I enjoy blowing my robots up, do you need more of a reason?
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I enjoy blowing my robots up, do you need more of a reason?
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It's gotta be more useful then the cyborg pack's power... Blowing yourself up FTL.
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." Lord Acton
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It was more useful when the cost of upgrading pets was lower. Then, sacrificing one pet for some AoE damage was more worth it. Especially for the suicidal pets - Might as well make a pet determined to die go in a spectacular manner.
Now? The cost associated with upgrading one pet is prohibitive. And since the only way you get more damage than the Trip mine is by sacrificing your boss pet... well, the only positive I can say about Detonator... is that at least it isn't Time Bomb.
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Basically, if you hear your bots starting to make the death noise, detonate their [censored].
If you're not playing bots, then gtfo of my traps.
@Mechaniker
Official Old Angry German Guy of CoV.
My Characters: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=247787
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Basically, if you hear your bots starting to make the death noise, detonate their [censored].
If you're not playing bots, then gtfo of my traps.
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Precisely this!
Zombies blow up nicely too, you know. 
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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Zombies blow up nicely too, you know.
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Do they moan and light on fire when close to death? I THINK NOT SIR!
@Mechaniker
Official Old Angry German Guy of CoV.
My Characters: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=247787
You know, now that buffing pets eats all your endurance, I'm inclined to think that Detonator should be changed to explode all your pets. That way you could think of it like a nuke with a heavy end crash (resummoning and rebuffing).
If detonator destroyed all your pets it would be more than a nuke, it would be a mob wiper maneuver; an omega nuke.
1 pet is enough, but 6 is absolute overkill.
Well obviously damage would be scaled back per explosion.. it wouldn't be the equivalent of 6 detonators going off rather than just one. That would be ridiculous.
But you know you'd love it
Someone suggested a Detonation then following up with a Soul Extraction (Necromancy)
Does that work?
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Someone suggested a Detonation then following up with a Soul Extraction (Necromancy)
Does that work?
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In fact it does. The Soul Extraction pet can do a REALLY good amount of damage if you slot it right, so it's worth sacrificing any one of your pets then using it.
I hadn't thought of that since my necro isn't high enough to use soul extraction, but that's a pretty good idea rather than waiting around for a pet to die. Hmm.
Doubt I'd ever take detonator but there were many times I wished I had it on my ninja/storm, just to teach those dang genin a lesson.
I think Im gonna respec out of it, it just does not fit my play style.
So do you use it? If so how do you slot it, and when do you see fit to use it?
Frankly I think it looks like a waste, but I have been wrong before