I remember reading this thread last year and thinking "I guess I should stay away from Electric Blast". I came back to the game again this year and a friend made an electric / regen sentinel and had a ball with the toon, so I thought "WTH, I'll try an electric / TM blaster out".
It is by far my favorite blaster now out of 5 of them (Dark/TM, Fire/MA, Archery/TA, Cold/TA). Voltaic Sentinel out with it's 20% damage boost plus the seamless attack chain of Charged Bolts / Lightning Bolt / Zapp makes this character a gatling gun, all the while stacking damage boosts with fast animations. Ball Lightning, Thunderous Blast (the animation is a little slow, agreed) and Static Discharge from the Electric epic pool is all the aoe I need to pretty much delete spawns. Thunderous + Aim + Double BU does this almost on its own unless it's an elite boss mixed in. I don't run Short Circuit anymore as this character is purely ranged and I found I didn't use it hardly. I run almost entirely level 54 content, for reference.
Sure, the endurance drain could use some love, but on the rare chance I get stunned or held, I regularly chain cast Charged Bolts and LIghtning Bolt and drain a bosses endurance and kill them shortly after. Thunderous leaves them with little to no endurance as it stands. If they speed up the Thunderous Blast animation and cooldown, as well as increase the endurance drain, this set will be a dream.
