Suggestion to make blastbones better

ciyanax

1. Make the skeleton spawn at enemy’s location
2. Give it a brief pre-explosion animation to balance it in place of the buggy chasing.
3. Change magicka morph to make the skill give 2 corpses

These would make the skill more functional, more controllable and synergistic with the class and other skills as the bladtbone is a bread and butter setup.

The_DancinPanda

ciyanax wrote: »

1. Make the skeleton spawn at enemy’s location
2. Give it a brief pre-explosion animation to balance it in place of the buggy chasing.
3. Change magicka morph to make the skill give 2 corpses

These would make the skill more functional, more controllable and synergistic with the class and other skills as the bladtbone is a bread and butter setup.

Damn u really thought this thru, first spawn the skeleton at enemy’s location and then give it pre explosion so it balances the chasing, well u see, doubt there would be any chasing cause skeleton would spawn at the targets locations (have no idea what you mean about targets location) and then make 2 corpses from 1 skeleton, damn... basically let me drop my skeletons on top of my targets head, that would balance it

Greek_Hellspawn

The only things that blastbones needs is that the stamina morph adds minor defile instead of major, and magicka morph either adds a different minor debuff or make it deal more damage the farther is jumps.

Danksta

ciyanax wrote: »

1. Make the skeleton spawn at enemy’s location
2. Give it a brief pre-explosion animation to balance it in place of the buggy chasing.
3. Change magicka morph to make the skill give 2 corpses

These would make the skill more functional, more controllable and synergistic with the class and other skills as the bladtbone is a bread and butter setup.

I'm on board with these changes if the animation is teabagging. Just a couple squats then it blows up? That would be pretty classy!

MashmalloMan

Greek_Hellspawn wrote: »

The only things that blastbones needs is that the stamina morph adds minor defile instead of major, and magicka morph either adds a different minor debuff or make it deal more damage the farther is jumps.

Yep.

OP buffs it in 3 ways when it only needs 1.

Yamenstein

They should change blastbones entirely.

I was playing through Vault of Madness and the Colossus (like all of these boss types) has a charge mechanic that does damage the entire charge distance + stays there for x amount of time.

Just have the blastbone do this. And make it so where it stops it will explode causing more damage.

MashmalloMan

Yamenstein wrote: »

They should change blastbones entirely.

I was playing through Vault of Madness and the Colossus (like all of these boss types) has a charge mechanic that does damage the entire charge distance + stays there for x amount of time.

Just have the blastbone do this. And make it so where it stops it will explode causing more damage.

Good luck on that. BB won't change core functionality like that unless you're willing to wait 5+ years with people actually asking ZOS to do so because it's clearly so awful.

Stam Sorcs waited 5 years for a Grim Focus rip off on an ability we already double barred. Nice.. but not enough.

BXR_Lonestar

ciyanax wrote: »

1. Make the skeleton spawn at enemy’s location
2. Give it a brief pre-explosion animation to balance it in place of the buggy chasing.
3. Change magicka morph to make the skill give 2 corpses

These would make the skill more functional, more controllable and synergistic with the class and other skills as the bladtbone is a bread and butter setup.

I'd agree with all your suggestions, except I think rather than giving a brief pre-explosion animation to balance it (presumably for PVP?), I think the skill should just function like haunting curse for a sorc - at least damage-wise. It should be consistent damage, as its supposed to be one of the workhorse skills for DPS. Therefore, IMO, the damage needs to be consistent and reliable, and strong enough to justify its use when it has such a long delay before "firing." At least that is what I would want out of the skill in PVE.

I might suggest that the skill function like a root skill (think DK talons) - with a skeleton animation spawning on the enemy and holding them in place. After 3 seconds, detonation doing massive damage. In PVP, this gives the a player the chance to break free and roll dodge away.

The only issue then would be how to make it function against targets that are immune to root abilities - bosses and mini-bosses, but I don't think that is a major issue. DK's can still cast their root on a boss, but if it doesn't root them in place, the talons just remain at the position they spawned in. Blast bones can do the same thing. It'll detonate where it spawns and may not hit the target, but on a mobile boss or one that teleports around, skills like blast bones and haunting curse might not be your best choice anyways, since neither skill will hit if the boss is teleporting, burrowed underground, etc.

leepalmer95

If blastbones was any better it would be a seperate class.

drakthir

Blastbones is fine

Alucardo

ciyanax wrote: »

1. Make the skeleton spawn at enemy’s location

Nah, because then I wouldn't be able to play Blastbone tennis with my necro friends when PvP is laggy.