I went with /Dark. Soul Drain is ridiculous, melee damage and mitigation are good, and Rad/ already likes being in the action.
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I paired it with /Fire as that combo is a PBAoE beast when defense is soft capped and you have Clarion.
Prolly not what you are interested in checking though.....
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Rad/Energy allowed for a close up stun-stacking play style.
Creep up to the most dangerous boss you can find. Power Thrust, queued up Stun or Total Focus, followed by Cosmic Burst means they never get a chance to fight back.
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Rad/Energy allowed for a close up stun-stacking play style.
Creep up to the most dangerous boss you can find. Power Thrust, queued up Stun or Total Focus, followed by Cosmic Burst means they never get a chance to fight back. |
I tend to not repeat secondaries too much when I make characters but Blasters have so very few...I've got Sonic/Ice, Energy/Fire, DP/Fire, Dark/EM, Elec/EM, Arch/Dev but I don't have /Mental, /Elec or /Dark yet. Although I like to use sets I haven't paired yet, I like to make synergies more (and concept too) but Rad is damned hard to synergize with.
It doesn't have anything for Power Boost to boost except a stun and -def (and hold) or good cones for Boost Range. It doesn't have good knock or mitigation and the only other effect it has is defense debuffs...so maybe just forget about trying to synergize?
All I got to say is, PROTON VOLLEY! I MUST HAVE IT!
I'm also kind of thinking about the new changes and what might be good...but concept ultimately chooses. But I'm just wanting to hear about your Rad characters since it's not talked about too often.
I went Rad/Elec. Works out fairly nice. Can blast and brawl.
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Mine is Rad/Dark/Psy and it's really blapper-y. I like it. He was first Rad/Fire but Soul Drain is BAWS!
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Ammo switching for Dual Pistols was my idea:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=135484
There was a time when Rad / MM was a fotm and I made one to farm with. He still works great. Drain Psyche near perma is a beautiful thing.
So I'm guessing Radiation Blast isn't quite popular in the Blaster ranks. I mean, I always hear about Archery and no one will ever shut up about Fire Blast, Water Blast will be the new shiny and everybody loves (to hate) Dual Pistols...
But never anything about Rad. I wonder why...
But your talk of Rad/Mental sounds interesting, Jackhammer. I just wonder how the sustain mechanics will play out with it in the end. I'm mainly liking how the possible changes will make the secondaries a bit more strategic...while it leaves me wondering why Mental has so many constraining conditions.
Just an update, I did roll up my Rad/Dark blaster yesterday and got her up to lvl 20 today. Died a lot and got lots of kills and lvls on the team. Of course, I was teamed with someone with Water Blast at least 150% of the time and thankfully, they have some AoE + mitigation to keep the mob's attention.
Once I got Soul Drain, I relish jumping into mobs with my blaster...and Irradiate is just mean. The defense debuffs helped against purples and bosses and Xray beam eyes is actually a decent hitting attack. All in all, it's okay but I find Irradiate and Smite do most of the leg work.
Planning on going for Leadership (Tactics) + Fighting + Fly for pools, respec out of Neutrino Bolt and slot the immobilize for damage (save a power slot) and work with with the snipe as another ranged choice. With Tactics + Kismet, that's like, 16% ToHit + 7.5% from a small yellow = 23.5%. Should be fine.
But since I'm only lvling to 33 and waiting for the changes to test, nothing's set in stone.
But just wanted to ask if anyone else is underwhelmed by Electron Haze. Maybe if the KB chance was reliable, but as a cone, I feel I'm not hitting much of anything compared to, say, Empty Clips...no idea why. It's the same cone shape.
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I find myself skipping E Haze. Too long animation on a non reliable KB doesn't work for me.
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But just wanted to ask if anyone else is underwhelmed by Electron Haze. Maybe if the KB chance was reliable, but as a cone, I feel I'm not hitting much of anything compared to, say, Empty Clips...no idea why. It's the same cone shape.
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Well, just to state a point, I plan to attempt to test out the blaster and ranged blast changes whenever they roll out on beta but I'm reacquainting myself with these ATs. In doing so, I want to make new characters rather than testing the changes on my recent/IO'ed characters.
So far I've got 2 that are coming in on lvl 32 and I'll probably leave them around there with just basic IOs to get a feel for how they change. One is a Beam Rifle/Poison corruptor and the other is an Arch/Dev. I'd like to roll 2 more to round out my experiences but I don't know what to pair with Radiation Blast (since I've never played it past lvl 12).
My other will probably be a Water/Storm when that comes out but the last I want Radiation blast (because I like Proton Volley). What do you guys pair with it?
My first thought was /Darkness Manipulation.