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I would have thought lighting clap, well slotted, would have the advantage of being able to keep multiple enemies that would normally run away inside your ice strom and blizzard.

You don't need Ice bolt later, but it helps earliar on.

Frost breath hasit's uses and does make a reasonable combo with ice stormif both are slotted approriately, but that's only any help if you have other AoE powers to back you up if things get hairy, which I assume with an */elec that would be lightning clap and thunder strike. Personally I'd stick to single target. You do need both aim and build up for PvP as it does allow you to do more burst damage which is your key way of surviving. I wouldn't pass judgement on takin blizzard yet though.

It's porbably easiar if you could stirke up a build firt dude that suits your play style and then the masses can comment from there

From that infomation, the only power pool I would change would be the entire leaping pool for hover and flight. Not only does it give you an extra power slot, but it can keep you out of the fight for definite when you want to be and hover provides adequate knockback mitigation, as it stops the full effect. SLot them for flight speed and in hover you'll have good manouverability and in flight great air speed to hunt down those run-aways and root them still with your holds (of which you can muster up to 4 if you so disrie, although personally I wouldn't take BFR, particulary in the hard and fast action that is PvP).

General Icey stuff. You're going to want your single target moves and slotted fast. 2 accs are essential. If you're going pure PVP, with invis, they end up being fillers as the damage isn't as potent as the mellee attacks and you NEED damage as a PvP blaster, as well as control. Plus the mellee attacks are your toggle droppers of course. Mine are slotted 2 acc, 2 dam, 2 endredux purely because otherwise I have end problems when I fire off me melee powers and I need recharges in those to recharge quickly. With out power thrust to fill You;'ll have to rely on BiB and IB really, I thnk, but I'm no expert on elec. I'm no expert on Ice/NRG actgually, but I know a bit And the above is what works for me, although I did have recharge in place of the end reducers so I could shoot from afar as the end problems were bigger iv PvE but you can still run out of end in PvP so I would still recommend them, especially if this is for zones. If it's for the arena then take recharges.

DOes that make any sense? You may have to read it slowly!

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I recently removed my lvl50 blaster Knight Eye (as was suggested), not being my most played toon anymore.

I have a new blapper called Attarius (lvl32 Archer/nrg), and really want to come back on board, missing you all lots

Fingers crossed

Thanks

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Hey dude, totally understandable.

WE'ed love to have you back, so tell me @Frozen Rogue and I'll get you sorted ASAP. The 50s SG is for all the 1AT coalition 50s, but predominantly the Rangers as we have the most

It was better to do it that way due to coalition space issues.

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And rogue also smells, he forgot to add that

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Of coffee curently

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I recently removed my lvl50 blaster Knight Eye (as was suggested), not being my most played toon anymore.

I have a new blapper called Attarius (lvl32 Archer/nrg), and really want to come back on board, missing you all lots

Fingers crossed

Thanks

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Hey dude, totally understandable.

WE'ed love to have you back, so tell me @Frozen Rogue and I'll get you sorted ASAP. The 50s SG is for all the 1AT coalition 50s, but predominantly the Rangers as we have the most

It was better to do it that way due to coalition space issues.

Well done dude.We're backing you all the way. If there's anything any of us can do, then you know we'll do it. I'm so happy for you mate. Keep fighting. Keep us posted. Please!

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There i believe is the key. As KS and yourself have said, it does have the potential to work. Like alot of team combinations. But the thing is, PvP should be about fun first, winning second, in my honest and humble view. If union is going to come up with an out-of-the-box concept it should optimise fun AND strategy. Again just IMHO

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doesn't change the fact that blaze does more damage then bitter ice blast. Give me a sniper attack instead of bitter freeze ray or ice storm and i'll be happy.

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No but damage isn't everything. You have to get sutpidly close to use blaze. STUPIDLY close. Now that's ok for a good blapper build but not for a normal build; if you are a pure blaster you need to keep your distance. BiB is much better as not only can you chain it but you can chain it with your ranged attacks as well. One range enhancement would bring the range to the same as your other attacks, but that isn'ttoo nessacary. It's a kick [censored] chainer without it.

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blaze does more damage then bitter ice blast.

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But Power burst, shout, and all other point blanks, don't. But BIB has tripple the range of blaze.

I'd like a single target attack better than blizzard to, but a snipe would be useful to neutralise a single foe out of the game from the start. or to do a long range pull. I'd rather drop ice storm for that though.

