What is the best Blaster?
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American_Valor,
Posted on: 2009-05-26 24:39 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
Dispari said
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There's no instant gratification.
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... but Build Up, Aim, Inferno comes pretty close for me.
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Dispari said
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There's no instant gratification.
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... but Build Up, Aim, Inferno comes pretty close for me.
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Nova works just as well for me. 
But my point was, the powers don't make you a good Blaster. The player makes you a good Blaster.
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Beets.
Battlestar Galactica.
Seriously! When playing with a rad that has fallout and mutation, Teleport -> Nuke -> Fallout -> Mutation, wipes a group quickly and you don't miss a beat.
My blaster is the best.
Oh yeah, and my other blaster is the best, too.
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Maybe we need a 'King of the Defenders'-style thread to settle this.
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This. MY favorite is my fire/EM, don't know if he is best though.
Illusion/Rad is a good jack of all trades controller, but ironically one of the things it's not all that good at is CONTROL. It does do decent damage, but in a random, somewhat haphazard fashion. Knockback from the pets makes melee somewhat unappealing, too.
In my opinion you're going to be best off with Ice as a primary. You have two holds for added control, a strong secondary effect and good single target damage.
In the secondary, I'm discounting the melee-heavy sets because of knockback, which to me narrows the choices to Devices and Mental Manipulation.
Devices has some location-dependent powers that probably aren't going to be much help with Phantom Army. It has its own invisibility power, but Illusion's team invisibility is better anyway. Not much synergy there.
Mental Manipulation has a nice cone AoE to supplement Ice's weakness in that department. It also has a heal/end recovery power AND Psychic Shockwave. MM also has World of Confusion, which might synergize a little bit with the Illusionist's Deceive.
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... on the other hand, still mad at ED four years later, you might be someone who holds a grudge.
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Which blaster is the best?
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There really isn't one that's clearly the best. If there was, either it would be modified by the devs so it wasn't so clearly the best, or the others would be modified to the same end.
A Blaster, fundamentaly, pumps out lots of damage, and has something of a specialty for doing so from range, though many of them are also very dangerous in melee. There's nothing about how the different Blaster powersets fill that role that is especially different in a way that would mesh particularly "best" with an Ill/Rad Controller.
You should pick something that seems thematically interesting to you, or perhaps ask more questions about how the various powersets differ. Right now, it's a lot like you've asked us "which Blaster is right for me given that I like pie."
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American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
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Best Blaster
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Wins.
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Mine was grey and a slightly lighter shade of grey. Still have it in a box somewhere. 
fire/ice for the win.
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PunkRolex: At least two of the things on your "Things I hate" list have been essentially destroyed. (Outleveling content and PVP.) You may wish to update your list.
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I'm not taking PVP off the list until the developers apologize for inflicting it on us to begin with. ED is also still painful for greatly reducing the ability of my Defenders to contribute, both in the loss of perma-hasten and therefore the use of high-recharge powers, and by removing the ability to slot damage enhancements to meaningful levels. I think other ATs came away fine but Defenders got hosed, even post-IOs.
And since I'm here I'll go ahead and further suggest that the best "blaster" might in fact be something in a Defender; Illusion benefits greatly from additional recharge, so something in a Kinetics defender (Kin/Rad or Kin/Ice) might be very helpful.
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Whatever is the most fun. YMMV.
For me right now, and for the last year, that has been my energy/energy blaster. For a long time it was AR/Dev. And Archery/Dev. And Ice/Ice. And Fire/Ice. And Mind/Psi. And.... you get the picture. I <3 my blasters.
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You know I actually don't mind players who want to powerlevel their characters to lvl 50 on their own time and SGs. I do mind everytime I zone to Atlas Park and get a tell, "AE farm?". The reason some players are getting banned is that some aspects of farming and powerleveling are destroying gameplay. They are convincing new players that this is the only way to play the game, Its Not! If you want to play your way because its your money, then do it with your friends and or your SG.
As for the the best, I agreee there isn't one..... It all depends on the player. If you spend the time playing the game and learning all the powers, you will discover that every character will have its roll and purpose.
Assault Rifle/Energy
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Step 4: Full camera spin
Step 5: Pull too much aggro and die.
It's fun as hell, you should try it.
AR/Dev FTW...
Light em' on fire and then blow em' up...For the most "Bang to Your Buck" ratio throw TP Foe in for the 6 Trip MIne Slam Dunk....
KABOOOM!
Oh and Fire/Fire is fun too...
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Which blaster is the best?
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Ice/Elec is the end all be all of Blasters in my opinion. Psi/Mental is 2nd.
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Arch/ MM, my current project, if speced and enhanced right, very fun and powerful. A tru farm mobs nightmare
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IMO, the best Blaster on AoE is Fire/Men or Fire/Fire. Best single target would be Ice/Elec or Ice/Ice. And finally the best mix of both single target and AoE would be Fire/Men or Fire/Elec.
Edit: Forgot Fire/EM and Ice/EM.