No one can tell you what you will play best and have the most fun with. Now this is nothing to go by but i do know more people who are seemably addicted to fire/fire and elec/elec than anything else, by that i mean they still happily play them for hundreds of hours post 50.
Energy/ is good burst damage but high in knockbacks which could potentially lower the dps of everyone else, Assault rifle is high on dps but is also high on knockbacks too. These are the 2 i'd least suggest to anyone who may not know where to direct the knockbacks (ie towards other groups or away from walls causes problems) or when to use the knockbacks (a knockback aoe can mess with other peoples aoes/pbaoes but mainly cone attacks, can also cause aggro loss to a tanker and reduce the number of debuffed depending on type of debuffer).
Being good in pve teams is down to using powers at the right times in the right way so that they work well with other peoples.
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I'm a fan of elec/elec in PvE. I'd reccomend that.
AR is a nice primary aswell for PvE lots of AoEs!
I'd go elec / elec, that's what I did when i knew nothing and it served me well even with random slots and picks, asi learned more about the strengths of the sets, well let's just say almost nothing cold stop me 
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I'd avoid KB heavy sets if you aren't massively familiar with blasting or CoH, Fire is nice but will let you down later on when you rely on more than just damage.
There are a million and one elec posts on thisb board, I'd read through the most recent 2 and maybe the 3rd and 4th (one of which is all about my main), there's a lot of scope for blasters to do well and they can solo faster than scrappers if played well.
Post any ideas away, but pick the sets you fancy and the slots you want, asking first wont hurt much so long as you consider all PoVs.
Plight
The best blaster is the one you can play best in PvE.
As plight said, he's master in elec/elec, he can basicly solo anything. I'm quite skilled in ice/nrg, one of my personal favorites in PvE-solo. Getting a fast-spam hold power at lvl8 (freeze ray) and a high dmg melee power (bone smasher) you basicly can solo small (high lvl) groups very early.
Recently i started a AR/ice blaster, having decent damage at start from AR and a bit of mezz-style of /ice, past 26 you become a quit masskiller (with a bitty of patience). Ice patch and ignite, flametrower and spam ignite again. Great having Builup from the /ice side, increases your damage quite nice. But, you need to know the play style.
Find you playstyle, find your element and then match it with the available Sets. Mind, a blaster is a 'livin on the edge' toon, some might never get used to the life of a blaster.
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thnx guys im doin an elec/elec blaster
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Plight
No one loves the Sonicz 
Best for PvE is Fire/Fire, because AoE is king in PvE.
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Best for PvE is Fire/Fire, because AoE is king in PvE.
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Plight
fire fire is lovley why need to endrain the mobs when you can two or 3 hit them? Build up aim, fire breath fire ball fire sword circle.
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I wouldn't mind seeing a Fire/Fire 3 shot an Elite Boss.
There's a place and time for every powerset.
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fire fire is lovley why need to endrain the mobs when you can two or 3 hit them? Build up aim, fire breath fire ball fire sword circle.
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I wouldn't mind seeing a Fire/Fire 3 shot an Elite Boss.
There's a place and time for every powerset.
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aim build up, blazing bolt, blaze, inferno?
Well, of course Single target Blasters and Multiple target Blasters will work good in a team, one to take out bosses, and one to take out the rest. But a team of Ice/Energy Blasters would take longer to finish a mission than a team of Fire/Fire ones.
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But if you have to choose a blaster build and not just one that plays like a blaster and does a much better job pick elec / elec if you team or solo go for a single target build on an ice / nrg.
50s
controllers: Ill rad , grav rad, fire kin, ice kin
blaster: ice em
scrapper: spines sr
Play what you like best. I went Sonic and i got a great time with it.
I went for nrg/nrg and works great in both PvE and PvP. All that knockback works great for taking of stalkers like I have to the ganing ons in thee past, and in PvE the knockback cna allow you to solo bosses such as freakshow tanks and others. But you gotta be more of a blapper to get it to work.
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Spines / *.
But if you have to choose a blaster build and not just one that plays like a blaster and does a much better job pick elec / elec if you team or solo go for a single target build on an ice / nrg.
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I don't know why people say this, I have a Spines/Regen, and, although he's great in PvP, I don't see what makes them 'the best' according to most, the slow doesn't seem to be too big, and it's mainly AoE based, so the last power is a cone (not much higher than Lunge damage really), which sucks compared to something like Golden Dragonfly...
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Well, of course Single target Blasters and Multiple target Blasters will work good in a team, one to take out bosses, and one to take out the rest. But a team of Ice/Energy Blasters would take longer to finish a mission than a team of Fire/Fire ones.
[/ QUOTE ]sure fire does huge dmg off the bat, but it lacks control, IIRC from the days when i tried to play more like a blaster with a few drains I would go in aim BU SC BL and minions would be dead, not only are minions dead but i could 1 shot lts and bosses wouldnt be hurting me 1 bit. in almost every case elec does a very high propertion of the dmg that fire can do, even over time, but has more utility. since the sparks were added to eelc i even think its about as pretty as fire, although not quite : /.
spines regen is nice, although wont outdmg any AoE blaster, in teams it doesnt matter who heal most, its some1 elses job usually, solo about 505 of blaster (imo) have enough utility to not get hurt. end result = blasters and scrappers are fastest soloers pre pet trollers, tehre are just more 'gimpy' blaster combos than scrappers ones.
but play what u want people, thats the name of the game.
elec pwns jo0 4ll
Plight
my first lvl 50 toon was a fire/fire blaster on US, there high damage dealers but not an impressive secondary set for fire/fire imo still Fire blasters have all the fun ^_^
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Spines / *.
But if you have to choose a blaster build and not just one that plays like a blaster and does a much better job pick elec / elec if you team or solo go for a single target build on an ice / nrg.
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I don't know why people say this, I have a Spines/Regen, and, although he's great in PvP, I don't see what makes them 'the best' according to most, the slow doesn't seem to be too big, and it's mainly AoE based, so the last power is a cone (not much higher than Lunge damage really), which sucks compared to something like Golden Dragonfly...
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I love my NRG/Elec, although elec secondary doesn't have the same "oomphf" that Elec primary does. But I like not because it's the best but because it looks cool!
And I have no probelm soloing. You get Build Up with Nrg, and Aim with elec, plus I took Aid Self with reduced interrupt time so I can almost tank a mob (as long as they're the same level as me). Just set up Aim+BuildUp, Explosive blast, Energey torrent then Thunder Stike. Even with a few survivors it only takes a mini-blasts to finish anyone off.
Still feel sad that all those other powersets like rifles, psionics, etc. don't appear much as they don't have the same punch as other blaster sets. It's nice to see a unique toon.
No oomph? I think elec secondary is the best, at least almost. It's the height of cool.
Charged Brawl, Havoc Punch, Thunder Strike, Shocking Grasp, POWER SINK. [img]/uk/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
IMO /nrg is the only secondary that compares.
I just made an elc/elc blaster and i think its awesome.. AoEs look great aswell as work great... now to get him to 50!!
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My Sonic/NRG is a god.. ph34r 17!!111
It's also a good blapper for Tanking/Scrappering/Blastering.
Kinda like a Peacebringer does, without the Dwarf/Nova forms and Heals.
can anyone tell me wat the most best blaster build is im a blaster noob and seem to [censored] it up each time i try plz help me
