Another_Fan

Fixed that for you.

Just a heads up for you, before you accuse people of not liking something you should actually have a few facts. In my case I have 3 /mental blasters all fully accoladed and IOed out to the gills. I didn't make that effort because I dislike mental.

Munchkin is an incredibly accurate description of builds that are designed to do little more than fight smash lethal enemies with no defense debuffs or mezes in the AE.

It hardly dehumanizes the players because it says nothing about them, except the fact they can use an optimized build.


Really this is about the devs telling everyone that rolled an AR/Ment, ice ment, etc because they wanted the immob or the cone, or world of confusion to get the extra defense, "TAKE A HIKE YOU SHOULDN'T GET THE SUSTAIN EVERYONE ELSE IS GETTING UNLESS YOU CHANGE YOUR PLAYSTYLE". Heck not even fire is being told you have to blap.

Remember you felt that way the next time you join a league and its 90% tanks,scrappers and brutes. It's really important in any game that you have similar levels of effectiveness amongst the pieces. Otherwise what you see are masses of a few particular pieces.

I couldn't agree more with this. It's amazing that they have decided to cater to munchkin builds that need a customized play setting to work while ignoring the people that took mental to round out their ranged aoes, or for the immob or any of its other features.

Probably so. Even at 60% I expect it will be trouncing drain psyche for everyone except people spending all their combat time in melee

Part of the change to the support sets is conserve power is becoming some sort of energize clone. Can be permed and gives a large regeneration buff.

I am really surprised people have been going ape over the changes to devices when energy manipulation really is the break away winner. Conserve power is even more valuable because of the new nukes. Nothing like having an extra free 120% end reduction for powers that cost 27 end.

That isn't a given. The new nukes give defenders and corruptors a really powerful aoe/control power that they can now use without worrying about losing their toggles. Take a look at the case of the Rad/Ice defender that can now Blizzard->Ice Storm-> Frost Breat all the while leaving radiation infection and enervating field running on the spawn.

The same holds true for other debuffers that can now keep their toggles running through a nuke when they couldn't before.

Just say no to drugs son.

(Power boost + Tactics + kismet) -> (build up + kismet) = permanent 22%+

You can theoretically just have Power boost+ tactics + kismet and 300% recharge in power boost and have permanent fast snipe. But seeing as you have build up you only need Powerboost and build up on a 25 second recharge (with allowances for cast times)

Not difficult at all and for your trouble you get gigantic AoEs and the best single target damage.

Regarding fire, It's showing exactly how crazy /energy manipulation is going to be. You have blaze, blazing bolt, Fire ball repeat as an attack chain. You have aim in addition to build up so you don't need as much recharge in power boost to have your permanent snipe. With the new conserve power its not difficult use fire ball as a single target attack.

That is a little misleading. In both cases the powers are best used in conjunction with either build up full auto or aim and build up in nova's case. So their real usage rate is the recharge rate of Aim and Build Up. It's also very rare to see multiple full autos or for that matter rain of arrows used on a spawn, because of the difficulties in positioning and the long cast times.

AR could really use a look at just the same. The set is really going to be very overpowered. Its going to have the best single target damage of all the blast sets and will still be in the top 3 for AoE. When you consider its natural pairing with Energy manipulation makes its problems go away gives it a perma snipe and a nuke cone that can have a 200 foot range that seems just a little over the top.

On a separate but related note Energy Manipulation could use a once over given the effects from i24 changes. Between permanent boost range, power boost, and conserve power this set has gone from the front of the pack to lapping the pack.

ROFL is your water blast toon Kool Aid Drinker ?

Seriously given how well the devs handled snipes its all the more reason to shout out in advance.

And now I am one of the people that feels it no longer needs a buff.

Believe it or not there were people who argued it shouldn't get buffed.

Just to laugh even louder.

The set is already scheduled for a buff.

Lets See I was for

1. Hover Speed getting buffed
2. Blaster survivability getting buffed
3. Blaster Damage getting buffed.

Looks like I am 3 for 3

Oh and a bonus point that water blast in its present form was underpowered with the changes coming down and would need a buff. Check again.

Sounds like you could do with a little buff.

Fair enough, I don't play many kins so I tend to forget them.

Not really I left out fixing pet AI after they broke it for demons and I left out garbage fixes like "Fixing the AI" by making it impossible for pets to benefit from recharge.

This is all stuff off the top of my head. Lord only knows how long the list would be if I actually bothered to write these things down.

Glad to see you actually had something constructive to say, not just lashing out because you dislike being reminded of the shortcomings of the game.

I am sure they will get around to it in a timely fashion. The same way they have addressed other issues in a timely fashion.

Making certain that defiance 2.0 was a sufficient adjustment for blasters.

Addressing the problems in PvP 2.0 and making the frequent changes they promised.

Making adjustments to dual pistols.

Fixing shield charge.

Fixing Blessing of the Zypher.

Dealing with problems in the architect system that were pointed out pre launch all over the place.

Fixing the over nerf of energy melee.

You seem to be screaming at a voice in your head.

If for nothing else its impossible for every set to be the best set.

Water blast is a reasonable but little low performer now, but will fall behind with the snipe changes. That's just the way the cookie is crumbling.

No

Having something behave inconsistently is an improvement for you ?

There are only 2 things that any set does that actually matter. Killing the enemies and keeping you alive. Water blast keeps you alive a little better but not nearly enough to make up for its deficit in killing enemies.

Water blast has a variable chance of kb depending on your current level tidal forces. This is opposed to AR which has fixed percentage chance.

Almost all the blaster secondaries have an immob.

Full auto = Dead things
Geyser = Stunned dead things

slug = constant chance of knocked back things
M30 = constant chance of knocked back things
Buck Shot = constant chance of knocked back things

Hydro Burst = Variable chance of Knocked back things
Hydro Blast = Variable chance of Knocked back things

Ignite = Run Away
No match on water.

Its win will be corruptors and defenders where the control in geyser will be nice.

I am sure if you define the challenge in a narrow enough way you will have the result you want

That's fine but you need to realize that there are plenty of builds out there that have outdone yours and done so without incarnate abilities for crutches.