Energy Blast / Martial Combat / Arsenal Mastery -- The pew pew bully!

[Soulsifter]

 Hello again 🙂

 

 I've been playing a build that has satisfied me like no other lately. The powers so perfectly mesh with my idea of what a golden age blaster would be. The looks, the sounds and the unapologetic BULLYING. From level 1 --> it's just been so ... enjoyable and, like I said, SATISFYING.

 

Some of my energy choices rankle some, I don't care 🙂 I don't like Energy Torrent, and I never will. I find the cone particularly clunky and too chaotic for a set that is already blowing things around. Besides, I have Burst of Speed, which I love, and Dragons tail, again <3! By the time we get to explosive blast and Nova .. well losing one cone seems insignificant. 

 

 I fooled around with the recharge and landed where I'm at. It feels just about perfect. No need to chase more. 

 

The same with the defenses. I'm a Blaster. I've embraced the pew pew kick face life.

 

 

 

 

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Edited January 28 by Soulsifter

[Uncle Shags]

Could you move the reactive unique from hover to weave?  You could either leave it at 3, lose a little defense, and gain a slot.  Or just put it there and get the 4th slot bonus. 

[Biff Pow]

My small suggestion would be putting the Overwhelming Force set in Explosive Blast so you can use it in melee range without knocking enemies away. And at six slots it gives you Knockback Protection.

[Frozen Burn]

22 hours ago, Soulsifter said:

 Hello again 🙂

 

 I've been playing a build that has satisfied me like no other lately. The powers so perfectly mesh with my idea of what a golden age blaster would be. The looks, the sounds and the unapologetic BULLYING. From level 1 --> it's just been so ... enjoyable and, like I said, SATISFYING.

 

Some of my energy choices rankle some, I don't care 🙂 I don't like Energy Torrent, and I never will. I find the cone particularly clunky and too chaotic for a set that is already blowing things around. Besides, I have Burst of Speed, which I love, and Dragons tail, again <3! By the time we get to explosive blast and Nova .. well losing one cone seems insignificant. 

 

 I fooled around with the recharge and landed where I'm at. It feels just about perfect. No need to chase more. 

 

The same with the defenses. I'm a Blaster. I've embraced the pew pew kick face life.

 

 

 

 

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I love Energy/Martial Combo!!  Glad you do too.  It's SO fun!  But, but, but... you skipped the most awesomest and funnest power EVER!! - Ki Push!!  😄  I just love watching them slowly float away through the air.  😄  

 

I actually like the cones of Energy Torrent.  I also Took Throw Sand and put the Stupefy chance for KB in it - it's great to see them mostly all fall backwards from the sand.  😄  

 

If you or anyone else cares, here is my build....

 

 

Victorious Star - Blaster (Energy Blast - Martial Combat).mbd

 

 

 

[Zect]

Can I just say it is incredibly refreshing to see a build with zero, I repeat: zero KB2KD IO's.

[Frozen Burn]

53 minutes ago, Zect said:

Can I just say it is incredibly refreshing to see a build with zero, I repeat: zero KB2KD IO's.

 

Thank you!  I love KB and embrace it.  Bonfire is the only power I'll use a KB2KD proc, as it's fairly useless otherwise.  

[Soulsifter]

On 1/28/2025 at 12:50 PM, Uncle Shags said:

Could you move the reactive unique from hover to weave?  You could either leave it at 3, lose a little defense, and gain a slot.  Or just put it there and get the 4th slot bonus. 

 

I did experiment with this notion, however 2 things made me pick how I currently have it.

 

1) I wanted that 3% in as soon as possible as blasters get precious few options to insert defense in a low level environment ( a.k.a. while leveling ) I don't forward funds to my heroes making them "tough it". It's a personal choice and one that does seem weird, I know. It's not too bad, I just gather merits from exploring and Ada on the hour >:D

 

I've been putting in attuned enhancements for the ones I want/need to be at end level spec ( in a manner of speaking ).

