FieroFuego

RSR, thanks again for the kewl guide. I had fallen behind some of the people I used to run with in Supergroup because of a severe case of "alt-itis". My fire/fire blaster has jumped up in levels really quick because of your advice about laying waste to huge groups of even cons. I have taken members of my SG on killing sprees and they have all benefitted from the power leveling strategies that you have given. As you say though....power leveling can get a bit tedious so I'm probably going to go back to missions once I get "caught up".

Now about the PVP business.

I know for a fact that my devastating AoE monster is going to suck at PVP. Why...because players aren't going to let me run up to firebreath distance (while powering up aim+buildup) and follow it up with a fireball. Do I care? Nah...not really.

I'd actually like to see all this PVP spam move to another thread and keep this one with it's original intent and that is power leveling.

So to try and help with that...here is some advice of my own. When you are in your low to mid twenties...it's all about Talos and DA...the exp flows there like a river of pure goodness.

PT4me,

Unfortunately twitch skills are of no use here. I sure tried when I started. Shoot then run around a wall. But I'm sure you have seen it...the game determines whether it hits or not and then the projectile will turn a corner or go through a wall to get to you.

You want to turn sprint off during battles as a blaster. It just prevents you from regening as quickly as you could with it off.

I believe you are getting your defense in this build with stealth. I've also heard hasten has a def bonus too, and you can slot def buf's in it, though most people 6 slot it with recharge to get permahasten.

I feel for ya Ren. My highest alt is a scrapper. And I know the feeling Scrappers have. Hopefully the new crit percentage they are adding in will keep the scraps happy. I kind of doubt it because there main thing is survivability not so much damage output. I would just suggest not getting all worked up about blasters being too powerful and wanting to nerf them....I would be more inclined to keep giving feedback to the devs on how to make scrappers better. There are a couple of good threads in the scrapper forum with suggestions on how to help them out. If all else fails....make a blaster alt...and you can get some good general advice from this thread....and a ton of different builds to choose from in the blaster forum.

Thanks for taking some of your time to write this guide RSRobinson! Great post.

I am 1/2 roleplayer and 1/2 power gamer and what this guide does for me is helps me make sure the power gamer side of me stays happy. I took hover/flying to satisfy the RP side but I'm not going to argue the fact because the reason I took it was not to power level.

I'd also like to recommend to our other blaster brethren who have not taken one of the ideal paths to blaster pwnage to not worry about it. RSR is not saying that you are lame or that you have no place defending Paragon City...he is just showing the optimized way to create/play your blaster regardless of anything outside of pure exp gains. So keep playing your Elec/Elec blaster (I have one....and I like him because he looks kewl and has kewl looking powers) and don't worry about it. If you are kinda burnt that your blaster is not included in the "top performers" category...just make one to his specs and see if he is wrong. Something tells me he is not though.

Thanks again for the thread RSR!

Hey Curveball,

I remember reading this thread on the beta boards (and also turning it into a text file before the wipe, printing it off and poring over it for hours).

Huge Mega Super Thanks for putting this guide together. I have really benefitted from your work in game. The ability to call your powers using keys that you map near your home keys is SO much better than trying to hit keys 7-0.

If you ever decide to make any characters on Victory, let me know. I have 1000 influence with your name on it.