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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

Yes, your Monday Punch won't be quite so spectacular, but you can swing it more often and it's STILL pretty damn terrific.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

It sounds efficient, but I don't think I have the heart to do that to my Nova. To me, its just not the same if wriggling feet aren't sticking out of walls in all directions.

Originally Posted by Tenzhi

The first thing I thought when I heard about this change to nukes, is that I finally knew where I was gonna stick that KB->KD converter on my Energy blaster.

Originally Posted by Muon_Neutrino

I think it'd be a more like 'do I want them knocked back/ragdolled but possibly scattered, or do I want them only knocked down but all still in the same place?' Ragdolling them will provide mitigation for a longer period, but if they end up scattered and it takes longer to finish them off as a result it might be overall more advantageous to suppress the KB.

Originally Posted by Lazarillo

I've been playing around with it a Dark/Mental on test, and it's actually worked pretty well, though given the secondary, I've more or less been able to replace Night Fall with Psychic Scream (skipping Umbral Torrent completely). The Life Drain buff is pretty freakin' nice, even with just SOs. Abyssal Gaze'll need some Frankenslotting, but will be extremely potent when slotted properly (I'm so far just using SOs).

Originally Posted by Werner

I'm not sure what you're asking.

Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

[*]Storm Blast

• Combines Ice, Electric, and Wind powers in a single set
• The faster the caster blasts, the stronger powers become as storm builds up and rages around the caster
• As the storm rages, powers gain extra effects (e.g. single target electric powers gain power and begin to arc between multiple enemies)
• Nuking is only possible after sufficient build up
• Makes liberal use of the amazing sound effect found by Thunderclap

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

For a ranged Energy/Energy blaster, I'd say its going to be one of the following:

Musculature, working towards Partial Radial rare, then eventually pick one of the very rares. Partial Radial has damage and end mod, which are the best two buffs in Musculature for ranged Energy/Energy.

I would not recommend Nerve at all. If you had a ton of defense toggles and were close to, but just not quite at the soft cap, maybe. An SR or EA that was sitting at like 43% defense in their build, for example. Ranged En/En gets not much from this.

If you want a marathon build that almost never runs out of endurance (and no matter how much people think they have unlimited endurance, they usually don't) you could go Cardiac, and specifically head towards Total Core, then Core Paragon. Those get you 45% endurance reduction and 20% range, both useful to a ranged build.

Spiritual would make more sense for a blapper. You're more likely to need recharge to keep melee attacks flowing and you get stun duration increase out of this as well. The main reason for a ranged En/En to take this would be, separate from just wanting a ton of recharge, if you have Aid Self. This will make AS not just come up faster, but much more importantly boost its heal. AS costs a lot in inactivity time, and sometimes it can heal for less than the damage you actually take during its total cast time. Boosting the heal as high as possible makes it much more valuable. Again, more likely for a blapper to have than a ranged blaster, but you had it in your posted build and lots of blasters take Aid Self when they feel like they are getting hit too often. Which a high ranged defense energy blaster with knockback might not experience often, but occasionally.

In either case, the rare Alpha with level shift is what you want to work towards. Very rare is four times as expensive and mostly gravy. Level shift has a huge impact on blasters: it significantly impacts survivability. Also, you aren't soft capped but if you play at +0xAnything, all level 50s in your missions will be shifted downwards, which means their base tohit will be 45% and not 50%. So that's like having 5% more defense, bringing you even closer to the effective soft cap.

(Note: level 51% have base 50% chance to hit and an accuracy bonus, so level shift doesn't impact them nearly as much as it does level 50s relative to a level 50 with a level shifting Alpha; it will just eliminate their accuracy bonus for being +1).

Originally Posted by Ribic

I have to concur. I have an energy/Energy blaster (made in i6, hit 50 in i7) and I've tried a TON of build with him. When I went pure ranged I noticed a HUGE dip in my damage output. Those melee attacks are huge. That having been said, if it's what you want to play, then that's what is important.