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[Bhryaen]

Not a question, just a shout-out for the Walking Bomb spell (and it's Virulent variant). I totally love it, wish I'd "discovered" it earlier. I'm surprised I haven't heard anyone lauding it yet (or lambasting it as too gory). Man, is it great. lol

It's like a Curse of Mortality or Crushing Prison spell due to spirit damage over time, but then it has that extra bit- the explosion. There aren't actually a lot of explosion (one-time 360 blast) spells- Fireball the only one I can think of. And the blast damage is pretty good too. I never got to test the Virulent one, but it sure made the battle with Loghain's troops in the Landsmeet more entertaining than usual. Obviously not an effective spell for closeby enemies which might reach your mage before the explosion, but for enemies in a group that are already close to dead- particularly archers or those caught in a "fog" spell- makes for spectacular extra effects.

But the main reason this spell rocks is that it rivals Baldur's Gate's "chunking" animation for delivering sufficiently excessive kill damage. With the "gore" option on in BG, melee can cause xvarts or gnolls or such to suddenly explode into meat chunks with a comically disgusting meat splatter sound, leaving nothing left. With Walking Bomb the target's body remains intact... somehow... but the animation... the huge spray of blood and meaty bone fragments... It's just precious... I must be more of a sicko than I recognize, and I'm not even a fan of the horror genre, but really- I recommend it. I haven't seen a spell like it in any game, but then again I haven't tried many other games. NWN's much larger spell arsenal has nothing like it. The most fun you can have with a DAO spell short of being a Blood Mage...

Here was Sywynlae discovering how it looks on a distant dwarf rebel archer.


Sywynlae: "Was that what I think it was??? Naw. The explosion can't be that large..."

So at Redcliffe where the town was occupied by darkspawn which were all one-shot kills anyway... another test of the new spell...


Sywynlae: "Yep... the explosion is that large..."

So she started spamming it...


Zevran: "Gahh. And now I will be cleaning their blood off of me for days... You do know darkspawn blood can turn us into ghouls, do you not?"
Sywynlae: "Oh, come on, spoil sport. I'll make a Gray Warden out of you yet."

And then there was this closeup...


Alistair: "Ouch!! Uh- hello?! Standing here! I think I got a genlock bone in my eye."
Sywynlae: "But are you seeing this?! Bahoooom! Blood and guts everywhere!"
Alistair: "Suffice it to say that you and I have differing criteria for amusement..."

Modifié par Bhryaen, 27 avril 2013 - 08:04 .

[rayzorium]

 I gotta say, I was super pleased the first time I tried the spell. I was expecting a little puff, or for the explosion to be magic-looking. Nope, blood and gore everywhere.

I overused a bit it for my last solo nightmare run, but it's just so good! Two bombs + self Force Field was enough to completely kill the vast majority of encounters. No exaggeration; the explosion does a crapton of damage and the Force Field gives enemies enough time to bunch up nicely. 

Also, I read most of your character dialogue in the characters' voices. Not Alistair's last line though; that sounded kinda weird.

Modifié par rayzorium, 29 avril 2013 - 03:05 .

[dainbramage]

Bhryaen wrote...

Not a question, just a shout-out for the Walking Bomb spell (and it's Virulent variant). I totally love it, wish I'd "discovered" it earlier. I'm surprised I haven't heard anyone lauding it yet (or lambasting it as too gory). Man, is it great. lol

It's generally regarded as one of the best spells in the game. Just with the generally low activity given that DAO's a fairly old game now, there's not too much talk on the subject I guess.

As a word of advice, crowd control spells like paralysis explosion and blood wound are absolutely amazing when paired with (V)WB. Its real power lies in the explosion rather than the DoT (the DoT's still nice, but not butcher-entire-crowd nice).

Modifié par dainbramage, 29 avril 2013 - 02:56 .

[Bhryaen]

@rayzorium
Yeah, had trouble phrasing the second Alistair line without it sounding too... "intellectual." But it's not like he's the clod Morrigan makes of him, so it didn't seem entirely out of character.

Hadn't recognized that Virulent could work so well- just set it going like a fuse, make sure they'll die before the time-out- Forcefield out. hehehe Must try that some time!

@dainbramage (funny screen name)
I never did explore it to great extent for the rest of that mage run though- never got the two level ups for Virulent and, besides, the more large-scale, sustained Inferno and Death Cloud and Lightning Storm and such which predominated Sywynlae's magic arsenal tended to make the Walking Bomb explosion somewhat underwhelming while they were in effect. Still... can't beat it. lol

Modifié par Bhryaen, 05 mai 2013 - 12:52 .

[Riverdaleswhiteflash]

I'm using it as my first choice of attacks for my current playthough. I play on Easy, so I don't need to worry about friendly fire from the bones in an ally's eye. Which is also good for the Warden, since she's an Arcane Warrior.

What I do is I Cone Of Cold as many enemies in a bunch as I can, VWB the one with the highest health if there's any difference, (and if that one is a White name) and then Stonefist.

Modifié par Riverdaleswhiteflash, 05 mai 2013 - 01:32 .

[Bhryaen]

Yeah! I didn't mention Stonefist, but that was another I got late in the game that I really liked- so great to watch it bowl over folks. This was also the first time I started using Grease, so I'd first cast that, reposition and then blast everything back into the grease slick with a Fireball to get singed, then use Stonefist to punch the most healthy one back into the burning grease again. hehe (They last longer on Nightmare, need more roasting time...) Add WB and it's a jamboree of blasted critters that can't even get at you... Mages are way too much fun...

Modifié par Bhryaen, 05 mai 2013 - 05:48 .

[Riverdaleswhiteflash]

I don't bother with Grease; I prefer direct attacks. The amount of strategy I use is limited to looking up spell combinations, which is probably why I don't play on Nightmare. (And the only three of those I use are Improved Drain, Storm Of The Century, and Shatter, which as I've previously noted works wonders with VWB.)

Modifié par Riverdaleswhiteflash, 05 mai 2013 - 06:09 .