Rad/Dev more of a /dev question

So I made a rad/dev blaster last night and just screwing around in the tutorial with him I think I'll really enjoy it but I have a question about /dev. Does targetting drone make enough of a difference to make slotting for accuracy somewhat obsolete? or does it at least give you a little more freedom when slotting your primary if your torn between accuracy and damage or recharge reduction?

The thing is Targeting Drone only increases ToHit for blasters, while enhancements increase accuracy, I used to think one was better than the other but they work well together.

Well base to hit is 75% on even level minions if you put one even level acc SO that will give you 33% acc on that power, so then your chance to hit is about 99% but 95% is the cap, so anything that cons with a white name or below you will be at the cap with just one acc enhancement. Now on something that cons with a yellow name that is +1 of your level you will have 65% chance tohit and with the acc enhance it will be a total of 86.45% Chance tohit

Now with targeting drone it adds straight to your tohit chance, 14% I believe is the base it adds. So now with an unslotted targeting drone you have a 89% chance tohit and even level enemy. But with both a slotted Targeting Drone and one acc enhancement you will probably never miss about +2 levels probably higher just don't feel like doing the math right now.

However, if you are willing to take this route, IOing could be a good way to go and with Blasters putting a 6 slotted Thunderstrike set in each of your ST blasts would optimize them to the point as if you have 3 Damage SOs, 2 Recharge SOs, 2 End redux SOs, and 1 Acc SO. On top of that you get like 3.75% defense to ranged and energy/N. Energy attacks, more recovery, more base accuracy, and some movement speed.

In short, if you don't want to take the IO route I would still slot 3 damage, 1 recharge, 1 end redux, and 1 acc. Accuracy multiplies tohit ensuring that you wouldn't miss often.

However, you don't have take my word for it since you are a rad and it comes with a def debuff that would go well with the added tohit, but that is just my ideal SO slotting.

Sorry if it is too much to read.

Edit: Sorry just looked at Mids but, a Thunderstrike set is like 4 Damage SOs, 2 recharge SOs, 2 end redux SOs, and 2 Acc SOs. So you are getting like 10 enhancement for the slots of 6 plus some killer set bonuses

ok... while I appreciate the effort of your post I'm at work... and after reading it my brain is officially ready to shut down lol

So basically, I will want to slot targetting drone for +to hit and still have one +acc in everything else?

Yes

Just to add to this IO thought, if you 6 slot Targetting Drone with Gaussian's, you get some good little buffs to defense and damage, and Gaussian's gives a Build Up proc, which adds to your damage and to hit.

Check out mids hero designer for exact numbers, but a quick example:

Base Accuracy for Nutrino Bolt is 75%. 1 level 50 IO accuracy brings that to 106.8%. Add in targetting drone slotted with a single lvl50 io +to hit buff and that number jumps to 131.6%. Targetting drone one slotted with the lvl50 io and no accuracy io in Nutrino Bolt makes your base accuracy 92.4%, and three slotted brings that up to 97%.

Now, in archery, due to the higher base accuracy, I never had a problem with skipping slotting accuracy enhancements while levelling. With Rad, I don't know if the -def aspect of the powers would make up for the deficit, but at a quick glance, I would say it would be worth a shot if you want to try it.

Thanks Miladys! I didn't know about the TDs lack of functionality while mezzed.

This is my first /dev blaster so I'm sure I'll find out all kinds of stuff I didn't know before lol.

Using sets that give alot of extra global accuracy can allow you to skip Targetting Drone entirely. Especially if you also slot a Kismet +6% accuracy IO (which is actually a to hit bonus and not accuracy) in a defense power like Cloaking device or combat jumping.

(I have an Arch/Dev/Munitions that only took Web Grenade, Caltrops, Trip Mine, and Time Bomb from the secondary and I did extremely well with it, reaching level 50 without attaining even the first debt badge. My only blaster able to make that claim before or since.)

In tough situations where your accuracy is debuffed you can rely on the global accuracy bonuses from your sets plus the boost from Aim, Geas of the Kind Ones Accolade, and the occasional yellow inspiration.