Another_Fan

It looks like they didn't change the article so much as move it. It is still showing it self suppressing.

First the damage analysis misses defiance aim and build up

Second the recharge analysis misses the blaster will be running a seemless attack chain, so the recharge bonus is only significant in its capability for replacing low damage attack with higher damage attacks.

Third recharge does determine how often aim and build up come up but they are usually slotted to the ED cap for recharge.


Edit: This was covered in the first page of the thred

60+ posts on this topic and the colorful analysis manages to be wrong in two completely opposite ways at the same time.

But they are colorful and well formatted.

Aim+Build Up+ Rain of Arrows+16 targets =10000 + points of damage

Build up + Full Auto + 10 targets = 4000+ points of damage

Build up + Hail of bullets + 16 targets = 9000+ points of damage.

Its very very situational and it depends on how much you are willing to spend.

You need to ask your self some questions first.

The 0th question why Blaster ? Blasters can do damage but they aren't the death dealers in this game. This hasn't gotten better lately either. If you want to off like a completely out of control psychopath laying waste to the countryside you have other choices that do a much better job of it.

If you are still hankering for a blaster , your first question should be what do you want to fight. Your next question is what is it weak to and what kind of damage does it do.

Then you pick. As was pointed out above enemies that do S/L are popular, its possible with some sacrifice to make a reasonable build that performs acceptably without spending more than it will ever earn back. If you go that route, you are going to be mowing down freaks, battle maiden warriors, and demons. These groups all do S/L damage and their mez effects are either carried on a S/L vector or they just do knockback. They aren't particularly resistant to anything so you can pick your blast type for whatever you feel you like. Your build is going to crumble like a poltician's promises when you face any size spawns of other enemy groups.


Your next question is up close or ranged ? Up close you have secondaries like fire manipulation or electric manipulation, ranged you favor ice, If you want a mix you can go mental or energy. If you want to go in close most primaries favor range but you can go rad or pick a primary with lots of targeted aoes like fire to combine it with. If you are going ranged and really want to kill hordes quickly, Archery, Assault Rifle, and Fire are all top of the heap.

Mature is understating it. Just from playing the I19 changes it feels like the game was a cancer patient and the devs decided to adrenaline and morphine to the drip.

It depends on the stalker. Electric has good area damage easily comparable to Ice.

I was buying salvage for my character working on field crafter last night. Salvage alone was running me more than 300k/IO. This doesn't include the overhead of memorizing the recipe.

Difficult for /devices. Too many things slow it down.

LOL Castle.

Hopefully the new people will come up with better combat models, that don't mandate the ridiculous penalties he felt should accrue to ranged ATs. A sensible person would have looked at the performance of fire, ice etc and done something about improving the other sets.

This. The sets performance levels are one thing. Having the toon get hit with a seizure to fire off the tier 9 is another

In general yes, but this week I haven't been able to log on without someone dragging me into a TF.

At this point I suppose trying to explain the irony of your post would be wasted effort.

I'm still enjoying his parting gift ,the Cathedral of Pain.

Tickets are very good. I personally prefer purple farming, or merit/new merit farming. Just a matter of taste.

If you did what you had to, to get drain psyche maxed on targets, you won't last 6 seconds without further mitigation.

Yes you get full bonus and you can easily get max regeneration for a blaster which is around 110 hp/sec depending on the details of your build.
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On paper yes. As a practical matter you need a mob next to you to use it.

It works but you have to marry it with high defense or some sort of aggro control or other mitigation. Remember to use it you have to surround yourself with mobs. If you are alone you will aggro the spawn you are standing in with your drain psyche. You are going to eat their alpha before your regen kicks in to help you.

Things you should know ?

Its great for its -regen. If you are fighting avs and have it near permanent you can floor the avs regen and do nearly as much damage with it as you do with your attacks.

Kind of like progress quest with a monthly subscription fee ?

You can buy in stacks of 10.

At its simplest you now have 220 insp slots at the ready while you tf do missions etc.

That is silly stupid powerful

Self control, and I have no doubt you will gladly squirm around on a definition.