Blaster Secondaries

i wanted to make a new toon .
i like blasters ,brutes & doms.
i have a bunch of brutes & doms
Blasters have the fewest secondaries of any AT can we at least port some of the dom sets over to blasters to even em out like thorns an stone its only fair i think . sure i would like MA an some kind of Dark
but at this point ill take any thing new .

We've made more than a few threads that say the same thing. Hopefully we'll get at least one new secondary with the next round of power customization... whenever that is (hopefully the next issue or so).

MA gets my vote, personally.

Be nice if they looked at improving the existing secondaries. Seriously when an at goes from being the most popular on the early part of the game to somewhere around 4th or 5th in the late game, that's telling you there is a problem.

I think it would be nice if they just made double choice to powers instead of making a new secondary. Basically 2 powers to choose from. This would bring life to old toons. It would also allow players to slot Inventions they currently couldn't to allow for a different types of builds. It would also open the ground to making new toons or really have a different spin on a secondary build.

What Grey Pilgrim said. Of course, the reason Blasters have so few secondaries is the same reason Masterminds have so few primaries: the sets are unique. No other Archetype has "Manipulation" sets. True, many of the Manipulation sets use existing powers, but there are always a few totally unique powers within them, and the power sets as a whole have to be created from scratch. Whereas, if you want to give a Defender (for example) something new, the Devs need only tweak the numbers on Fire Blast and/or Thermal Radiation and proliferate them.

Blasters are due for another secondary (and even though I don't use them I think Masterminds could use another primary, but that's off topic). I think we should be top priority on the "ATs due for new powersets" list.

-Preferably, I'd like to see a Rad. Manipulation or Sonic Manipulation (to match their primary counterparts, though Sonic Manipulation is harder to imagine).
-If they decide to port over Dark Blast, I would prefer they do so while also introducing a Darkness Manipulation set.
-A secondary utilizing martial arts is also highly desirable since, for right now, Devices is really the only fitting power set for Natural origin Blasters. And who doesn't like gun-fu?!

Here is a little thing to think about.

I know everyone who plays blasters would like more secondary choices, and while we might disagree about the form they should take, how would you justify doing it outside of something like going rogue if you were at paragon studios ?


I mean pardon the pun but dual pistols was something of a one shot wonder and as is was used as a carrot to get people to buy going rogue. So how do you come up with devoting more effort to what is essentially a bait and switch kind of AT ?

Edit: TBH at this point and seeing how extremely well equipped blasters handle the new content its very unlikely I will roll another blaster. I have tried and spent tens of billions on the toons and they just aren't there. In the real world range offers a great advantage here its more than marginalized.

At any point between your initial realization that a particular character wasn't meeting one or more of your expectations and your eventual declaration that the entire archetype is useless, Another Fan, did you wonder if perhaps your problem is an internal one?

We have the worst secondaries in the whole game........... ive pretty much just accepted it at this point. 7 years and they are almost all terrible.

I only mention venge and resuscitate because they're fantastic utility powers to have on pug teams. I guess it would also have been worth mentioning that I keep a tray full of phenomenal lucks and whatever big oranges are called on all my 50s. This does not strike me as cheating as any character can easily do this without ever having to buy them on the market. So yeah, are the riders hard? Sure, until you use a couple of the many aces up your sleeve. Blasters also have enough hit points that rebirth is crazy effective on 'em.

You can say that scrappers can also leverage inspirations and incarnate powers, and you would obviously be completely correct. While these things can make anyone unkillable, though, they can't add the same amount of damage to anyone, in my opinion. Sure judgement is amazing for a scrapper but that's once every 90 seconds. Blasters get judgement too, and they should have no qualms dropping it and everything else they've got on anyone who looks at em funny with all the defensive perks they have always had access to, and newly have access to.