Indeed!
Though I'm not quite sure what this thread is? 
*laughs*
Ok, I mildly disagree. Blasters can be a very 'point and shoot' AT and if that's your bag then groovy. Certainly on my Fire/Fire Blaster, I'm mainly looking to make sure that everything moving is either face first on the floor or on fire. But that's not always the case on teams.
If you're on a decent team, the Blaster shouldn't get as much aggro as they would normally. Therefore, I figure that the Bosses can have most of my attention as I'm the AT most likely to take them down fastest (i.e. I have the highest damage output). Also, my Defender mindset often takes over as well. If I see somone's bar going red, I sometimes target through them to either kill whatever's giving them grief, or to drag the aggro off of them (with sometimes hillarious and fatal consequences). There have also been bizarre times when I've sat in the Tank's Taunt aura, healing him with Aid Other while liberally blasting everything else.
I find Scrappers the most 'team-independent' AT, easily. Who here hasn't suffered 'Scrapperlock' while the rest of the team faceplants? 
Still, in terms of mindless chaos, Blasters rule and in general, I think any AT can be team friendly, regardless of their design. 
@Dante EU - Union Roleplayer and Altisis Victim
The Militia: Union RP Supergroup - www.themilitia.org.uk
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Indeed!
Though I'm not quite sure what this thread is?
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It's rampant blaster love, and we're all to run around within it's warm cosiness glomping our blasters and regaling each other with our love of elemental death and destruction. <3
Chairman of the Charity of Pain; accepting donations of blood and guts.
Prophet of the Creamy Truth; "If it's empty, fill it with cream."
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Indeed!
Though I'm not quite sure what this thread is?
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It's rampant blaster love, and we're all to run around within it's warm cosiness glomping our blasters and regaling each other with our love of elemental death and destruction. <3
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I'll drink to that!
Anyone got any drink?
But really, I don't die alot on my blaster on the extremely rare occasion I PvE with him, and that's because he has Phase & Hibernate. It really does boost your survivability levels.
However, also owning an Elec/Elec Blaster and Sonic/Fire Blaster, neither of which have Phase & Hibernate, things begin to change. My Elec/Elec focuses on draining the mobs endurance before he dies. And the Sonic/Fire just tries to kill everything, and hopefully not himself.
I suppose it's very different depending on your build, and on the team you're with. 
No drink...
Will a (purple) Luck insp do instead?
Nuff Said...
Coolio Wolfus leader of Coolio�s Crusaders on Union.
Tekna Logik leader of Tekna�s Tormentors on Defiant.
Creator of: Coolio's Tech Beacon Replacements
AE arc 402506, 'The Rise and Demise or Otherwise of Tekna Logik...'.
Anyone got a wakie?
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
Am sure I could dig you one up....
Necro/Dark MM, Hey zombies any wakies down there?
"Y esss boooosssss"
I take that as a yeah Cynic, where ya want it delivered Union Hero side or Defiant Villain side?
(And no this is not a 'can you get me this' offer to everyone else..)
Nuff Said...
Coolio Wolfus leader of Coolio�s Crusaders on Union.
Tekna Logik leader of Tekna�s Tormentors on Defiant.
Creator of: Coolio's Tech Beacon Replacements
AE arc 402506, 'The Rise and Demise or Otherwise of Tekna Logik...'.
Ah my blaster. He is the one character that I can act like a totally insane <insert bad word here> and still seem normal. I'm not sure if any of you know FiYo, my fire/fire blaster, but he is my clinically insane AoE king. Now at 19 he is wearing multiple debt badges with pride. His self sacrificing ways usually involve Firebreath, Fireball, Fire Sword Circle, Combustion followed by a well deserved afternoon tea with my good friend Floor.
I expect that in the future when ATs start to be filled out he will work more effectively when even now waiting 10secs after team attacks still results in mass agro switch followed by a tea party. But...until then, he's my insane little inferno and I love him to bits.
The End.
P.S. Many people have suggested I get RoF but I question their motives when it makes them all spread.
Yeah people seem to expect insane blasters. When I play Steel Onslaught I always speak in the third person and in lunatic shouted sentences.
"Onslaught demands a wakie so she can shoot more foes in the face!"
I even make a hint of being in character with a tank and eyebrows go up.
Chairman of the Charity of Pain; accepting donations of blood and guts.
Prophet of the Creamy Truth; "If it's empty, fill it with cream."
I don't generally like teaming. I play scrappers and tanks as a preference, people expect me to do stuff. Stuff like running face first into twenty minions, two bosses and a handful of lieutenants, every two minutes, without stopping, with ease. Or maintaining aggro control. I have to start caring about the ponce with a name composed entirely of capitals and random apostrophes. I can't do it, on account of the whole 'not a very nice person' thing.
Enter the blaster. Your responsibility is to wait for a few seconds after the fight has begun for all the other archetypes to do whatever task it is they're meant to do, and then kill everything that moves. A flow chart of three thought processes; choose a target. Is it moving? Am I allowed to shoot at it? Kill it. Existence as a teaming blaster appears to consist of trying to slot for more pain. There's no hold duration nonsense, you don't have to argue about your ability to tank without taunt, you don't have to argue the other way about your ability to tank as a scrapper, healing is for people playing backwards and clicking on the wrong target.
Most of all, you stop caring about debt. Not because you're resigned to your fate. It's because when you're doing it right, you'll barbeque so many bad guys so damn fast you won't even notice that the debt had even happened.
Don't like teams? Be a blaster. If I can do it, anyone can.
(this thread brought to you by the maniacal laughter of Ardent Gold, a Fire blaster with remarkably little concern for anything except the damage and recharge time of Fireball)
Chairman of the Charity of Pain; accepting donations of blood and guts.
Prophet of the Creamy Truth; "If it's empty, fill it with cream."