what is your favorite blaster build? and why?

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Ice/Ice/Cold

I haven't found anything else I've stuck to until 50.

Waiting on pistols

I have multiple faves as well:

Fire/Ice - for the reasons Ipso already stated

Sonic/Energy - debuffing with your blasts is nice, early Build Up

Fire/Energy - Damage, damage, damage; again an early Build Up

Energy/Electric/Electric (my first 50) - combination of KB & Sapping, especially good with another Electric in the team.

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fire/NRG cause hes a badass

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Double This.

My Fire/Elec is my most explosive character, ever.

The very next blaster I make

Elec/Elec/Elec.

Why? Versatility combined with nostalgia - it was my first 50.

In all seriousness, I like how the combination performs. I can sap, damage, control, blap...even have a pseudo-pet if I want. The possibilities keep me coming back to play this toon time after time after time.

As honorable mentions - Fire/Fire and Ice/Ice - I suppose I'm a blaster "purist," but I like matching the primaries and the secondaries. Fire/Fire has ungodly damage output - it's what I play when I want massive amounts of destruction and nothing else. Ice/Ice I like for the same reason I like Elec/Elec - the versatility.

Have fun with whatever you choose.

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Ice/Ice is my happy place. I love the build for its potency, practicality, and for thematic reasons as well.

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This.
Add Cold Mastery from the epic pool set and you have ice armor, hoarfrost (self heal), hibernate...what's not to love?

My husbands first 50 is an elec/eng/elec. Tons of damage.


My oldest alt is an eng/eng blaster. She's still at 20. Fun set, but people do gripe about the KB.

My Fire/Mental/Force is My absolute fav. Just Pure AoE Damage he's a wrecking ball of destruction.

A very Close second is my Ice/Elec/Elec Blaster, 4 Holds great ST ranged and melee dmg and Limitless end with power sink and a Huge Damaging (and mitigating) Ranged Nuke that you can use power sink during to fill back up on end and go on your way is pure win, (only rivaled by Drain Psyche capping targets pre nuke and effectively wiping out the -Recov from inferno)

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Sure, the devs are supposed to listen to their customers, mister business 101 out there. And if I decide to start suggesting that the devs change the game from being about superheroes and supervillains to being about clowns that is my right as well, and technically Paragon Studios is supposed to pay attention to me. But I hope strongly that they assume a meth-head somehow managed to hack into my forum account and make paper airplanes out of my posts, because I hope they recognize stupid when they see it. I assume they will recognize futile just as accurately.

Good grief, OP, why did you crosspost the same question to every archetype forum? What a pain.

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The very next blaster I make

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This sums it up.

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Good grief, OP, why did you crosspost the same question to every archetype forum? What a pain.

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because i'm playing characters of every hero archtype. and the answers i've received have helped me make a whole bunch of excellent characters. thanks to everyone for their help/opinions.

My AR/Dev Munitions since he is my first to 50 and my energy/ice. Talk about untouchable!

My archery/fire because I didn't delete it when both sets sucked and I have the 2 year badge on it. Also eveyone else is running around with the MM secondary!
Besides, I have it pupred out now, what's not to love

If I'm solo: Energy/Energy. Good damage, and damage mitigation via knockback is awesome fun.

Unfortunately, I also find it a huge pain in the butt to spend half my time in team fights hovering around so that I'm exactly over an enemy's head before attacking so that the tanks and scrappers don't have to walk three feet, so on teams, I prefer my elec/elec.

Energy/Devices and Ice/Electricity Manipulation.

I love the Energy/Devices because its does good damage and the knockback is another way of mitigating damage.

I love my Ice/Elec because she is death incarnate. If you want a build that drops enemies really fast and is a blast to play then look no further. I play her like a Controlling Blaster with melee. 4 melee attacks, 4 holds is overkill goodness.

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I love the Energy/Devices because its does good damage and the knockback is another way of mitigating damage.

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This. And elec mastery (and I didn't even take the god mode). It's quite survivable even before the controls from elec mastery or without soft-capping ranged def (I only got around 25%, plus a bunch of bonuses for HP and regen, and found it more than enough).

