Questions about energy blaster in pvp
By
Frosticus,
Posted on: 2009-03-02 22:56 in Everything about PvP
just use and slot power push for kb, no others.
Let's put this in perspective for a moment. Lets say for example you're facing someone with the lowest mag protection to knockback, which is 2 different IO's that give mag 4 protection and a set bonus for mag 3 protection.
The mag 3 protection isn't always used, especially not as often as the mag 4. So let's go with just the 4.
Naturally, you have a few attacks that can beat this, and some that don't. You're looking at:
Energy Torrent: Mag 4.99
Power Push: Mag 13.30
Nova: Mag 16.62
Now it's not a common practice to go in a pvp zone without some kind of KB protection. But it happens. You might luck out if those are part of your attack chain.
Acrobatics is a mag 9 protection. Already you've got 2 attacks that go past that, without slotting for knockback.
2 things to consider now. IF you slot for knockback, are you not slotting for damage? And are you doing knockback sets when you could be doing more damage with better set bonuses?
Another is knockback suppression. You won't be knocking someone over with EVERY attack even if you slotted everything for knockback. You'd knock someone over once, then no more for a few seconds.
What would be best is to slot up something like power push, and it will be recharged by the time knockback suppression is over and just keep using that one to knock someone back.
Also, Melee types in their mez protection have mag 10 knockback protection... however they also get knockback Resist. This number is 10,000%. Any knockback you throw at them is going to be reduced to something extremely low. Which is why it's best to mez them first.
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just use and slot power push for kb, no others.
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All you need right there, if they are in melee range Power Thrust if they are in range Power Push. Just remember to mez brutes, tanks, and scrappers first before using your knockbacks.
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This kinda makes me wanna dust off my energy/electric blaster and give him a whirl. He was my first toon ever and he is slotted really horribly but nothing a respec couldn't fix.
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This kinda makes me wanna dust off my energy/electric blaster and give him a whirl. He was my first toon ever and he is slotted really horribly but nothing a respec couldn't fix.
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Frankly, I'd reccomend not to. All this hoopla post i13 has FotM builds that incorporate SStrengF, any Def armor, Cold Dom, Fiery aura, yadayada... in short KB isn't a real big threat. That's jus the way it is.
has anyone rolled a energy blaster for pvp, and slotted your attacks up for KB. if i understand kb right, the higher it is slotted the greater the mag of the kb, allowing you to burn through anyones kb protection? has anyone tried this, and if so how effective would it be?