Perhaps we might see a new rise of the blappers that outdoes scrappers. With all the survival buffs supposedly coming into blaster secondaries I might just have to give it a go. Although as a scrapper fan I would more likely break down over the fact that a blaster that wasn't mental could match or outperform a scrapper for survival AND damage.
The effective strength of the regen-based sustain powers is a little stronger than Regeneration without mez protection, Dull Pain, or Reconstruction. The Absorb-based sustain powers if you could achieve 100% efficiency with them (not an easy task) would be about twice as powerful: Regen without Dull Pain or mez protection.
Scrappers don't have anything to worry about except that Blasters might be spending more time shooting at things Scrappers used to kill and less time running back from the hospital.
It *will* be possible for a very strong blaster build to challenge moderate scrapper invention builds. But that should have always been true.
I could see Chi Push's animation being used as an alternate for Crane Kick, not to mention the awesome Storm Kick animation from MC being translated over to MA.
Frankly, I'd be happy if the slow-motion knock back of Chi Push was given to Repulsing Torrent in Kinetic Melee.
Scrappers don't have anything to worry about except that Blasters might be spending more time shooting at things Scrappers used to kill and less time running back from the hospital.
It *will* be possible for a very strong blaster build to challenge moderate scrapper invention builds. But that should have always been true.
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