Because with those two you can boost your damage enough to quite often just obliterate a group in an AoE or two.
With some recharge too, you can alternate Build Up and Aim to have one of them effect you constantly.
Don't know what you're playing, but Build Up + Fire Ball + Fire Breath will take out most of a group spawn.
Build Up + Boost Range + Full Auto is also a quite beatuful sight to behold 
It's +160% or so damage for 9 or so seconds. You can fit a lot of AoE attacks into a 9 second space, and thus, you can wipe out pretty much everything in a spawn in that duration. I would say that's what lends Blasters good survivability, damage mitigation via quick damage-dealing.
90 seconds base recharge ain't too bad, either. Slotted for recharge, down to 45 seconds. Then you can factor in Hasten and recharge set bonuses. It's down to 30 seconds or so with Hasten active without set bonuses, I'd guess. I consider that pretty fast-cycling.
Also *very* good for some cheap and very effective set bonuses. 5x Adjusted Targeting (ToHit/End is skippable) will give you two lots of either +9%/+11% accuracy bonus, +2% damage, and +10% recharge. That set is very cheap, and recharge is a heavy focus in what it enhances. They're a cheap way of getting +10% global recharge, along with global +Damage and +Accuracy, as well as being great powers themselves.
You may say short term benefit but by increasing dam per end or chance to hit you are not only reducing fight duration but saving endurance in the long run. You could say that they can work out to be psuedo stamina + psuedo aid self.
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The buffs only last for a very short time and because of their long recharge, to get max benefit, both of them need to have three slots of recharge redux.
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There are 2 things wrong with this statement
1.This short buff time mixed with long recharge you have said the numbers your talking about are with a 3 slotted BU & AIM is about 45 sec of a base of 90 so already halfed with a duration of 10 sec each so after u have click this power you really only have to wait 35 sec if I am correct till that buff wear off and your next time you would use it again.
2.The most effective way of slotting them 2 power for there max benfit is not 3 slotting I find it is 5 slotting to 6 slotting the power in question for +recharge+tohit+end discount.
Gimping yourself out of these powers is not recommended for you would be lossing out of doin an on top of your current damage by 162% and a tohit of 52% in every single mob you fight. Also the point in taking these power is to do insane spike damage.
Im no blaster expert but I would definitely not lose my Amplify and Concentration (Aim and Build Up equivilants) in my Sonic/Mental blaster!
With only two slots of recharge and hasten they are up more often than not and Im not level 50 yet! And I think you can get away with two slotting them if you wanted so you can be slotting double recharge the level after you take them.
As people have said if you pop one/both and then let loose with your AoEs then you can finish off most of a mob in a couple of attacks.
Depending on my mood/the situation I will sometimes just alternate between the two of them so I have a damage boost for each mob. If I activate both I generally am going to run in and use my Nuke which can be effective on a large team.
Usually Im not a big fan of short lived buffs but in this case I don't think my blaster would be anywhere near as effective.
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Power boost + aim + build up = nova glory
with decent dmg slotting you can take out most spawns. With 4 chance for +recharge procs in my 4 main attacks, everything is up a lot quicker than you think.
The basic point is more damage = win
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I uess i kind of see shannons point. It's not all about maximising damage its Damage per amount of Endurance used. Looked at that way, I begin to see the sense.
Also, from the posts in here it looks like I shoul move away from my approach of getting lots of attacks fully slotted and instead, select a few good attack powers and make them as effective as possible through things like aim and build up.
Would that be a fair assessment?
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Build Up + Boost Range + Full Auto is also a quite beatuful sight to behold
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Why only a few attacks? Unless you're over loading with Pool powers there should be plenty of room for full suite of attacks and Aim/Build Up.
In addition to withering AoE damage enhancement, a key advantage with Aim and Build up is that they can give a one shot kill capacity when combined with the heavy hitting single target attacks. Which is great for taking out problem mobs like Sappers.
Put it this way on my Nrg/Dev Blaster Build Up is one of the powers I miss most (was created as Nrg/Nrg). And Aim with 2x Recharge Rdx (@50) is up pretty much every other mob.
I have played a few blasters now and in all of them I fail to really see the love for aim and build up.
The buffs only last for a very short time and because of their long recharge, to get max benefit, both of them need to have three slots of recharge redux. To me, thats a lot of slots for a short term benefit.
Also, it takes a few levels to get them slotted up to that point so during those levels they are even less effective than you would like.
To me it makes more sense to get some extra attacks and slot those up.
The only sensible way I see to taking aim and build up would be toward the end of a build or in a mid to high level respec.
I suspect many people will call me an idiot for this post and frankly I hope they do! I'd love to have it made3 clear to me what I am missing in these powers.