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Any tip for a blaster?
D-Beam
Member Posts: 21
hello, im thinking of getting a Assault Rifle, but i dunno what secondary powers i should pick
im thinking of Energy mani cuz of the build up and bone smasher
im thinking of Devices cuz of the targeting drone and cloking device
But what? Build up helps boost Damage/Accarcy DMG=SNIPER=Good stuff!
help?
Comments
Well,
1st: Make sure you have BUILD UP in your secondary.
2nd: Pick a different damage source between primary and secondary. (Don't pick fire/fire for example, nor cold/cold, nor Assault/devices)
3: Assault Riffle is doing LETHAL damage mostly, and this is the most comon resistance/defense mobs/players will have. This is still a good choice, anyway there are no bad choice...but FIRE/COLD/ENERGY would be far less resisted/avoided by monsters/players in general.
4: Based on what you said...I would recommend /energy as your secondary, most definitely...for the primary, Assault is good, but...it will be kinda resisted...so you might consider anything that isn't identical damage source as your secondary! So if you go with /energy in your secondary, pick anything except energy or electric...Assault is good...but again, Fire or Ice will usually bring you better results.
This is only my opinion.
Fire/Energy or Ice/Energy would be my recommendation; yet Assault/Energy would be doing nicely as well. 
Assault/devices would be a bad choices IMO, as if you get into a wall due to resistance to lethal, well, it would be bad. In all other 3 examples, you will usually relly on your primary, but switch to secondary attacks depending on the situation.
PS: If you really like /devices, you might want to reconsider your choice of a blaster, a defender might be more what you want...or a controller...just talking here, but /devices lack build up and do tons of nice weird stuff...that doesn't kill the enemies!
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
Second as an Assault Rifle blaster you ahve access to a number of cone attacks and should therefore, in my opinion, take the Energy secondary due to boost range. Range boosts make cones longer and therfore wider at the max range therefore you can hit alot more people for AoE carnage.
If cone attack really aren't your thing do whatever you want, but that is the biggest strength of Assault Rilfe.
Look up Master of Cone's guide if you want a build and explanation
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
Heres my dream build for huh.. PvP/PvE
(Assault Rifle/Energy mani.)
lvl 1 Slug/Power thrust
lvl 2 Burst <---for quick attacks
lvl 4 Build Up
lvl 6 M30 Gernade
lvl 8 Hover
lvl 10 Bone Smasher
lvl 12 Snipe
lvl 14 Flight
lvl 16 Bean bag
lvl 18 flame thrower
lvl 20 Stun
lvl 22 Assault
lvl 24 Tatcits
lvl 26 Ignite
lvl 28 Swift
lvl 30 Health
lvl 32 Full Auto
lvl 35 Stamina <-- i know little to long
lvl 38 Total Focus
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Epic powers
lvl 41 Cryo Freeze ray
lvl 44 Sleep Gernade
lvl 47 LRM rocket Luncher
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So hows this build? is it good enough for PvP/PvE?
and im thinking of creating this toon on the triumph server
name? hmmmm
"Jake Hunter"
okay Anofalye gave good comments just read below I critiqued the build. AR/* is not a set I'd recommend for pvp. I elaborate below
get stamina at 20, nothing is more important
for pvp you dont want Fly usually. Spines stalkers can pick you off easy with Impale if you'r ein range. /Cold corrupters have an auto toggle to bring you down. An SS brute can through a boulder and yank you down. many, many sets have -fly.
for pvp u usually want hurdle+CJ+SS+hasten. 3 slot jump Hurdle
Snipes usually blow but I see AR has an activation time less than 2 seconds. interesting.... no comment there
get power boost and aid self. Powerboosted aid self heals for a LOT
most blaster go with the force field epic but u can always respec cause youre a hero and the DEvs loves heroes
almost everyone has Lethal resist at high lvl pvp which does not bode well for Assault Rifle. I mean even dominators and corrupters get lethal resist in their epics and no one skips it. your lower DPS from AR doesnt help. so while your secondary (/EM) gets stronger your primary is steadily getting weaker and weaker. To make a bad situation suck worse, you have a bunch of cones in your adult life. Cones are short range attacks this means you will always be upfront mostly. You lack the extreme range that Ice primary has for pvp. your secondary effects are also a bit weaker
You do not need both beanbag + Stun. pick one or the other.
Dont forget to use power thrust on /ELA brutes. the newbies will still be using Grounded which power thrust will blow right through
always try to team with rad or sonic defenders. since your main dmg type is seriously resisted, a defender can get rid of the shields for you
Assault/Tactics actually benefit the /dev blasters more cause the added +perception allows them to hunt stalkers. but being AR/EM I am not sure if you need that cause it will take yellows + tactics to see stalkers. unless they are a newb and dont have hide+stealth. However overlapping tactics is a nice boon that will allow you to see stalkers nicely in sirens
when picking a build you have to choose for your type of gamestyle, for example do you want a pvp build? or a build to play around in teams running missions doing task forces etc...I have a build strictly for pvp so i didn't pick up a lot of stuff that normal people do since all i want to do is burst dmg but anyways for pvp i'm going to recomment a few options...
Fire/Energy or Cold/Energy
Recommended attacks:
Fire: Fire blast, Fire Ball, Blaze, Snipe
Cold: Ice Bolt,Ice Blast,Freeze Ray,Bitter Ice Blast (you don't have to have freeze ray but an occasional hold is nice)
Energy Melee: Power Thrust, Bone Smasher & Total Focus
of course you'll need to pick up your aim/buildup powers but the secondary powers you'll want are
Boost Range & Power Boost, Conserve Power is optional i didn't get it cause i have geas of the kind ones accolade which gives +recovery and force of nature which gives +recovery and fire attacks don't take a lot of endurance its the melee attacks that do. not to mention i have +20 endurance from other accolades.
Pool Powers
Combat Jumping,Leaping,Acrobatics
Hasten,Superspeed
Aid Other, Aid Self (heals are nice especially with powerboost but i've been seeing some blaster going with invisibility powers for stalking)
Swift,Hurdle,Stamina
Epic Powers
Temporary Invulnerability, Personal Force Field, Force of Nature
this epic set if the most awesome epic set i believe there is but some blasters are starting to pick up ice mastery for hibernate but mostly for snow storm which gives -fly -recharge -speed
If you want to hunt Stalkers then i suggest picking up fire/devices or ice/devices w/ tpfoe...its always good to give
stalkers a taste of their own medicine, tpfoe/tripmine one shots stalkers lol....
If you want to PVE then i suggest going with Fire/Fire blaster they are by far the best for PVE damage.
Gelasius
Turbulance lvl 50 fire/em blaster
Bones- lvl 50 emp/electric defender
Cold Thermal lvl 50 ice/thermal corruptor
Gelasius lvl 30 spines/dark scrapper
Mister Bubbles lvl 26 Illusion/bubbler troller