Blasters for pvp!

Hey just returning to CoX..

Is blasters any good at pvp? or are they just glass cannons that gets melted after five seconds that made me which I had gone Corruptor instead?

Blasters are pretty good for PvP. You'll probably want to go Fire/EM, Psi/EM or Dark/EM.

Dark/EM is my personal favorite: Power Boost plus Life Drain plus your -tohit makes you incredibly difficult to kill, and your crowd control blast does a hefty chunk of damage even when slotted with a hold set.

would you say they out do a corruptor?

Blaster vs Corr in PvP is very much the same as it is in PvE. In a short short period of time the Blaster's higher damage and up front damage boosts from BU / AIM push them ahead in offense, and make them great KS-ers in Zone and decent quick fight enders in Arena. A Corruptor often needs to spend some real time (not much, depending on powersets only a few seconds) to apply their crippling debuffs to the target. After that, a Corruptor is usually at an offensive and defensive advantage vs their target over what a Blaster would be at, additionally the Blaster's 10 seconds of awesome will fizzle out when his BU / Aim expires. A good Corruptor usually has some type of perma debuffs, they won't expire until someone dies horribly.

In a Blaster vs Corruptor arena match, the Corr would need to inflict a -tohitt and/or -dmg debuff on the Blaster quickly in order to stay alive and turn the fight in their favor. I hear Dark Blast / Poison Corrs are still good in duels, the main debuffs cast fast and don't require heavy recharge slotting to be made perma, letting you focus on other set bonuses.

cool nice reply

Much as I like my dark blaster I have to agree with Necro. A good /Cold or /Therm of any AT will absolutely wreck a blaster - especially the /cold.

I haven't fought many /Poison corruptors yet, but the one I did find in RV I mostly broke even with.

Psi/EM BU/AIM boost range corr dead before they get in range


But I think Psi got nerfed

Defence(elusvisty) is heavily nerfed in pvp to the point where it doesn't matter, and resistance after PVP buff and DR is basically the same across the board for all ATs (except maybe MM). The only thing you need to worry about is how much HP someone has really. That said you still won't solo decent tanks or brutes nor would any Corrs, aside from maybe a few gimmicks like sappers.

I mean they can just run behind a pillar and there's nothing you can do, and if you get close they taunt, webnade/shark/judgement etc. Psi/Em is for zoning with friends imo, not for 1v1.

Pretty much all Zone PvP is zoning and hiding and cheap shots. That's WHY Blasters are so popular. Literally: Build for range -> spam sniper attacks. Of course in a 1v1 you won't kill the target, but when every Blaster on your side all snipe the same target their head asplode. It's a shame that zone PvP is so shallow as to be reduced to MAX RANGE and only consider target HP, but that's how it ended up. In an Arena duel any AT with "Buff/Deuff" sets has a natural advantage over anything else. Depending on your powersets any reasonably built Corruptor / Defender should wreck even the best Scrapper or Brute, because where they simply get an armor set and fight... fair... something like a Cold-Dark Defender almost seems like God by comparison. This problem in Arena can be averted if the Scrapper is an equally cheap *******. Look up Confront+Spiderling builds, especially if the opposing player's debuffs are mostly single target. Then they are screwed.