Blizzard IS great with other powers, and EMP for the elec epic is a perfect pertner for it, but earliar on, I don't really want to rely on team composition to make use of my 'nue'. It is great with a controller but sometimes, one doesn't feel like social interaction or can't find someone at the right kind of level who you can trust to be useful. You don't have this prob in the evening, but during the day it can be a right [censored]. It better not censor that word...

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give me a snipe in ice blast instead of blizzard and im happy or a snipe instead of snow storm or bitter freeze ray.

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A snipe would make us just plain uber. Bitter ice blast, with damage half way between a snipe and a point blank blast, but with three times the range of a point blank blast, it's meant to be the blancing factor. And it's awesome. Bitter ice blast makes a decent enough aslternative to a snipe when slotted for range acc and hold duartion; it stills can take someone out of the fight. Ice storm is a good slow and is useable (will be awesome for ice/energy with powerboost come i7) but the fear effect and lack of decent AoEs, makes the aggro it causes not as woth it as it might be.

I love the rad/rad combo, but I was wondering if there were any overlooked, potent offender combinations out there. I thought of rad/elec, but I don't know if that's so powerful with lack of endurance drain. It seems to have more damage, and volatic sentinel seems useable on an offender. Also short circuit maybe pretty potent if fired before EMP. Am I right in thinking ball lightning has a far superioir animation time to neutron bomb? Anyone know if this could work? If you want to just persuade me back to rad/rad, that's fine to

To keep with the set, I'd much prefer it if Ice blast didn't have a nuke. Instead of blizzard I'd happily have an incredibly high damage sinlge target attack instead. Give it a long recharge, whateve (just don't make it take my end!) but I'd much rather have a power I could use to take one badass out of the fight for sure with no buffs rather than a DoT Location AoE that makes people run away and empty clips/lungs/sacks of gun powder into you.

Yeah so anyway...

I'll be signing up to. Frozen Rogue, ice/energy blaster. @Frozen Rogue. Hopefully I'll actually be able to make the trial night this time.

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Silver Weasel would be always glad to help

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Hey it was 9.30 in the morning, at I'm still at the age where the only part of my ind that fuctions at that time is my love for CoH. The rest of it wakes up at just gone 12.15

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hi i have finally decided to get round to respecing my lvl 30 eng/eng blaster after ED. i was just wondering if anyone has some bits of advice on how to slot him after Now hasten and stamina arnt 6 slotable

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I can't personally help, but if I were you, I'd PM Amazing Shnyet or Dicko King (in a few weeks when he is back) for useful ranged en/en advice. If you're a blapper then Give Doulos a bell. But beware, he only has 2 ranged attacks. Oh and I'm sure SIvler Weasel knows his stuff to, but he aoin't no ranger so I don't know how he'd feel about me recommending him! And while your at it Synthastetix (sp? you will have seen him around surely) is usually full of blaster know-how and has a PvP en/en blapper. Hope they can help

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I just stand there. Seriously. Healing's a [censored] with fist aid

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That sound like no heal to me!!!

And Doulos will always be the faceplanter. It's like his trademark. People know beet for cabbages, Chive's for blinding arrogance and Doulos for face planting!

Had good fun last night having my anchor killed but it was good fun and picked up 3 levels, 2 of which were on Frostfire. We had a vareity of builds from time to time, but it was still good fun having a rubbish single taget heal stops me being a h34l0r. It's far better as stun protection. Picked up Tp friend for convinience, as I'm mant to be a debuffer rather than a buffer (as D stated) so steamy mist won't be taken, atleast not yet. Hoping to get freezing rain at 8 and then the fun can begin!

Never give up. Blaster's are so rewarding as they are so hard to master.

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8 elec/eng blasters

Because you can end drain everything (8 power boosted short-circuit), kill every spawn in 1 sec without risk (8 ball lightnings), hold everything (8 power boosted tesla cage), 8 ranged nukes, 8 total focus...

and 8 voltaic sentinels! What's cooler than that, honestly?

No need for any defense when you kill any spawn in 2 sec. This team would give a meaning to the whole "range is defense" garbage devs have been telling blasters.

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8 Ice/Energy blasters.

Fire off power boost and aim, fire bitter freeze ray. Fire freezeray. All use different targets, whole mob is held. Then you all set off icestorm. Would be even more amazing come i7! They make great single target blappers to and the pure damage would be insane. I'd take this anyday. Especially with Issue 7.

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Bah, I've been outgeeked. However, that was an upgrade, it didn't come as standard, correct?

And Accel, top post mate.

