Is Bombing Good for the Game?

[Landaren]

Single target has its place.

So does aoe.

The game isn't totally about aoe, but there are situation where it is more beneficial then single target.
Just need the correct tool for a given situation.

You don't hammer nails with a screw driver, and you don't dig a grave with a spoon.

[peterthepan3]

Bombing does have its place, in large-scale RvR.
Personally I find it monotonous, brainless and a farce of real competitive PvP - but to each their own.

[Renork]

Aww come on, bombing is fun!

Edit: Daoc had the best bomb groups ever :>

[Landaren]

Daoc cc was so silly, the game itself was a whole lot of fun. Miss climbing walls on my nightshade

[Shadowgurke]

I think the whole issue with bombing is BW M2 and a little bit of their AoE. Many Order players seem to think this requires major effort to coordinate and no warband ever has 6-8 BWs. Well, you are wrong. There are currently 2 major zergs that do this sort of bombing, and it is really hard to stop. Building M2 is not hard and getting hit instantly by 1200 unmitigated damage is a bit rough. This personally does not really affect me since I don't really zerg that often, but I do think the amount of damage seems too high for T3 while probably being fine in T4

[Vigfuss]

Yeah its an easy strat. I would like to see some of the more prominent Guild's leaders commit to a maximum size for their bomb groups. Show some pride and respect for the game. 12 should be enough, heck we've run 6 man bomb groups with reasonable success. Something like that would go a long way to help improve things.

[Scrilian]

Is Bombing Good for the Game? - Yes
The game was all about ~200vs200+ and sometimes twice as much in one zone.
And on that scale AOE was and still is the King. And you fight it with it, you want it or not.
By pushing with all your aoe-dps into the enemy healer lines and wiping them you could achieve victory even against the odds outnumbered 2to1 by coordinating all your efforts, morals, specs, tactics, potions etc.
Sounds like some never experienced that beauty first hand and that makes me a little bit sad. They want to make the numbers matter more by making aoe weaker and its sad.
Try to get it, WAR was never fair for all its live years and never will be. Its you or them. You either bomb them or they bomb you.
Deliberately wanting for whole setups and specs to become obsolete, so they can play their single target.
Go farm some scenarios, will ya? Or play WOW/GW, whatever.
"Think different, Variation is good" my ass.

[Shanell]

^
you can either win a conversation by talk, or by hitting your opponent with a stone axe to a face. You are chosing second option.

[magter3001]

Go farm some scenarios, will ya? Or play WOW/GW, whatever.
"Think different, Variation is good" my ass.

You do realize that in those glory years both sides had coordinated bomb groups. Right now only Order has a WB guild unless I'm missing something. Bombing is fun for a while until you have no one to go against. If all destro only did scenarios, what would bomb groups do?

[Neoyoda]

There is no other way to combat a zerg than organized bombing. And with proper detaunts and shield morales you can easily stop a bomb group.

To put it simple bombing is a military tactic which must be countered with more precision and coordinated attacks.


And in my opinion bombing has already been nerfed. Close Quarters tactic should be increased damage when close quarters, not increased cast time. Thats how it was on the old school days.