Archery / EM Blaster for Arena PvP
By
Celestial_Lord,
Posted on: 2011-03-18 07:54 in Everything about PvP
might be better off with something like rad if you're really hell bent on not doing psi.
or fire, fire is good. archery can be okay, but its a very slow set.
have you thought about a trick arrow possibility?
Simple answer, yes.
More in depth answer, depends on the team makeup.
The reason for psi/ems is simple. Delayed damage. When paired with other non-psi blasters, you lose the draw for running psi because the main chunk of damage (aka spike) isn't coming in the same as if all the damage was from psi.
There was some talk of running /fire doms with fire/ blasters. This would change how the spike landed. Instead of 1400+ damage hitting at the same time from multiple psi blasters after a delay of 2-3 seconds and all of the damage finishing around the 4-5 second mark of the spike, with a fire spike it would be basically 500-800 spikes every second over the course of 3-5 seconds.
The down side most other blasters have is that, unlike fire, its t3 blast is a relatively long activation (2.67 v 1 for blaze). The trade off here is that it does more damage due to the longer activation time. You are trading animation time for a harder hitting attack (slower attack chain) instead of a faster attack chain (and in turn a faster spike).
Maybe that answers your q... kinda not very organized on the thought process.
Would an Archery / EM Blaster be viable for Arena PvP? Yes, I know that Psi / EM is the "bees knees," but I want a Blaster that would be viable in both PvE and PvP, and I prefer weapon based sets anyway.
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