Best Primary for /Willpower

[Planerunner]

I could really use some assistance from the Sent community: I'm banging my head against a Rikti pylon trying to figure out what to pair with Will for my new Sent.

 

Here's the goal: create a solo, ranged, AoE, /Will Sent.

 

Water is an obvious first primary, but I simply can't make the theme and animations fit. What other ranged AoE primaries would synergize well with /will here?

[Hopeling]

/Willpower pairs pretty well with just about anything. With Quick Recovery, even thirsty primaries aren't an issue. What is the theme that you're trying to match?

[Planerunner]

I was aiming for a type of beam thrower. Someone that uses their hands/arms to throw AoE. Although Water's mechanics are great, the theme just didn't fit. Sonic isn't much better. Energy Blast fits the theme perfectly, but unfortunately, it is one of the weakest primaries for Sent.

[Hopeling]

How about Radiation Blast? You can recolor it to get away from the radiation green and make it look more like generic energy, if desired.

[Sunsette]

Personally, I always see radiation as radiation. The aesthetic is a little too perfect on comic book nuclear radiation. What about fire or ice?

[Heraclea]

Electric is also a possibility.  On my double electric blaster I made the electricity pink.  It does resemble the Arachnos Mu villains. 

[Solok]

I'm loving Radiation Blast and Willpower for my Sent

[Planerunner]

My only issue with Rad is 2 of its 4 AoE abilities are PBAOE (Irradiate, Atomic Blast). Still, it may have potential for the theme despite the shorter range. Ice is in a pretty good place right now. It has 3 AOE, but all are ranged. Anyone have experience with an Ice Sent? Anything to watch out for, or builds?

[Destlin]

I would probably pair rad with /rad to compliment ground zero, which can be a very very powerful nuke if frankenslotted. as for /WP anything pairs well with it really. You just can't go wrong.

[Mercurias]

It sounds like you’re maybe wanting a Fire/WP/Fire Sentinel. Fire Blast has two AoEs, Fireball and Rain of Fire, and tends to consistently be amongst the meta sets that deal the most damage. Compared to Water Blast, it’s AoE isn’t quiet as good, but it’s single target damage will hit extremely hard.

 

Pairing the sets with more fire for the Ancillary is to give access to Fire Cages, which deals decent damage (you can slot it to proc) and immobilizes so they can’t hit you in melee.