DarknessEternal

Everything @nihilii said is exactly correct and why Fire Blast needs to be nerfed.

I'm reasonably sure this is what I'm seeing. Thanks for the explanation.

Consider this reporting it as a bug then. I'm seeing a lot of things attacking with 0 endurance that aren't AVs.

I was strictly comparing to live. A mob with 0 endurance on live attacks way less frequently since they have no free attacks (they do get to attack with 1 end though). On beta, 0 end is barely an inconvenience to their offense against a Blaster.

1. Tesla Cage on Blasters is not useful. It doesn't sap or damage well enough to actually use. It's only purpose remains a single-target hold, and it's worse at that than many other options available to Blasters. Making this a decently damaging attack at base level is the solution. Even Lightning Bolt level damage would make this a key attack in Electric Blast; it doesn't have to be Sentinel Tesla Cage. 2. Sapping is nice for Shock, but it actually has become worse as a defensive ability, now that things can attacking at 0 endurance. It doesn't take many guys to kill a Blaster even with their weakest attacks. This is especially a problem because sapping IO's don't come with many defensive bonuses. This is a problem. In order to sap, I have to make my Blaster less tough, and he's going to get hit more because sapping doesn't prevent damage anymore. So I'm still better off ignoring sapping IO's which undermines this entire change.

Thanks this was it. You're my hero.

That's well different then. I had a freebies.mnu before. Thanks.

How do you get your menu folder to update with the popmenus that are currently in it? No matter what I have in the folder, it only recognizes files that were deleted months ago.

Tesla Cage is still extreme garbage, you don't have to worry about not having it. It's some extra lightning animation effects when you push a button that is a complete waste of time.

Despite what appears in my windows explorer folder, trying to interface with anything in my menus folder points to files that no longer exist.

I"m freaking blind or something, where do I actually get the script?

I was going to make a snarky comment about how someone could be so wrong, but let's inform. Except for Fire Blast, every primary set is outdone in damage by the secondary sets.

I don't really understand the purpose of the Tesla Cage change. It's the 4th weakest AoE in an AoE-heavy set. You can't control who the last target is, so it's a bad single target. What are we trying to do here besides change for the sake of change? PS, Voltaic Sentinel as a toggle is the bees knees. PPS. End Drain against AVs and Giant Monsters is much, much harder than it is on live. They just immediately recover.

Well, with Fire, things are dead after you do Blaze+Blazing Bolt. So they don't really need a damage resistance debuff applied.

I hope it's no one's first day when they read this.

It's straight trolling to claim Beam Rifle does more damage than Fire.

I'm following your journey. Just letting you know you're not talking to yourself.

No, pretty low damage, pretty low utility.

Is the most recently posted build also modernly optimized?

Isn't Sentinel Burn pretty pointless on anything that isn't a Pylon?

I've been away for a bit. Has there been any work on this, or am I good starting back up with my old sheets?

I still like Hover for Blasters that melee. It's the smoothest way in and out of groups without getting stuck on anything. But never play an Electric Blast/Electric Melee Blaster. Stalkers exist and use all the same powers for vastly more damage and survivability.

It's pointing out that a hovering Elec Blaster has access to only one high damage attack that isn't a nuke: Zap. If you're going to hover blast, you should endeavor to get some high damage ranged attacks.

No high damage ranged attack, no melee attacks, and ignoring one of it's AoEs. Elec Blast is not suited to ranged only combat.

However, it would need to find a way to do even acceptable damage while staying at range.