Plus I love caltrops and like hitting hard targets thanks to TD. And CD's stealth plus a stealth IO make it so YOU are the one starting fights, in the position you want, 99% of the time (bar ambushes, rikti drones, knives and those floating eye things, I guess). I sometimes like opening up with a toe-bombing and when I'm in a patient mood, I even find it hilarious pulling a big bad boss into a minefield (I don't NEED to, but it can be cool). I even enjoy using GD now and then, though it CAN cramp my sneaky style...

so far. the only blaster i've had survive to 50 has been my fire/em/fire blaster.

He is part blaster part blapper. Aim BU, fireball, fireblast,blaze. run in, energy punch, total foucus.

Fire has those lovely multi target attacks and that lovely DoT, then run in for some one on one fist fightin. great stuff.

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Energy/Devices and Ice/Electricity Manipulation.

I love the Energy/Devices because its does good damage and the knockback is another way of mitigating damage.

I love my Ice/Elec because she is death incarnate. If you want a build that drops enemies really fast and is a blast to play then look no further. I play her like a Controlling Blaster with melee. 4 melee attacks, 4 holds is overkill goodness.

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I've still been debating between arch/dev and energy/dev.

I kinda decided on arch/dev and energy/ice, cause of the way i'm IOng out the energy/ice plus it will be awesome!

But also, the arch/dev, gets kinda a nuke in ROA, then the high impact "nuke" in time bomb makes it kinda versatile. Also the energy/dev without build up i'd be less inclined using nova in cast it didnt kill them all off with just aim and then leaving very spread out stragglers.

But... energy/dev is kinda fun as energy blast with targetting drone and caltrops backing you up. Plus i made a toon for it and he looks pretty sweet XD

Oh yeah plus the arch/dev gets stunning shot + taser for bosses.

As far as to the OP, I LOVE my elec/elec/elec blaster. So versatile, lots of aoe and single target damage, controls/knockback if you want it. It truly is just the whole package, and very thematic and conceptual as well!

I also have to shout out to my other favs so far. Fire/dev, Fire/ice, AR/ice, energy/fire and sonic/mental.

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Blasters REALLLLY need to be able to delve into the darkness, hopefully in an upcoming release the developers will allow us to choose some dark powersets.

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Agreed. Dark blast with dark pit swapped for aim and i'd be the happiest blaster in the world.

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Hmm. My Fire/Ice is really good, but I like my Fire/Elec even better. it was my first fire/* blaster and the melee damage is SO good.

Fire/Energy is a lot like Fire/Elec, but Fire/Elec has Powersink, which I like better than Conserve Power, and I like the visuals on the melee attacks better. (I know, energy has more utility powers...I don't really use Boost Range that much.)

I'm a big fan of Fire Blasters, with basically any secondary but Fire or Devices.

As mentioned repeatedly in this thread, what you like depends on how you play.

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Really? no fire/dev, its one of my favorite fire combos ever, its very very effective and fun and utilitarian!

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fire/NRG cause hes a badass

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Must say...

Blasters are my favorite class for as long as i've been playing.

my Ice/Electric/Electric is just silly with who she can take on.

my Electric/MM/Fire is an AoE machine who doesn't mine jumping into the fray, throwing Ball Lightning, PSW, and if I die, ROTP, Drain Psyche, if not, Drain Psyche and Psychic Scream...just...mmm...always works out well.

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Also the energy/dev without build up i'd be less inclined using nova in cast it didnt kill them all off with just aim and then leaving very spread out stragglers.

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I like to use what I call Super Nova.

Cloaking Device with my +Stealth IO for complete invis.

Walk into a group, use Aim, then drop a Trip Mine and queue up Nova.

Nova will still hit the enemies impacted by the Trip Mine and all you see is death at your feet.

It's like a symphony.

Fire/Elec and Ice/Fire have been my favs mostly due to the fact that I wanted build with little to no knockback. Even thought I'm pretty much a team blaster, I have soloed just fine with the builds. Also I liked the -End drain from the sets, kept my down time very low. Take it from a guy who made an AR/Dev, I know about down time....