Guild Wars 2

Hey, I have a slight buff suggestion that would greatly improve Engineer versatility:

What if Big Ol’ Bomb applied a blast finisher AFTER damage? (Much like the Shield offhand)

Right now the Engineer could use Big Ol’ Bomb with Smoke Bomb to give himself 3s of stealth. However, this is useless in combat because Big Ol’ Bomb has too much range and it just places us into a revealed state.

The solution to that is to make Big Ol’ Bomb apply its Blast finisher AFTER dealing damage in order to effectively make use of stealth.

It’s a small change, but I think it would greatly improve the Engineer’s roles at being versatile and controlling mobs.

I believe that would be a rather terrific combo for engineers in PvP/WvW. Blind your enemies, knock them back with damage, and then stealth you for 3s. ANet would never let us have all that in 2 key clicks.

Is the damage putting us in a revealed state also true for smoke bomb>rocket boots?

If so that should have a similar change!

Eviator.9746: Relax, it’s only 3s stealth on a high cooldown. We can’t infinitely go into stealth and backstab like D/P thieves can. Not like we have clones to distract either, like Mesmer. Our stealth is more for escaping and PvE.

Well if they do it for BoB, it only makes sense for turret detonation too, and any other damage-dealing blast finishers any other professions have. Hey, don’t get me wrong, I would love it. Just seems like it’s more powerful than it looks on the surface, possibly unbalancing.