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Blast Mastery Achievement in Fallout: New Vegas

Blast Mastery23 (15)

Offline Required - This achievement requires play in offline game modesSingle Player - This achievement can be obtained in single player game modesCumulative - This achievement is obtained by gradually increasing one’s total number of experience points, kills, hours, or similar measures, over time to meet certain goals
Cause 10,000 damage with Energy Weapons.

Achievement Guide for Blast Mastery

AuthorSolution
SnappierLeader3
94,061
SnappierLeader3
Achievement not yet won
Posted on 23 October 10 at 14:59, Edited on 05 July 11 at 14:24
This solution has 24 positive votes and 4 negative votes. Please log in to vote.
You will get this through normal game play as long as you are using Energy weapons (e.g Plasma Rifle, Laser Gun and so forth). Also if you have companions with you it will hinder the damage count some. For every HP of damage they do that is less towards your damage. Which I think is a fair trade off since you get the XP for everything they kill.
You can also find the Tesla-Beaton prototype. It's located exactly south of the Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm in a crater where a plane has crashed. Consumes about 45 electron charge packs per shot and does around 135 dmg depending on your energy weapons skill, but to get it you have to fight through some sentry bots and mister gutsy bots as well.
Thank You Foxfire49 for pointing out the Tesla-Beaton.
Update:
Thank You Undead Immortal for pointing this out!
You can keep track of this by going into your PipBoy under Data - Misc - Then press Y to bring up the Challenges press X once to go to next Challenge type then Scroll down and find Blaster Master.

Note: I have won this achievement on another account, but it was compromised so I just made a new account and I just haven't gotten around to playing again.
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El Horse
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El Horse
Achievement won on 27 Oct 10
TA Score for this game: 1,407
Posted on 27 October 10 at 22:43, Edited on 29 October 10 at 11:54
This solution has 18 positive votes and 1 negative vote. Please log in to vote.
If you have the "Wild Wasteland" trait activated, then you can get hold of the "Alien Blaster" (Also seen in Mothership Zeta DLC for FO3 I think), which is pretty powerful.

If you head north east from Horowitz Farm, you should see a UFO floating above the ridge. By here there should be 3 aliens. One of which will have the blaster. I found this after getting the achievement but it was really powerful. It took Cazadors out in one shot and made short work of Deathclaws too (As its a pistol, VATS gives you plenty of shots also). Comes in perfect condition with about 200 ammo.

With this weapon, you can go after bigger enemies and should make the 10000 in no time.

I can only assume that this is classed as an energy weapon though as I have not used it to get the achievement myself. Confirmation would be appreciated if anyone knows! - *** Confirmed by Gaulty315 - Thanks! ***
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GesterX
130,997
GesterX
Achievement won on 01 Dec 10
TA Score for this game: 1,127
Posted on 01 December 10 at 15:33
This solution has 11 positive votes and 1 negative vote. Please log in to vote.
The best weapon to use for this is the Alien Blaster (only available with Wild Wasteland trait).

It can be found by travelling North of Horowitz Farm until you see a group of 3 aliens by a hovering ship. It has 400+ DPS and even with only 65 Points in Energy Weapons I was able to get the achievement in no time at all.

Once you have the Alien Blaster go to The Thorn (by Westside) or Dead Wind Cavern (East of Primm) and kill enemies until the achievement pops.
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Boss Complex
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Boss Complex
Achievement won on 13 Feb 11
TA Score for this game: 2,722
Posted on 05 February 11 at 07:04, Edited on 23 February 11 at 06:01
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The Thorn is an arena type area
you can keep stocking up and go back in for fights
its right near the vegas strip on the west side

grenade machine gun
or other explosives u can find and buy from the boomers munition manager
then depending on your level (and if u did some of red lucys quests) take on some deathclaws for max exp.

took me about 20 mins from almost no progress to get this one done
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