Shred_Monkey

There are 2 types of toons in this game. Ones that can start a fight, and onces that have to wait for someone else to start the fight. Know which one of those you are, and you'll be fine. And for the record, any toon can be built to be able to start a fight... doesn't matter what AT or powerset they are.

This is what I was thinking. MM might be what you're looking for since it's still traps but very different from a traps/blast combo.

I gotcha. I was reading the OP and subsequent posts as if they were refering to something that came in I19 that I had missed. I do think Dom's are and have been under-appreciated by most forum readers and even more so by the players in general. I've looked at them a lot but never played one up. Its definatly on my short list of future projects though.

I guess I'm still confused. Wasn't the change to dominators you're talking about something like 18 months ago? Or is there something more recent?

That video isn't too impressive. ice/ice is pretty good for survivability of a blaster... not so great at damage (relatively speaking... it's a blaster so it's good, but you can do better).

As mentioned by several of the above posts... fire blast as a primary is the best blaster damage set for both ST and AoE. For a secondary you can pick any number of options.

However, there are some other pretty popular high damage options you could also pick outside of the blaster set. Fire/shield scrappers can kill everything you saw in that video faster then the blaster, but you could put them all in the same room and fight them simultaneously. SS/Fire brutes are pretty popular also. If you like hitting really hard with 1 single hit, broadsword scrappers might be what you're looking for... or any stalker, though with those options you may not be doing more damage per second... just bigger hits.

For someone who isn't real familiar with the game, i'd recommend a brute or a scrapper. Blasters may feel too fragile and you might get frustrated around level 12-15 when you start to struggle to survive against some LTs and Bosses (most everyone struggles at that point, but blasters more then others IMHO).

<not directed at the poster I'm quoting... just adding to the discussion>

Sure there's no gypses in the US... but there are readers of the boards from outside the US. Learning about those other cultures and showing them respect is how we, ourselves, grow and expand into more then we are. To throw away that opportunity to become a develop more broad view of the world is a mistake. To opendly defend the side of the person who causes offense by saying "its the victom's fault" is borish and obtuse. One might think "it doesn't matter. It doesn't hurt me or come back to haunt me." But what he is failing to realize is that, the self-important attitude displayed by that behavior is becoming viewed world-wide as very stereotypically American. We've all already been negatively affected by that global attitude toward the US. And it has gotten considerably worse in the last decade. Little comments may not seem to matter... but the type of problem we have as a country will only get fixed one relationship at a time.

I'm not worried about Bunny getting it. He thinks he gets it. He actually probably does, but can't figure out how to say it correctly, and ended up arguing sementics for the better part of a week.

But what worries me is that other people who want to know how this stuff works might log into the forum, see a thread with this title, and then get all the wrong information. I'd like to think I was one of those people one day, and when I turned to the forum to discover how the game mechanics worked, I found good data. I learned a ton from this forum and others. This is why it's important we make Bunny look like the fool he is. It's for the integrity of the forum. For what it's worth, I think we did our job here.

Dominator came to my mind also when reading the OP, also.