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[KnightofPhoenix]

This spell has been a game changer for me. all you have to do is focus on one enemy, cast walking bomb on him and watch him explode and kill everyone surrounding him. 

I found the best way to do that is have Shale use taunt and draw everyone at him. Plus, Shale can survive the explosion, due to his massive health.
Works everytime.

Anyone else uses the spell? And what tactics do you recomend?
 

[Herr Uhl]

Mostly on archers, they usually stand pretty close together, target one and do crushing prison+walking virulent bomb. Sit back and watch the splatter. Otherwise it's good on bosses for the spirit damage.



And how can you not love it?

[Skadi_the_Evil_Elf]

The spirit school is my favorite of all the mage schools, so yes, walking bomb, and virulent walking bomb, are my favorites.



I have different tactics for using it, but one of them is having Morrigan cast sleep or waking nightmare on a cluster, then casting virulent walking bomb on the enemy in the cluster with the lowest health, and then hitting him with ranged attacks until he explodes, and spreads the love to his nearby friends.



Othertimes, I do what you do, except with Alistair, I have him taunt, and when the dog pile swarms him, I force field him and then throw out the walking bomb.



The spell is also great when cast after storm of the century. It's pure mayhem then, and the blizzard sufficiently damages and slows enemies to give enough time for the bomb to work it's magic.



What I haven't figured out, however, is what type of damage it does: nature or spirit. I've seen the description saying nature, but heard it does spirit damage instead.

[Ozzlok]

Do you used regular walking bomb or virulent? The strength of the spell is based off of your spellpower so is it safe to assume you have a pretty high magic?



Sounds like a cool strategy if shales constitution is high and the mages magic is high

[Abyss_666]

I like this spell aswell but since this week I love blood wound and the entropic death combo

[_- Songlian -]

One of my favorite spells, if not the. My first mage was a Primal one and while I had great fun with that school, when I discovered what you can do with a Spirit mage, I was in awe.



The most common tactic is to aim for the weakest enemy on the battle field, inflict Virulent Walking Bomb, then use Crushing Prison. Relax and enjoy.

[Kaynos1972]

Who doesnt love seing all the mobs explode ?

[Skadi_the_Evil_Elf]

Ozzlok wrote...

Do you used regular walking bomb or virulent? The strength of the spell is based off of your spellpower so is it safe to assume you have a pretty high magic?

Sounds like a cool strategy if shales constitution is high and the mages magic is high

I use both versions depending on the situation. My magic on my mage, without boosts from gear/specializations was about 50, so I ended up with quite a bit of damage going.

[weredog717]

virulent walking bomb + horde of genlocks = a happy warden

[Skadi_the_Evil_Elf]

filaminstrel wrote...

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...

What I haven't figured out, however, is what type of damage it does: nature or spirit. I've seen the description saying nature, but heard it does spirit damage instead.

It does spirit damage. You can tell because the number is purple, and the different damage types are color coded-- spirit is purple, nature is green.

Thanks. I had wondered about that. Now I know next time I run through with my mage, I'll stop equiping stuff that increases nature damage, since she has no spells that do so.  Also makes much more sense, given that it's part of the Spirit school, anyway.

[Big_Choppa]

Well, I love being evil to my good buddy alistair. I send him charging in and cast walking bomb on the enemy he's about to kill. It's a sadistic game of exploding tag football. GO LONG, DUDE!

[Timortis]

filaminstrel wrote...

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...

What I haven't figured out, however, is what type of damage it does: nature or spirit. I've seen the description saying nature, but heard it does spirit damage instead.

It does spirit damage. You can tell because the number is purple, and the different damage types are color coded-- spirit is purple, nature is green.

Actually, only the DoT is Spirit damage, the explosion does physical damage.

[beancounter501]

It is an OK spell. Not my go to spell. Kind of a pain to manage. With a party, Cone of Cold + Shatter is better. Fireball is better against archers. It is very good for the damage over time against bosses.



But it never gets boring to watch!

[KnightofPhoenix]

Ozzlok wrote...

Do you used regular walking bomb or virulent? The strength of the spell is based off of your spellpower so is it safe to assume you have a pretty high magic?

Sounds like a cool strategy if shales constitution is high and the mages magic is high

I use both, depends on the situation. When I am positive that one explosion can't kill a horde, I use virulent in the hope others will catch the "virus" when it explodes.

High magic is almost always imperative when playing as a mage.

I usually assign Morrigan to heal Shale as well. Plus I put her on stoneheart mode. I am nto sure if her "aura" mode can resist the explosion however. I may have to try that.
I would cast forcefield on her, but I play on console and I have not yet figured out how to cast forcefield on an ally.

EDIT: Shale is a she, how did I forget that?!

Modifié par KnightofPhoenix, 10 mars 2010 - 08:27 .

[Loc'n'lol]

Nah I'm not too fond of it... I mean, sure the damage is godly, but managing the friendly fire is a pain, so usually I just use it against clusters of archers.

Or if I can slip in a forcefield at the last moment, but meh.

[Adynata]

I love using it. I love watching the blood spatter fill up the screen >

Blood spatter is also what makes playing Reaver so fun >:{}

[ObserverStatus]

splat

[crawfs]

This is probably a noob question but is walking bomb linked to a specialization if so which one?

[AuraofMana]

Meh, DPS Mage isn't that great. It's better to focus purely on CC and let the Rogue deal the DPS. That's how I set it up anyway, so my main char (Mage) just CC's everything. With every points into Magic, almost nothing can resist and become CC'd for a long time.

[DalishRanger]

I don't spam it as much as I did on my first play or two with my mage, but I still love Walking Bomb. It's fun to make darkspawn go "boom." =D

[KnightofPhoenix]

crawfs wrote...

This is probably a noob question but is walking bomb linked to a specialization if so which one?

No it isn't. It's in the spirit school.

[westiex9]

i love that spell, ive only just made a new playthrough and started using spirit magic so right now im enjoying blood soaked explosions for the first time.



on a side note kinda makes me wonder if the chantry is a little to preoccupied with blood magic!

[Kekse2k]

I simply adore Walking Bomb. I laugh *every* time something explodes. But...alas, I have stopped using it. I just hate seeing that lil number go up in my personal party achievements, where it shows the amount of friendly-fire damage I have inflicted. I don't know why, that just bothers me. xD.