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Correct, but I fail to see how that matters. The armour would become the chaplains own equipment and all that he would wear. If he was transported wearing it then there is no reason for him not to have it

Any chance of us having a dreadnaught

And I agree Accel; we can all be a bit loutish (in this case it was me) and stuff sometimes so I'm glad you found the courage to say that. Good on you matey!

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We should all invade GG one night... that could be hilarious!

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LMAO! I'm SO up for that!

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We used to do it with the fruit bowl...they weren't impressed.

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Sorry to be a killjoy... not sure whether this would be a good idea. People did get rather annoyed with the fruit bowl with the whole boombox thing, and I'm not sure how they would react to a load of space marines turning up... anyway, if you are going to do it, do it properly. I'll find some rules of conduct that've been laid down there if you like.

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But we'ed be RPing. We would do it properly. It would just be interesting. We'ed as them first of course. Unless that takes the fun out of it

Oh and here are some pics of the devastor dude anyway just in case

For the Emperor!

Standing still baby...

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Fire/en makes a good multi melter type thing I think.

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I think we should steer clear of using powers and pretending they're weapons, I think there's enough options with the AR really - want to be a flamer? then max out flame thrower

Just for info, and to try and give my previous idea more merit, the saving throw on a Terminator (currently tank) is 2+, that of an Interrigator Chaplain (going on the Dark Angels codex) is +3, so they are squishier in combat, however they have a higher damage output - so I still say a blaster fits the bill, or perhaps a scrapper.

Who says I'm taking this too seriously?!

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Ok, fair. I just wanted to be a devastor! I'm happy to have a gun and get creative with that and make it into a heavy weapon somehow if I may. That is if my librarian is cast aside!

The thing is though, I only suggested it as a means of not sticking TOO closely to it so that we can be unique, as it were. All chapters had their quirks after all. AIf ours are due to our medium then so be it. But it was just a suggestion and I totally accpet Tufty's point to. I was just trying to be creative!

A Chaplian in arteficia armour (check out my geekyness) which was presented to the most prized warriors and offered a 2+ saving throw would be my look on that

More thoughts which appeared whilst walking dog:

1. Veterans had white helmets. Terminators were veteran marines. WHat do you reckon?

2. Devastors could have the steampunk robo arm. You have to max out the top half of an athletic fram as you don't get armour but it looked good. I'll post some examples in a bit. Fire/en makes a good multi melter type thing I think. SLot blazing bolt and boost range for recharges and It could be very characterful. COuld have rain fo fire as a sort of special shot.

3. Assault rifles remind me of combi weapons. WOuld that open up any options

And that's about it. Going to try out some toons now and post you some examples.

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We should all invade GG one night... that could be hilarious!

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LMAO! I'm SO up for that!

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We used to do it with the fruit bowl...they weren't impressed.

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Ah but we'ed be RPing. They'ed have to let us in

FINALLY caught up. I have many many thoughts to share.

1. I love the idea alot and can't wait to roll my dude.

2. To give Libraians an edge in close combat, how about the odd melee orientated one with sonic/en as the build. En giving the feel of power weapons, sonic of the psychic powers?

3. As for chaplains, I personally see them as a mace/invul tank (not nessacarily in terminator armour) as they're meant to be tough as nails anyway. I feel they should be power pool heavy, with leadership and presence being good representations, particuly the fear powers. Like everything else here, it's just a thought.

4. Apothcary colours, like those of any other marine depended on the chapter, but always had white somewhere. As for their powersets, I'd personally like to see AR/en with the medcine pool. I converted mine (in the old days) to have a power fist as well as his redcuter (gene seed sucker) as I thought it would help him fight his way to his men. In that resepct, could he have a robotic tech arm and a few of the en mellee attakcs.

5. Standard bearer... hmmm the only way I can think of doing this is with really showy toggles. More of like a mascot, but has been blessed by the emperor to inspire us. Some sort of tank would be cool for this I feel.

6. Tech marines in CoH... They has servo arms (which were optionl) and usually power axes. Axe tankers again, but slim build. Maybe with a scranker style build?

7. We need more standard marines don't we...

8. I WANT a devastator. I think with a fancy robo arm and a cool looking blaster set, they could be awesome as the Chapters heavy weapon marines. Energy secondary so they stay at the back and buff themselves to shoot. That would be damn cool.

9. Loved the shoulder pads that Tristar posted. I'd back them in coming in!

10. I did have something else but I've forgotten it. I can't wait to get in the fray and lend my support to the brothers. I'm so going to RP with this guy. We should all invade GG one night... that could be hilarious!

Woo!

More please dude.

I think I see where this might be going, but maybe I'm just playing on the obvious!

Too right, the chat log was PERFECT. More please!