Dual Pistols/Martial Combat build needed

[Lionroar]

Hello heroes and villains.

Been searching for an updated version of this combo for a blaster, but all those builds that I find are too old to work in my version of Mids.

Anyone got a fairly new build they can share?

 

Thanks in advance c",)

[Black_Assassin]

On 9/13/2025 at 9:08 AM, Lionroar said:

Hello heroes and villains.

Been searching for an updated version of this combo for a blaster, but all those builds that I find are too old to work in my version of Mids.

Anyone got a fairly new build they can share?

 

Thanks in advance c",)

 

Drafted this recently based on how I slot my DP defender. 

 

Blaster (Dual Pistols - Martial Combat).mbd

[Lionroar]

19 minutes ago, Black_Assassin said:

 

Drafted this recently based on how I slot my DP defender. 

 

Blaster (Dual Pistols - Martial Combat).mbd 42.59 kB · 0 downloads

Thanks a million 😄

[Mr_Enigma]

Here's my current build (I hope i did the buildsave/import/post thing correctly!)

 

Blaster (Dual Pistols - Martial Combat).mbd

[Mr_Enigma]

Sorry, here it is with Incarnates so you can see the final numbersBlaster (Dual Pistols - Martial Combat)(2).mbd 

[Heatstroke]

Here is my current build.  It works well for me. 

[WuTang]

Toggle Hail of Bullets off, it skews defensive numbers by ~11%, but only lasts 5 seconds.

[Lionroar]

On 9/15/2025 at 4:58 PM, Black_Assassin said:

 

Drafted this recently based on how I slot my DP defender. 

 

Blaster (Dual Pistols - Martial Combat).mbd 42.59 kB · 2 downloads

Hello again. After working with this build, I've realized there's no KB protection. Will see if I can work it in, but just a heads up 😉

[Black_Assassin]

You get 3 kb protection from 3 slotting glad armours in your epic

[Nemu]

On 9/13/2025 at 4:08 AM, Lionroar said:

Hello heroes and villains.

Been searching for an updated version of this combo for a blaster, but all those builds that I find are too old to work in my version of Mids.

Anyone got a fairly new build they can share?

 

Thanks in advance c",)

 

Now that you have a bunch of people throw builds at you without asking what you are actually looking to accomplish with the build based on your playstyle preferences an budget, do you find it helpful?

[Lionroar]

11 minutes ago, Black_Assassin said:

You get 3 kb protection from 3 slotting glad armours in your epic

Okay, that's embarassing. You're absolutely right, I missed that bonus 🙂

[Lionroar]

1 minute ago, Nemu said:

 

Now that you have a bunch of people throw builds at you without asking what you are actually looking to accomplish with the build based on your playstyle preferences an budget, do you find it helpful?

Yes I do 🙂 

[Lionroar]

On 9/16/2025 at 7:13 AM, Mr_Enigma said:

Sorry, here it is with Incarnates so you can see the final numbersBlaster (Dual Pistols - Martial Combat)(2).mbd 

Thanks mate 😄 

[Mr. Apocalypse]

Here is mine. I have not played this one in a couple of years but it played well at the time

Badd Cane - Blaster - Dual Pistols_Martial Combat_Mace Mastery.mxd

[Nemu]

8 minutes ago, Lionroar said:

Yes I do 🙂 

Then you are either very smart and can figure things out all on your own or you are trying not to offend the other posters that offered help.

 

I'm going to give you some time to stew on that answer. No disrespect to the other people that offered their builds here.

 

The option is always on the table to go into more specific details on what you want to accomplish, so people like me can craft a build tailored to your preferences and budget.

[Lionroar]

2 hours ago, Mr. Apocalypse said:

Here is mine. I have not played this one in a couple of years but it played well at the time

Badd Cane - Blaster - Dual Pistols_Martial Combat_Mace Mastery.mxd 11.13 kB · 1 download

Thank you sir 😄 

[Lionroar]

2 hours ago, Nemu said:

Then you are either very smart and can figure things out all on your own or you are trying not to offend the other posters that offered help.

 

I'm going to give you some time to stew on that answer. No disrespect to the other people that offered their builds here.

 

The option is always on the table to go into more specific details on what you want to accomplish, so people like me can craft a build tailored to your preferences and budget.

