Blast Bones - I'm whining.

Jameson18

Can we please make it so they are not targetable?

Pet sorcs are annoying enough when they body block with their pets. Necromancers or more than well enough equipped. They don't need to be able to use blast bones as a body blocker. Its annoying.

Yes, I have one. Two, in fact. No, it is not hard to do.

xylena_lazarow

Agree, better yet WTB option to disable/enable targeting player pets.

Jman100582

while we're at it can we finally get rid of the snare thats not even meant to be on the ability? thnx

Waffennacht

Hrm. But you just can't quantify the value of LoS!!

Its almost like misdirecting attacks is the most valuable form of mitigation??

That's not nearly nerf value... /end sarcasm.

Yes LoS is very effective means of mitigation and was recognized by ZoS via the change to Maw of the Infernal.

Ryuvain

Engine guardian too.

stefj68

well maybe in U50 they will think about it, they have a work schedule sets months/years in advance!

axi

While we're at it can blastbones finally stop snaring enemies for no reason?

Lughlongarm

Can we also make it so it considered projectile?

Firstmep

Waffennacht wrote: »

Hrm. But you just can't quantify the value of LoS!!

Its almost like misdirecting attacks is the most valuable form of mitigation??

That's not nearly nerf value... /end sarcasm.

Yes LoS is very effective means of mitigation and was recognized by ZoS via the change to Maw of the Infernal.

Yes, I run engine guardian for sustain. /s

katorga

Jameson18 wrote: »

Can we please make it so they are not targetable?

Pet sorcs are annoying enough when they body block with their pets. Necromancers or more than well enough equipped. They don't need to be able to use blast bones as a body blocker. Its annoying.

Yes, I have one. Two, in fact. No, it is not hard to do.

The fact that BB is a target means you can snare, root, CC, or kill a necro's main burst skill and completely avoid it.

Once it is un-targetable, you will always take that hit. I bet this change would make BB even stronger.

divnyi

katorga wrote: »

snare, root, CC, or kill a necro's main burst skill and completely avoid it.

Snare and root only delays the burst. To kill it, you need to unload more burst than blastbones would do to you.

katorga

divnyi wrote: »

katorga wrote: »

snare, root, CC, or kill a necro's main burst skill and completely avoid it.

Snare and root only delays the burst. To kill it, you need to unload more burst than blastbones would do to you.

Fact remains it is the only burst skill in the game with those additional counters.

master_vanargand

All pets should be no target.
Using pets as LoS is a bad game design.

NeillMcAttack

Have you tried tab targeting your enemy, I believe you can do this on controller also and it isn’t very difficult.

xylena_lazarow

NeillMcAttack wrote: »

Have you tried tab targeting your enemy

Yeah, doesn't help in PvP, still a coin flip chance whether your attacks hit the tabbed player or their pets. I've also had times as PvE tank where I tab an add for a chain pull but the chain still flies out the side of my body to the boss.

divnyi

katorga wrote: »

Fact remains it is the only burst skill in the game with those additional counters.

Fact remains that those are not counters. You would be better to hit stuns or snares or damage to the necro himself, it would stop burst even better.

divnyi

xylena_lazarow wrote: »

NeillMcAttack wrote: »

Have you tried tab targeting your enemy

Yeah, doesn't help in PvP, still a coin flip chance whether your attacks hit the tabbed player or their pets. I've also had times as PvE tank where I tab an add for a chain pull but the chain still flies out the side of my body to the boss.

Targeting actually works. I do it all the time at snipeblade. You still need to aim right at that opponent for targeting to work, it will prioritize marked enemy if several enemies overlap. But problem is, you can't reliably fast select the needed target, as in blastbones situation.

TBois

xylena_lazarow wrote: »

NeillMcAttack wrote: »

Have you tried tab targeting your enemy

Yeah, doesn't help in PvP, still a coin flip chance whether your attacks hit the tabbed player or their pets. I've also had times as PvE tank where I tab an add for a chain pull but the chain still flies out the side of my body to the boss.

They need to have an option to enable/disable pet targeting as mentioned earlier or bring back how tab target used to work when it actually worked like most people expect.

Waffennacht

TBois wrote: »

xylena_lazarow wrote: »

NeillMcAttack wrote: »

Have you tried tab targeting your enemy

Yeah, doesn't help in PvP, still a coin flip chance whether your attacks hit the tabbed player or their pets. I've also had times as PvE tank where I tab an add for a chain pull but the chain still flies out the side of my body to the boss.

They need to have an option to enable/disable pet targeting as mentioned earlier or bring back how tab target used to work when it actually worked like most people expect.

If it worked like you think it would
... Omg that would make vateshran like..... Fun

divnyi

@Waffennacht what do you mean?

Canned_Apples

Friendly players can body block you from casting it too.

master_vanargand

NeillMcAttack wrote: »

Have you tried tab targeting your enemy, I believe you can do this on controller also and it isn’t very difficult.

divnyi wrote: »

xylena_lazarow wrote: »

NeillMcAttack wrote: »

Have you tried tab targeting your enemy

Yeah, doesn't help in PvP, still a coin flip chance whether your attacks hit the tabbed player or their pets. I've also had times as PvE tank where I tab an add for a chain pull but the chain still flies out the side of my body to the boss.

Targeting actually works. I do it all the time at snipeblade. You still need to aim right at that opponent for targeting to work, it will prioritize marked enemy if several enemies overlap. But problem is, you can't reliably fast select the needed target, as in blastbones situation.

Tab targeting doesn't make sense.
It doesn't help fighting players who use pets.

Waffennacht

divnyi wrote: »

@Waffennacht what do you mean?

Where your attacks went to the highlighted target reliably. Then ill you would need rondo is tab target the shade for an ez clear is all

xylena_lazarow

divnyi wrote: »

Targeting actually works. I do it all the time at snipeblade. You still need to aim right at that opponent for targeting to work, it will prioritize marked enemy if several enemies overlap. But problem is, you can't reliably fast select the needed target, as in blastbones situation.

It was a while ago but testing in some duels vs my friend on a Warden with bear pet, tab targeted him, crosshairs glued to him, about 1/5 attacks hit the bear anyway. Random chance for 20% of your opponent's attacks to miss, sounds suspiciously familiar to a buff that used to be in the game but got reworked to something less idiotic...