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What can you do with a problem like a Blaster?

Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2012-06-05 15:04 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

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Originally Posted by Schismatrix View Post
Exactly. i play Incarnates less than 5% of the time. Most of my time is spent playing alts under level 40. Incarnate abilities are never an acceptable mechanism for compensating/balancing an underperforming AT.
To be fair, that is not really the point that was being made. The AoE attacks in Sonic should count no matter what, their damage is low, but not negligible. Yogi was simply stating that incarnate stuff and IOs can make them even more potent, not that they were needed.

Why Blasters? Empathy Sucks.
So, you want to be Mental?
What the hell? Let's buff defenders.
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Originally Posted by StratoNexus View Post
To be fair, that is not really the point that was being made. The AoE attacks in Sonic should count no matter what, their damage is low, but not negligible. Yogi was simply stating that incarnate stuff and IOs can make them even more potent, not that they were needed.
It wasn't germane to the discussion though. He has been trying to do a completely separate comparison of blaster damage and scrapper damage without anything extraneous figured in (like survivability and mez) IOs and incarnate powers shouldn't enter the discussion for the same reasons.

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Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight View Post
It wasn't germane to the discussion though. He has been trying to do a completely separate comparison of blaster damage and scrapper damage without anything extraneous figured in (like survivability and mez) IOs and incarnate powers shouldn't enter the discussion for the same reasons.
And I don't think Yogi was trying to bring them into the discussion. It was more of an off hand remark, a momentary aside.

Why Blasters? Empathy Sucks.
So, you want to be Mental?
What the hell? Let's buff defenders.
Tactics are for those who do not have a big enough hammer. Wisdom is knowing how big your hammer is.

 

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Originally Posted by StratoNexus View Post
To be fair, that is not really the point that was being made. The AoE attacks in Sonic should count no matter what, their damage is low, but not negligible. Yogi was simply stating that incarnate stuff and IOs can make them even more potent, not that they were needed.
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Originally Posted by StratoNexus View Post
And I don't think Yogi was trying to bring them into the discussion. It was more of an off hand remark, a momentary aside.
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Originally Posted by Starsman View Post
Separate topic, sort off, but since I saw Kinetic Melee I been thinking those animations would also apply perfectly to a blaster set and been pondering: why don't we have a Kinetic Blast yet???
We do, kind of. On test water blast uses some of Kinetic Melee's animations, although most of them are new.

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