Dude loads of things, I ain't an energy specialist by any means but here's some basics.
Attacks work well like this:
3 damage, 2 Recharge reductions 1 accuracy
Hover is way more useful than air superiority, fly gives you a to hit debuff, hover doesn't. That'll save you 1 slot as hover only needs 1 end red. you only need 1 rec red on rest too.
If you're into PvP then you want to slot your energy secondaries as they are awesome in the PvP zones, knockback is a pain to fight against so use it. Not sure you need hasten, so that might be better spent somewhere else.
Basically emphasise Damge with your primarys
Secondary effects on your secondaries.
If you're taking stamina then 3 slot it ASAP to get max recovery.
Combat jumping might suit you, it has better speed than fly, less end drain than TP and more versatility than super speed. Plus it gives you access to combat jumping and acrobatics which are both quite handy defensive powers.
I'm not, as I say energy energy, but I know a few who are...
Oh yeah, and get single origin enhancements in there ASAP.
1) You don't really need air superiority. With /energy you have enough toggle droppers that this isn't needed. Hover would be much better. 3 slot for nice speed. Helps against knockback too as you just 'flip' in the air.
2) Power Thrust doesn't need that many slots at such a low level. Eventually it may warrant 3 slots - i have 4...3 acc, 1 knockback and use it as the auto punch for when things get too close - which they won't be afterwards. You should be ok with 2 slots and both acc for the time being.
3) Need at least 1 acc in energy punch.
4) 3 slot stamina.
5) Fly is very slow. You might be better off with superspeed instead. Especially if you get hover for vertical movement when needed. If so, get hurdle instead.
If you stick with fly then 2 or 3 flight speeds should see you ok. Especially if you 3 slot stamina (see 4)
6) You will be better off with power bolt instead of energy torrent. Torrent will draw too much aggro and i find rarely hits enough mobs anyway. Energy cone and aoe attacks are bit pants to be honest.
7) Recommended slotting for attacks is at least one acc (i favour 2 personally), 3 damage and either 2 rech red, or 1 each of rech red and end red.
8) Don't bother with range in power burst. It's a close up attack and the range enhancer makes that little difference an accuracy or damage enhancement is much better in its place.
9) Do not slot rest at all. Remove those slots now. Complete waste and can be used in either stamina or conserve power or hover if you get it.
10) You will eventually want to 3 slot hasten. If you have a spare slot after respeccing then use it here.
Well there's 10 of my thoughts. I'm sure others will add/update/recommend slightly different ways of thinking. In the end, it's up to you though.
Enjoy!
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Excellent tip Col! 
hi,
lvl 50 NRG/NRG/Fire blaster here.
oke, just a few tips, and i do this keeping my own build in mind. Which isn't perfect either, but will help you.
remove the 2 extra slots on Rest, 1 slot is enough, get it with Recharge Reduction.
Choose between Speed-pool or Flight-pool. 2 travel-powers (fly and superspeed) won't work. and it'll cost ya additional slots which can have better purpose on your primary-powers.
if you go for speed, take hasten and SS, and leave flight-pool.
if you go for fly, take hover and fly, and leave speed-pool.
Defo remove Air-superiority and energy-punch. You're a blaster, no need for melee-range attacks. And your NRG-torrent can keep foes out of melee, slot it with 1 or 2 knockbacks for more effect.
Keep the fitness-pool and the Build-up and Conserve-Power.
Slot Health and Stamina (defo stamina) up to it's max ASAP.
You'll run out of endurance very soon.
for extra defense you might wanna take stealth (concealment-pool)
slot it with a few defense-buffs and it'll make you harder to get hit.
i can't show you my (Star Jewel's) build, because i don't remember it completely. I'll look it up tonight, and if you happen to see me online, give me a tell.
Again, my build isn't perfect, but it hardly changed with all the respecs i got. And it keeps me alive most of the times.
always remember the blasters-golden-rule:
"we are squishy in melee, but kick [censored] at long range"
and as you just got tips from Precision Rangers members (Doulos, Columbo, Kronosy46, and myself), you defo wanna look us up for more blaster-build tips...we got the experience.
Hero: Star Jewel(50)
Associates: Gemstone; Storm Lock; Star Sparkle; Dawnshade; Lunara; ...more
Enemies: Shadow Vine; Tirana Q; Forte Cadenza; Black Ion; Pursuit; ...more
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Excellent tip Col!
