Elec/Decives or Nrg/Devices

I am in a rather big pickle. I am rerolling my Traps/Elec defender to a blaster, but can't decide between taking Elec/ or Nrg/

I know the Nrg synchs with Devices well, but Elec/, at the same time, works as well

Any opinions? I'd take anything at this point

I'm suprised as well. I thought I would have loved it, but....I didn't

Just not a defender kind of person, I guess. Never made one I liked.

Also, it -kinda- is a tech toon. He's a mutant, with the powers of Technopathy and Technokinesis

Yea, people suggested that, but Psi won't work. He can only communicate with machines, and although Psi/Dev would be great, just think Nrg or Elec would work better.

Think I'm going with Nrg/Dev. I have a friend that is going to help me with the mids, and getting "perma-Hover" or a style with Hover is always on. That way, I can turn KB into Knockdown.

Well speaking from experience, I loved my Energy/Devices Blaster, but she came into the game back in issue 2 when things were a lot different. I ended up deleting her at the end of issue 13 and remade her into Energy/Energy because I personally found Devices to be lacking seriously in fun and effectiveness factor.

Trip Mine use to be a demon and had a lot of use even in teams, but now thats not really true anymore. Gun Drone has been improved a lot and I am one of the few that loves that power.

Elec/ or Energy/ works well with /Devices so you can't go wrong either way.

I am going to go Nrg/Dev/Elec.

The Electric Pool Power really rounds out the powers.

Thanks for the feedback mates

I'm speaking on the basis of playing a non-energy /dev blaster, but knockback might well be your friend with /dev.

Caltrops are a staple tool for /dev as a defense because the AI for melee-preferring enemies handles caltrops very poorly. If you hover out of reach, they will instantly recognize that they have no path to you and start pulling out pistols, shurikens, etc. However, they do not recognize the obstruction of caltrops and will frequently run onto the trops, realize they've run onto caltrops, run for the edge of the caltrop patch (away from you), get off the caltrops, realize they want to melee you, turn around to run at you over the caltrops, realize they're on caltrops, and repeat. This entire time they are running around rather than attacking you. What tends to end this cycle of wackiness is them getting past the center of the caltrop patch before they realize they're on caltrops - if you then knock them back over the patch again before they get to you, they'll begin the cycle again.

One thing I like to do against a group of strong melee-favoring enemies such as Cimerorans is throw down caltrops between me and the spawn, place a trip mine on the near edge of the spawn to get the Defiance bonus from the long-activation power (since /dev, as people will remind you endlessly, lacks Build Up), and then open fire. Most of them die running back and forth on Caltrops, the first group to get across is blown back by the land mines, and generally nobody but the engineers even bothers to try their ranged attacks because they know they have a path to me even if it's completely terrible. Mostly they die before they actually manage to complete their attempt to chase me down. That's how my /dev blaster was farming the wall before I started buying her any IOs - who needs softcap defense when nobody ever figures out how to attack you?

Well first off I'll say that I'm surprised you didn't like Traps. I've got both a Devices blaster and a Traps Defender and while I enjoy both Traps is made of awesome while Devices... Devices means well.

Of the two you suggested I'd say Energy over Electric. I'd also suggest not going the hoverblaster route. As Ben says Devices isn't a set that works well with Hover, to many powers work best when you're on the ground.

Radiation might work as an alternate primary. It'll be reasonably thematic (he can control an anti-matter generator or something).

Aye energy is definitely the better choice there. Plus you can use the knockback to push them into the mines if they are being stubborn. Caltrops + knockback also ensures that enemies won't be getting near you.

Actually Hover works great with devices. I user an AR/Dev build with +100% rech for pvp. Hover allows staying out of close/melee range with no grounding while the high rech allows decimation.

Still the build works very well in PVE. Its slightly more single target, than other AR/dev builds,but the high dps is great for the boss/av fights. Even if you eschew pvp, and add in aoe galore, hover and dev can work nicely together. CD+stealth io add a chunk of def, while TD adds nice tohit. I dont need build up, and my attack chain is up so quickly defiance generation isnt an issue. The whole BU vs TD thread is more of "which flavor do you like? Chocolate or vanilla?".

Its a matter of taste in the end(no pun intended). What is most important is building something you enjoy playing in a style that is most comfortable to you. Admittedly , dicovering this combination might take time, but youll learn a lot from it and be a better player in the end.


...and we need many more "better" players. Seriously...like as if we could mail order some...just add water..etc