Opinions requested: Weakest Primary/Secondary and least synergy

Good day all, I will be starting a new alt soon and I'm looking for opinions. This thread has nothing to do with the general issue of changing Blasters. I am not doing this to prove or disprove anything about Blaster performance. I'm just looking for a "hard mode" experience.

My last Blaster project was a Energy/Devices and I was unimpressed with the project because the combo would up being more effective than I would have hoped. I'm looking for some help. Right now, I'm considering Electric/Fire, but would be open to suggestions.

I should note, that I do intend to play whatever combo to the best of my abilities and to build it with a reasonable, but not top tier invention build.

Elec/fire actually has good synergy because ring of fire fills in the gap where the tier 3 blast should be. Elec also has a pretty good TAOE and arguably the best damage type. Depending on how you feel about their respective control powers, psi blast may be gimpier than elec for your purposes. Its aoe is worse, its damage type is in some cases much worse, and its soft control elements are either tied to crappy powers or simply unreliable. In addition to a nice blast, fire also does get a good aoe in burn. I'd say psi/elec would be a pretty poor combination since both sets absolutely lavish single target powers upon you. Do you go for /elec's better DPA and damage types or do you go for psi's range and woobliness? Whoever wins, you lose.

Rad/Ice

Beam/Dark

Elec/Dev

Sonic/Fire

Well, as you well know, any suggestion will still perform and will have some possible benefits/synergy that someone can point out, hehe...


As much as I love Electric Blast, I was thinking I'd suggest Electric/Devices, since people so often point out Electric's lower damage and how the endurance drain suffers if not paired with /Electric Manipulation.

However... Psi/Devices could be a great one for this.

/Dark just seems too great (to me) to even consider it for this.

If you're thinking about the hardest Blaster combo to solo for an experienced player, I believe that is likely to be Rad/Dev.

For a novice player I would say Electric/Fire would be the worst. Its very difficult for a new player to leverage those tools.

But for an experienced player, you could get mileage out of short circuit and Fire's high damage. You could manage insps and get something out of PBAoE. Rad/Dev is going to mess with your head more, because its best when run with a very deliberate pace, something an experienced player is more likely to try to push the envelope on, and get into trouble with.

Elec/Fire is the PBAOE king, if you don't mind spending a LOT of time in melee range of a lot of angry guys. What I'm saying is, there is synergy if you have a very defense-heavy team.

I couldn't find a damn thing to do with En/Fire, on the other hand. (My first Blaster created, and like my fifth one to L50.) Very non-synergistic.

Radiation Blast is an interesting thought. It's secondary effect is all but useless after awhile so that's a plus. Devices scares me because I tend to get a lot of leverage from things like stealth and targeting drone. Hmm... I can't think of anything secondary that would be worse.

Not a blaster, but an empathy/electric blast defender was the toughest time I've had soloing. Skip the hold in the secondary.

AR/Devices. GLHF.

You might try Dark Blast/Ice Manip. There is not a lot of synergy there from what I can see. Dark Blast doesn't have great damage and suffers from a knockback cone. Ice has a few debuffs but is weak on damage. It also has a mag 2 aoe sleep as its teir 9 power.

I vote energy/fire. Both sets tend to rely on some kind of synergy from the accompanying primary/secondary of a character to excel. Energy is a keep away set that benefits from self buffs, other keep away powers, hover, etc. /fire is a pbaoe set that relys on ST dmg coming from the primary to put down bosses, and also looks to the primary to offer some kind of controls so you dont get your face smashed- even if that "control" is really fast hard hitting ST dmg.

So then we put them together. /fire offers nothing but build up for energy blast, though ring of fire is an ok attack with immob in it. energy blast does not offer any real reliable control for fire, and that control puts the foes out of the AOE of fire's attacks. hover blasting means you might as well not have a secondary. /fire reallyrelys on defense to function, a single mag one mez, for even an instant, will detoggle blazing aura and hot feet. Energy offers no ST holds, sleeps,etc to keep that mezzer at bay.

There are a fw things you can try with the pairing, like Arcana mentioned, but really nothing works well, and your attempts will feel like they maybe 50% succeeded most of the time. I have had one of these since Issue 2. He is lvl 47, and I just dont play him because the current state of blasters mechanics leaves him grasping for straws when it comes to tactics or even surviving most any situation. nothing sucks more then trying to figure out how to leverage nrg torrent, explosive blast, pbaoe toggles and fire sword circle in the middle of a fight. you can figure out how to make them sort of work at the begining of a fight, but once you are in the fray, picking one to use without compromising the others gets really irritating.



Of course, no pairing for a blaster will lack synergy if you spend enough money on rech and soft capping def. When you have plenty of time to maneuver and position because mobs cant hit you its a whole different game then trying to fight for your life on SO's. So, regardless of what you choose, your budget will determine the outcome.

I'd say Dual Pistols as a primary and Dark as a secondary.

I actualy want to like these two sets....but...i just cant help but feel like they are penalyzing the player way too much for what they do and what they give the player.

I think i sent in some example bug reports...as in some real good reasons....like for example....at level 20 with dual pistols i decided to go beat up trolls at a troll rave....It was taking me 3 to 5 attacks to kill the supa trolls....5 levels below me and it was taking 5 attacks?!?.....fine i still did it and got the badge for them....i then went over to defeat the ravers......again 4 or 5 attacks to beat minions 5 levels below me.....i hit groups and yet wasnt doing much damage...fully slotted and not doing much damage against things 5 levels below you...means the set is severly broken....should only be taking 1 or two shots....with out anything sloted due tothe bonus you get from level difference...but wasnt happening...

As for the dark....i decided to figure the numbers i was getting from the buff and how many it would take and how long it took to get it and things....and found for a buff power....that seamed to miss alot....it didnt give much buffage and wasnt worth the time and energy.
So my test was the easy one...mender tessract and going back to outbreak....then i rolled into a differing flash back....and told the developers to play those using dark/dark blasters....they should easily see the issues with the dark secondary that way....and how one of the dark blast powers should have been Dark Obliteration instead of the knock down torrent duplicated power.....As i feel Blasters dont need another Torrent power in another set.