MrLiberty

Blasters pretty much always need to worry about defense, in the sense of outside of Archery/ ROA you are going to take some significant damage from larger groups without it unless you are A. Well buffed or B. Have someone taking aggro for your shennanigans.

However, with IO's you can build up your defense so you don't *need* other players to unleash all of your AoE's.

As a note, since I think the player said they were sort of new. Different builds take different levels to mature. While a Fire blaster has its best AoE's by level 8, an archery blaster needs to wait until level 32.

As for cool downs, that is again a matter of slotting. Early on, you aren't likely to be able to run a fluid AoE chain until you can slot all your powers up. (As well get your end use under control)

What people suggested already (Combinations of Fire/ Rad/ Archery/ /Mental and /Fire) are pretty much the way to go for "Pure AoE"

I've never really tried with an elec tank, I doubt you'll be able to hit the hard cap but you can definitely build for a signifcant chunk of +HP. Most PvP Controllers/Defenders get around +37% HP from IO's and another 20% from accolades.

You can always "Build" for HP, it just becomes a matter of what you need to sarifice to get it.

You are better off getting to 50 and slotting level 33 IO's.

Sirens Call is level 30 cap, but the way exemps work now is you keep +5 levels worth of powers. Additionally, power slots don't follow the exemplar system. Easy way to test this is exemp down to level 1 with a 6 slotted power and if you have an IO set in it, you'll still see it enhanced for everything you enhanced it for, though the %'s will be smaller.

Finally, if you are a villain, the patron/epic pools now unlock at 35 and you can pick the tier 1 or 2 power I believe.

Freedom is pretty much the only server with active PvP though most of it seems to take place in RV, couldn't tell you for sure how much is in SC.

Its not all that great, AMD X3 2.8ghz, 4 gigs ddr 3, nvidia 250 gts card.

I'm a big fan of making self rez'es useful when you aren't dead and having them act as a mini "overdrive" type power.

Like if Rise of The Phoenix could be used while alive, it'd give you the damage blast, stun, and maybe toss in a 30 - 40% damage boost to fit in with the theme of fire. (If used while alive)

Soul Transfer used while alive could be a + Max HP +Max end from sucking up those souls, in addition to the massive stun and minor damage.

For regen, especially if it was ported to tanks, revive could give you a +resist to all (but psi probably, or at least just S/L) for every foe in range.

Slap it on a 300/60 or 300/45 timer and you make self rez powers awesome.

Aside from that, I think the best bet for making Regen into a tank set would be a Rise to the Challenge clone somewhere in there, where instead of regen, you got scaling resists.

The heal speed against those spikes comming in was pretty amazing and watching the movement of our doms was definitely fun.

Yeah forgot to post in here, sold and all that good stuff. :P

Thanks for the replies!

I enjoyed seeing something other than a straight jump lineup to go against last night. However, the way it was played made me (and I'm sure others) think it was just there to stall and keep kills down, rather than actually try to win. The comments about WARE putting up less kills against FAP than any other team sort of cemented that idea for us, that, that was the only goal of bringing it. (That and the stalker being out of hide for probably 8 minutes of the match and landing one AS on me then no longer really trying after that.)

The biggest thing that got me was, if you were going to try and turtle? Why not use one of the rooms that tech lab offers. There are at least 2 or 3 spots in the room with the small set of stairs, and as far as Atlas went? If you guys would have taken the globe we'd have had a match on our hands, at least having to really work for that first kill.

At any rate, I tend to believe what Smoke said about the intentions of last night, so on that note good matches, they were fun to see something different even if they weren't executed all that well. (Honestly not intended as a slight, I'm from dUmb, we tossed stuff together all the time for match night and saw how it worked. Poorly usually.)

This thread drifted off the first page, we need to get people excited for tonight's matches. WOooooo!

GL HF

Wow. In the time I took to post that, two other people chimed in to pretty much say the same thing?

Honestly, I'm not sure. The friend who told me sold a few of his for 2 billion a pop and that was their offer not his price. Because the Rikti Mentalist is available in the store now for 6$ worth of points I'm going to say I'd start a good bit lower than that.

From what I've seen in game, 6 or 7 dollars usually nets you a billion influence if you do something you aren't supposed too, so we'll round down and say 800 million to start on the rikti mentalist.

The KOA I'm going to start at 1.5 billion.

Since there are a few interested, I'm going to end this Saturday afternoon/evening.

I tried it with another team in the last league and it just didn't work against the other competitive team there running a standard jump lineup. (the Earth/Fire lineup) So its far from the "I win" lineup that it may come off as in this league. It has a lot of potential if your team can keep the pace going, but it also has much more of a chance of the target getting away with 25-50% HP with very little follow up to finish them off. Where as Psi/Em's have a lower ceiling because of the slow nature of the spikes, but they are also much more forgiving with 4 attacks with range up near 150, and delayed damage to create a mini spike with the attacks.

Tossing in a well timed mez will make sure that if the target doesn't die to the initial damage portion, you can catch them limping away as the Psi/EM's continue to blast away with their long range attacks.

While the easy answer is "Just go with Psi/Em" I feel like if a new team coming into things had to actually learn to close for a 50 foot blaze on the target (On say, Eden) , they'd be much better playing a blaster if they needed too. Success however, may come much slower if you go this route.

So basically I've won these in some PvP tourney's over the years and never did anything with them. A friend pointed out they could be sold, so here we go.

Currently I have a Knives of Artemis Code and a Rikti Mentalist (which I think goes for 480 points on the Paragon Market ATM).

Hit me with a PM if you'd be interested in trading some influence for them.