 

2) The added 3% for fire cold would push me over the soft cap ( SO STINKIN CLOSE! ) but in the end I wanted the level up experience to be as fluid as possible. The end requirements of weave are such ( significantly more than Hover ) that I wanted ( I think it might be ingrained in my CoH DNA now! ) to get the endo relief in asap. ( and because I have Tough raw doggin' it without endo help in the slightest! ) That would push the %3 enh even further into my build. 

 

 Still, respecing (sic) into it is absolutely a great suggestion and worthwhile for sure, when I hit 50! Thank you 🙂 

Edited January 30 by Soulsifter

[Uncle Shags]

24 minutes ago, Soulsifter said:

The added 3% for fire cold would push me over the soft cap

I get your point about wanting the unique early.  Makes sense.  But the other part I think might be a misunderstanding. The resistance cap for blasters is 75%.

[Grizlee]

1 hour ago, Uncle Shags said:

I get your point about wanting the unique early.  Makes sense.  But the other part I think might be a misunderstanding. The resistance cap for blasters is 75%.

 

Right, but the soft cap is 45 as I understand it. 

[Uncle Shags]

34 minutes ago, Grizlee said:

 

Right, but the soft cap is 45 as I understand it. 

Eh, not sure what that would mean. Pretty sure there's just a hard cap at 75% for blasters.  45% is for defense and is usually referred to as a soft cap. 

[Frozen Burn]

4 hours ago, Soulsifter said:

 

I did experiment with this notion, however 2 things made me pick how I currently have it.

 

1) I wanted that 3% in as soon as possible as blasters get precious few options to insert defense in a low level environment ( a.k.a. while leveling ) I don't forward funds to my heroes making them "tough it". It's a personal choice and one that does seem weird, I know. It's not too bad, I just gather merits from exploring and Ada on the hour >:D

 

I've been putting in attuned enhancements for the ones I want/need to be at end level spec ( in a manner of speaking ).

 

2) The added 3% for fire cold would push me over the soft cap ( SO STINKIN CLOSE! ) but in the end I wanted the level up experience to be as fluid as possible. The end requirements of weave are such ( significantly more than Hover ) that I wanted ( I think it might be ingrained in my CoH DNA now! ) to get the endo relief in asap. ( and because I have Tough raw doggin' it without endo help in the slightest! ) That would push the %3 enh even further into my build. 

 

 Still, respecing (sic) into it is absolutely a great suggestion and worthwhile for sure, when I hit 50! Thank you 🙂 

 

First of all your Reactive Defenses Scaling Resist Proc provides no DEFENSE at all.  So, you are not getting 3% defense from it at all in Hover but you are getting 3% RESISTANCE base to all.  And you get more RESISTANCE as you lose health.  Yes, this is nice to slot as early as possible.  

 

Also, by adding the Reactive Defense Scaling Resist proc into Weave for the added 4 piece set bonus of 3% Fire/Cold Resist - would put you at 47.3% RESISTANCE to Fire/Cold.  But there is NO soft cap for Resistance.  "Soft Cap" only refers to Defense.  Every attack has a 50% chance to hit or miss, and all mobs get a 5% chance to hit bare minimum making the "soft cap" for defense 45% (or something like that, iirc).  Resists just scale up to the HARD cap, and for blasters it's 75%.  (Defense actually does have a hard cap too of something like 175% which you see when incarnate Barrier power is used.  And incarnate mobs have a higher ToHit and whcih make the incarnate soft cap up to ~55% DEFENSE.) 

 

Also, not sure what you're talking about for End relief early on with the Reactive Defenses Scaling Resist Proc - it has no bearing on your endurance usage at all.  

[Soulsifter]

20 hours ago, Frozen Burn said:

 

First of all your Reactive Defenses Scaling Resist Proc provides no DEFENSE at all.  So, you are not getting 3% defense from it at all in Hover but you are getting 3% RESISTANCE base to all.  And you get more RESISTANCE as you lose health.  Yes, this is nice to slot as early as possible.  

