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Originally Posted by seebs

How do you define "lame" damage?

Originally Posted by Gehnen

Please don't take this the wrong way, but were you orginally an "AE baby"? From your posts it seems like you are trying to reform from such beginnings by asking some good questions, but judging from the above quote some of those attitudes remain the same.

If you wanted good pets, then rolling any blaster was a mistake. By all means, drop a character if it's not fun. However, try to keep an open mind in the case that you discover some other part of the set that just makes you go "YEAH!". I've never had a character turn out exactly the way I had envisioned, but all of them have become fun.

Devices is powerful. If I believed half of the negative garbage I read on these forums, then I never would have even tried some of the awesome stuff I've accomplished. Yesterday I was easily soloing Rikti Heavy Assault Suits with my Energy/Devices Blaster.

Can other sets do it better? Sure! Did my "gimped" guy do it too? Yup. Didn't even break a sweat, either.

Originally Posted by Maelwys

You realise you can get not one, but THREE pets that do decent damage?
You just have to wait for level 47 for them.

Summon Spiderlings - Mace Mastery Patron Pool. For Bonus points, you get a S/L defence armor toggle as a prerequisite, which stacks nicely with Cloaking Device to let you toebomb stuff with "Tripmine".

(You can also go Mu Mastery to get a Mu Adept, but Spiderlings do a fair bit more damage)

Really though, it sounds like Devices might not be your cup of tea. Devices' damage is pretty much based on the Stealth/Smoke Grenade + Trip Mine tactic. It gets mitigation from Caltrops/Webnade plus +Perc and +ToHit from Targetting Drone.

Devices isn't a secondary that lends itself to prolonged damage output (or standard "steamrolling" team play, really). It is very, very solo friendly and can do some amazing amounts of spike damage... but it takes a considerable amount of time and preperation to set up all your mines to inflict that damage. If you're going to go for Devices and want to team a lot, I'd adivse you to pick a Primary that has a good amount of AoE and lends itself to that style of gameplay. Personally, I went with Ice/Devices. Frost Breath, Blizzard and Ice Storm see far more use than Trip Mine when teaming... but Ice/ also helps nicely when soloing. Combined with Caltrops/Webnade, foes are slooooooooow.