Panzerwaffen

Well, shoot... I've been doing it wrong all this time now. Dang.

I'm sure this has already been said, but City of Heroes is not WoW. Trying to fit the various CoH AT's into preconceived niches will only hinder your enjoyment of the game.

You've started off with a fundamental misconception, that Blasters are the game's ranged damage class. I suggest you re-read the Blaster description:

The Blaster is an offensive juggernaut. This hero can deal a ton of damage from either a distance or up-close, but he must be careful because he's somewhat fragile compared to other heroes. The Blaster can't stand toe to toe with most opponents for long. His best defense is a great offense!

A Blaster's role is damage, plain and simple. Ranged or melee. AOE or single-target. They can be built for multiple roles depending on powersets, powers and slotting.

I thought there was information that the proc had changed yet again, and that the suppression was no longer the issue it used to be. Anyone know for sure how the suppression functions now?

Sorry, but you are wrong when it comes to targeted powers like the OP mentioned. Procs in attack powers make a check against every opponent in range. This is obvious if you ever use a damage proc in an AOE power. Sometimes one enemy will get hit with the extra damage, sometimes several will be, as the proc chance is calculated for each enemy. This is one reason the Theft of Essence +end proc is so valuable for Dark Armor's heal. When surrounded by enemies, using Dark Regen can provide endurance from multiple enemies in range of the heal.

Bottom line: The Force Feedback proc checks against every enemy in range of the AOE up to the target cap for whatever attack it is slotted in.

You're absolutely right. Defiance is all the status protection a blaster needs solo on basic difficulty. I ran repeated AE arcs against downgraded Malta Gunslingers using my Fire/EM blaster, and used no tactics whatsoever, and never even came close to being defeated. I charged up to every group and just spammed attacks. It required zero thought. Just Blaze, Flares, Fire Blast, repeat.

You're right.. Unlike Diet Coke, Coke Zero actually tastes good.

Yep. And I don't run on base difficulty either. Nor did I come here and post a thread asking for inherent status effect protection.

75% or 100% sounds impressive, except for the fact that on base difficulty you'd be talking about 2 or 3 enemies, none of which would be higher than a LT. That doesn't equal "too many mezzers to deal with", in my book.

Whoops. Did I do that? *whistles innocently*

I don't even know how to respond to this. Apparently much of this must simply come down to a matter of perception. All I can say is that in over 18 months of playing, with my original & namesake toon being a blaster, I have NEVER ONCE encountered a status effect situation solo on base difficulty that cannot be overcome without resorting to excessive inspiration usage.

OK, you're the one making the claim. Give me one specific example of a spawn that has "too many mezzers to deal with".

Because anyone claiming that part of the game (status effects) is too hard to deal with, while simultaneously wishing to run on increased difficulty settings is being hypocritical. More to the point, several people in this thread advocating status protection for squishies have claimed or implied that it was difficult to impossible to solo even on Heroic (or 0/x1/no bosses under the new system).

Clockwork have sleep effects, Vahz have immobs & stuns, CoT have all of the above plus holds. And the primary reason most of those are fairly trivial on those speed runs that we both have done plenty of times, is due to running on base difficulty. Which applies equally to the rest of the game. On base difficulty, opponents with status effects are trivially easy to deal with in 95% of situations.

That was a cheap shot. It also seems to confirm my thought that you jumped into this thread without reading through it.

Yeah, I unsubscribed to this thread a while ago, and I have to say after popping back in here, it sure took a turn for the worse.

ETA: I went ahead and reported the thread for review.

No, it's actually not. What Futurias portrays is pure exaggeration. I know you know better than that. I'm actually quite surprised you are taking the positions you are in this thread.

Any debate in this thread must be based around what a solo player would encounter on base difficulty settings. Neither you nor I play on those settings much, if at all, and I think much of your position is based on your tendency to run at higher difficulty.

I'd say the mere fact that you are proud of your blaster that can speed run Positron TF's solo while also claiming that squishies have difficulty dealing with status effects, pretty much invalidates your whole position. Not to mention coming across as a bit hypocritical.

Lying may be a strong term for it, but at the very least you are guilty of blatant exaggeration and hyperbole.

Funny how none of those claims apply to me, yet I have still managed to put together 2 level 50's with nice purpled IO builds. Sorry, but when your one post is filled with such obvious exaggeration and hyperbole, your following claim that you play the "same level fifty character every day" "for...hours" yet can't obtain purples, rings very hollow.

Yep.

Well, except for regen...

They already can.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Aegis:...tus_Resistance

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Imperv...tus_Resistance

FYI, the Steadfast works whether the power it is slotted in is active or not. It also continues to work even when exemped to a level where the power it is slotted in is no longer available, as long as you are not more than 3 levels below the level of the IO.

Considering there are no spawns consisting of only +3 bosses, I consider this an irrelevant point.

A point, like many others in this thread, that some here cannot grasp. My fire/rad controller and AR blaster are immensely faster at defeating large enemy groups than any of my scrappers, whether solo or teamed.

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