Sonic/Energy

Hi everyone, (no doctor nick jokes please )
I'm just playing around with the idea of a sonic/energy blaster as I think the damage potential could be quite fun.

I'm by no means new to COH, but I haven't really played blasters much and certainly not since before issue 4. Although I have teamed with them. What do people think of these powersets in general?

What is the potential of the -res from sonic?
How much single target/AoE balance does sonic have?

Note: Most likely I'll be playing this toon in a team, however the ability to solo never does any harm. I'm not fussed about PvP for now

I've only played Sonic as a Corruptor but I think the -Res is about 13%.

Sonic is mainly single target, it has 3 single target attacks, all available by level 8, a single target disorient, 3 cones of which 1 is damage and -res, 1 is knockback and 1 is sleep and -res. It lacks a snipe ( I never rate them anyway ) and any standard AoEs.

Energy secondary is one of the better blapper sets, it has good melee attacks, lots of nice self buffs and has build up very early.

I think the Cone sleep ( Siren's Song ) should be pretty good for soloing as a blapper, as you can put the spawn to sleep and then take them down 1 by 1. Also as the energy melee attack disorient as a secondary effect, the single target disorient in the primary should be useful as it will allow you to take out bosses.

Jumanjimon has a sonic energy at around 37/8. Would be a good bet to discuss the synergy aspect.
Me, i went for sonic/electric, currently at 36 and have an nrg/nrg.

Anyway, to answer your question.

Sonic teamed with energy is certainly good. You get a shed load of stuns with energy secondary and one of the best primary blaster attacks in Screech (ranged disorient!)
Energy secondary also has powerboost (not sure if this boosts the -res) and boost range will be handy as sonic attack doesn't have a snipe and seems quite short range.
There is an AoE sleep, which whilst handy for soloing i'm sure, is just not worth it for anything else if you ask me.
Basically sonic/energy is built for a blapper build. There are the 3 primary single target attacks, dawn strike and screech. Personally i'm going to respec out of the lowest damage single target attack, but it's good to have when starting out. Nice quick recharge.
I also prefer dawn strike to the nrg nova. It has 3 hits, each one doing a -res, so the damage increases with each hit - there is no knockback and the secondary effect is disorient - no more annoying tanks/scrappers!

In fact the sonic attacks are quite low endurance cost and reasonably quick recharge also.

Go roll one...have fun! Just stay away from the aoes.

Hmmm, for blapping I'm not so sure. It depends on your technique. I tend to rush into melee as fast as pos, energy punch, bonesmasher, power thrust, power blast then close again with power burst. With sonics you'd be better off starting with the blasts.

Actaully, having thought about it, my way is dumb. Do the blasts first then close for the melee. Should be a good combo, since the melee attacks are very heavy hitters.
Also, the single target disorient you get at 26 or so is real nice. Stacks with the disorients from your secondary and it gets past acrobatics which many people take these days.

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Stacks with the disorients from your secondary and it gets past acrobatics which many people take these days.

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Any disorient will get past acrobatics as it only protects from knockback and holds.

RD, Zeshin has a sonic/energy up to the low 30s. Try PMing him on the OV forums.

Ah will do ohms,

Thanks for the replies guys, all useful info

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What the hell are you talking about? Dawn Strike is the Tier 9 (SL 32) PB Nova.

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What the hell are you talking about? Dawn Strike is the Tier 9 (SL 32) PB Nova.

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Oops. Typo. Must have been musing about my pb at the back of my mind at the time i wrote this. Meant dreadful wail!

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Stacks with the disorients from your secondary and it gets past acrobatics which many people take these days.

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Any disorient will get past acrobatics as it only protects from knockback and holds.

RD, Zeshin has a sonic/energy up to the low 30s. Try PMing him on the OV forums.

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I know, I know. I get ahead of myself sometimes and end up not explaining myself properly

I think what I meant to say was you'll be able to stop the squishies quick with the hole in acrobatics and also disorient bosses fairly easy by stacking disorients

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Oops. Typo. Must have been musing about my pb at the back of my mind at the time i wrote this. Meant dreadful wail!

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We'll have none of this xenomorphic chatter on the Blaster board.

