Energy Blast Hero

[Texman]

In all my years playing CoH I've never once made an energy blast hero.  I think it's finally time and I have a concept in mind.

 

My question is, which off the following would feel the most powerful overall once built out?   

 

Sentinel - Energy/Invuln

Blaster - Energy/Energy

Corruptor/Defender - Energy blast/Force Field

 

I plan to solo/team/badge with this character and have plenty of inf for builds.

 

 

[Maelwys]

If you can cope with being mezzed occasionally until level 50 (Clarion Destiny)? The Blaster.
If not? The Sentinel.

Leaving aside the whole "bad knockback" issue... almost any Corruptor can be a very effective teammate; but IMO those two powersets don't have a huge amount of synergy (FF's Repulsion Field tends to be best at knocking things DOWN and Force Bomb's PBAoE -Res and FF Proc activations doesn't like Scatter. So unless you slot Explosive Blast and Nova with KB>KD you'll likely end up clashing with yourself). Energy Blast also doesn't have any rain/patch powers to best leverage Scourge. You'll also end up effectively locked into either the Energy Mastery Epic Pool or the Soul Mastery Patron Pool (for Power Boost/Build Up) which may or may not mesh with your theme.

[MonteCarla]

I've taken Energy Blast to level 50 ten times now on various archetypes.

It's the Blaster.

 

If you can make them survivable enough (and you can with a big budget) Energy/Energy Blaster feels downright cosmic! 

Edited 23 hours ago by MonteCarla

[Jacke]

I'm planning to have just 1 Energy Blast Toon.  An Energy Blast/Atomic Manipulation Blaster.  The Secondary has a fast casting Immob that has strong KB Resistance, so it'll turn Knockback into Knockdown, so at least the ST attacks won't need a KB>KD IO.  I looked through all the Blaster Secondaries in CoD2 for those with KB Resistance on the target and the faster Cast times.

 

As for Energy Manipulation, I have a long time Toon I need to someday play more often, a Sonic Attack/Energy Manipulation Blapper.

 

 

[TygerDarkstorm]

I'm a big fan of my Energy/Martial Blaster. I have KB->KD in my AoEs and joust in and out of melee range.