Guild Wars 2

I’ve been experimenting with a explosioneer build lately, and well…

http://i.imgur.com/IolqZyp.jpg

If only it didn’t have that horrendous animation and travel time…

for pve, okay
maybe even viable for wvw wall bombing (need to test that myself)
but for wvw roaming and pvp its worthless since even a blind cow with 3 broken legs can dodge it.

It hits the ceiling in Dungeons way too much for my taste..

It’s great for downed-cleaving in PvP and if you combine it with the Immob turret, it’s a ton of guaranteed damage.

Arantheal.7396:

for pve, okay
maybe even viable for wvw wall bombing (need to test that myself)
but for wvw roaming and pvp its worthless since even a blind cow with 3 broken legs can dodge it.

I would argue with that one. Grenades also have a pretty terrible travel time and in theory, are easy as hell to dodge. But people still use them effectively all across the board. The travel time really depends on how close you are to the target. Short range it’s great, because like grenades, there’s almost no travel time and it explodes almost instantly. At medium range it’s pretty terrible because you can clearly see it coming. At long range, however, I can’t even see it in the air once I launch it, and I have no way of guessing when it’ll actually hit even though I’m the one who launched it – I highly doubt anybody else will be able to in the heat of battle. Granted, for the long range to work you’ll need to use it against a mostly stationary target (somebody on a node) or a blob of people.

It’s like a mobile version of the Big Old Bomb, it shares the same CD, does the same damage, and doesn’t knock back foes which is a good thing in most circumstances.

Also, it’s worth pointing out that I wasn’t on a full glass cannon spec when that screenshot was posted. I was running 4/6/0/2/0 to get some extra survivability because I was trying to solo Pyro. Additionally, for whatever reason I decided to use a weapon using a sigil of force and a sigil of night even though it wasn’t night. I could easily see somebody critting 15k+ with that thing under the right circumstances. Imagine being in a dungeon with 25 stacks of might…

Wolfar.6508:

It hits the ceiling in Dungeons way too much for my taste..

Don’t use it at a range. If you use it in melee range in explodes immediately on launch.

If you want to use it in PvP, you pretty much have to do it point blank. It can still deal some nice damage, but it’s not really worth taking the rocket turret if all you want to do is access the tool belt skill (unlike how rifle turret is useful in some builds only for its tool belt skill).

I don’t really know why they gave it that ridiculous trajectory. It’s comical more than anything, and it’s not like it lets you lob it over walls or anything like that… maybe it some instances it could hit an AC or something, but it’s just silly. The reason they changed the grenades not to have that sort of trajectory is because it made them too difficult to make effective, so I’m not sure why they wanted to make the rocket like that.

Yamsandjams.3267:

If you want to use it in PvP, you pretty much have to do it point blank. It can still deal some nice damage, but it’s not really worth taking the rocket turret if all you want to do is access the tool belt skill (unlike how rifle turret is useful in some builds only for its tool belt skill).

I don’t really know why they gave it that ridiculous trajectory. It’s comical more than anything, and it’s not like it lets you lob it over walls or anything like that… maybe it some instances it could hit an AC or something, but it’s just silly. The reason they changed the grenades not to have that sort of trajectory is because it made them too difficult to make effective, so I’m not sure why they wanted to make the rocket like that.

Probably because of DAT DAMIJ!

Dirame.8521:

Yamsandjams.3267:

If you want to use it in PvP, you pretty much have to do it point blank. It can still deal some nice damage, but it’s not really worth taking the rocket turret if all you want to do is access the tool belt skill (unlike how rifle turret is useful in some builds only for its tool belt skill).

I don’t really know why they gave it that ridiculous trajectory. It’s comical more than anything, and it’s not like it lets you lob it over walls or anything like that… maybe it some instances it could hit an AC or something, but it’s just silly. The reason they changed the grenades not to have that sort of trajectory is because it made them too difficult to make effective, so I’m not sure why they wanted to make the rocket like that.

Probably because of DAT DAMIJ!

Yeah I actually just looked at it and it does actually have pretty good power scaling, and the cast time is only 1/2.

But if they give it 1500 range and then make it virtually unusable from anything other than point blank… I dunno, I just don’t see the point. Might as well just make it a PBAoE ability and not bother people with this manual targeting nonsense.

Yamsandjams.3267:

Dirame.8521:

Yamsandjams.3267:

If you want to use it in PvP, you pretty much have to do it point blank. It can still deal some nice damage, but it’s not really worth taking the rocket turret if all you want to do is access the tool belt skill (unlike how rifle turret is useful in some builds only for its tool belt skill).

I don’t really know why they gave it that ridiculous trajectory. It’s comical more than anything, and it’s not like it lets you lob it over walls or anything like that… maybe it some instances it could hit an AC or something, but it’s just silly. The reason they changed the grenades not to have that sort of trajectory is because it made them too difficult to make effective, so I’m not sure why they wanted to make the rocket like that.

Probably because of DAT DAMIJ!

Yeah I actually just looked at it and it does actually have pretty good power scaling, and the cast time is only 1/2.

But if they give it 1500 range and then make it virtually unusable from anything other than point blank… I dunno, I just don’t see the point. Might as well just make it a PBAoE ability and not bother people with this manual targeting nonsense.

Using it in combo with long lasting immobs (read: Net Turret toolbelt), it always lands. Net Turret could also act as a positioning check for your target. If they dodge the immob, then you know it’s not yet time to waste your rocket.

I have build that uses that set-up which you can see here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLUBZ1S8Z6M