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See our thread on union for more details. 
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fly gives you a to hit debuff, hover doesn't.
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That was changed a while back. No acc debuff on fly now, it just drops to hover speed for a few seconds.
Group Fly still has the -acc penalty though.
Your sniper blast will eventually need 3 x dmg, 1 x acc (waste if it misses), 2 x interrupt reduction. By this stage you should have stamina and hasten 3 slotted - so endurance and recharge speed is fairly well covered.
I normally use AIM + BUILD UP + SNIPE to get a good first hit in. The 1 acc means that in lulls in a battle you can pull off a quick snipe that is fairly guaranteed to hit. Get Aim as soon as you can - together with build up they give a nice boost.
You currently have it slotted with 1 dmg, 1 interrupt reduction and 1 recharge reduction (i think) and with Build Up you can pull off some quick snipes. I sometimes hover and snipe then use my ranged attacks to finish off the enemy.
You need power blast, power bolt, and power blast and keep cycling these as your main attacks.
I know that kron has said not to get energy torrent - but it can be handy to finish off a baddie and get yourself a bit of breathing space with the knockback. It can also be used if your main attacks are still recharging - also you can use it in conjunction with hover to knock enemies into the ground - can be handy if you're teamed with melee types who hate knockback.
Power thrust and Energy punch both need at least 1 acc enhancement - my philosophy is that if you can't hit the enemy with a power then you've wasted your time slotting it.
Again rest only needs 1 slot
I'm not a big fan of Air superiority and you have melee attacks that are far better - so swop this for hover.
Energy/Energy blasters are great fun and can pwn well in PvP due to the toggle droppers. Have fun 
Another nrg/nrg here (and another Ranger - there's a surprise).
My 2 cents on Energy Torrent - I used it *a lot* at lower levels to keep things out of melee range. However if you manage to work Total Focus and Bonesmasher into your build (both very high damage melee attacks) by lvl 38, anything getting close can be swiftly dealt with (and usually ends up stunned if you don't finish it). Add in Power Boost for extra stun effect and a whole new way to play opens up.
Oh, and no more then 3 slots in health or stamina as the extra one's don't give much benefit.
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I know that kron has said not to get energy torrent - but it can be handy to finish off a baddie and get yourself a bit of breathing space with the knockback. It can also be used if your main attacks are still recharging - also you can use it in conjunction with hover to knock enemies into the ground - can be handy if you're teamed with melee types who hate knockback.
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I do love energy torrent (in fact i miss it but just can't find a space for it in my build), i just found with the I5 changes i wasn't hitting anywhere near enough. You need 2 accuracy in this, or even 3. I respecced recently on test but even with 2 acc, missed far too often. Not really enough damage either, but as Halo has said, handy when hovering, handy for finishing off a group of mobs(if it hits! )
Wow , thanks to everyone for your quick, intuitive and detailed responses.
Really appreciate you all taking the time with this!
Cheers, Simon
One more thing from another ranger, this time Ice/energy, so I can only give you tips on your secondary. Plus I'm a bit of a PvP specialist...
1) Join the rangers. They are an awesome group of people and you really learn alot. EEveryone except flick (to my knowledge) who posted on this thread is a ranger and as you can see we're all keen to help fellow blasters!
2. The thing that hasn't been mentioned so far is the power of power boost. This doubles secodary effects, but what some people forget is that it boost your self buffs to. Thus when yused with both aim and build up you get a total of 324% (or something very close... definetly over 3 hundred!) buff to both accuracy and damaage!!!!!! Now tell me that's not powerful!!!
3. COmbine that with your melle attacks and not you will own. Contrary to what Doulos said, i'd advised slotting your secodaries for damage. hy? BEcause if you slot enough recharges in power boost you can make it very near perma. Stick it auto fire and the disorient duration will be double anyway. WOnce you have slotted for damage, the time poduced will be more than enough. Same goes with the knockback in the primaries. I don't have much experience with it, but from what I have seen in PvP if you keep knocking them back and then zip in with super speed to hammer them with melee, it's makes a powerful form of soft control, not giving your opponents (in both PvP and PvE) time to attack. Note this does work best with Power boost on autofire.
But above all join the rangers dude!
Take care!
