Feather_Of_Sun

@Paragon: Cripes. This was sudden.

From a longtime player, thanks for an amazing game.

It sounded like you guys may all be out of a job now... If any of you would consider relocating to the east coast, it's worth checking for positions at the studio I work at. www.turbine.com


-A fellow MMO dev.

Basically, the defender archetype was rendered obsolete by Corruptor.

This thread summoned me!

I have to say, I can't play anything else since tweaking out my Fire/MM blaster. It's just too much fun.

The thread Shinobi linked has a screenshot from an older version of my build. The current one has higher defenses (softcapped to smash/lethal/energy/negative without Barrier), but I usually still use Barrier to get a safe amount of buffer defense, except when I know I'll be against really heavy mezzing mobs.

I've been able to solo every GM I've tried fighting with it, ran all the DA arcs solo on +4x8, and can down a pylon pretty quick.

My build currently has 75% global recharge. It's plenty for me. I could get quite a bit more for a loss of a little defense, but prefer the defense. Drain Psyche isn't perma, but it's only about five seconds away from it.
That could of course be fixed with Hasten. I don't take Hasten on my builds, because I can't stand the glowing hands. It's just personal preference. If they give us the ability to color it someday, then I'll start using it.

When you go all out for defense, Fire/MM is a real tankmage. It's the most fun melee character I've tried yet. My only gripe is that the lack of a taunt aura means that enemies will start running from you after they try to attack you and can't hit.

Keyes: All.

More importantly, they also now have My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic season one.

I don't think my blaster needs a buff.
But I'd certainly take one without complaint!

I won't argue that a blaster isn't tough to play.
It's true, because they have no baseline defensive abilities inherent to the AT, a low-end and leveling blaster can be extremely difficult to play compared to just about any other archetype.

My only point is that at the extreme highest end, a blaster can reach the same superfluous survivability that a Scrapper can, has very closely comparable damage, and has access to some other benefits that a scrapper can't get, such as the powerful regeneration debuff in Drain Psyche.

A well built /mental Blaster is very good at soloing a wide variety of giant monsters for this reason.

Personally, I made a Blaster because I wanted three things: 1: An offensive archetype. 2: Drain Psyche. 3: Rise of the Phoenix.

I just love Rise of the Phoenix for the convenience factor. Death does happen now and then. No matter how high your defense is, you've still got a 5% chance of being hit. I run a lot of trials, and thus encounter a lot of mechanics that to some extent will ignore, bypass, or kill you regardless of your defenses. Thus, a powerful self-rez on a short timer is fantastic for the convenience factor, and it strongly contributes to the fun of playing my blaster, Twilight Sparkle.

Here you go. As you can see, in combat with +4x8 Carnies, Barrier is at it's minimum (Which I assumed was 2.5, but it's actually 5%! Nice surprise there.), no inspirations or temporary buffs active.

47.78% Smashing
47.78% Lethal
50.60% Ranged
45.28% Energy
45.28% Negative Energy

And to answer the "post ur build nao!!!", I left my set bonus page open. I do not use Mids, nor do I ever intend to use a build planner.

Is there a way to get my UI to show in screenshots? When I try to take one, the resulting screenshot has no UI.
I have to get to work now, I'll check back here tonight so I can take an upload a screenshot if there's a way to do so.

Who do I love inviting to my team?

@Dread_Shinobi

He's not just a prolific poster on these forums.
If he's on a team, things get done efficiently and easily.

What they all said.

Well, I can't think of much else that's better to get.

Pyre Mastery is amazing.

You can't go wrong with picking up Ring of Fire, Fire Blast, and Fire Ball. That'll give you solid ranged attack ability.

Gauntlet:

What if Gauntlet gave the tanker a damage mod based on the number of enemies who are currently aggroed on them?

Kind of like a Tanker-version of Fury, but focused on rewarding tanking behavior.

This would really, really need a damage cap raise from 300% to 400% though, as it's way too easy to hit the cap as is...

I hate to be a downer, but I'm pretty sure any archetype can solo Giant Monsters with no temps if they're using Lore pets.

My Shield/SS tanker can tackle them with t4 Musculature and t3 Warworks lore pets. I've done Adamastor, Jurassik, and a random halloween spawn of Eochai all with no problems.

A warshade would have a much easier time of it, given that they should be putting out significantly more DPS than my tanker would.

I haven't given it a try on my peacebringer yet, who isn't fully incarnated. She has the defenses for it though, and the mats to craft a t3 warworks, so I'll pick a GM and give it a try tonight.

Wish I could make it, but Sundays are a work day for me.

...That said, I'll see if I can sneak on. Depends how busy I am.

I had a blast here tonight, and was honored to be a winner in the biography contest.

Thank you all for sucking me back into this game again after several years away.

Thanks, Amy!

Merit system, hands down. Best change to this game ever!