 

Also, by adding the Reactive Defense Scaling Resist proc into Weave for the added 4 piece set bonus of 3% Fire/Cold Resist - would put you at 47.3% RESISTANCE to Fire/Cold.  But there is NO soft cap for Resistance.  "Soft Cap" only refers to Defense.  Every attack has a 50% chance to hit or miss, and all mobs get a 5% chance to hit bare minimum making the "soft cap" for defense 45% (or something like that, iirc).  Resists just scale up to the HARD cap, and for blasters it's 75%.  (Defense actually does have a hard cap too of something like 175% which you see when incarnate Barrier power is used.  And incarnate mobs have a higher ToHit and whcih make the incarnate soft cap up to ~55% DEFENSE.) 

 

Also, not sure what you're talking about for End relief early on with the Reactive Defenses Scaling Resist Proc - it has no bearing on your endurance usage at all.  

 

First, I was using "defense" in the general sense, not the Defense/Resist sense. No need to mansplain here. 

 

The second bit, great info, I was unaware of the soft cap only applying to defense and not resistance, thanks for that.

 

The last bit, I meant I have no sources of endurance reduction at all in Tough, thus the need for reduction in weave being needed at that point in the build. Not sure what's difficult too understand there.  *shrug*

[tidge]

Here is a pic of my take on the Energy/Martial Blaster. sorry no MIDS. Positional defenses are lower (~20%/18%/26% for Melee/Range/AoE) but it is hella fun. Inner Will is on Auto.

 

[Frozen Burn]

1 hour ago, Soulsifter said:

First, I was using "defense" in the general sense, not the Defense/Resist sense. No need to mansplain here. 

 

Sorry.  That did not come through at all.  In this game with both Defense and Resist Types, it's difficult to talk about resist as a "defense" without confusion.  But glad you understand (as there are some newbies who don't) and I didn't mean to offend.

 

1 hour ago, Soulsifter said:

The second bit, great info, I was unaware of the soft cap only applying to defense and not resistance, thanks for that.

 

Happy to help.  🙂  

 

1 hour ago, Soulsifter said:

The last bit, I meant I have no sources of endurance reduction at all in Tough, thus the need for reduction in weave being needed at that point in the build. Not sure what's difficult too understand there.  *shrug*

 

I got that you stated Tough had no endo redux and you wanted some in Weave, but that comment as an answer to the other post you were quoting about moving Reactive Armor proc from Hover to Weave makes no sense.  That proc has no bearing on the endo redux of Weave.  So, it's confusing why you would bring that up about endurance.  But certainly it makes sense about wanting your 3% resists earlier in the build.  But whatevs.  All good.  

[Jacke]

29 minutes ago, Frozen Burn said:

Sorry.  That did not come through at all.  In this game with both Defense and Resist Types, it's difficult to talk about resist as a "defense" without confusion.  But glad you understand (as there are some newbies who don't) and I didn't mean to offend.

 

I use the term "protection" when I want to refer to Defenses, Resists, Heals, etc. in general.

[tidge]

When showing a level 50 build, there aren't many (attuned) global enhancement pieces that care "how early" they appear in a build. Most of them will act just like enhancement set bonuses. Obviously when leveling up mileage will vary, as slots and powers will be fewer. I frequently do things subtly differently with global pieces while leveling up, but at level 50 those pieces end up in mule powers or combined with set-mates for other bonuses.

 

EDIT: I meant to add this. The only global pieces which "care" are mostly the "120sec" duration pieces that will only work if slotted in a power that is used (a click or toggle) or in an available auto power (e.g. Health, Stamina). Examples common to my builds are the Kismet +ToHit piece and the Power Transfer %Heal.

 

I meant to add this bit about Kismet above because I think the original build is leaving some damage on the table by not including more reliable sources of +ToHit (not accuracy) for the primary's Snipe. Fast Snipes get a+Damage bonus up to +22% IIRC from +ToHit.

Edited January 31 by tidge