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Oops. Typo. Must have been musing about my pb at the back of my mind at the time i wrote this. Meant dreadful wail!

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We'll have none of this xenomorphic chatter on the Blaster board.

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Nice made up word there Syn - might even make the dictionary some day! :P

Took about 10 year before ginormous made it in, but the rate at which new words are taken up nowadays, you might not have to wait that long.

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Nice made up word there Syn - might even make the dictionary some day! :P

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What's this, someone playing an MMO who didn't get an Alien reference? Tsk, tsk, standards are definitely slipping around here.

/derail

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Nice made up word there Syn - might even make the dictionary some day! :P

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What's this, someone playing an MMO who didn't get an Alien reference? Tsk, tsk, standards are definitely slipping around here.

/derail

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Depends on whether you think referencing films is what defines a standard to which you slip from

Rolling a sonic/elec myself, hes gonna be pure team and more "Concept" than "Uber". However, looking through all the permutations, i need to decide on two out these four:

Charged Brawl
Havoc Punch
Lightning Clap
Thunderstrike

I was tempted by last two - im playing him inbetween blapper and blaster. I would have thought thunderstike better because of disorientate effect (stacking with the sonic disorientate) and its AoE. Thunderclap for similar reasons.

Thoughts?

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Rolling a sonic/elec myself, hes gonna be pure team and more "Concept" than "Uber". However, looking through all the permutations, i need to decide on two out these four:

Charged Brawl
Havoc Punch
Lightning Clap
Thunderstrike

I was tempted by last two - im playing him inbetween blapper and blaster. I would have thought thunderstike better because of disorientate effect (stacking with the sonic disorientate) and its AoE. Thunderclap for similar reasons.

Thoughts?

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You'll want all 3 melee attacks!!. Havoc Punch and Charged Brawl especially will up your dps.
Lightning clap i haven't tried yet. Heard it tends to more knockback than disorient.

Charged Brawl and Havoc Punch. They're both awesome. I'm personally not that fond of Thunder Strike. Lightning Clap has a nice quickish animation but it does tend to scatter mobs with the knockback.

Hmmm ill avoid lightning clap then...

Thunderstrike seems a bit of a must despite its painful animation as its AoE (better for teams) and disorientate effect for double effect on nasty bosses...

Between charged brawl and havok punch it looks like havok punch?

I suppose i may loose the first sonic attack to free up an elec slot later

Losing the first sonic attack (the lowest damage one) is probably a good idea, but not until the later levels.

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Hmmm ill avoid lightning clap then...

Thunderstrike seems a bit of a must despite its painful animation as its AoE (better for teams) and disorientate effect for double effect on nasty bosses...

Between charged brawl and havok punch it looks like havok punch?


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Hmmm ill avoid lightning clap then...

Thunderstrike seems a bit of a must despite its painful animation as its AoE (better for teams) and disorientate effect for double effect on nasty bosses...

Between charged brawl and havok punch it looks like havok punch?

I suppose i may loose the first sonic attack to free up an elec slot later

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The disorient in Thunder Strike is nice enough (although it's only a chance) but the AoE damage is IMO pretty meh. I have all /elec melee attacks and out of the four I'd drop Thunder Strike first, no contest. The others are all really lovely. I guess as sonic/ you could use the extra AoE, though.

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Depends on whether you think referencing films is what defines a standard to which you slip from

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It's the freakin' Alien series, you philistine.

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Depends on whether you think referencing films is what defines a standard to which you slip from

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It's the freakin' Alien series, you philistine.

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Not the point i was making, but tbh, the best thing about the Alien series was Brian Glover.
The next best thing is Sandy Collora using them is his short film; Batman: Dead End.

Just not my cup of tea. I'll go even further and suggest Alien vs Predator was a more enjoyable watch! :P

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Just not my cup of tea. I'll go even further and suggest Alien vs Predator was a more enjoyable watch! :P

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If there was a vomit emoticon I'd be using it right now.

ALthough it had occured to me that you could be just baiting. Yeah, that's the only reasonable explanation. Nobody can dislike Aliens

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Nobody can dislike Aliens

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Of course not.

Now figure out if that's sarcastic or not.

My head a splode