Blasters surpurflous?

Well, playing with terrible people and playing terribly. A couple posts ago he was arguing that blasters strictly require four lucks per minute of survival. The assumption here is apparently that ios don't exist and that doing anything other than standing in one place while enemies attack is cheating. Also pool powers don't exist and the only way to get inspirations is to buy them from a vendor, you certainly don't get loads of them for free by killing things.

The part that confuses me is arcana apparently maintaining that blasters are in fact deficient because a dev at one point said so even though her own experience contradicts that. This currently seems to be the sticking point that continues to prop up A_F's bizarre argument.

Has anyone considered that perhaps the deficiency here is in assuming that "the average player" is always the best balance metric?

The last time you asked me to put up numbers to justify something, you'd just come off of a whirlwind tour of ignoring my and everyone else's numbers for, well, since approximately October 2008. I wisely avoided wasting any additional time appeasing you. What I did do was accurately point out that no amount of proof from any source will ever make you happy.

It seems that you hate blasters with a burning passion. This is ironic as blasters are among the top purveyors of fire damage. Have you considered starting a thread on how badly SS/FA brutes suck? They're just about as flaming.

What I would like is for Defiance to give defense alongside the damage buff, with AoE's getting the better end of the defense buff(as they currently give a lesser damage buff from defiance). Similar to what was done with DP's Hail of Bullets.

This would make a solo blaster's life a whole lot easier.

Average player MUST be the balance metric.

Unless you are considering taking blaster out of basic archetypes and putting it into advanced archetype.

This is actually funny since Soa being a prestige archetype is much easier and more effective to play than a blaster.

Funny that.

Also the problem with blasters is a very specific one.

No one, really say blasters have a problem before 40, before 40 anything can be dealt with by just applying overwhelming damage or avoiding problematic enemies, ie Cot.

Post 40 unless you are leveling strictly in mission architect, trying to find the few easy enemies among the sea of problematic ones becomes a non starter.

This is where blasters fall on their face, at 50 and incarnate it becomes even worse since everyone with a bare minimum of effort is now outfitted with a nuke.

Yes post 10bil marketing geniuses can outfit multiple rare sets and purples and make a blaster effective, though funny not as effective as a cor, def or soa still, but effective.

THe problem lies between these areas.

Most players will never see more than a few rare io sets or a handful of purples, so balancing around that is not really a suitable solution. Also the devs have said many many many MANY MANY times the game will not be balanced around Io's. Especially not around purples.

Blasters still have the highest damage modifiers and easily do more damage than every other AT.
The problem is, they aren't very survivable. This never used to be an issue before everyone became obscenely powerful with IOs and now Incarnates. Their survivability was given to them by buffs, debuffs, controls and heals. The problem is that with IOs and Incarnates, everyone but the Blaster is already a Tank - the traditional team format has gone out the window and even when you get a buffer in the team they rarely bother applying them.

It isn't a Blaster issue, it is a playstyle issue - no-one's playstyle meshes with the Blaster AT anymore.

couple of things, how many times have the LRSF been nerfed? and I know purples came in way after it debued, but I dont remember if it was in before Io's. Av's had their stats changed, the game has changed alot since it came out, now isnt then, its not challenging anymore.

My point is if you remember when it first came out Dominators and stalkers were in an uproar because they never got invited, except for the pity spot....

Because stacked Buff/debuff overrode any other need in the game.

Also AT diversification is kinda a snarky joke I make about the devs every once in a while, its kind of a little poke harkening back to Enhancement diversification.

No I dont think teams should be limited, but AT's NEED to be brought up to par with each other in an objective sense or players will sit them.

Now I couldnt tell you exactly by how much, or exactly what makes blasters weak, but I think 500 posts of arguing back and forth and the fact that this topic has popped up on and off for 2+ years shows there is a problem and if they ever want to make anything harder or challenging they need to fix some of these problems.

As an example, Dual pistols still looks like junk when compared to Archery.....Gravity still looks bad next to Plant, things like this.