Bombing should take coordination between a small group

cuddles_with_wroble · February 25

80% of bombing builds rely on 2 things

1) VD is a disgustingly overturned and broken set that scales into oblivion

and

2) someone in the group is squishy enough to die to the initial damage and set off the chain reaction

nerfing VD and making it not do 9k damage per kill you get would basically fix the issue of you getting hit for a billion damage bcs some random with pve gear on decided to stand next to you in a keep or fight

YandereGirlfriend · February 25

cuddles_with_wroble wrote: »

80% of bombing builds rely on 2 things

1) VD is a disgustingly overturned and broken set that scales into oblivion

and

2) someone in the group is squishy enough to die to the initial damage and set off the chain reaction

nerfing VD and making it not do 9k damage per kill you get would basically fix the issue of you getting hit for a billion damage bcs some random with pve gear on decided to stand next to you in a keep or fight

The solution is even simpler - don't zerg and hold block.

Oblivion_Protocol · February 25

cuddles_with_wroble wrote: »

80% of bombing builds rely on 2 things

1) VD is a disgustingly overturned and broken set that scales into oblivion

and

2) someone in the group is squishy enough to die to the initial damage and set off the chain reaction

nerfing VD and making it not do 9k damage per kill you get would basically fix the issue of you getting hit for a billion damage bcs some random with pve gear on decided to stand next to you in a keep or fight

1) Nerf VD how? By the time the proc goes off, you’ve probably already taken a significant amount of damage and wouldn’t require much to die, especially if someone squishy is in your group. You’d have to lower the damage so much that the set would literally be useless, at which point people would just swap to Plaguebreak.

2) In the current meta, you have to rely on someone squishy being there, because everyone else in a group has 36k - 44k HP with over 30k worth of shields and a ton of healing. And frankly, I’ve seen shielders and healers save players with 22k HP from bombs because they could read the situation and react accordingly.

xFocused · February 25

Oblivion_Protocol wrote: »

cuddles_with_wroble wrote: »

80% of bombing builds rely on 2 things

1) VD is a disgustingly overturned and broken set that scales into oblivion

and

2) someone in the group is squishy enough to die to the initial damage and set off the chain reaction

nerfing VD and making it not do 9k damage per kill you get would basically fix the issue of you getting hit for a billion damage bcs some random with pve gear on decided to stand next to you in a keep or fight

1) Nerf VD how? By the time the proc goes off, you’ve probably already taken a significant amount of damage and wouldn’t require much to die, especially if someone squishy is in your group. You’d have to lower the damage so much that the set would literally be useless, at which point people would just swap to Plaguebreak.

2) In the current meta, you have to rely on someone squishy being there, because everyone else in a group has 36k - 44k HP with over 30k worth of shields and a ton of healing. And frankly, I’ve seen shielders and healers save players with 22k HP from bombs because they could read the situation and react accordingly.

Literally your second point. The current meta is to build heavy into healthy and tankyness in exchange for damage, then you add the number of cross heals and everyone stacking shields, it’s kinda crazy, lol.