Best Blaster to solo the game?

I have solo'd villain side multiple times on Brutes, every story arc. I am wondering how hard it would be to do that with a Blaster, and Blueside. Every story arc, every mission? I do tend to set at -1/+0, just for speed, and I already have to shut off Experience earning often.

What would be the best Blaster for doing this?

-1/+0 every mission on every arc? I'm guessing just EB's and no AV's?

Just pick one you think you'll enjoy playing for that length of time. There's nothing at that level of difficulty that a blaster wont breeze through.

Hah yeah just from the thread title I assumed you had a more ambitious difficulty setting in mind. There is no blaster combination that cannot kill any boss in the game at -1, +0, or +1 and on x1 you'll almost never have to fight more than one boss at a time. I found trapdoor to be a pushover for all of my blasters, for example. I think weakened honoree might have killed a couple of them once only to have them rise of the phoenix back up and finish him off. Gets the job done, eh?

Yeah, I do the -1/+0 cause its already a month commitment or so lol. So, let me rephrase the question.

What Blaster has the easiest time soloing in the game? I'm actually thinking traps as the secondary, because if i needed to I could take my time and set up kill positions with trops/bombs/mines. Also considering that the mobs will be pretty much everything the game has, and every map, and every situation.

Easiest time... I really think you're pretty much okay with anything on that difficulty. People will say fire blast is the easiest but they're all going to be very very okay with what you're shooting for. Like, do you have any interest in beam rifle? That would be fun and it shreds anything placed before it. If not beam, perhaps dual pistols strikes your fancy? Even the oldies like energy and elec can dish out plenty of hurt. Energy is in fact a good option here as it does solid damage and the knockback is almost incapable of harming your kill speed when you're only blasting a couple guys at a time. Meanwhile, power push is great against tough bosses as few of them are immune to KB.

I agree that finding a set you'll enjoy is the most important consideration here. As the others have said, any blaster will cruise thru content at -1x0.

Having said that, rad/em has the ability to stack stuns by level 20, and /em has several nice utility powers. (actually, /em can stack stun all by itself by level 20)
Ice blast has the ability to stack holds by lvl 26. Paired with /em, you'll have quite a few mitigation options.
Ice/Ice is very easy to solo as well.

Energy/Energy is a lot of fun.

I breeze through most missions on +1/0.

Just remember to take flight and get hover and the world is your oyster...

I mainly play Blasters.

I mainly solo Blasters.

Out of all the combos I've tried, nothing compared to the ease of soloing my

Fire/Ice - Sgt. Elemental.

The excellent AoE damage, coupled with decent ST damage. When combined with Shiver and Ice Patch. He hit 50 way to fast, solo...

I'm still shocked at how effective Shiver is against bosses!

At those difficulty settings, survivability isn't much of an issue. In that case, I'd go for killing speed. A fire/elec or fire/energy blapper is your best bet there.

I have been toying with the idea of a Dark/Dark/Soul Mastery Blaster for solo missions. It has a Self Heal, cone immob, targeted AoE stun, and ST hold in the primary/secondary. Soul Mastery with Oppressive Gloom will stack well with dark pit. It will fit a theme and be effective in solo missions.

Anything with mental manipulation is good for solo. Drain Psyche slotted for heal can give you 30 seconds of 40-100 hp regeneration per second turning your blaster into a mini regen scrapper.

I love blasters and solo them mostly. Get their defenses to 20-25% and some decent smashing/lethal resistance and you will do your job of killing them before they kill you. Blasters just rock the damage and if you can get them some survivability you will have no problem running them solo. I solo +0/x4 to x6. I die occasionally but as someone said that is what have rise of the phoenix for; dying is just another high damage attack my blaster has!

I wish there were more non elemental attacks in Blaster pools. But when life gives you lemons... Okay, I did an experiment last night, Fire/Dark. Took him through 6-7 DFB. Wow, the difference between him and the NRG/NRG Blaster I leveled there is nothing short of extreme. I felt like I was personally killing half the mobs while the rest of the team just mopped up. Probably wrong there, But it was a way different feel than Nrg/Nrg.

Now, Dark secondary fits my concept, but I love making new characters. I have seen Fire/Mental, Fire/Elec, Fire/Ice all mentioned above. How does Dark compare to those, or why are they better? I think I see it, Mental has 2 Aoes, plus the AoE self regen/recov. Its first attack is ranged. So when held/slept you can still spam a 3 attack chain no matter what. Dark is mostly ST, and while I love the damage buff, it requires PB, and that's not a thing I want required, even if I plan to play this in a lot closer than my nrg/nrg.

Energy/Energy is one of the safer Blasters I have ever played. Good damage, and all the KB is good mitigation for you while you annihilate things. Assault Rifle can be okay as well, if you lead off with M80 for that same KB.

But yes... you should hopefully be able to go to x2 or x3 on a Blaster solo, especially if you build for some defense. It seems a shame not to, with all your AOEs. That's part of the big fun as a Blaster!

I have two L50 Blasters that I play regularly. Neither of them are Incarnated past
a T3 Alpha.

Are they the "Best" solo Blasters? I have no idea, but I like both of them, and
both of them can solo the game at the settings you suggest without any difficulty
at all, although they each have very different feel and playstyles.

The oldest (from Day 1) is an E3 Blaster that soloed the content back in the I-1
to I-3 days, on a seriously sub-optimal build. After I9 Inventions, and a much
needed respec it's now cake for him. He plays like a mini-controller with several
holds, and the ability for soft-control via End Drain...

Not a fast playstyle, but very, very safe and still quite effective.

The second is a Fire/Energy, with a nice build from the get-go, and it's easy
for him... Fire really does a LOT more damage and most stuff is crispy fried
right away... Energy keeps him safe from anything close due to Total Focus,
Bonesmasher and Power Thrust. He can be a very effective Blapper, but Fire
makes that mostly unnecessary unless you prefer that playstyle.


Regards,
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Okay I've seen comments on -1/0 settings, which I think I can throw toilet paper at mobs and complete this setting.

I would like to up the up the ante and ask what players are doing on the opposite end of spectrum of a 4/8 settings, no Malta and no DE of course.

Right now I am running AR Device for this.

How would you say Rad/MM compares to Fire in terms of soloing -
Damage, resists, single target vs aoe?

At a quick glance looks like Rad has a shorter range on most of its attacks?

Thanks!

Returning player thinking of rolling a blaster

P.S Forgot to mention that I won't have a tons of inf and will be playing as a premium player, so SO's or possibly IO's/cheap set IO's when comparing..

I like Ice/Ice. Decent single target, decent AoE, holds for exotic sitiations, knockdown patches and slows for safety. Can be range capped. Has one of the more intriguing nukes. Very versatile.

Lewis