New secondary for the solo blaster or corruptor: Bruiser
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HeroJunkie,
Posted on: 2009-10-12 09:05 in Suggestions and Ideas
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im just going to say..../no. that would be totaly gimping to the blaster or corruptor.
Well, my blasters don't use their secondaries as much anymore, since the increase to blaster ranged damage. I actually gave up on blasters there for awhile, except for my ice/elec blapper, which I still play sometimes and enjoy. But now, with good ranged damage, I find myself enjoying blasters again, but also taking few powers from the blaster secondaries.
I think some protection, possibly in the form of one or more aggro drawing pets would be a great help to my blasters. In addition, this would save the developers the trouble of making the Leader or Commander AT, which has been suggested as a mastermind-like AT with more personal attacks.
There might be some balance issues to address, but I bet plenty of people would like this.
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yeah. we can tell by how many people have replied so far. /endsarcasm
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First of all, Blaster secondaries are essential to a Blaster who wants to solo, and if you ignore them, I can see why you would have problems. Second of all, Blaster sets are tagged "support." What you're asking for is not a set a Blaster could have, so you are in effect asking for a brand new AT. I'm not actually AGAINST the idea of such an AT, mind you, but you can't sell that as a new powerset. Finally, giving Blasters self-protection would really skew their balance with the offensive numbers they have, meaning that if such an AT were ever made, I wouldn't expect anything near Blaster damage out of it.
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Originally Posted by HeroJunkie
Well, my blasters don't use their secondaries as much anymore, since the increase to blaster ranged damage. I actually gave up on blasters there for awhile, except for my ice/elec blapper, which I still play sometimes and enjoy. But now, with good ranged damage, I find myself enjoying blasters again, but also taking few powers from the blaster secondaries.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Teaming is usually more fun but for those who like to solo or can't find a team or just don't want to buff, heal or blap, how about a secondary that soaks damage for you. A bruiser, like the thug MM pet. This brute or tank would have some sort of minor taunt (affects 5 targets max), be tough, have super strength powers. I would be neat if you could choose a samurai instead of a bruiser, too.
This suggestion is probably not in keeping with tradition, but the game is evolving and I thnk it would be fun to try.