you.

Trying to make an kin/ice defender now and wow not much of a choice except colors but arctic in full looks to girly for me, I wonder what other designs I can make look ice like dont think there is anything else.

Wow this sounds well amazing, never been a fan as an ice blaster but paired with kinetics hmmm, I always enjoyed ice in other games, but this seems to hit the spot in what I am looking for I will give it a try thank you.

I hate to admit it but ele is a mix of st and aoe but paired with ele you have more st then aoe in the first place, and do not forget even the end drain abilities are for melee range this is why it makes sense if you stay at range your going to loose out on a decent amount of damage there is no disadvantage if you play it right.

Yes I know how to use the auction house but the problem is you need multiple receipies just to craft, its expensive for one thing even the salvage is expensive right now, there is no buyout option which is very annoying, there should be regardless for people do not want to wait forever to enchance, some of us need to enchance at those levels.

The inventory system is highly annoying, there is no real assistence as far as inventory goes sure you have vault, but your not going to know exactly what you need without having to right down what you need from every receipie you need to use and that is allot.

Anyways I am level 35 and realized it was cheaper to just buy the io crafted enchancements its the normal ones btw, I heard most people wait till 40, does anyone have any advice here how to deal with all this?

Thank you.

Master mind or illusion controller.

What do you guys think of the ele/ele/ele blaster set? I am trying this one out, but I refuse to ask in the blaster forums most there claim its underwhelming and is lacking in damage, but I am thinking allot of them never played a controller or a versatile set and understand its going to lack a little in damage to do other things.

It looks like fun on paper and I hate only being able to do only one thing sounds like a great alt for me.

Scarlet please do not listen to these people who are telling you that not blapping is ok as an ele blaster, it is far from ok, you should read amythests guide on the blaptroller yes it is somewhat outdated but still pretty current on most things, you jump in end drain, then blap away real fast then run back make sure you use ss, then you shoot from a far or you can throw ball lightning first then end drain, anyways end draining is part of your defense always use those kinds of tools first and you will be safe as long as you watch what you are doing.

Ele/ele is meant for blapping if you want a pure ranged blaster then you would want energy paired with mind, or ice with mind and etc you get the idea, ice secondary also has some safe ranged powers.

And then there is corrupters which are based more off damage, if your not blapping with an ele/ele blaster then your doing it all wrong.

I am considering remaking an ele/ele myself.

Hmmm yea I was looking for something more agile looking this time, my ill/rad controller is already in metallic because he is basicly a ghost and the armor helps sustain him. So metal armors are out of the question for me.

The funny thing is I slotted for holds according to local mans guide, he is awesome and his guide is awesome but he just prefered more holding I guess to me slotting for damage would be more fun.

Since I play on another server decided to reroll him, I am enjoying him and he is probably the kind of blaster I want, versatility, impressive visuals and fast paced combat. So Anyways my questions are with the new defiance is charged bolts worth it? And how many people still think lightning field is worthless? I think it might be useful now we dont need to take fitness pools.

And if anyone has an updated build I havent played since single orgin enchancements so please any builds would help espically current for i9 thanks all!

While grav is fun I personally do not recommend it, to be honest gravity goes well with other sets, not to say grav wont be bad with illusions there is probably some synergy there but not half as much as you would with rad.

It really depends on what you want, the ill/rad is basicly the jack of all trades of the controller set, you can heal decent, you have a buff but its mostly for you and phantom army, you get basicly 3 pets even though 2 are temporary, phantasm does excellent damage once slotted so does your temp pet phantom army, you can keep phantom army all the time if you want to build that way, you can do some of your own damage, depending if you slot blind for more damage or hold, its a fast recharge however.

And once you get to choose epic power pool you can pick up the fire line and get a really nice attack chain going, and the debuffs man the debuffs are simply amazing. Your teams will love you, and you will keep the flow of battle, you get to pace it, because you are able to fill any hole on the fly, now you can get the rez easily since we dont need to get stam anymore or others.

And this set is very active my only complaint is that you do not get a real attack chain until late levels and anchors, it can get annoying but read local mans guide its probably the best guide out there.

My main issue here is my ele is bright and I like it bright but for variety I like to change colors around like white purple, blue purple, blue blue etc, so trying out some ideas, mostly so far black and blue look alright but its not quite there with the lightning stuff, I am not sure if I want magic, mutant, tech, or natural yet depends what costume I can make. I been messing around with the tight sleek since I do not have a hero in tights yet, it looks alright but still something is missing other then the cape. Then been messing around with the sun slick sun glasses and tench coat but again something is missing.

Anyways please post me some pics I need some ideas! Thanks everyone

I keep forgetting about the fire epic pool, I really hate air supp right now I hardly use it, I enjoy using flash up close but I am not liking having to melee, I keep forgetting about it and my blind is costumized for hold not damage sadly, but I am considering making it more for damage.

Just look at sandman powers from spiderman sure its sand but you can do something similar, wow now that I think of it sand blasting would be fun to. But to be honest id much rather see an earth blast set taken from the avatar series I do not know if you guys watch it, its animated but earth benders wow wow, they have amazing offensive abilities and amazing defensive abilities, in the end it earth secondary would be a very defensive set but to balance it out from being to much melee maybe some of the powers have to root you in place or something along those lines. Why throw rocks when you can shoot them out of your hands? Ele shoots out of there hands, ice shoots out of the hands need I say more?

I could see a stomp on the ground animation and lifting rocks in the air and shooting them towards your enemy.