Nrg/Nrg/Force
I'm using Hasten & Fly atm because I find the End drain far more annoying.
Melee attacks ARE needed, but only at the higher levels. Total Focus is a dream vs. Bosses+.
Bonesmasher, Power Boost and Conserve really didn't phase me, but YMMV.
Rest, only one slot. Health+Stamina look at 3...you'll have a lot of extra slots later.
Disagree on Snipe needing 2 Interrupts, I find 1 more than adequate.
Disagree on recharge for powers as well; I'd have one end/rec on all and either a recharge or a secondary effect as the 6th slot.
Energy Secondaries are nice, but really just icing to the Cake that's Primaries Though...get Total Focus
Energy Torrent and Explosive are good for Knockbacks (Just 1 slot) and I find Aim+Torrent means you hit most minions, even at orange.
Most of the time, you should be blasting Minions first; laying it on hard with Explosive if there's real trouble; keeping melee's for nasty ranged damage like Carnie's et al or for keeping them off your back; and ready to provide heavy duty damage vs. Bosses.
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Melee attacks are indeed usefull on higher lvl's. But needed?? not IMO...
My lvl 50 nrg/nrg blaster ONLY has power-thrust as melee attack. And i hardly use it.
I have more succes on blasting foes out of melee.
I find that nrg-torrent and nrg-burst can easely accomplish that.
If power-thrust wasn't needed to open the secondary nrg-pool, i'd probably never take it and go straight for the build-up, conserve-power, total-focus builds.
I always try to keep foes out of melee range. Range, Acc, and Knockback slots help with that.
Remember that all NRG-blast powers have a knockback effect as an "add-on". Although some might not be as succesfull or powerfull as others.
Hero: Star Jewel(50)
Associates: Gemstone; Storm Lock; Star Sparkle; Dawnshade; Lunara; ...more
Enemies: Shadow Vine; Tirana Q; Forte Cadenza; Black Ion; Pursuit; ...more
Meh... You slot up Total Focus and use it to keep Bosses/AV's/PAV's disoriented; then take it into PvP and twin-shot moving squishies and you'll change your tune.
Added on, with the new KB rules, an explosive blast/torrent in melee range is a sight to see; as well as Nova not being much good from Range
Cool, my SG aren't that great i must admit. Earned them almost 80k plus salvage, didnt get a promotion, tsk...prima donna me!
I've had a look but none of you guys are online.
If you see me please feel free to invite me to the group. My salvage is your salvage!
Cheers,
Simon
if you expect to get a promotion due to the amount of prestige you bring in, you may be dissapointed with the Rangers too.
however if you enjoy teaming with some of the best guys on the server then welcome aboard.
THe Rangers is all about being a community of blasters. ALl you need to be a member is a deisre to contribute to our community and you need to have a blaster! You have the second one for sure and if you reckon you have the first then we best get you on board...
Thanks again guys, have joined up and am at your service.
Im not really fussed with the promotion thing, it was a poorly laid retort on the fact that it was a bit clique.
Thanks again.
Simon
Good move bud! Welcome to the Rangers
What Columbo said!
(i have recently developed a habit of backing up what you've already posted Col!)
OK, so i have had a look at all your comments, and used the test server to respec and have come up with the following, what do you think?
http://www.simonroberts.net/blaster2.gif
Thanks again,
Simon
Welcome to the Rangers.
Not an energy expert, but you don't need the 3 slots for health (at least not now). Use them for your primaries/secondaries (I'm sure some fellow Rangers will tell you where to move them to )
CoX 50s: <ill/rad> <ice/ice> <fire/kin> <grav/sonic> <ice/storm> <earth/kin> <kin/elec> <cold/psy> <thugs/dark> <fire/dark> <dark/elec> <night widow> <EM/ninj> <mind/icy>
If you want to do PvP I personally recommend 2xacc., 3xdammage, and 1 other such as end. red. or recharge in your attack primaries. Having tested PvP as a villain with personal force bubble I can clearly tell who has 1 accuracy and who has 2. Anybody who only has 1 acc. has trouble hitting me whilst my pets can attack them,
Hi, level 25 blaster, Im sure i can get more out of him than I have, if anyone has time, could they have a quick look at the image in the link and give their recommendations?
I have a respec available if needed.
http://www.simonroberts.net/blaster.gif
Thanks
Simon.