Blaster Rifle question.

[Sharkbite]

So I've only been able to solo Tinker's Lab roughly the past six weeks or so (only started playing DD this past January so I missed out on when the game was popular) and for the life of me I can't seem to get a good Blaster Rifle.

I've probably run it between 30-40 times now and have only seen maybe three ultimates which the best of has 281 upgrades and super mediocre stats. That seems pretty sad compared to my ultimate Pawnshot with 395 upgrades. However is that just the nature of the Blaster Rifle to have sad stats?

General consensus on whether it is even worth it to keep trying Dungeon Defenderbros? I'm somehow still enjoying how challenging TL is but getting disheartened over how many myth blasters with a whopping 25-50 upgrades I'm getting.

[pew pew pew]

Hint: Tinkerer's Lab Insane Hardcore

Side note: Stats are not that much important but they can be better than for Pawn Shots. DPS-wise since Blaster Rifle pierces enemies, Blaster Rifle will be most likely better than your Pawn Shot. However, both weapons are only viable for Huntress / Ranger, Jester has to use weapons from Apprentice.

[Acen]

As pew pew pew mentioned, blasters are better on Insane than NM. Stats are better and typically roll ult far more.

DD isnt as popular as it once was but there are still some who play it. More will jump on it once school is out for everyone and probably once we release the next update to DD which is in beta right now. If you think TL is a challenge, make sure to check out the new map on the beta. :)

[Sharkbite]

Thanks for the replies DDbros. So I only had time to run it once last night as I had to be up for a long day at work today but yeah... that one single run already had an ultimate drop with decent stats and 260ish upgrades. Already almost better than my entire 30-40 runs in NM... Um, how the hell does insane HC drop better blasters than NM?? Is TL bugged because that makes no sense to me. Slugging it out in NM is sadomasochistic fun for me but I wish I had asked this earlier, Insane took about half the time and was ridiculously easy.

Originally posted by pew pew pew:

Hint: Tinkerer's Lab Insane Hardcore

Side note: Stats are not that much important but they can be better than for Pawn Shots. DPS-wise since Blaster Rifle pierces enemies, Blaster Rifle will be most likely better than your Pawn Shot. However, both weapons are only viable for Huntress / Ranger, Jester has to use weapons from Apprentice.

Do you mean that Jester should use Apprentice weapons? I've been using that Pawnshot with him ever since I got it from KG, its fantastic with my genie since I haven't had good luck getting a decent lupine yet.

Originally posted by Acen:

As pew pew pew mentioned, blasters are better on Insane than NM. Stats are better and typically roll ult far more.

DD isnt as popular as it once was but there are still some who play it. More will jump on it once school is out for everyone and probably once we release the next update to DD which is in beta right now. If you think TL is a challenge, make sure to check out the new map on the beta. :)

That map facerolled me hard in NM a few nights ago, so hard that I haven't tried it again yet. Can't seem to get past wave 25 on Moonbase either, think I need to farm up some better stats to deal with both. Roughly 2.5k-3k average stats across characters with a few spikes in 4k here and there. Any suggestions where I should be looking Acen? Aquanos Survival has had the best rate of trans and sup drops but its getting SO boring to run over and over lately.

[pew pew pew]

Certain items "rollover" on Nightmare. Instead of a clamp function (term used in scripting/coding) items reset themselves to low values while counting towards their new value... Most popular is most likely charge speed, sometimes dropped apprentice weapons had charges of 300-500 which were reset once you picked them up. 300 changed to -86. Happens also a lot of with accessories on NM.

Yes, to get most most damage potential out of a Jester, you have to use weapons from Apprentice (Bloodshot/Bone Staff, Crested Eagle, Fusion Rift...). About Lupine bow - almost any will work, get one with 100-120 upgrades, that's enough.

I'm down to 3-3.5k stats on Ember, to be honest I lost a bit my interest to test as it doesn't seem my thoughts will be considered (harsh tone at the forums and more people think towers are fine right now even though it seem they only tested them in tavern... people like big op numbers, sadly)

[Sharkbite]

Well that's disappointing to hear, sounds like I wasted my time on all those NM games in TL. I wonder why Trendy doesn't do something about it? Although if its easier to farm on Insane...

I had thought that charge capped out at 100? Regardless I've had an ultimate Fusion Rift collecting dust in my item box because I haven't cared much for playing Apprentice/Adept. Broke that out, upgraded 395/396 and testing by shotgunning the tavern dummy it has flat out doubled the dps of my Pawnshot 0__0 That would have been nice to know like 2 months ago.

I do have a poison Lupine buried somewhere but a random player ingame mentioned that only fire or electric are really worth using and I never did my research to see if that's true or not.

Ehh, I really don't have a lot of interest in playing Ember again until it's been rebalanced, there's still so many maps to try and get my NMHC badges.

OH! And by the way.. I decided to run an Insane TL Survival starting from wave 28 last night just for the badge, (used a build from the guide section which worked like a charm) got to the final wave and an ultimate Blaster dropped with 381 upgrades! Second game on Insane gave me just what I wanted so thank you for the suggestion pew and Acen!

[pew pew pew]

congratz, hope chickens were good too :) Lupine with poision is as good as fire... electric is unwanted because lupine already does electric damage.

[Acen]

Quick question. Are you playing on the beta or the main live branch? I only ask to make sure you know that your profile on Beta is not the same as what is on the live. So dont want you to waste time farming for a good blaster and chicken if you are on beta since you wont be able to keep it in the long run.

[Sharkbite]

Thx pew! Chickens were decent, 20-27k range. I'll have to double check on the lupine, think it was poison. Was awhile ago that I got it on Spooktacular2.

Only played on the beta a few times Acen, did a test to see if I could keep items won from Moonbase Survival or Ember. Nope! Have made sure to run Tinker's back in official servers, thanks for checking though :)