Maybe no snare but definitely keep immobilization
It's a good skill, one of its kind in weapon skill lines.

fred4 wrote: »

If you're a cloaking magblade, who gets their speed from Concealed, Snow Treaders are a no-brainer. It's one of the few upsides to magblade, whereas they are a hard sell for other builds. On my DK I run Shuffle with 6 medium.

Yes, Snow Treaders works just perfectly. Also helps with other stuff and not just Bombard. Same as Shuffle yes.

Snow Treaders makes fighting MagDK`s (that are plentiful on both IC and overland Cyro right now for reasons) also smooth, Talon "Spam" and Fossilize Immo part not working on you = priceless, and can run Tri-pots or other pots instead of Immo pots. Also makes fighting Templars more fun when not permanently Snared.

Snow Treaders were the first Mythic item i went to go dig up. Saves SO much resources and global cooldowns to offensive, when not have RAT spam or Shuffle every 5- or 6 seconds, can keep up offensive pressure. It`s a gamechanger on some setups imo.

Even Magblade has Phantasmal Escape that has also Major Evasion.. but, bar space is tight as all know AND with Snow Treaders can stay mobile and not even need Evasion that much due to that. Then can use Channeled Acceleration instead of RAT. Me likey.

Bombard is a good and needed skill. "Needed" on (and against) large scale groups. Also, it is nice as a PVE tank, i use Bow back bar often, Endless Hail for bosses to proc Crusher and Bombard is nice CC on mob swarms. Not everyone plays a DK tank with Talons. So keep Bombard as it is.

I know it can be annoying if you go solo and some groups use that on you, but.. without that, stopping same kind of group would be way harder. Time Stop spam would just replace it (even more than it already has).

Also Bow/Bow builds on certain classes need such skills to kite and stay at range. Not everyone should play a Dizzy spamming melee Brawler. I am sure people want still to have options?

Many things suck at lag, all CC and many channeled/cast-time makes ones life miserable then, but it is no reason to make even more skills useless, like already has happened during all the last couple of years.

Yeah, i use Bombard on large groups and if they are not prepared, often can stop them under Oils/sieges, Negates, Major Vulnerability-hulk-smashes and so on. Needed yet occasionally annoying skill. As is many on this game, when it lags.

But gotta always see the big picture and not just a solo players view on it. Without certain skills (and traits like Harmony, that some want nerfed too), big discord coordinated groups would NOT die, ever. It is needed and used at both PVP and PVE.

Many of the latest DLC Vet dungeons actually go really smooth with a Bow back bar tank that knows what they are doing. I can tell you that skill saves more Dungeon Finder pugs from being wiped than many other skills. New DLC vets have some nasty big swarms of mobs that go way more smooth with such a CC.

Bombard is the most annoying skill in the game imo. Guess I'll have to buy Greymoor to get those boots.

Bombard has been obscenely overpowered in BGs for a really long time. I've frequently seen it hit as hard as ranged magicka spammables, while also being AOE and spam rooting numerous players at the same time.

I think root immunity needs to be treated like CC immunity, where anytime one gets out of a root - whether through cleansing, dodge rolling, or just waiting it out - they get root immunity for a set amount of time (which needs to be longer than 2 seconds). Or, alternatively, just obliterate the spammability of Bombard; implement some very heavy handed nerfs to both the cost and damage.

Its dumb skill no doubt about it, but its just one of many dumb skills the game has and had. Its pretty obvious bulk of the negativity towards this skill comes from people that would happily (ab)use it it was to more popular weapon choice. Alas, good antigroup and/or CC and/or ranged stamina skills can be counted on one hand which greatly impacts perception about their power. Making bombard rare tool every stamina build can use to combat stupid skills and mechanics of ESO PVP albeit using this stupid skill and abusing same stupid mechanics. Either all of them must go or none.