BazookaTwo

Necroing the mess outta this post to see what you chose! My main is an Archery/Ninja/Ninja. Yes it's Sent damage, but mine is boosted 57%. range is boosted 67% and movement speed is healthy at 89 mph run speed. The Archery/ninja*2 feels comfortable in the thick of combat, packs all the temp powers a ninja might have, and is loads of fun. I have to not be paying attention to get 1 shotted. The Def boost can be alternated with Barrier for extra sturdiness. I'm also trying out Melee Hybrid and dipping into res debuff through the Interface pool. I just started an Archery/Ninja blaster today, and yes it plays very differently. I'm focusing on holds and stuns a bit as mitigation tools so far. Seems you can work the DoT and proc effects well with archery, no matter what AT. I think Ninja on a Scrapper and a Sent are better than Ninja Training on a Blaster, but I'm researching the forums on it now. If anyone needs my Sent build, it's in the Sentinels forum some place.

I for one, am not impressed at the swap from Ignite to Incinerate. Ignite is a heavy hitting power, even if the fear effect causes scatter. Oranbega maps, for example, are great for "nowhere to run to baby...nowhere to hide" And I'd JUST set up all my macros to capitalize on Ignite, too. It just sucks

Maybe goldside? Congrats on the Dark Tank.

So in my line of thinking, it would be nifty to have a one stop place to post things about each particular Zone. There are lots of cool things packed into different zones and this would be one way to help people find out.

I want symbols for the back too! And I want a motorcycle gang cut, specifically. You know, top and bottom rocker patches with a symbol in the middle. Oh and denim jackets too.

With a healthy dose of Repel, of course

Two mobs, is the time duration of Creepers and Storm Cell, roughly. Long enough to affect two mobs.

It has a synergy to it, Storm Blast. Once you have Storm Cell running, it will live about two mobs similar to Creepers. It buffs everything. If you stack Storm Cell and Cat 5, it quickly feels like nothing is going to touch you. Yeah the T9 comes on slow, but you can start Storm Cell from a distance, hop in, drop the T9, and hop back to ranged. On a Storm/Storm/Elec Corruptor the stacking of freezing rain and storm cell (and why not? snow storm too) means everything crawls and flops like a blobfish. I can't wait to make a blapper with this set as the primary. Tested that too and wow. Nothing can do much by the time you have setup Storm Cell and start swinging.

Running ahead isn't bad in and of itself. I have been on teams where the rule is " do watcha like, just don't get others killed doing it." And that's fine by me. As to the OP, well, can you go ahead of the methed out blaster and get them some more mobs to play with? Go in a different direction? I usually build to solo, so that I can take a different route if it's clear I'm not needed by the team (or teams) on the map. If you're not having fun, yes, find something fun instead.

Setting up? It's an opener for me

On live, Ignite on my AR blaster routinely does 1000+ damage. What is Incinerate going to do by comparison? If it's less, I'm gonna be mad.

Yeah, I want more floors, a whole new map etc

I think a Client side mod for stealth powers is fine but they could also just add a "minimal fx" to these things and it would be fine.

I love all of these. I like the temp powers for the fun of them. I would like to see more events like this in every zone. But I also want to see them scale with your level. My favorite is the Zig. But yes I'd rather be able to go INTO the Zig for the event

I dropped a hearty build over here last weekend.

Here is a DP/Ninja/Electric I pulled together. Seems like it will have a stronger hold in the epic, and higher def caps even still. I left infiltration because you'd lose the LotG if you took Super Speed. This is a leveling build as far as power picks and when you take them. I may give it a whirl myself.

YMMV, but the criteria I stuck to when building this was first off, he's a Natural so no Super Speed here, and I felt Hasten unneccesary. The breakfree power also adds a temporary run speed boost. The 20% damage while stealthed means your first shot gets an extra boost. It's a really tight build trying to fit in some of everything. I found the Epic sword attacks I took to be worth it. Positional defenses are overcapped, and Kujin-Retsu = invincibility. I would not change a thing in this build, myself obviously. But if you're going to go mucking with attack slotting leave stunning shot alone, it's the best single target in the set, and occasionally stuns. Also, in-game, I've literally +5 boosted anything that doesn't have recharge that will screw up proc chances. You'd be surprised how much you can squeeze out with end savings and defense numbers that way. What you can't see here is all the temp powers I piled on. Basically anything that makes sense for a ninja to have... stun grenades, grenades, golden wrench (what?)...I try to be the most useful team player possible. This is also my badger. If you want to team and check it out I'm on Excelsior as Iron Bow (@Bad Radish)

That's nice and all but if I wanted what you propose, I'd just build something as close to it as possible using...any of like 4-6 of the other ATs. I guess I'm asking you why not build a Stalker and retrofit it to your purposes. Higher burst damage than a Scrapper. Best Burst Damage in the game, melee wise. They all get epic ranged shots to pick from. Alternately a ?/Martial blaster would be interesting to theory craft, and you could pick the two attacks you think fit the idea. My dream is to have a new AT similar to Tsoo Ink Men. Melee, with Dominator or Corruptor performing secondaries. But it will never happen because people already complain about Sents and what I'm thinking would be an inverse of a Sent. And now I'm going to hit mids and see what it would take to build your idea with what's available in game.

Water/Fire is one that feels fun, but I haven't gotten a good build together for Mister Sauna. Fire/Bio is crazy solid. Doesn't go down easy and really contributes to a team's damage. Archery/ninja/ninja is a Swiss Army knife of a build. Can play any role on a team. Seriously.

You do realize you can build a blapper that functions like this, or a stalker without hide and placate?

Pistols with Poison is very good, here's why. Hold Proc Roulette, Stack a few chances for hold throughout the build. Add the Soul Epic pool for the Soul Hold, and stack a 3 set of Lockdown somewhere to make sure when the hold procs fire it's very worth it. Add Cryo Judgement with the chance to Hold for more silliness. I wouldn't slot Suppressive fire heavy on the hold stuff though, you want to fill that attack with like 3 damage procs. Power Boost from the Soul Epic Pool Force Feedback on Hail of Bullets and Bullet Rain, maybe even in Empty Clips. It adds up

Without needing maths, I ask myself two questions. Will the Scourge mechanic rock on this build? Will the secondary be the main focus of the build? Rarely do both of those questions answer "yes" for the same character. When they are both yes, I'll play Corruptor. An example I'll throw out there is a Rad/Poison Corr. It's a rare case where the scourge rocks, even though the debuffs from both sets are kinda the point. Contrast that with my Dual Pistols/Poison, who barely has time to shoot at anything on a team, because applying the poisons is way more important.

When hovering over the enh in the picker in mids, hit your +/- keys to boost. I am gonna check these builds out. My main is an Archery/Ninja and he is by far one of my most optimized builds. I find Archery and Dual Pistols to be like cousins as far as how their sets are designed. I also have a DP/SR, and it could be good to mash those two halves together and see what happens.

Is there a better way to farm wolfshifters for that badge though? Hmm? 😂

My attacks don't miss much just they're very slow. I have at least 1 acc, 2 damage in everything, as well as some procs. I need to set up the fitness pool powers yes.