MaestroMavius

Doubling up on Nukes is all it takes? Really? Think about that for a moment, your suggesting that in order for Blasters to be able to contribute like we used to, we have to go thr.... yeah, nevermind.

It's not that we don't feel like we're contributing to the team, it's that we can remember, not to long ago, when we contributed a lot more than we do now.

We (Blasters) can remember the days when the sacrifice we made by being weaker than wet tissue paper was made up for by the fact that no other AT could dream of out damaging us.

We (Blasters) can remember the days when the sacrifice we choose to make, going 1-50 without mez protection, was worth it because we could do what no other AT could do, melt mobs with a quickness.

Sure, we (Blasters) still bring a good chunk of damage with us to the party, we can even double up on Nukes now! But that still doesn't change the fact that every other AT can do the same, with the same amount of defense they had before. What good is having 2 nukes available on my Blasters when the Stalker next to me wipes the spawn with Judgement, while I'm judging how bad the alpha will be?

/Facepalm...

IO's and I-Powers allow:
Tanks to become High Defense/High Damage
Scrappers to become High Damage/High Defense
Brutes to become High Damage/High Defense
Blaster to become High Damage/Medium Defense


So sure, we can now increase our meager defense up to a decent level, but that still doesn't change the fact that in the end, the core 'feature' of my AT of choice, the fact that I'm a glass cannon, means that when everyone else can become a Steel Cannon I'm left with having to settle for Brass status... That's the issue, Blasters are no longer kings of the hill when it comes to damage. That isn't a problem, I like all AT's having damage. The problem is Blasters haven't been compensated for the lack of defense like the other AT's have in the damage/recharge areas.

If you take away our crown, then you also have to take away the penalty we had to endure to wear it.

I'm a bit confused as to why this is so hard to understand.

Not anywhere near the same levels as 2 years ago though. Back in
'tha day' Blasters shined at one thing and one thing only, making things drop quick.

Then power creep started coming into play with IO's levelling the playing field. Eventually culminating with I-Powers making Blasters, as designed, obsolete.

Why invite a Blaster when a scrapper does the same amount of damage and can actually live long enough to dish it out?

Why invite a Blaster when a defender can dish out the same amount of damage, and provide team support?

Why invite a Blaster when a Brute can dish out the same amount of damage, can live long enough to dish out non-stop and can tank for the team?

Blasters haven't evolved to keep pace with the current game. The old excuse of us being so weak because we're the damage kings no longer hold true. Yet nothing has been done to re-balance this.

IO's and I-powers let the AT's flesh out all aspects of their builds. For most AT's this means they can ramp up the damage and recharge while also gaining impressive defenses. Blasters are far more limited in what we can build for. When you give the same amount of damage to every other AT...

The simple fact that Blasters don't even have the highest damage cap in game anymore inidicates the entire AT needs to be looked at, not just the nukes and snipes.

Either give Blasters back the damage king crown
or
Give Blasters better #'s on the mitigation tools.

Nah you know what, just give Blasters back their damage crown.

For water?

Personally I'm not oppossed to vehicles in game. I own the Rocket Board and the Carpet even though I don't use them past level 8 much unless concept calls for it.

The fact is though, that those 'vehicles' being air based makes them much easier to institue in game and less of a clutter in the zones.
Having a land based vehicle, even if it can hop and pivot, would still be a 'concept only' type power that in the end would be maligned due to it's de toggling everything and being so difficult to navigate with.

The flip side of that is they make such a wonderful new vehicle that everyone and their sister rushes out a buys it. Can you imagine the traffic jam when everyone pulls into Mrs Liberty after a sewer run eager to show off their customized ride?

While they may be thematically correct for the genre, I still don't think land based vehicles fit into this game world. Not without a major overhaul first.

Just my opinion, and I've had that opinion changed over the years by the Dev's... *Shrug*

Indeed. Most desired secondary ever. Been requested once a month for the last, oh, 6 years or so.