High_Beam

I cant help myself!

In mine he sounds like the Russian mob dude in John Wick 1. Morana sounds like Yelena Belova and Chernobog is like Ivan Drago in Rocky IV.

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All good mate, wasn't trying to convert anyone, just answering your question of "my experience with DP", in a Blasters forum. You do you and fight hard.🔫

<Slows down the Malibu and rolls down the window. Listens. Then quickly rolls up window and speeds away>

Its yes and no. Sentinels obviously have better survivability on the surface, but a properly build Blapping Blaster can exceed that. My DP/MC is a heavy Blapper and I rarely end up face down (unless I do something stupid), same for the Ninja Training. You get a defense bump for firing your Tier 9 Hail of Awesome so I have even more survivability for a bit. that allows me to sweep the legs knocking them down and in many cases finishing off stragglers that survived the deathblossom, then high kick the standing boss if needed then flip out and repeat the cycle (rarely have to do so though). Glorious. Also don't forget the triple bump attack you can use Burst of Speed to get in there in the first place (make the macro baby) and Proc! Target biggest baddie in the mob --> BoS #1 --> Dragons Tail (KD) --> Hail --> BoS #2 --> BoS #3 --> Eagle's Claw --> Flip out of Mob -->Empty Clips --> Bullet Rain --> Go to Hot Curls and get highlights . . . awesome! Similarly with Ninja Training, Lotus Drops then Golden Dragonfly then out. Dragonfly is effing awesome. You can integrate Combat Teleport to simulate the jump in but it doesn't do any damage like BoS and you can slot any damaging procs in it. But you can get really good defense with NT between the powers and the Set IO (and that is with ZERO purples). Now My DP/Rad. Yeah I do tend to end up tasting concrete a bit from time to time, not just because I did something stupid. My build gives her too little Def and too little Res so it equals a lot more pain received. As a result, that one isn't in melee as much, just enough to taint the enemy with Beta decay and Rad cloud while I Rain and then punch the ground with Atom Smasher. I am going to have to work in some additional defense via Set IO to better leverage the -ToHit that is laid on the enemies with the rad. Since this is about Blasters I wont get into my other DPs except to say DP/Kin Corr is insane fast furious fun, gorgeous in a team environment, especially when I get that Fulcrum Shift hard on. Oh baby. The DP/Elec Sentinel is fine, survivable (resistance) and I use the secondary tools to accelerate the primary (rech, endurance etc). The Time/DP Defender. Yeah that one is in a parking lot . . . slow . . . debating on deleting.

Bummer desu on that where I live. The nearest WH is 31 miles away from me! Effffffffffffff. Cant swing a dead cat without hitting a McGrungies or a StarSucks, but nooooo. Chili Cheese Hashbrowns smothered covered and chunked . . . denied. Sorry Beamer. Crap. Total derail. Sorry. I got a thirty mile drive after work 😞

I have many DP toons and love them and have great fun with them, but they are not considered powerful, they are considered underpowered, even when mixing in Swap Ammo. They use Smashing and Lethal to start with; most resisted, most defended. Now that doesn't mean they are garbage, they are not garbage but lets not write a check that cannot be cashed. Mitigation and damage from your secondary helps a lot, especially if you are willing to step into melee range. I am sure there is a cat out there with Pylon numbers or whatever, but I am only responding based on play feel. Primary alone, my Sonic, Water, Energy, Dark, AR and Ice Blasters all kill faster than my DP. Only my Archery, Seismic, Storm and Psionic are slower (though Seismic is close to being faster). Fire and Beam are on my Sentinels and Rad is on a Corruptor and Electric is on a Defender. Again, love my DPs, have three Blasters alone and all are super fun to play (Di Di Guns DP/MC, Runeslinger DP/RAD and Two Gun Trixie DP/NT)

Do you mean Martial Combat (Kicks) or Ninja Training (Swords).

No AoE, no problem, Totally Cali has plenty of stiletto kicks for you. I have never felt like was defeating opposition spawns slowly due to a lack of AoE. I just kick faster. Dragon's Tail is fine; puts them on their ass. But you take a four inch Christian Louboutin spike kick in the chest, you aren't getting up baby.

The issue is that the name release policy is useless because 50's are protected. Its not the cat working a toon up in levels nor is it someone "name camping", its the cat with the alt they ran to 50 and essentially don't play any more; sitting in the 1000 slot dustbin. Or maybe a 50 on a player who no longer plays. But the bottom line is, the name release policy will never be anything more than a mission statement unless inactive 50's are included. And that already ignited a firestorm the last time it was posited. The very bottom of my signature references some of my frustration with this.

M.C. Escher Boulevard.

Every time I visit the best coast I stop at one of these along with I&O, JITB, DT, EPL and CJR

Cool mate, go to Thunderspy or Rebirth or Unity. There are other options so your principals aren't soiled. Isn't freedom awesome.

That's what I do when I am in do-over mode.

I have used Hyphens too; I have a Hyper-Thermal.

I imagined you had to have a complex setup there with emotes and macros and binds. Ironically I have none. Rarely use emotes as it is. When I am cheering someone on they get clap or cheer manually typed. I bind and macro nothing for emotes. I have one character who gender swaps that I made macros of the costume change command with the animation which i guess would be an emote.

I am not a fan of the character replacement names (l33t speak, punctuation). Like many have said, I just try something different. Two word names give you more flexibility and I often use bastardized Latin or French and even German once in some names (Native English speaker here). Also sometimes commonly accepted variations for words also help (i.e Phyre for Fire). Spelled out Numbers are cool too. Titles like Doctor or Offficer or Ranks also add flavor. Also when you break out the big box of crayons (with the sharpener) different names for the same color really help. I only got a few characters that got one word names (Runeslinger, Flattery and Tideway).

Not dismissing others connectivity problems, I have no doubt they are real and annoying but I have had zero problems trying to log into Excelsior when it is Three (Red) Seashells, I mean dots, no queueing or anything. Then again I am a secksi magic snowflake who had kings and courtesans present at my birth and a hundred fairy godmothers all sprinkling magic awesome dust on me. At least that's what the talking cat says to me.

You can get a taste of Bloody Bay in the Drowning in Blood Trial as well.

That is how it is currently in the game; Siren's Call, Bloody Bay, Warburg and Recluse's Victory are PvP zones where players can attack each other at will (less the tiny safe entry areas). And there are some mini-games (mentioned above by @UltraAlt) as well as control the zone in Bloody Bay and Recluse's Victory.

Funniest thing I've hear all day. Thanks mate you made my day.

Randobots . . . Roll out!

Among other things weather it is true or not.

What @Rudra said. Keep all PvP out of the PvE zones and we will be good. Do whatever you want in those PvP Zones, change them, paint them pink I don't care. I don't care about PvP and have no dog in the PvP fight. More power to the PvP people if they can attract people to the PvP zones by whatever stick and carrot means it takes, I wish them nothing but success. But I will fight any attempt to move it out of those zones or implement any change to the games mechanic that diminishes PvE play in favor or in support of PvP play.