IO's on a blaster for defense?!

Ok, I keep seeing blasters in-game talk about the IO sets and purple IO's and stuff they have on their blaster for defense.

I've tried every kind of defense this game has to offer a BLASTER on here and it still doesnt do much good. Yeah it helps slightly, but I'm still the first to die in a mission though.

I even had a blaster once tell me she had something like 10% defense from her sets and I quote "I'm like a tank on my feet". I couldnt LOL because I didnt know if she was joking or not.

So because I'm not about to waste MY inf on expensive IO sets just to be disappointed I'd like to know,

-Can IO's really provide scrapper, even TANK like defense?

-Can anybody here go toe-to-toe with a tank pvp and win using these sets?

-Is it worth it?

-Or should I just skip defense and go for more damage?

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-Can IO's really provide scrapper, even TANK like defense?


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Yes.

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-Can anybody here go toe-to-toe with a tank pvp and win using these sets?


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No the max defense you can have on a blaster in pvp is now about 18%. Thank you castle. Forget about resistance as well while you are at it.

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-Is it worth it?


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PVE Yes more than worth it.

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-Or should I just skip defense and go for more damage?

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Recharge recharge recharge then spamn high damage powers. Its really nice to have an attack chain that is Aim+Bu+(Blaze)^9

If you want more damage take assault. Its the cheapest way to get an extra 10%

I built a blaster up to about 35% vs. smash/lethal/energy/dark and it did make a significant difference. Of course I didn't get those levels until about level 48, and I don't play my 50's much.

The "turning point" for me is about 40% [five times harder to kill than 0 defense] or higher. 45% is ten times harder to kill.

There's _another_ turning point, though... maybe two depending on how hard you want to work it.

One Luck gets you 12.5%, so if you can get to 27.5% you can hit 40% "Basically any time you want." [You can carry enough single Lucks to get you through ten or fifteen fights...]

One medium purple [Good Luck? I dont' remember] gets you from 15% to 40%, and I can buy those in bulk at Wentworth's with a little planning. Admittedly if everyone did it I wouldn't be able to pick them up for 5K anymore.

ahhhh ok, so this is exactly what I thought. Its still unfair for us in pvp no matter how strong our defenses are. Yes we're harder to kill, but it still explains why I always see the Villains in the pvp zones always goin for us blasters first.

And as far as pve its what I thought as well, it definately makes more of a difference. It's just gonna either cost a lot to get to that point, OR I gotta carry go pick up lucks in between every mission. lol

Hey I wanna thank you guys for comin in here and helpin a fellow blaster out. When I get a couple more tens of millions of influence I'm gonna test it out. For now I'm gonna slot up for damage and equip the Lucks.

If they go for blasters first it's because our damage output combined with our built-in defense makes killing us the fastest way to shift the balance in their favor.

Defense makes a huge difference but unless you're going to do extreme things I'd suggest aiming for around 30% ranged defense and then building for recharge and damage.

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You seem to be interested in PvP performances, which is not my bag at all!

But for a blaster wanting defense, Range defense is very beneficial and kindof easy to get with sets and power picks. If you plan on really investing consider CJ and Weave, plus a couple of complete Thunderstrike sets or partial Universal travel. That should bring you easily to the level of defense mentionned above where a small purple insp will cap you or almost for range defense.

WHOA! hold on a sec! Maybe I came off wrong in my previous posts, I am NOT a pvper, or at least I'm not a REGULAR pvper. My fault for the misconception there. I would LIKE to actually enjoy pvp and feel kinda like I have a chance for once, thats why I was askin about it.

I'm really more of a pve guy. Its just that I have a handfull of high lvl heroes, I've been around the block in this game and experienced just about everything but my pvp experience is limited because I like to play blasters and I kinda get envious of players that LIKE their particular hero, concept and all, and as a BONUS, they are dam near GODS in pvp AND pve, like most Tanks and scrappers I know.

But I will take this knowledge and advice and go forward with rebuilding my energy blaster and see what I can come up with.