If you could only pick 1 Blaster...

[Crowcus Pocus]

I'll shamelessly admit that I have 23 L50 Blasters and I'm not stopping there. So far, Fire/Temp holds a special place in my heart, as it was the first toon I soloed MsLib on +4/8 with. It does amazing ST damage, brutal AoE, and it's just oh-so-smooth to play with. And I also love the fact that it's not a FOTM combo and still holds some uniqueness to it.

 

So, if you had to delete all your Blasters and only keep one... which one would it be?

[Elia87]

Beam/ta

[KelvinKole]

I only have three at 50, but it’s my dark/martial. He’s not the highest dps of my blasters, but has an it factor that I don’t get bored of. Right mix of damage, control, debuff, mobility, sustain etc. to handle just about anything. 

[Tahliah]

If I had to delete all my blasters and keep only one?  Easy choice. The easiest:  Ice/ice/ice.  Superior damage, awesome mitigation, and just super fun to play solo or on teams.

[krj12]

I only have a few blasters, but of them I think I prefer the Ice/Ice.   Feels like I'm playing a very high dps controller.

 

[0th Power]

Energy/energy. So much fun. 

[Elia87]

7 hours ago, Tahliah said:

If I had to delete all my blasters and keep only one?  Easy choice. The easiest:  Ice/ice/ice.  Superior damage, awesome mitigation, and just super fun to play solo or on teams.

Ice/ice or ice/time? Whats the difference between the two? /ice has lots of blappery powers

[nihilii]

Fire/something would be the obvious choice for me. It pains me that Fire Blast is so strong. Whenever I try any other primary, I run back to Fire Blast in a flash.

 

Still undecided on a secondary.

[Techwright]

6 hours ago, 0th Power said:

Energy/energy. So much fun. 

Eng/Eng is my main, so it'd have to be that.  I love the ranged/melee versatility, and that most opponents end on the ground unable to fight the repeated blasts.

 

That said, my fire/ice rocks and he's not even reached his zenith.  There'd be a lot of weeping and scratched eyes if the "one blaster child only" goon squad attempted to pry him from my protective embrace.

 

 

[KC4800]

Rad Blast/ Mental Manipulation has all the tools.

[Heraclea]

My all time favorite blaster is archery/devices.  The surgical mission specialist and spy par excellence.   Gets to the boss and gets the rest of the team to the boss, ideal for old school story lines.  Blaster perfection is no melee attacks at all. 

[Drederik]

Water / Atomic 

Loads of fun to play, lots of AoE and build to survive too!  I have made many since I took this character seriously and I always come back to him

 

Working right now on a second build for him to blap a bit (I know its not an ideal powerset) so if anyone would like to help, it would be appreciated but for now, I am happy nuking the crap out of things

[Chelsea Rorec]

AR/Dev

Yep i'm weird 😛

[Golden Azrael]

On 6/20/2021 at 1:54 AM, Tahliah said:

If I had to delete all my blasters and keep only one?  Easy choice. The easiest:  Ice/ice/ice.  Superior damage, awesome mitigation, and just super fun to play solo or on teams.

 

I could go with that.  (Currently playing the synergistic Water/Ice.)

 

What's your ice build?  Do you have all the ice powers?  😮

 

Azrael.

Edited June 22, 2021 by Golden Azrael

[Gwyrddu]

Dark/Devices

 

Hell that almost works as an answer towards what one controller I would keep or what ranged stalker I would keep because he's sort of all those things.

[Tachstar]

I've made it to 50 with two blasters -- an energy/energy that was my first 50 back in the day, and an electric/martial here on HC. Both a lot of fun! But I'd have to go with the old energy/energy, Starflux, (currently in the mid-30s here) for sheer blastery knock down drag out, uh, blasterocity.

[Tahliah]

On 6/22/2021 at 3:45 AM, Golden Azrael said:

 

I could go with that.  (Currently playing the synergistic Water/Ice.)

 

What's your ice build?  Do you have all the ice powers?  😮

 

Azrael.

I haven't gotten into mids this time around, at least not yet, so I don't have a build to post.  But I do take a lot of ice/ice/ice powers, so it's easier to say which ones I skip.  I don't take Ice Storm, but take everything else in the primary; I take everything except Frozen Fists in the secondary.  In Cold mastery, I take only Flash Freeze and Frozen Armor.

 

I would make different choices if I didn't solo her so much (she's not only my main but also my badger).  For example, I keep Ice Sword because it's a nice (and so so fun and pretty) 'finisher' when soloing and that refuses-to-die baddie gets within melee range, but if I didn't solo so often, I would probably drop it (and Bitter Freeze Ray, Freezing Touch, and maybe some other ice powers I don't really use on teams).

 

I really enjoy water/ though.  I'm thinking my next 50 will be my water/kin corr (she's in her 40s now and super fun to play).  I do have a couple of lowbie water blasters, but I haven't really gotten into them quite as I have the corr.

[Tahliah]

On 6/20/2021 at 2:58 AM, Elia87 said:

Ice/ice or ice/time? Whats the difference between the two? /ice has lots of blappery powers

Dunno, never run /time on a blaster.

[Ceejer]

Damage, damage and some more damage on top.

 

Fire/Atomic/Scorpion 

"Mr. West, not every situation requires your patented approach of shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more and then when everybody's dead try to ask a question or two." President Grant - Wild Wild West

[Cryoterm]

Fire/Energy

(Softcapped Ranged Defense for incarnate content)

This build fits ok with my playstyle.

 

https://www.midsreborn.com/builds/download.php?uc=1438&c=651&a=1302&f=HEX&dc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Edited July 4, 2021 by Anodina

[nebber]

2 hours ago, Anodina said:

Fire/Energy

 

Seconded!  That's my main, and such a good blastery-blaster. Burns stuff down, blaps hard.  Energize is the best blaster sustain. 

[SuperPlyx]

On 6/22/2021 at 3:42 AM, Chelsea Rorec said:

AR/Dev

Yep i'm weird 😛

Surely Revy would be Dual Pistols 😁

[Yoru-hime]

Right now it'd be my only L50 Blaster. DP/Ninja with Combat Teleport.

 

I've never had a character hit that Black Widow-style secret agent vibe better.

[Chelsea Rorec]

On 6/26/2021 at 2:31 PM, SuperPlyx said:

Surely Revy would be Dual Pistols 😁

 

You sir get a Cookie.

[SeraphimKensai]

Blasphemy. I shall have all the blasters.