MaestroMavius

This has been brewing in me for sometime so in an effort to keep from ranting I intend to get right to the point.

The Blaster AT has not evolved fast enough to keep pace with the current game. I'm in no way saying the AT is flatout broken, rather that the main reason to play it has vanished.

This thread points out most of the issues but I wanted to create a thread specifically for discusing Blasters.

Blasters, by definition, are the Kings of damage, some might argue that they are Kings of ranged damage but thats rather beside the point.
Point is, as designed, Blasters are able to leverage superior damage while paying for that offensive ability by being as tough as wet paper.

This makes for an extremely enjoyable and rewarding AT.
For Blasters, Damage is our defense. I'm okay with not having mez protection or defenses because I can do what no other AT can do, melt mobs with a quickness.

Except... That's no longer the case.

Now, every single other AT, can pump out damage comparable to Blasters. While still being much safer in the process thanks to the various secondaries available. This is just with IO's. I'm not even going to bring up Incarnate powers here, as that too is beside the point.

What I want to discuss is the maingame. The SO and IO game. The 1-50 trek and how Blasters compare 2012 vs 2007.

I don't want to see Blasters get defense added.
I don't want to see Blasters get mez protection.
I don't want to see Blasters get some gimmicky new inherrent.

All I want is for Blasters to once again have the highest Damage Cap.
To balance out the powercreep that's taken hold of all other AT's.

So, am I way off base?
Do you feel the same, but want a different 'solution'?

Discuss!

Indeed. It's the funniest HORROR movie I've seen.

Wait...

There was a 3rd one?

When?

>.<

*Yes that's sarcasm.

Well now this is a pleasant surprise indeed!

Here is was, about to post in a thread asking about DxP just last night, that I didn't expect there to ever be another one. Now that we have the boosters and all.

Wow!! Not only that, but the boosters stack! >.<

Giggity, I have something like... 20 of em! I'll be able to use one every few hours.

LoTG+7.5 is also back on the market for 220 points, which has to be increasing it as well.

Glad I held off. I almost impulse bought a handful to make a quick 500 million or so.

Rick is 60, and retired for the last 15 years, so I highly doubt he'd care to go through the hoops for this.
Even if he had a great time back then, I just can't see him being physically up for it.

I thought, last I heard, that Murray had opted to appear in a few cameos as Venkman's ghost. That it would be his death that is the catalyst for the whole movie...
Also I heard rumors that Oscar would be taking up the mantle, seeing as Oscar would be in his 20's now.

It would be them passing the torch to a new, younger crowd. As it would have to be really, in the hopes of renewing the franchise for a new generation.

I'm on the fence however.

No clue when the next part will come out. Though I did notice a firey headed lass named Infernia hanging out in the Vanguard base telling me about SSA7 earlier tonight.

I just recently started my first DP. Finally found a concept that could work with the GunFu.

Question though, is Swap Ammo supposed to have an animation? Just curious if it's a bug or not.

Since we won't be getting a Bear pet on MM's I got to wondering if we would/could ever get one in the game.

Since Beast Mastery will be out, there would be little reason to create another animal themed MM set, however...

Controllers get a pet!!

I haven't tried to 'create' a fully fleshed out set, well, ever. So that's where you come in.

I'm picturing things like;

Flock of Birds - Summon a murder of crows to encircle your opponent, hindering their movement.

Swarm - Everyone loves throwing bees! This could be a slow or -reg, etc

Army Ants - could be a ST hold, with numerous ants encasing the foes legs.

Lion's Roar - AoE hold, male lion appears at your side and roars, causing terror and freezing foes in place.

Stampede - GangWar type power that summons numerous wolves that run through the group targetted and then vanish, causing confusion or damage or any number of statuses.

What else can we come up with?

Naturally, the pet would be a large Grizzly Bear!!

Bought a pack tonight, just for lulz.

I gotta say, it was fun, in a cerebal way.

I ended up buying 3 more packs after flipping my 1st 5, just to get a good swath of stuff. I was pleasantly surprised that all but one had at least one costume piece in them. All in all, I'm pleased with this.

While I'm against them including costume pieces, without an ingame method of unlocking, I understand why they made that choice. I wouldn't have bothered buying any if it wasn't for the exclusives. Business has to come first and all.

Well, if things keep going the way they are...

We could very well end up with This.

I'm still holding my breath, waiting to get excited, until I hear that the set won't be pre-tinted though...

As long as these aren't yet another limited time deal, I can see 'wasting' a buck here and there over the next few weeks trying to get the complete costume set. I most likely won't ever touch them after that though, unless I'm just really lucky.

While I'd love a Stay command that actually worked, or a 'use only melee/range' switch, I also understand why they will never give us that ability... so I'd have to go with;

Alternate Skins for pets.
While not full on customization, the options to pick from various organizations/gangs in the game would seriously open up the AT concept wise. This should also get around the increased server resources that is a stumbling block.

Tsoo Ninja MM's
BP Necro MM's
Malta Merc MM's

Honestly...

I have no clue. I used the strafe keys back when I started playing, before I realized I couldn't actually dodge anything. I don't think I've bothered touching them in the last 6 years though.

I'm so used to the setup we have that I can't play anything else without adjusting it first, so I feel your pain. In most other games Q and E strafe and I can't stand it, I have to have them for looking now.

I generally just hold down the rightclick and use the mouse to orient myself when travelling. Hopefully someone that uses strafe will come along shortly.

Knowing as we do, how much work is required for new MM primaries, I'd have to be strongly oppossed to this.

I'd much rather that time and money be spent finally getting us, if even limited, customization for pets. That way you could have a PPD themed Merc MM. Or a Longbow themed Thug MM, etc.

Even if true customizing is out of the question, ie getting to actually create the individual pets looks ourselves, I'd love to be able to pick between various skins for the pets like we can now with weapons.

Hmmm...

*lowers voice to whisper* This would be best placed in the Suggestions and Ideas section,

As for the suggestion itself. I kind of like it actually. Many a time I've wanted to take a specific patron pool on a hero, but haven't wanted to take them rogue to do so. This would give both sides the ability to have either without needing to sideswitch.

If you added it so that, the Hero epic equivalents for redside unlocked automatically at 35 and the Villian patron equivalents for Blue required running a few 'patron' missions then it would still be equal.

Also, you could call the Hero patron pools something like Sidekick knowledge. Being mentored by Positron has given you such and such yada yada yada.

This looks to be, without doubt, the most community inspired costume set in the games history. Talk about a Dev hitting the ground running, I just have one question/concern...


Will the items be Pre-Tinted? *Waits anxiously for answer*

Good gravy! I just wasted nearly an hour reading a discussion from 2 1/2 years ago...
This thing is skeletal, most necroposts don't bother me... when they are a month or so old, but yikes 2009? How'd you even find this thing?

Full Metal Jousting...

When I see the ads for this show, I can't help but think SmashTV and or RunningMan isn't far off.

Still unsure if thats a good thing or bad thing.


*On tonights RunningMan, we have the cast of Jersey Shore, will any of them survive?*

Okay, that would be a good thing.

I blame the Sun...

Totally blaming everything on the Sun this year.

It's time will come Soon™.

Nothing this cool can last forever.

Though Jr. may end up outliving father...