I prefer to be very smart 😉 I'm not asking anyone to tailor a build for me, I'm asking if they have a build they want to share. If they don' want to share a build that they already have, they dont have to. Yes some kind people have shared they're builds, and some builds, with other posts included, I use directly, and other builds I use as a template and may tweak a bit myself. For example, in some builds people have chosen Super Jump, where I prefer Fly, or maybe there's a skill they haven't chosen that I'd like to use and see if I can swap something out. I'm not smart enough to build it entirely myself, especially for ranged AT's, which is why I ask people if they want to share what they have. Now, I dont know if I've offended you in some way or whatever the issue is here, but I feel a bit "attacked" by you, just out of the blue.

So, with that being said, of course I appreciate people sharing their builds, why wouldn't I?

[Nemu]

39 minutes ago, Lionroar said:

I feel a bit "attacked" by you, just out of the blue.

 

It's not my intention to attack you, but I want you to think about it this way:

 

A lot of people have posted builds that work for them, but does that mean those builds work for you? How do you know if the builds people posted are even good? I see that you've been to JJ's thread. Do you harbor the notion that just because someone is willing to post a build then their build is automatically "good?"

 

If you go shopping for a car you wouldn't just take the salesperson's recommendations for whatever car that fancies them would you? Surely you have a specific budget and requirements for your dream car. Good salespeople will do discovery, find out what you really need and tailor their recommendations to those baselines, then try to upsell.

 

That's what I'm trying to do, trying to find your baseline. I can make any build from softcapped - super survivable blaster to balls to the walls proctastic blaster and anything in between, I can make billion inf end game builds or SO only leveling builds with specific power and slot pick progressions to ensure a smooth leveling journey. But I prefer not to throw shit on the wall and see what sticks until I hear from YOU what you actually want.

 

At the end this is about YOU, if you give more details on what you are trying to accomplish, then I can help you get there.

 

So let's start with these questions:

What is your budget?
What is your benchmark for a successful blaster build?
 - do you want to do the most damage, survival is for your teammates to cover
 - do you want to turtle up and be as sturdy as possible?

 - do you prefer to solo or team, or do both?

 - do you prefer to fly or stay low to the ground and bounce around the battlefield?

 - do you want to stay at range and not go into melee range ever?
 - do you feel adventurous and wouldn't mind punching baddies in the face with some melee powers?

 - do you intend to level this blaster up the old fashioned way, doing missions and such?
 - do you intend to fast track the blaster to 50 and then make the build at that point?

Edited Friday at 04:39 PM by Nemu

[Lionroar]

1 hour ago, Nemu said:

 

It's not my intention to attack you, but I want you to think about it this way:

 

A lot of people have posted builds that work for them, but does that mean those builds work for you? How do you know if the builds people posted are even good? I see that you've been to JJ's thread. Do you harbor the notion that just because someone is willing to post a build then their build is automatically "good?"

 

If you go shopping for a car you wouldn't just take the salesperson's recommendations for whatever car that fancies them would you? Surely you have a specific budget and requirements for your dream car. Good salespeople will do discovery, find out what you really need and tailor their recommendations to those baselines, then try to upsell.

 

That's what I'm trying to do, trying to find your baseline. I can make any build from softcapped - super survivable blaster to balls to the walls proctastic blaster and anything in between, I can make billion inf end game builds or SO only leveling builds with specific power and slot pick progressions to ensure a smooth leveling journey. But I prefer not to throw shit on the wall and see what sticks until I hear from YOU what you actually want.

 

At the end this is about YOU, if you give more details on what you are trying to accomplish, then I can help you get there.

 

So let's start with these questions:

What is your budget?
What is your benchmark for a successful blaster build?
 - do you want to do the most damage, survival is for your teammates to cover
 - do you want to turtle up and be as sturdy as possible?

 - do you prefer to solo or team, or do both?

 - do you prefer to fly or stay low to the ground and bounce around the battlefield?

 - do you want to stay at range and not go into melee range ever?
 - do you feel adventurous and wouldn't mind punching baddies in the face with some melee powers?

 - do you intend to level this blaster up the old fashioned way, doing missions and such?
 - do you intend to fast track the blaster to 50 and then make the build at that point?

I know it might not suit my playstyle, it is their builds, not mine. I am experienced enough to see if it's good for me or not, more or less at least. I can view the totals while keeping in mind there's some powers that shouldnt be calculated in the totals as they can make it look better "on paper" than it actually is. Maybe it's a 5 sec buff within a power that has 30 sec recharge and such, you know what I mean.

