Any new Blaster powers coming?

recently back i was excited to make some new toons and i really like blasters, but i noticed a few things missing that i thought might make its way to blasters by this point. Just currious if there has been any word on..


Dark blast

Dark melee secondary


Radiation melee secondary.. (i know this has been a poplar request over the years for tanks and scrappers, dont see why it wouldnt make sence now with blasters getting radiation blast.)


anways, has there been any offical word on new sets coming or adding more of the cross power expansions like they have done over the last few years?

I would love for Blasters to get a new Secondary, we are in bad need of one... Martial Arts would be a nice choice, from my angle. Don't care as much about Rad melee.

As someone who likes to match primaries with secondaries, I would love to see a Rad and Sonic Manipulation set, as well as a Dark Manipulation set if they ever port over Dark Blast. However, with i21 bringing the ability to start a Corruptor as a Hero from level 1, and the fact that you can make them Dark/Dark, Sonic/Sonic, or Rad/Rad, I doubt we will see Manipulation sets for any of the above. Yes, they are different ATs and can play VERY differently from one another, but given the amount of other stuff the Devs are working on (based on recent announcements), complementary secondaries are probably low priority.

That being said, they have already announced 2 new power sets, one of which to be released with i21, and the other one to be released (most likely) shortly thereafter. One can only hope that some more power sets are also in the works, and that a blaster secondary or two is among them, since we STILL hold the record for fewest number of secondaries out of any of the 10 regular archetypes...

well i havent been around for a few years.. Played a lot before the whole power set proliferation thing hit. i recall back that they were talking about what they were planing on adding a year+ down the road. castle would post about stuff that was in the works for down the road, in random posts talking about other powers and such.

Back then rad melee was talked about often, but perhaps not as much now sence they added tons of powers to all the AT's (atleast other than blaster secondary) I know rad melee was talked about often back when i was playing a lot.. the game has been around 7 years now, so perhaps rad isnt the in thing these days.


I like the idea of an MA secondary.. AR/MA could be lots of fun

I'm all for a direct port of Dark Blast to blasters.

But if it gets gutted like Psi Blast, to cobble together a quick and easy Dark Manipulation secondary, no thanks. If TT gets shunted to a secondary, for instance, it's clear people will be rolling Fire/Dark instead.

I don't get why they can't just take Dark Blast and Dark Melee and then go from there. There can't be that much in terms of new powers really.

Though on second glance it looks like we are locked in to not getting a proper dark blast primary due to the Soul Mastery Ancillary Pool. It has both Night Fall and Soul Tentacles.

I am shocked they haven't done Martial Arts as a secondary. Making Maelstrom as DP/MA blaster was just taunting us.

It's official: Dark Blast, like Psychic Blast before it, will have powers removed to pad the secondary.

We have enough cookie cutter aim-3blasts-2aoe-1mez-1snipe-1nuke primaries already, so I was really looking forward to another controllish primary (like Sonic) for blasters. Dark Pit's always been an underrated power, and got significantly better with IOs. Oh well.

Dark Blast isn't doomed to bottom tier yet, but it will need for NightFallTorrent to not be as miserable as it sounds, and it will need the hold to be a solid 3rd blast.

Anyway, if you've been wanting to make a Dark Blast corruptor, but holding off to see what happened with the blaster primary, I think it's safe to go ahead and roll that corruptor now. If you're waiting to see what happens with the blaster secondary, though, we'll have to wait a little longer and see!

Do blasters get a HEAL? Granted its a terrible attack and poor heal, but I never would have thought they'd leave Life Drain.

I wonder if the chance for KB is 60% in Nightfall? Maybe they widened the cone some?

How would Soul Mastery for Blasters work with Dark Blast? You could with enough recharge and endurance(Hello Ageless) spam TT+Nightfall x 2 and destroy everything. And if Dark Manipulation gets Oppressive Gloom as well, that's instant mag 4 stun on everything that gets near you.

So glad this one is FINALLY gonna be proliferated. I am hoping for a "Archery type LOTSA ST in the primary. The scondary can be all AoE, I don't care. Just lemme hit ST's HARD! ANd what will the Nuke be??