A psi/ment was enjoyable when fighting clockwork, indeed
Psi/Ment. a good combination, prefer ice/ment. me self. holds, slows stack nice with ment. and your damage doesn't get resisted as much (ie. robots ((other than clockwork)) The ability to stack holds on bosses. And then there is blizzard..heh run rabbits run..
"...well I have wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, Doctor and I am happy to state I finally won out over it." Elwood P Dowd (from the movie Harvey)
Ice cream. My blaster is made of ice cream. Tasty, tasty ice cream.
-= idspispopd =-
[size=1]Arc ID: 3155 - Project Prometheus (Seeking Feedback, now with less invalidation)[/size]
Lead. An unending stream of hot, burning metal that generates lots and lots of lovely orange numbers and can pull the aggro even from an Ice Tanker.
UNION @Flitz 50, Lead Hose 50, Red Rag 50
DEFIANT Rose Bloodthorn 34
VIGILANCE Captain Caledonia 20 - Yeah, I made toons on the French server coz we only had 4 back then (might have to transfer/recreate them on one of the US servers)
..and many more!
My newest blaster, ice/elec, is made of unjustified courage and surprisingly good luck. 
Fire... Hotter than the sun.
Longboard is a kid from california. people of the Sun. While taking very few choices from the secondary sets, Longbaord burns holes through mobs of folks with so many AOE and single target attacks.
running into the middle of mobs while the team goes, "suicidal blaster" and I hit Inferno, and the whole Mob drops. Or soemtimes, they die without even giving a death animation. inf act, they are still standing sometimes. still LOOKING like theyre alive, but no... theyre all dead.. and the scrapper goes "AWWW, come on, save some for me" and the troller goes "AWWW man, I was gonna perma hold the whole group" and i go " naw, it's cool, I jsut want to win now"
My blaster is elec/fire and is very durable, particularly with her Phoenix power. I wouldn't say she's unstoppable, but with the right strategy it's getting harder and harder for her to get beat or even break a sweat. I'm loving it.
A'KO SMASH!!!
My Energy/Energy/Munitions Blaster is made of rolling nuclear barrage. Between Nova, LRM Rocket, Ionic Judgement, and 175% recharge, spawns melt like they just got dropped into a quasar. Who needs durability when you can turn your opponents' armour (along with your opponents) into greasy shadows on the far wall?
As for my Archery/Electric/Electric Blaster? Thwippy AoE death. Being able to turn enemies into swiss cheese (or colanders for robots, I suppose) with the touch of a button works better than all the resistance in the world. And then the one boss that survived the AoE chain gets perma-held by my pair of holds until I can fill him with (more) holes too :3
"A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head." Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates
MA Arcs: #12285, "Small Fears", #106553, "Trollbane", #12669, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"
To listen to a lot of posters in these forums, blasters are made of cheap whine.
That wasn't a typo.
Hello all. Ive been around a long time in the game, yet have never really been one to care for forum banter. I like to keep my gaming in game so to speak.
) had only its first 3 month badge. Seemed to shine far above my allies.
However Since my earliest days on COH way back in the early months, I have been mainly favoring the blaster. Now that doesnt mean I have a ton of 50 blasters, in fact I only have one, as I deleted every one that failed to meet my standards.
My standards where simple, but due to the early power set limits for blasters, thier choice, especially in the 2ndary sets, was sorely lacking the key tool blasters really needed to be on par with thier fellow warrior castes, the scrapper.
Then after weeks of waiting when the rumors and later solid info where given, we where given one update a new power combo set for blasters I had dreamed of having since that very first Elec/Fire blaster.
Psi/Ment is the combo that I refer to, and knew the day they first uttered it was in line to pass into the hands of my favored AT that perhaps finally Id find the tools Id need to take a blaster to cap and not delete him in disgust.
Psi blasts quickly proved itself to me. psi tornado especially remains to me the core of my attack chain. I put together a synapse tf at 15, knowing psi dmg would cut through the clocks like a hot knife through buttah, and despite being on a team with many folks who had max vet badges for the time, while my 2nd baby account( this one I am logged into here atm
Infact as we went on it was clear the team was struggling and the one and only time I ever had, I adjusted my build plan on the fly and put off persuing stamina by 20, as I needed certain tools immediatly to help my team. This was a pure pug btw I did this for the sake of strangers.
During this the other blaster a bloke with max vet badges for the time, who was exemping down to help, sent me tells saying how impressed he was by my playing and ability out blast his much older more developed character. I mentioned I was no newb and in fact had been dreaming of psi blasts and what they could do to things like clocks for a long time. From then on they all pretty much rallied on my blaster and foccussed the buffs through him etc and our pace rapidly increased well past what it had been with the standard tank on point with all buffs centered through him.
It was in that moment I began to really understand the potential of my blaster, and suddenly saw the real fact that blasters had been decieved by the general population for quite some time.
I went through no number of build attempts once I hit 50, switching around a power here, tweaking a few slots there, trying to find the right feeling for me. Each was an evolution, a step from what I had tried, thought,felt, and now knew what was needed to be my best, not as a pve or pvp player, but as a BLASTER.
Now days I tend to hear regular comments like man how are you not dieing when my brute is, or man last night I was on that TF you ran and the tank was pretty much a piker with you there etc. I do not say that to boast, but so you blasters know you to have that potential to.
To be a great blaster, is to be the ultimate omni being. All you need is to look at what any and all need to survive and find the best way to put those aspects into the blaster concept that appeals to you most. A blaster is not just about dps which comes very easy for the AT. Its about dealing that DPS in a steady, deadly manner, while avoiding the dirt nap so many blasters seem to frequently partake in during adventures.
So when you make that blaster, YOU make that decision. Will you be Glass? Or will you be IMPERVIUM!