[What's the best blaster for soloing past lv50 in your opinion?]

On 4/21/2021 at 6:43 PM, huang3721 said:

The best blaster for soloing level 50+ is the one you have used on missions and arcs since level 1. 

I know what you're trying to say, and that you mean well, but I really hate these nothing kind of responses. Yes, sometimes the questions are silly, but if all you have to contribute to a thread is something like this or 'the best blaster for any situation is the one you like to see go pew pew the best!' then maybe just not post.

[31 Days of Night]

A whole month of this is too long. 

[Permadom PSA - Base buffs]

I'm deep into permadom on my Plant/Energy/Psi, but found even more +Recharge last night while getting set up to permadom without Hasten.  This should make getting early permadom even easier for my Dominator brothers and sisters.

 

You can get a buff from your SG base which gives +20% Recharge and lasts for an hour (I think, it last for a long time, but there's no buff duration listed.)  You can get a couple of other buffs too (KB and various Mez resistances.)  It takes 3 salvage components, but those are cheap and 5k or so for a 1 hour buff is worth it, compared to the number of set bonuses you'd have to stack to get 20% recharge. 

 

SG bases and all components are free, sign up in the City Hall in Atlas Park.  You can add a basic crafting table, a teleporter to 10 locations (you know all the locations automatically,) a nurse to buy and sell from, and get a basic base in 10 minutes.  You want to create a "Mystic Crucible" or a "Supercollider."  They're free, might as well make both!  That'll give you more options for salvage to trade in.  Then find Increase Attack Speed and trade in whatever salvage you've got.  Or grab some from the AH.

 

A Base Transporter is a good investment.  It'll let you teleport to your base every 30 minutes, and then teleport right back to where you were.  So keeping the 1 hour buff up shouldn't be a problem.  And you can use your base's teleport pad to get back to most other Zones quickly as needed. 

 

You can also get a 30% Recharge buff as one of the Secondary Mutation powers, which seems to come up fairly often.

 

This was a useful and appreciated post. It's been so long that I'd forgotten about most of the base stuff.

[Best Ranged Sentinel]

The problem with sonic is that the base damage of the power set is lowered to compensate for the -Res it provides. The base damage is lowered by more than the -res helps, or at best, barely breaks even.

 

The only 'good' Sonic set is the Defender, which gives twice the -res for twice as long, and does comparable damage to the Sentinel version, before Vigilance is accounted for.

[Does Cross Punch work?]

It doesn't seem that Cross Punch, when used with Kick and Punch, appreciably increases either the accuracy or the recharge rate, like it is supposed to.