Blasters surpurflous?

Do you honestly believe Blasters are balanced with dominators or corruptors?

Not more fun to play or like it better? Not does it function at minimal levels set forth. Soa's make blasters look so horribly bad, I dont even have the heart to bring that up

Are they balanced?

Straight out removing the crash from nukes would be a nice start and no I don't think the damage would have to be modified.

True, I suppose player ability will have ALOT more to do with any play ability then an actual build.

Like you said earlier, the more time you spend on a blaster, the less it seems problematic and the more it just is.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Sure, the devs are supposed to listen to their customers, mister business 101 out there. And if I decide to start suggesting that the devs change the game from being about superheroes and supervillains to being about clowns that is my right as well, and technically Paragon Studios is supposed to pay attention to me. But I hope strongly that they assume a meth-head somehow managed to hack into my forum account and make paper airplanes out of my posts, because I hope they recognize stupid when they see it. I assume they will recognize futile just as accurately.

Uhhh, what? Dom fireball does 68 damage. Not 136! You doubled it somehow. I didn't mention it because obviously the average dom does not take a specific epic, and the clever dom takes sleet and not fireball in the first place. Dom epic aoes also have either long recharges or ludicrous endurance costs. Look at explosive blast and join me in a hearty chuckle. It's true though that if you do take an epic aoe, you will have a much easier time clearing basic spawns than a dom who has chosen to focus only on primary and secondary. My point is that blasters don't have this problem.

Bring up fiery assault if you want, but you haven't made an iron clad case there. Consume is not actually an attack for any practical purposes. Combustion is, yet it is sadly very poor. Blaster combustion may or may not be better but blaster combustion is one of the worst blaster aoes available.

Only two dom secondaries get anything like buildup. A third gets aim. None of them get power boost AND a damage buff, but even if they did, power boost doesn't do anything for damage. It's nice for controls I guess but I don't see a major need for it since the dominator inherent is basically the same thing, but for mag instead of duration.

Ever notice how dangerous ghost widow is when she's gone from full to defeated in twenty seconds? That's what I'd say for each of those examples, in fact. Now, you could say that on a pick up team that isn't likely to be capable of wiping out content so trivially control is far more useful. I would agree. In general, though, the more powerful your team gets the less control matters, but damage never stops being important.

Ice storm would be a poor example if you're trying to demonstrate that doms get powers that enable them to quickly defeat large quantities of things. Fine power but it ain't fast.

You're right, I haven't played psi, sonic or elec blasters. Psi and elec obviously underperform rather badly, except possibly at pvp for all I know. Sonic is quite good but is much better as a defender set, which is why I have two level 50 /sonic defenders. It is low aoe but then it isn't really a set that's designed for spawn clearing.

All three of these sets, of the ten total blaster primaries, twelve next issue, can make up a substantial amount of aoe if they have one of the three of six secondaries that contain lots of aoe. Your odds of randomly rolling a blaster that actually has bad aoe are right now three in fourteen, and will soon be one in eight.

Looking at the dominator sets, the ones that strike me as "good (for a dominator set) for aoe" are plant/, fire/, /fire, and /thorns. Your chances of randomly producing a dominator with good aoe are about one in two. One of these ATs is better than the other at aoe.

If the dom has soul drain, she doesn't have sleet or fireball. Instead she has dark obliteration. Is it a bad power? Well no, 48 DPA on a taoe is perfectly good. Unfortunately it also has a 32 second timer and hits about three fifths as hard as similar blaster attacks.

If you're fighting ghost widow you're either running the Daedalus arc, which literally no one has ever done, or you're on the STF. Since the STF is what we were talking about, I assume we're still talking about that. So, who said anything about "solo?"

edit: I just noticed that you've now implied that an "average dominator" is going to solo ghost widow, pfffff hahaha.

I see again the same 2 people complaining Shubbie and Fan.

30+ pages of a 2 person issue?

It really is simple - if you don't like blasters don't play with them. Don't make them. Don't invite them to your ERP. Don't let them in your SG. You can camp in the PvP zones and assault everyone that enters.

Meanwhile I will somehow find the courage and strength to keep playing my blaster - knowing that somehow I will miss out on the wonder of your company.