Cluster Bomb Tips

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Posted by: Vexus.5423

Vexus.5423

Problem:
“Bhwaha Bruno like big number, cluster bomb does big number! Detonate useless!!”

Solution:
Cluster Bomb’s Detonate does a couple things if used correctly. First, each mini bomb has a chance to crit, which can cause many runes and sigils to activate. So don’t get it in your mind that it is worse. In fact, Detonate can do more damage. The tip I wanted to point out is that if you check Cluster Bomb’s tooltip you will see that it has a bleed effect. And that effect says X damage – mine was around 200 last I checked. The key here is it’s only applied to maximum when you Detonate. If you don’t Detonate, your target gets 1 bleed stack for 1/3rd the damage of that Bleed number on the tooltip. To maximize damage, you need to Detonate when the Bomb is close to the ground, popping all mini bombs in the same area, doing more damage, and stacking 3 bleeds for the maximum damage.

When choosing to Detonate or not, the only question is how accurate you are. It is better to Detonate when your shot is spot-on or if there are more than one enemy in the area. This is because those bleeds will hit multiple people. Do not Detonate, on the other hand, if the enemy is near the edge of your AOE circle, because the mini-bombs have a smaller radius and only one might hit them, compared to the large blast of the Cluster itself.

One last thing to point out, and I hope others fill in some uses I don’t have time to add, but if you’re chasing someone, there’s always room to lead your target and hit them in the distance. Most players don’t realize that our AOE indicator for Cluster Bomb is just a bright circular light on the ground. Not like other AOE’s where you SEE where the damage is. It’s just lighter texture, and most people don’t see the ground light up and think anything of it. I love tossing a long range Cluster Bomb while leading a target, switching to daggers, steal-shadowstep to the target and have the Cluster Bomb land in conjunction with Heartseeker spam or a Backstab if I have some form of stealth available.

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Posted by: Ashorian.8713

Ashorian.8713

great information!

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Posted by: Jukinru.7932

Jukinru.7932

Been using this for at least the last 70 lvls of my thief. Another way detonate works is with Signet of Malice. With a good amount of healing stat it will keep you alive longer. Every hit from detonate will return health.

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Posted by: zeoli.3250

zeoli.3250

The clusterbomb is a blast finisher and blast + poison field = aoe weakness. Fantastic to use to support your team. Additionally. Weakness stacks in duration so detonating so all 3 bombs hit the field will result any enemies in the poison field will take 3xweakness, poison and bleed.

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Posted by: elithrar.7143

elithrar.7143

Arc it up onto keep/tower walls to destroy siege equipment and harass enemy players.

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Posted by: Vexus.5423

Vexus.5423

You can also shoot this behind you as you run away. You need to bind your ‘look behind’ key or just pan your camera around, but if you’re running from someone you can launch shots behind you, dealing damage and hopefully breaking their resolve to chase you. You can use Gas Canister this way as well.

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Posted by: Greyfell.9246

Greyfell.9246

I like running around in melee range in large group fights just spamming the crap out of cluster bomb. I’m like this little shrapnel spewing bomb. It seems if you move constantly you don’t get hit much so it works pretty well. Always lay down a poison field first so you get your weakness off.

I started doing that because the travel time feels like an eternity on cluster bomb and I’m very impatient. And its fun as hell too.