I wanted to be a blaster since day 1. I started playing in Dec 2004, and from then until now, I have far more blasters than any other archetype. I played with Corrupters, defenders and the occasional controller or even dominator, but blasters were my favorite.
I had energy/energy before I even knew about knockback. I had all of the debt badges before 50 (and before I became a badge hunter).
I gave reckless a new face, and was the target of many jokes on any team in which I played.
When I/O invention bonuses came out, I tried to find a way to make my guy more durable. I finally hit upon the idea of trying to get him to Super-Reflexes level defenses. It seemed that positional defense was a lot easier than typed defense since I only had 3 positions to defend against (melee, aoe, and ranged).
I took Mid's planner and made a sample SR scrapper, I then slotted highest triple SO enhancers into each of the defense powers (toggles or auto, not the big, short-lived powers), and looked at the Ranged, AoE and Melee defense levels. They came out to about 30%. That was my goal for my I/O'd blaster.
It took weeks of messing around with Mid's to finally get the levels to this. I had to drop some powers I'd previously depended upon, and take some strange ones. In the end, I ended up with a little better-than SR level defenses to positionals.
With the Power Boost, I had slighly over those levels about half the time and slightly under them the other half. When fitness became inherent, I respec'd and got Hasten back and now it is mostly over the levels.
Before Incarnate powers came out, I was able to stand toe-to-toe with even AVs while the rest of the team was dead and they had trouble hitting me. In extreme cases, a single small purple made me nearly untouchable.
I finally had the blaster I'd always wanted: Vast damaging capability, some AoE powers and very hard to kill.
It was an expensive build. I wish I had the Mid's build for it. I may do that soon and post it.
I tried to do the same with other types of blasters but the particular combo of energy/energy made it so simple. Others couldn't come near that, even with billions of inf invested in I/Os.
This was my crowning build achievement. Thank you City of Heroes, and Mid's for making a blaster so much fun!
I tried to do the same with other types of blasters but the particular combo of energy/energy made it so simple. Others couldn't come near that, even with billions of inf invested in I/Os.
I wanted to be a blaster since day 1. I started playing in Dec 2004, and from then until now, I have far more blasters than any other archetype. I played with Corrupters, defenders and the occasional controller or even dominator, but blasters were my favorite.
I had energy/energy before I even knew about knockback. I had all of the debt badges before 50 (and before I became a badge hunter).
I gave reckless a new face, and was the target of many jokes on any team in which I played.
When I/O invention bonuses came out, I tried to find a way to make my guy more durable. I finally hit upon the idea of trying to get him to Super-Reflexes level defenses. It seemed that positional defense was a lot easier than typed defense since I only had 3 positions to defend against (melee, aoe, and ranged).
I took Mid's planner and made a sample SR scrapper, I then slotted highest triple SO enhancers into each of the defense powers (toggles or auto, not the big, short-lived powers), and looked at the Ranged, AoE and Melee defense levels. They came out to about 30%. That was my goal for my I/O'd blaster.
It took weeks of messing around with Mid's to finally get the levels to this. I had to drop some powers I'd previously depended upon, and take some strange ones. In the end, I ended up with a little better-than SR level defenses to positionals.
With the Power Boost, I had slighly over those levels about half the time and slightly under them the other half. When fitness became inherent, I respec'd and got Hasten back and now it is mostly over the levels.
Before Incarnate powers came out, I was able to stand toe-to-toe with even AVs while the rest of the team was dead and they had trouble hitting me. In extreme cases, a single small purple made me nearly untouchable.
I finally had the blaster I'd always wanted: Vast damaging capability, some AoE powers and very hard to kill.
It was an expensive build. I wish I had the Mid's build for it. I may do that soon and post it.
I tried to do the same with other types of blasters but the particular combo of energy/energy made it so simple. Others couldn't come near that, even with billions of inf invested in I/Os.
This was my crowning build achievement. Thank you City of Heroes, and Mid's for making a blaster so much fun!
My Guide to the Hero-side Venomous badge
(622 Badges on my badge-guy)
number of lvl 50's: 24
number in the 40's: 3
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