Any new Blaster powers coming?

Considering that they removed Hiberate in Ice Armor for Stalkers I think odds are they altered or renamed the powers available in the epics.

Yup, Nightfall was combined with Torrent to make Umbral Torrent.

You mean Blackstar?

Originally Posted by reiella Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right .

New Nightfall has KB. If you spam that, then you'll have to switch to Moonbeam to hit them.

Speaking of Moonbeam... it's one of the three very long range snipes out there. So... fun.

Well all blasters have a heal they can use, Its from medicine pool.. and honestly its not as bad as people like to think it is. Its definatly saved my bacon more than once.. (i have an AR/dev blaster with medicine and TP, My Borg themed hero)

You wont beleive how many times ive been thanked by a defender for using the medicine clear mind ablitiy, and they are always so shocked its coming from a blaster ! the emp on the team gets hit from a mez, and its blaster to the rescue ! trust me you will always be the first person on the list for keeping CM, when they know you are the anti-mez back up


especially these days with IO's people get so into cycling their highest damage powers and big red numbers, and they forget its about a team effort, sometimes taking a couple seconds to use a power that doesnt do damage is the best thing for the team.


Totally psyched for a dark secondary... Energy/dark could be a Blast ! (pun intended) Or a dark/fire... that extra AOE goodness from the secondary, upping your surviablity with the -tohit on your blasts..

Or even better, Rad/dark that has some major themeatic ideas...


Man when is I21 Coming !!

I just want to be clear on one thing, and this isn't a reply directed necessarily at either of the quoted posters, but Blaster Soul master doesn't actually contain Tenebrous Tentacles. It contains Soul Tentacles. There is a distinction, and thus no direct conflict, even if they are essentially the same powers.

As to Oppressive Gloom, Dark Manipulation is already having Dark Pit moved into it, so there's no way they'd get another AoE disorient in the same set.


On the topic of Proliferation itself, it might be fun remaking my Dark/Psy CoT defender as a Dark/Mental Blaster instead.

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I believe it was talked about in one of the Ustreams or here on the boards (by a dev) about a Martial Manipulation being in the works but far from released and no promises.

But don't quote me on that.

It was stated in Ustream that Blasters are "done" as far as proliferation is concerned, and that Martial Arts is something they could do with existing powers out there. So not a promise, but at least it's acknowledged.

*added*

LeBlanc, Von Krieger has an overview of the Ustream chat in the General Discussion section, and there it said "Dark Blast's damage is pretty average in ST and AoE, but has significant control and tohit debuff." So the focus will be on control and probably middle of the road for ST and AOE. Not sure if that's hard-hitting enough for you, but I saw you saying elsewhere that Dual Pistols is weak... even though it's middle of the road as well.

They're exactly the same powers. It would be the same thing as making an exact clone of Hibernate and calling it "Freeze Tag". Simply changing the name doesn't make it a different power.

I don't think Tenebrous Tentacles will make it into Blaster Dark Blast, because it will open the door for a lot of complaints about powers that were changed or removed from sets in the past because of the exact same kind of conflict.

Oppressive Gloom is in Soul Mastery as well. We'll still be getting the ability to stack it with Dark Pit, just not within the same set. And there is no confusion about it being a different name either, Oppressive Gloom is called Oppressive Gloom in Soul Mastery too.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

They're not exactly the same.

Soul Tentacles completely lacks any kind of -tohit debuff.

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Agreed. AND Soul Tentacles has DOUBLE the recharge and close to HALF of the ARC (per mids).

And the Devs HAVE duplicated before in the PPPs.

Arachnos Soldiers can have both Wide Area Web Grenade AND Web Envelope from Mace Mastery PPP. Both ranged AOE immobilizers. They are just as "identical" to each other as TT and ST would be.

Here's to Tenebrous Tentacles being in Dark Blast Blaster Primary.!!!

Going to be?

Soul Tentacles has always been a cone power (a near copy/paste of Tenebrous Tentacles, which has also always been a cone power, Soul Tents is just not as good[smaller cone, no tohit debuff, etc]).

(Soul Tentacles is the power in the Soul Mastery PPP, not a power in/going to be in any blast set.)

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I rather doubt they'll get either of those (Especially not Dark Servant).

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Except for Archery and Sonic, in Issue 5. Unless you just meant a brand-new secondary, in which case... yeah, the only one since release was Mental Manipulation, which is a modified Dominator port.