Another_Fan

Would it be ? Buffer teams can be very powerful but usually it takes decent players to make that work.

Lets look at the popular whipping boy for the over powered claim empathy.

Regeneration and recovery auras are self targetable and can put you near cap both regen and recovery by themselves

Fortitude provides a 31 percent damage buff, which is about what vigilance provides when solo. Its a bit of a laugh but I am pretty sure I have seen posters in this thread make the too much damage argument before the changes to vigilance.

Adrenalin boost isn't going to add anything to what the auras are providing, capped is capped, it will give a giant recharge bonus.

Heal other has a 2.5 second animation so if you are trying to use it all the time your kill speed and dps goes out the window.

Whats left ? Clear mind ? You can't play this game for more than half an hour without realizing the mezz system is broken beyond belief. So yes this would be a game changer but its part of the game that really needs changing

This captures the problem with blaster secondaries in general. They aren't better at anything. Traps is better at keeping the team alive, its better at keeping the player alive and its better at getting the enemies dead. Edit: Devices vs traps is just the extreme case. Fire vs Fire is pretty bad as well

You really need off comparisons to get a blaster secondary that is better Fire vs Forcefield for what does more damage. But when you look at comparable sets its usually a no brainer.

Thats right you can't, and I wasn't. I was comparing the damage output of the sets.

But if you would like something of equivalent comparison lets try Blazing Aura

13.9/activation on a scrapper

vs 11.1/activation on a blaster

The scrapper also has mezz protection, so his aura is actually going to be doing the damage more often.

It really gets bad when you factor in the effect of crits on fully enhanced powers.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words heres 2000.




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I have never been clear how those work especially seeing as the damage scalars seem to be more often not observed than seen working

just an example

Blaster Fireball

from Red Tomax

vs Scrapper Epic Fireball

Not bad for a ranged AoE on an AT with a lower damage scalar

Here's fire blast

vs Scrapper fire blast

Or seeing as fire blast is the big damage from the primary that just does extra damage

Siphon life from dark melee

VS blaze

It looks like blaze needs a self heal and -to hit

It really goes without saying that traps is James Bond's powerset

Devices is Maxwell Smart's

If you would like some feedback that hasn't been poisoned by the state religion that everything in this game is fine and the needed changes were never actually opposed.

Devices pretty much stinks for a blaster.

Time bomb: Useless we are talking steaming pile of ****

Trip Mine: Nice damage, but its interruptible and takes 5 seconds to cast.

Gun Drone: Giant end cost, its interruptible and likely to go crazy and die or go crazy and die and get you killed.

Taser: Nice stun horribly short range. You need a primary that has a stun if this is going to be any use to you.

Targeting drone: Horrible waste of end. Get a kismet +6 and take a def power.

Cloaking device: Spring for the IOs don't be a cheapskate.

Smoke grenade: Useful when fighting near even level enemies. A much under rated power.

Webnade: Excellent immob and minus recharge.

Caltrops : Excellent soft control.

You give up build up to take devices. Depending on how you build that can be up 40% of the time for 100% damage boost while up.

The upside to devices is it makes it really easy to fit in the pool and epic choices you might like

Well anyone with two accounts can run that duo. Second, Survivability buffing is only needed when characters can't survive on their own.

Well then if the argument that it is op as a single and should not be allowed, then it needs to be extended to any grouping of more than 1. Maybe defenders need a further change in vigilance that makes their buffs less effective the more of them are on a team

Simple question here, being able to self buff is O.P. why isn't 2 of the same as a duo over powered?

I don't know, did tower buffed LR in stf justify the stone tank/empath combo ?

Another funny story. Over the weekend I did 5 bafs and saw 3 blasters on leagues, 2 were mine

Isn't it great that there are so many ways to play this game, and isn't it kind of sad when because of evolution of the system one of them ceases to be viable.

And speaking of funny stories, it seems the devs realize this can happen and sometimes act to fix the situation. Did you hear the one about brutes needing to be nerfed lest they make scrappers non viable ?

I am confident that, that situation occurred often. On the teams I was playing on, even without ION and the other new nukes the 5-6 seconds it was taking to buff target and cast was enough time for a good portion of the spawns to evaporate.

Funny story, I took Ionic Judgement when I knew it was bugged and was going to get hammered just because having a crashless nuke doing 1200+ points a hit just had me giggling. Funny part of the story, I was having trouble buffing up fast enough so I could cast it and still have things to hit, or even have my target still alive.

If they are support they are pitiful support. The only spot where they get close to being reasonable isn't even in a secondary its sonic as a primary. The support they have in the secondary is with few exceptions uniformly minor, and when it isn't the blaster needs support to deliver the support

It just cant have more than 10 be a double group or have an odd shape


If you have a set build you will likely be wondering why you took conserve energy

The counterpoint AR is very poor in single target, the rifle imposes a redraw penalty every time you switch from the secondary to the primary . The cones are all 10 target cap and the best cone full auto is very narow, while buckshot and flame thrower need boost range because they are so short.

Yes ignite is hand against AVs if kept stationary. Problem is you have no way to do that till you get to your epics.

AR also does not have aim. This costs you a solid 30% of your overall damage when launching those big AOEs as a first strike.

Truth Full auto is made for the wall. It would be nice if all the game's spawns were laid out in a line and only had about 10 mobs

I still like your idea of having build up and aim act as click mez protection.

I don't think increasing the hitpoint cap would be beneficial, without other changes to the epics. There is only one epic with a + hp power, it's also the only one with self heals and one of two with defense.