This is what it sounds like

Something that may/may not help scrape out a few extra percentage points: you can use Enhancement Boosters to turn an even-con IO into a +1, up to +5; I don't know what a L55 generic Defense IO gets you but it might change the math enough.

That is so much simpler than I thought it was.

A change to ranged sets?

You know, that other hero game, they have blast attacks that maintain DoT so long as you hold the button down. it is actually rather fun, and makes certain powers more logical and combinations of certain attacks dynamic.

Powers like firebreath, rain of fire, x-ray beam, the psi tornado, burst, short circuit- if they worked like that it would certainly alter the dynamics of blast sets.

Hows that for speculation?

Having just levelled my 2nd Blaster to 50, my feeling is that the key thing to Blasters is having mobility.

It's great being able to ignore Mez with those three blasts, and if I had mobility, I could run away, or I could manoever myself to a place where I could make the most use of the limited powers I do have access to while mezzed.

Blasters basically have a bunch of ranged attacks and a bunch of melee attacks. That implies to me that manoeverability is a key function of the role. Scraps/Tanks/Brutes/Stalkies generally only have melee, which means all they have to do is walk up and hit something. Once it's dead, those movement keys come into play to move to the next target. A blaster is in & out of melee range - always on the move, always seeking terrain advantages.

So for me, a quick and simple improvement to Blasters would be to remove movement suppression when mezzed, and I liked the idea of being able to blast while on the move without rooting so I'd toss that in there too. Let them Vroom! as well as Boom!

-H

Well, Arbiter Hawk is joining zwill on the coffe talk tomorrow to talk about some of the blaster changes! will have to check it out and see!

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I hope its not damage but chances are its going to be more damage. In either case more damage is not going to matter unless enough to kill +4 bosses with all nukes I do not see blasters getting anything beneficial with this change in issue 24.

I'd have to agree with EvilRyu. At the very, absolute best, it'll make Fire/ blasters more effective, and everyone else will have a reduced benefit. This is because Fire is such an outlier when compared to the others and the dev team isn't willing to do anything about it.