Guild Wars 2

Clusterbomb is a great ability, there’s no doubt about it.

However the animation, especially the projectile itself is incredibly and unrealistically slow. I know it arcs which increases the travel-time compared to an auto-attack but the speed itself is still very slow.

This makes “tagging” mobs during Dynamic Events somewhat difficult at times and makes the ability feel a little unresponsive at times.

Can we please “speed up” the projectile speed of Clusterbomb by at least 50%. It would make it feel a little “snappier”.

1) Stand next to mob.
2) Click 2
3) ????
4) Profit

It was slowed down because the damage output and the ability to spam it made it far more powerful than any other ability. In the beta weekends you could literally wipe out a melee group by mashing 2 and stacking 25 bleeds almost instantly (with detonation) or do 5-7k crits. The timing was necessary, however if you want to see something cool, get into voip with 4 other thieves and time your cluster bombs when defending a keep. Count out 3…2…1…fire in vent and watch those door bashers melt under 35k worth of combined crits.

Elthurien.8356:

Count out 3…2…1…fire in vent and watch those door bashers melt under 35k worth of combined crits.

That is just mean …..I love it

Mithos.9572:

1) Stand next to mob.
2) Spam 2
3) ????
4) Profit

This is what I do, up close and personal. Although it kinda defeats the meaning of the bow to be a ranged weapon. :P

Mithos.9572:

1) Stand next to mob.
2) Click 2
3) ????
4) Profit

Completely defeats the purpose of a ranged weapon, however this is what everyone is forced to do… a serious design flaw. If it’s too powerful, nerf it but it is just terribly slow at range. Decrease the raw power but increase the bleed stacks combined with speeding up the travel time maybe? Whatever it would take to increase travel time, I’m all for it.

I’m guessing the slowness is actually intended as a feature to make it easier to detonate it at the right moment. Since almost no one detonates, might as well make it fast and rename it to arrowbomb or something.

You do more damage when you detonate than not, and triple your bleeds. Not to mention more hits = more “on crit” effects.

Any time you’re not in a combo field, you’d have to be crazy not to detonate.

Rottaran Owain.6789:

You do more damage when you detonate than not, and triple your bleeds. Not to mention more hits = more “on crit” effects.

Any time you’re not in a combo field, you’d have to be crazy not to detonate.

Bleed damage is almost nothing on my build and if one of the 3 small bombs miss, I’m getting less damage. Especially on walls, I feel like it’s better not to detonate.

Yes, it used to do more damage when detonated, but I don’t know what changed.

Now it’s certainly more effective to let it impact the ground. That also has the added benefit of triggering combo-fields.

Yeah i’m finding detonation a bit pointless. Extra bleeds are nice but I have no condition damage really so meh. And the raw damage is close to the point it’s hardly worth the risk of missing one of the clusters.

Bit sad as it’s become a skill where skill was involved in it, to one where the skill in the skill is a skill not worth using.

Elthurien, didn’t Rogues/Thieves use 1d6 for hit points? The only class to use 1d4 was Mage.

It’s lol that I can run faster than I can shoot a cluster bomb with the SB. At max range (or any range for that matter), if I shoot it in front of me while running it will land slightly behind me…WTF?!?!

An engineer can throw a bunch of grenades further & faster than I can shoot one from my shortbow. Logic fail.

Projectile speed on Cluster Bomb and Trick Shot is the basis for 90% of my complaints about Short Bow.

My guess is this will be changed in the upcoming update, because it is an example of OP AoE versus singletarget (P/P Unload) in the first place.

I would get healed for 2.8K/second when paired with a ranger instead of 1.4K/second :P

The real great thing about it is it’s the best combo finisher in the whole game, and a ranged one. Making it faster would be too good.

In dungeons, if I start seeing circles made by teamates, I smile and start activating every single one of them. As I said, a water combo makes you the best healer in the game, and Ranger’s water combo lasts 15 seconds. My second favorite is Etheral fields for Chaos Armor, and then Fire Fields for 3 Might Stacks.