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Battledome ready Blaster

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Hey guys, We all know the the battle dome is soon coming up so i will let you know how you can make out on top with a blaster. Since scrappers rain supreme out of all the archtypes in the battledome many have wondered how to beat them because of there Moments of Glory and their Unstopables. Well there is one thing that Blaster have alot of and that is ACCURACY. A good build to use is an ICE/EN cause 1 ice slows and deals good damage and 2 energy is home to alot of buffs.

What you first want to do with any blaster is not get any aoe attacks cause your not going to be killing muliple guys in the battledome so stay with the single target attacks. You also want to six slot them with not only power, but accuracy. Since Energy Manipulation has so many buffs the you might want to use some of you extra power slots to get them. BUILD UP is a must get for any blaster, also get AIM and CONSERVE POWER. Now when it comes to pools. This is where you should take notes. First thing YOU MUST HAVE STAMINA! 6 slot it with end recovery, next is you must have Combat Jump, Super Jump, and Acrobatics this will give you extra speed, defence, and more resistants to holds. Next is Stealth, Invisability, and Phase shift to add extra defence when need to run or recharge. Phase shift costs alot of end so beware. Next is Hasten YOU MUST GET HASTEN! And make it permable, this will make you have more defence and have a great recharge speed on attacks. YOu want to 6 slot this so it recharges really fast for next time use. Once 6 slotted put it on autoattack and leave it.

Well that does it for normal power pools but what about the Epics. Well this is the fun part, the epic pool you want to get is force mastery. I have never tried repulsion shield but if it works go ahead and use it. What you want to do now is get TEMP INVUNERABILTY and FORCE OF NATURE. FORCE OF NATURE is like unstopabble for blaster but be warned it will leave you drained.

Now here comes the slotting, but ill leave you to decide this but ill give you some suggestions. What i did was 6 slot conserve power to where its almost permable, for end purposes. I also 6 slotted all of my attacks. You want to also is slot AIM for accuracy along with BUILD UP so you can shoot thru enemy defences, cause once you able to shoot thru defence you got the match made.

This build takes along time to get used to and very hard to use in normal combat or for powerleveling. Its best at Battledome. I have used this before and killed mamy scrappers and controllers with this combo it works for me, it just takes time for you to get used to and to bring down your enemy, but by all means this combo makes me better then i ever was in the battledome with a blaster

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,,,,,?  PunisherLegend on 04/25/05 19:07

why build for just arena?

  atra2 on 04/28/05 18:24

Nothing to do once you reach 50?

I'd disagree with that idea, but for people bored with PvE play, they
can burn a respec (especially the 1 year anniversary respec) to
be optimized for PvP, and that's their "end-game..."

Me, when I hit 50, I've got a Warshade to make :-)

  Iron_Dragoon on 04/29/05 10:01

Well yah there is alot of stuff to do even at 50! like more archtypes, badges, AVs, TF, SGs and even the upcoming PVP. I just made this guide for people who want to rule the bdome with a blaster instead of cheap scrappers. =P

  Abyssmal on 06/07/05 09:48
 
The only thing about this that really gets to me is the amount of power slots you would need to devote to power pools and not to the archtype powers.

You are talking about taking combat jumping,super jump, acrobatics, stealth, phase shift, hasten, and stamina. Thats 7 power slots devoted solely to power pools. Next you say that build up and aim are essential as well (which i agree any blaster needs but not all blaster archtypes get). SO now 9 of the total powers are taken up. What you have now made is not a blaster but a blapper.

My concern with this (although a good build) is that it takes away from the actual concept of the blaster. A blaster was meant to be the dmg dealing archtype. It was damage that set the blaster apart from the other combat archtypes. Now it seems, however, that title has been stripped from the blaster and given to tanks and scrappers. I have seen tanks 26th level do 250+ dmg to a +4 level boss in missions and seen my 50th level blasters snipe 6 slotted with dmg enhancements do less than 200 to an even con mob. I have seen scrappers do comprable dmg as well. The thing here is this... with tankers herding 100s of mobs and taking them out with no difficulty, scrappers taking on the same thing, controllers in general taking out large groups of mobs thanks to pets, lots and lots of pets, the blaster is no more an archtype i would want to play than a corn farmer in iowa.

I understand this is written to make a viable blaster in the arena... but lets face it, when CoV comes out and you have that build, and you go against a scrapper type villain, you are still going to go down and go down hard. remember most scrapper and tanker armors now offer resist to knockback, holds, mez, sleeps ect.

  Iron_Dragoon on 06/07/05 23:14

I do agree with you there, this build was designed and made on the test server and so far domniated, the prob is now that the nerf ( the 4 sec delay imbetween attacks) is set it makes this build hard to control. I am currently testing a new build but i am not sure i want to tell you people on coh.gameamp.com about it yet. Scrappers are still really hard to beat with this build but its possible. As for tanks hahaha a tank can't touch you that much with the defence applied in build. Oh and about that resist knockback, and holds and stuff. Ever heard of untoggling? well it works for blasters quite well and once you untoggle a scrapper or a tanker you leave them vulnerable! but try not to get untoggled yourself

  Gunsmoke_x on 06/21/05 02:45

This is a good attack being a tanker and faceing him he togggles...ALOT and once i loose shialds its over he beffs up bone smash AND BOOM im gone so idk i think Iron is going to be ok when COV comes out...-Gunflame

  Randell44 on 06/21/05 15:17

I am in the process of amking a darkness scrapper without shadow maul lol.

Only lvl 8 but he has the 2 darkness punches and air superiority so far. YES he is getting fly.

His power set is mostly story based...part of that making me grab stealth.

I'll let you know how he performs in PVP...and PVE. But he should do quite well when it's all said and done.

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