But okay, let's give it a try 🙂 

Budget is unlimited. the more expensive it is, the more farming is needed. It's tidious, but possible.

Benchmark, I'm not sure.

I dont want to be a turtle, that's more for a tank imo.

I want to be a able to use burst of speed, dragons tail and then hail of bullets, and make it out alive. So I want him to hit hard as possible, while being able to stay alive.

Solo or team. I mostly solo, but teaming from time to time.

I want to fly, but only when getting from A to B, because im lazy. In combat I want to stay on the ground.

With this blaster I want to stay ranged most of the time, except from the combo mentioned above, and maybe have a melee attack or 2, when enemies gets close, which means I'd like to keep Eagles claw, and the cool kicking power in MA.

The blaster is already leveled up to level 50 as we speak, and working on incarnates.

I hope this is info that you can use 🙂 

[Nemu]

Details like that go a long way towards a build more suited for you. I'm going to walk you through the build I put together.

 

 

Besides the requirements you listed, I added a few more:
1 - Build should be exemp friendly and have most its core complete by level 30. This means power selection sequence matters.

2 - Build should have at least 95% chance to hit against +4 mobs.

3 - Build should have at least 50% slow resist. If you want to be mobile on the ground during combat, getting stuck in a caltrops patch or other slow patches will spell death, especially if you don't have high defenses. You could use burst of speed or mysic flight teleport to get out of the patch, but the other benefit of slow resist is that it also combats recharge debuffs.

 

Since you want to stay at range, I made sure you have a decent number of single target and AoE range attacks. You can "spam" empty clips as part of your AoE rotation, and act as a single target filler, and you have a late game Proc Monster char with a build up proc that can proc about 50% of the time to round out your single target ranged attack rotation.

 

Survival wise you will need to stay on your toes. Get used to inspcombining lucks and breakfrees during your down time and use those inspirations accordingly. This build has about 30% Range and AoE defense by level 30, Hail of bullets bumps this up to 40%, 30% defense is ok, but you will start to really notice enemies missing you more when you eclipse the 40% range. I didn't place as much emphasis on melee defense. Below is why

 

If you plan to open with burst of speed, I added an avalanche KD proc so that it can give you some breathing room to chain into hail of bullets. I also put a Ragnarok KD proc in Bullet Rain for some incidental soft control. It's not super reliable, but nice when it happens. The Burst of speed->Hail of bullets sequence should be enough to wipe out enough fodder and then you can softlock your melee opponent with storm kick->dragon's tail->storm kick to keep them knocked down. Range defense and AoE defense are more important because you have the tools to deal with stuff in melee range via soft controls and just killing them, but you don't have direct means to deal with threats attacking from those two other vectors.

 

If you minimize your exposure to melee by jousting then you can get by with lower melee defense. Know when to move and where to move, that's the number 1 rule of being a successful blaster.

 

This build can solo the default difficulty with little issue. If you are diligent about inspiration usage you can probably go up to +2/8 once you get Bonfire. That power is a huge upgrade to your survival against multiple foes.

 

The build also has 2 breakfree clicks in Inner Will and rune of protection. The latter is why I took mystic flight instead of fly as your travel power. I've seen people put inner will on auto as a auto breakfree every 30 or so seconds. Speaking of auto powers...

 

Noticeably the build does not have hasten. You can fit it in by dropping a pool like leadership if you so wish, but I compensated for the lack of hasten with liberal use of the force feedback proc.

 

Lastly, you don't need miracle/numinas in health like most builds that auto cram those IOs in. Reaction time is your sustain and it does one thing really well - end recovery. Some people go half heal and half end mod in that power but I opted for a full set of pre-emptive for the range defense bonus.

 

Just a few details on what you want can get you a build like this. And I would like to think that this is a much better use of your time for a small up front investment of telling people your definition of success. Now you don't have to comb through a bunch of builds trying to figure out which works for you. I'd hate to see you blindly copy and invest billions of inf on black assassin's build, perhaps without ever realizing that his is a build tailored for hardmode content and requires a very mature understanding of the game and command of blaster fundamentals to be successful for regular content.

 

If you want to deep dive into how to create builds like this, how to optimize your builds, or even how to be successful playing blasters, I can help you too. All you need to do is provide me some details.

 

DPMartial Zoom Zoom Boom.mbd

Edited 11 hours ago by Nemu