It doesn’t seem to me you can hit someone with a bomb, unless you knock back immobilize him/her, or he/she isn’t paying attention to the red circles. You don’t even have to dodge: running away is enough to avoid a bomb.
Unless I’m in a big scale fight and people don’t notice me, I can force only one target at a time to stay in the bombs, unless I use slickshoes.
And the AoE effect of bombs is not so frightening. We can kill people who want to melee us at all costs, but it takes time. For the other fights, or in condition builds, we can’t use only bombs.
Bomb kit is already a difficult kit to use, but one of the best tools of the class. And they already have a ridicolously small range. And a safe delay. Nerfing them would be criminal, in my opinion.
We would remain with elixir and static discharge builds. So the less complex builds (don’t know about SD, but p/p elixir is INCREDIBLY easy to play), while all the complexity engineer is renowned for would just be sub-optimal. And Tankcat, which I think would not be great in spvp without bombs (unless they fix power wrench, to make sure we can put toolkit autoattack to good use).
And about the FT… true, you may see bigger numbers than the rifle.
But don’t forget you dealt them in 2.5 seconds channelling. 3 times the time it takes to fire an autoattack.
You will never be able to know what an engineer is going to do next…
because he doesn’t know it himself
