Miladys_Knight

Time Bomb gives you a clue as to when it's going to detonate. You can speed yourself up a bit by timing HoB to the BOOM. The KB from the Time Bomb will provide you with extra mitigatation and enough time to go over to your trip mine patch which can be an HOB's worth of Damage fewer in number.

Hmmmm /Dev blasters in the 38-49 level range?

Use em on a character that has the power Hot Feet.

With all the control from Earth/TA if there is an un-controlled and un-debuffed target you've done something wrong. My Earth/TA is recharge focused and hasn't got any defense slotted at all. I can kill a spawn in about 5 minutes (because most of the damage is stoney except when OSA is up) without taking any damage at all.

I would agree in most cases. If you soft cap S/L defense and play in close range it's not as important though.

Indeed. That's why I have a 30' x 40' garden planted and all nicely fenced in to keep the bunnies out. The seeds didn't cost any where near what an ounce of silver does.

They are differently named so the game sees them as different bonuses even though they are the same numerically.

An entirely false premise on your part, or acute myopia, or the inability to grasp simple concepts such as reading for comprehension. It is not the build that is bad. The build is almost identical to the build that I use for my Fire/Em/Ice a toon that is just as comfortable in melee as at range. There is not a single set mule in the build. In fact ALL powers that are selected are used at some point of time in a mission. AoE is used to clear minions, single target to clean up lieutenants, and stacked controls to handle bosses and doing those things can be accomplished just as easily at range as in melee.

The reason the toon was deleted is simple actually. The ridiculous gun-fu animations didn't fit the Wild West concept I had from the time that dual pistols was announced. Stacked upon this insult was the low level of performace provided by dual pistols (outside of Incendiary amunition), the exceedingly long recharge of the tier 9 (double all other comparable tier 9s and lacking the safety of being used at range), and the lack of Aim replaced by a "concept/linchpin power" that neither fit my concept nor was particulary good enough to call a linchpin since its secondary effects were purposely reduced, merely since you could switch between them.

Ah yes it is clear that you have the inability to grasp simple concepts such as reading for comprehension.

No boast was made at all. I said, " I was toying with leaving Swap Ammo out of the build since I would only be using standard Ammo to take advantage of multiple stuns." I said that not because I was boasting but because there are only 2 types of Ammo that it makes sense for a blaster to use. Standard for the mitigation provided by the KD and incendiary for the time when you have enough other mitigation providing powers or set bonuses that the KD becomes less crucial to your survivability. The secondary effects provided by cryo and toxic are fine for defenders but are entirely inadequate for a blaster. Archery is an almost entirely lethal damage set. It lacks Swap Ammo and doesn't need it. DP's damage is pre-nerfed just to FORCE you to take a "key" power to partially redeem the set's performance.

I'm not sure that you know how to be serious. If you have ever read my posts in this forum you'll know that I successfully play multiple blasters that have radically different play styles. As examples:

My Arch/Dev/Munitions is a recharge build that uses no defense at all.

My Energy/Energy/Force is a KB focused blapper that has an accidental 7%ish total defense. That toon relies almost entirely on KB and positional awareness for survival.

My Arch/Energy/Elec is soft capped to ranged and plays as a hover blaster.

My Rad/Fire/Mace is S/L soft capped and seeks melee range playing as a PBAoE damage machine.

My Fire/Energy/Ice is soft capped to S/L and plays at range or in melee. Where ever the next target happens to be.

My Sonic/Ice/Elec has no defenses of any kind and skipped the armor toggle. He relies on stacked sleeps, maximum -rech and -speed and stacking single target controls.

Clearly you have either failed to read the build or perhaps you only mistakenly think of blasters in terms of their primaries. The build is NOT a blapper it is designed to be an all around blaster, able to do damage at range or in melee. The important and relevant part of your post is highlighted above. DP is the worst blended (not to be confused with single target focused sets like Ice/, Elec/, and Psi/) blaster primary in the game. It has no true strengths and it has too many uncompensated weaknesses to be seriously considered as a jack of all trades.

There are multiple posts of people lamenting that their DP blaster "feels squishy" this is mainly due to these weaknesses and lack of counter balancing strengths.

Failing to take and use the melee attacks makes you only half a blaster and it is now clear to me what your mindset on playing blasters is and why you think that a build that is balanced around being equally useful at range or in melee is "bad".

Perhaps you should try taking and using the melee attacks from the blaster secondaries and find out what play experience you have been missing.

In any case the build is here for Jophiel to use, reference, and compare. Not for you.

The Oblit Proc doesn't really help the damage. That's why it's out of there since another 1.88 defense to S/L is pretty redundant. Sure it would help the melee defense rating but having Web Envelope makes that moot.

Conserve Power takes a power pick which I chose not to waste and it isn't up often enough on a High defense/Low recharge build. So you need the recovery. Even with Alpha Cardiac you can run low on end if you constantly attack (and what is the point of a Blaster if it isn't constant attack?)

The highlights of Energy Melee aren't needed with S/L defense. What is needed is all the single target melee attacks for Kinetic Combats. For example Boost range isn't needed since you have soft capped defense and Web Envelope and have no need to out range the mobs.

There are 10 slotted attacks (not counting Brawl and Boxing) and 2 pure control powers. HoB won't be up every spawn (or even every other) and the other 9 attacks will all see use especially while hasten is down since this is a low recharge build.

Jophiel can do with the build as she sees fit. It's what I had to hand so I put it up for her purely as a sample.

The one thing that you and I will agree on is that you should have quit before you embarrassed yourself.

You can also put a Lock Down Chance to hold proc in Choking Cloud. Jump in the middle of the spawn and Flash then Choking Cloud will keep most of the Riff Raff held.

The short answer is, No you probably won't be happy especially at high level when you run into lots and lots of stuff that has huge resistances to Psi damage like Robots and Carnies.

Psi/EM is much more suited to PvP than it is to PvE. If you insist on making a Psi/EM your best bet will be to soft cap ranged defense and get as much AoE defense as possible and then hover out of range.

You can also go the soft cap to S/L, go to the dark side for Mace Mastery and come back to the blue side with Scorpion Shield and Web Envelope, a long and arduous route to take for not much more advantage. I had thought to do this for a couple of my blasters but taking one over, doing the PPP mission and going back once was probably 1 time too many.

Edit - The lack of guides for Psi/ is a pretty good clue on the performance (or lack thereof of Psi/). The defender set is good but they gutted the Blaster primary when they released it so they could use the best powers in Mental Manip. This was at least in part of fear that Psi/ would be "too good" when paired with /EM for PvP. Then they ruined PvP with I13 and made that question moot.