Primary Blaster set that works? Mas Aqua por favor

I have looked for it for years, I held out hope (soooo much hope) for my beloved Dark Blast (shattered...) but now I see "Water Blast" Hope springs eternal, hopefully I will not be left high and dry.

They are proposing a ranged set (I consider all Blaster sets ranged, if you want to melee with it then I just do not understand you) that is actually ranged. No knockback, A ranged Nuke with no crash!

My only problem is i have never had a water concept character, but I am starting to bring out the ol' sketchpad.

If you (like me) have trouble coming up with a concept you like for Water Blast, it also recolors nicely to make Acid Blast, Blood Blast, Lava Blast, Ink Blast, Oil Blast, or whatever other liquid you can think of. It does not have the limited pallette like Ice.

It's not particularly more or less ranged than most blast sets; for a ranged-only Blaster your problem will, as always, be the secondary set.

I like the recoloring, I can create some "cosmic X' or whatever. I believe it is more naturally ranged Hopeling. With a ranged non crash nuke, and no knockback stupidity it rises above so many other blaster sets. Only Electrical and Ice have non PBAoE Nukes. (Unless you go weapons, and I dislike weapons for 2 reasons 1) redraw, ich. 2) concept. How is a weapon super?)

While Ice has a non crash Nuke, i playtested it for over a month and it is not a friendly set. The lack of good AoE leaves you jockeying for position instead of blasting. Electrical is a decent set, but has a PBaoE right in the middle of it. I ran this to 50+3 and into about 3 weeks of constant iTrials before I abandoned it forever.

Water Blast looks designed for my style of Blaster play. Hang at the fringes and kill stuff. Oh, and no Knockback. (My default set right now for blasting is AR, and not cause I love rifles. The KB is constantly annoying)

As far as secondaries? Energy, of course. By not taking the Energy Melee attacks you end up with the best half a secondary set a Blaster can have. Unless of course they make a water secondary as well tailored to my thoughts as this water primary.

On first glance I give the set two big thumbs up. If only it had been my beloved dark lol. Well, i guess my creativity needs to be jostled into a new direction this year. Water, steam, hmmmm. Steampunk? goes off twiddling a drawing pencil...

Well hey, cool, I hope it works out for you. Personally I'm liking it so far on beta, although my guy (also a Water/En) is only level 24 yet. So far it's shaping up to have moderate-to-good ST damage (although, since it doesn't have a snipe, it may fall behind other sets in ST with the currently planned i24 changes), pretty strong AoE, a self-heal, and a bit of soft control. And its FX look great.

Tint it red or green and you can be a jello shooter.