TwoHeadedBoy

If it was permanent out of the box, I'd agree with you. The fact is that without IO's it's really not that great of a power. It has a very small radius, a tohit check, a short duration and a long recharge. As a personal survivability tool it's useless without other forms of mitigation layered with it. I would say that something like Soul Drain is actually much more powerful out of the box.
Rage is definitely more powerful out of the box. So is just about every Warshade power. Calling for nerfs because something shines on a very high budget isn't something that makes sense to me. Anyone that's able to use it in such an overpowered sort of way put a lot of effort into their build to get it that way and I don't think they deserve to be punished. If that was the case, Sleet should be nerfed because it can be stacked, Heat Loss should be nerfed because it can be made perma, not to mention Phantom Army.


Says the guy who was whining over me using Ninja Run. Oh noez Ninja Run is so OP. I see you've run out of crappy reasons for trolling my thread so now you're just posting broad generalizations that I don't even give the slightest **** about.

It's not just a personal claim though. I don't and can't do anything that anyone else couldn't do if they wanted to- Anyone can make a Blaster exactly like mine. It's not exploitative, I'm not using any secret tricks or doing anything that I haven't shared with the community, and I don't have any information that isn't available to everyone else.

I figured my response should have been as relevant and conclusive as the statement I was addressing was.

lol veat's.

I'm not sure what's more amusing and easily discarded to me, Villain Epic AT's or this assessment. I'd be happy to have several GM killing races with your Hunstman vs. my Blaster. On average, I would say that my Blaster wins every time.

You were implying that Blasters can't be best utilized playing in melee range, or as you put it, "like a Scrapper." My Blaster is a Scrapper and a half and no one is gonna tell me otherwise. Not even you BLA.

This is complete nonsense. My Blaster is as durable or more durable than the average Scrapper player, and playing him entirely in melee is a big part of that. Playing /Mental at range is gimping yourself if you have a high end build.

You can have your cake and eat it too if you spend enough and think creatively enough when you're making your build. See my last post.

I don't think it's ever impossible to softcap s/l defense without a +def epic shield, and it doesn't even have to be that expensive unless you want insane recharge too. My Blaster has softcapped s/l defense layered with 182% global recharge. THAT was expensive. The softcapping wasn't the expensive part, getting all the recharge and enhancement values I needed on top of the softcap and 30-50% s/l/e resistance was.

Tell that to the guy standing behind you with the big shield.

The thing is that any defense a Blaster can get through set bonuses a Scrapper has the option of surpassing out of the box. Scrappers that don't have native high defense will have high resistance, and the same general options for building high defenses for layered mitigation. While I think there is a valid argument for /Mental Blasters having comparable survivability to a Fiery Aura Scrapper at the highest end only, I don't think it's even slightly reasonable to try to make a case that Blasters have the same survivability potential of Scrappers overall.

I've said in the past that Blasters *can* be survivable as Scrappers, but I never meant that it's the norm. I wouldn't be surprised if my Arch/Mental out-survived a bunch of melee characters that are built and played less efficiently than me, but the only melee set that a Blaster can compete with from a pure numbers perspective, assuming ideal builds on both counts, is Fiery Aura. The same resists to common damage types and same softcaps can be reached on both- Where the Scrapper can benefit from higher HP the Blaster can benefit from regenerating over 100HPS and having better control/utility, plus faster killing speeds if the right primary is chosen. On the other hand, sets like Dark and Electric Armor will be able to survive things that even the most optimized Blaster couldn't withstand.

I'm glad you're picking up the slack for me here, thanks Fulmens. I haven't been able to do this in almost a week- Being able to pick up converters with Villain/Emp merits has been restricting most of my COH time since I'm currently raising funds for a project, and the rest of my spare COH time has been spent working on an Archery/Mental guide. I'll get back to this as soon as I have time, probably pretty soon.

I get a lot out of RoA on iTrials. During the street sweeping/clearing phases of BAF, Lambda and Keyes, you can drop the circle on the next group while the rest of the league is dealing with the last Warwalkers in the spawn. During TPN, you can drop the circle in the middle of the room during the PO phase. During BAF's prisoner phase if you're at the South choke point you can drop the circle on the middle door before it even opens and it'll hit everything that comes out. For standard content and TF's my Blaster can Scrapperlock the opposite end of the map if he wants to and melt entire groups in record time by himself. It's not working against the group if you can handle yourself, since the goal of the group anyways is to kill all the bad guys.

I'm just speculating, but I think my speculations are correct. Arbiter Hawk wanted to get the changes done for issue 21 but he didn't have a solution for the animation at that point. He hasn't forgotten about it though.

No I wasn't. That's why I mentioned I was more sure that Black Dwarf would have a chain on SO's.

I also have Provoke on my Warshade, but 99% of the builds I make can't fit it in.

Durka dur, the KB is why you take Mu Mastery. I 6 slot Fences for immobilize (and the set bonuses) and I'm able to keep everything locked down and -KB'd before using Explosive Arrow. It recharges in about 4 seconds for Force Feedback procs, bringing RoA up even more often. Super Strength is smashing damage, and it's the best Melee set in the game. Unless you "lolpvp" it's hardly a big deal if your primary does smashing or lethal damage.
What are you talking about? Are you talking about when I was mentioning that BR didn't have to build extra melee survivability? If you knew how to read, you would know that the reason I mentioned that is BR doesn't need to play in melee range like other Blasters would in order to take advantage of Drain Psyche. BR has ranged -regen so there's no need to build for melee durability.
Yeah, I think it's one of the better blast sets, but I still don't think there's a reason to play it over Archery if you can afford an Archery/Mental Blaster. If you can't afford to layer softcapped s/l defense with a resistance PPP shield and perma Drain Psyche you'll probably get more mileage out of playing BR. In my case, I spent a crapload on my Blaster. He can already solo GM's without temps/Lore/reds/buffs so I'm not worried about BR's better ST damage, sure it might be faster against hard targets but I can still take them down so it'd be stupid to sacrifice the AOE of Archery for me.

And your reading comprehension sucks. Only one that can solo a GM? No. Only one that can solo a GM WITHOUT playing Mental Manipulation? Probably.

Considering you only need like 8 powers for fire farming anyways I certainly wouldn't consider a LOTG and +defense power a waste. You can also one slot tough with a steafast or glad armor.

It helps my build get to the 32.5% threshold. I run all three of those toggles. The recharge and end mod boosts are also helpful.

1. Kheldian Sash
2. Kheldian Sash
3. Kheldian Sash

Yes.

Nothing to disagree with here.