Best secondary for a hover, all ranged, blaster???

[OrionX]

For an all ranged blaster I really enjoy water and BR, as they have good AOEs and their nuke is not PBAOE.

What are your thoughts on the best secondary for a hover, all-ranged, blaster.

I've tried a bunch but cant settle on one I like best for this task.

I am not interested in any of the melee powers unless I need them as a mule and I already have a few blappers that I really like.

 

I do prefer my +recovery to com in an aura.

 

I have played all of the below (as well as others) up through T4 incarnates, but I'm having trouble picking a winner.

 

/Time has some nice recharge bonus, regen seems a bit less than others, but does have an absorption tick

/Energy has the nice range boost features

/TA seems to have good regen/recovery and some resists

/Atomic seems well rounded with some nice resists

 

What are your thoughts?

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Thanks for all the feedback.  I've leveled both TA and Time.   Both are awesome but TA is a little bitter.  I prefer the absorb and the status effect resist is a bit better, plus i can 44.6% ranged def running with fly...not needing hover.  I can also boost my psi resist by one more purple and last recharge is a hint better.  Time does have better energy resist at around 50% where TA has it at 38%.

 

General, not too expensive build below.  FYI I am not a proc monster kind of guy.

 

I can never post the build and have the formatting come out right so I'll only paste the link,

 

\Thanks for all the feedback.

 

http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1483&c=666&a=1332&f=HEX&dc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

 

I love the above build for a pure hover blaster.  But my heart is on my fire/fire blapper.  So what I've done is made an alt build for him that I can swap over to using the following macros.  

/macro Blap select_build 1

/macro Hov select_build 2

 

My Hover build is below and is Fire/Fire/Mu (Blapper is Fire/Fire/Mace and is very expensive)  Build not shown as this is a hover thread.

 

http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1447&c=642&a=1284&f=HEX&dc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

 

Edited September 23, 2020 by OrionX

[Shred Monkey]

Devices is good. 

 

TA is really good, but I'd skip the arrow powers because... well.. if you have a beam rifle, why are you drawing a bow?

Edited September 18, 2020 by Shred Monkey

[Saikochoro]

I’d say tactical arrow is the best for a purely ranged hover blaster. It has everything you need for such a secondary and is a very strong secondary regardless. 
 

I’d call atomic a blapper secondary. It wants you to be melee range to get the full benefits of it. 

Edited September 18, 2020 by Saikochoro

[MTeague]

Ice/Ice is suppossed to be almost a Controller, so pretty good at keeping range.   Though I've never personally tried it, and I'm not sure how much it still relies on being near enough / midrange to keep things slow and kited vs being airborne.

[Haijinx]

/mental was one of those traditional ranged blaster secondaries also.  Obviously you give up a lot of good powers if you stay at range, but there are some really good ranged powers too. 

[Vanden]

Pretty much every Blaster secondary has things you need to be in melee range to use. If you really want to be pure ranged, you might be better off with a Corruptor or Sentinel instead.

[Gwyrddu]

13 minutes ago, Vanden said:

Pretty much every Blaster secondary has things you need to be in melee range to use.

 

Devices doesn't, and I don't believe Tactical Arrow does either.  I think those are your only two real options if you don't want to skip a bunch of powers.

 

Edited September 19, 2020 by Gwyrddu

[reib]

/NRG have boost range.

[ninja surprise]

Temporal Manipulation is great for ranged. You get some great self-buffs that don't rely on being in melee.

You can also do Martial and only take the self-buffs without missing out on anything, and the first punch is super handy for when something flies up to you, you bop it and make it go flying away.

[Carnifax]

Tactical Arrow and Temporal are the two hover blasters I have (Dark /TA as a ranged Blastroller and Water/Temporal as a ranged AoE blast machine).

 

On the Temporal I skipped all the melee  attacks but took the PbAoe, mostly as an Oblit mule. I use it rarely if something gets close. The big pluses of Temporal is the Absorb shield (amazing coupled with softcap and a heal in the primary) and the extra Recharge it brings. 

 

Ive heard Plant bandied around too but never tried it.