Sorc/BW Bombing

[Vraal]

I played WAR back in the days that Sorc/BW bombing squads ruled the game. Now I know that this playstyle has been nerfed in that the PBAoE now costs ressource instead of AP and with the nerf to the Close Quarters tactic.
Now my question is whether this actually stopped PBAoE bombing for Sorcs/BWs.
Maybe someone who played live WAR longer than me can give me some insight.

Greets

[Vilhelmina]

Wasn't it because Scorched Earth used to BUILD combustion, not cost it like it does now and that Rain of Fire could stack'?
I remember seeing the devastation from back then and it did severely needed nerfing. I don't know how Mythic didn't notice (or care) and went live with all that?

[Telen]

Making aoe only hit 8 and never stack stopped the bombtards

[Luth]

AOE cap is 9 targets max afaik.

Also: BW/Sorc AOE close quarters bombing is still possible, just not that effective/gamebreaking anymore. But outside of city fights it has imo no use and no one specced for it the later years (except city fights ofc).

[Bretin]

mythic didn't care about "bombing" that much cause it didn't get abused that hard on US servers. the first things which got nerfed was the stacking of rain of fire and the bw m2 which was completely retarded. a 5(!) sec aoe stun which didn't trigger a immunity. combined with the 3 sec aoe kd of a chosen/kotbs it was stupid as fck. they changed the aoe kd into a stagger and fixed all the kd durations. at this point bombing was still insanely op cause guess what? they implemented lotd and brought the tyrant set. because it didn't get abused that hard on US they didn't care until they brought the "new" city siege. they arranged a test event on pts and that was the first time the devs had to face EU premades and got bombed like crazy. after that they removed closed quarters, nerfed the tyrant set and changed SE and his equivalent. with the renown changes (especially trivial blows) and the implementation of doomflayer/warpforged bombing was dead. aoe is still pretty decent in certain circumstances but far away from op or what it was in the past. while t2 is most likely dominated by rdps the lategame version will be ruled by 2/2/2 melee trains. double slayer/double mrd setups is the "new" fotm. but it will take some time until we get back to this stage.

[Telen]

9 is it? I knew it was something like that.

[mickeye]

they arranged a test event on pts and that was the first time the devs had to face EU premades and got bombed like crazy. after that they removed closed quarters, nerfed the tyrant set and changed SE and his equivalent.

Oh yeah, the score of that city siege was like 300 kills to 30.

[Bretin]

Oh yeah, the score of that city siege was like 300 kills to 30.

yeah it was fun as hell even tho i was abused to heal on a DoK :'D should have some screenshots of it, gonna check it later

[Telen]

Problem is bombing is now back with the los bug which makes the game dull as ****. When I w/ people doing it they just say everyone does it.

[Luth]

Pro tip:

Just stay away from walls until it is fixed.