Ryokoryu

Originally Posted by Sir Hextor

Blasters' primaries should outperform in Ranged Damage all other ATs with exceptions being made for damage outliers (Debuffs, Criticals, Containment, etc.). AoE and ST should be significant and sustainable (recharge and END).

Their secondary should provide mitigation, nowhere near the level of Controller or Dominator primaries or even support sets, but enough that through adequately leveraging their secondaries, they can better perform their primary role of damaging things at range. Some of those secondaries should allow players to stay in melee range, with good melee attacks and melee based mitigation. Some should support a more ranged playstyle. All should be more or less balanced. This is the area I see needing the most dev attention with an eye to seriously bending the cottage rule to make the sets that are outliers in their performance perhaps toned down a little and the rest of the underperforming sets brought up more in line with the overachievers.

Of course, I'm pretty limited in my Blaster experience since they are such a pain to play (one 50 Blaster [DP/MM] and one stalled out in the mid 20s [Fire/Ice]) but the lack of mitigation makes me instead choose to play another Ranged AT, and that's with two of the arguably most mitigating secondaries offered. The secondaries need some real help. Perhaps the primaries could stand to have their numbers tuned up a little bit, but the secondaries are really sucking wind imo.

Also, all my opinions are based on play with SOs. IOs should turn the game up to 11 (like they do). Balance should be around SO numbers and play (one of the reasons I don't see anything wrong with Drain Psyche is because without +recharge you can't have it anywhere near perma or even 50% up time).

EDIT - Forgot to add one thing to Primary discussion. I really feel like Nukes ought to be crashless across the board, but especially so Blaster nukes. They really ought to be able to nuke and keep on kicking butt.