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Maybe I missed a meeting or something, but the Timebomb from the devices powerset seems to be fairly pointless to me.
You can't lay it whilst using invisibility, so unless someone ELSE can grant invis on you you can't lay it in the middle of a group and leg it. As it's a fixed 15 second timer before detonation, it's hard to see how you could lay it and then reliably get an opponent to come over and stand on/near it till it explodes. Even if you use caltrops/web grenade and a stopwatch, I dunno, to me it just seems way too fiddly to be of any real use. More so given that you can just use multiple Trip Mines to get a similar (but far more reliable) effect.
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too fiddly? cloak and superspeed, middle of group,time bomb, blam! shoot at whats left and have them chase you over your tripmines, too fiddly?
Also cloak and superspeed, middle of a group, timebomb, count ten seconds tripmine, double blam! pull anything left back to more tripmines.
Well dps wise (including actiontime and recharge) and risk v reward (AI predictability) i think its safe from nerfbat. It makes devices what it should be but these soloing techniques cant be used for every type of enemy.
As for AV's with a device blaster you can make a nice kickstart with stacked mines and timebomb and tanker/scrapper. Whether thats completely worth doing is a question as the team can pretty much do without the wait, but if you are waiting for people to arrive to mission lay the trap.
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Hmmm, i used to think web grenade in the devices secondary was nigh on useless... That was until i started pvping... Slap 2 accuracys on the bugger and one immob duration and you can bounce past flyers and take them down 
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The -recharge is pretty good for PvP. More use w00t!!1
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Yup, it's not shabby in PvE either - mine is slotted with 3 immob, 2 acc, 1 recharge rate, works well for me.
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Maybe I missed a meeting or something, but the Timebomb from the devices powerset seems to be fairly pointless to me.
You can't lay it whilst using invisibility, so unless someone ELSE can grant invis on you you can't lay it in the middle of a group and leg it. As it's a fixed 15 second timer before detonation, it's hard to see how you could lay it and then reliably get an opponent to come over and stand on/near it till it explodes. Even if you use caltrops/web grenade and a stopwatch, I dunno, to me it just seems way too fiddly to be of any real use. More so given that you can just use multiple Trip Mines to get a similar (but far more reliable) effect.
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too fiddly? cloak and superspeed, middle of group,time bomb, blam! shoot at whats left and have them chase you over your tripmines, too fiddly?
Also cloak and superspeed, middle of a group, timebomb, count ten seconds tripmine, double blam! pull anything left back to more tripmines.
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Ahh, right, that makes sense. Never used SS, so didn't realise until recently that it had a stacking stealth component that still allowed you to use attack powers. Sadly, I don't have SS, just cloak, so that's not going to cut it for me personally.
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Well dps wise (including actiontime and recharge) and risk v reward (AI predictability) i think its safe from nerfbat. It makes devices what it should be but these soloing techniques cant be used for every type of enemy.
As for AV's with a device blaster you can make a nice kickstart with stacked mines and timebomb and tanker/scrapper. Whether thats completely worth doing is a question as the team can pretty much do without the wait, but if you are waiting for people to arrive to mission lay the trap.
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Yeah, been there, done that, I'd say you've pretty much nailed it there. When I'm teamed, the only time I usually get to drop more than one or two trip mines is when we're waiting for people to arrive. I doubt if having a full trip mine field makes much difference either way when taking on an AV. A headstart, yes, but AV fights usually seem to be so long that in the great scheme of things mines aren't going to be pivotal. In my experience if a team can take the AV, they can do it with or without the assitance of mines, and if they can't, mines probably aren't going to swing it for them.
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Hmmm, i used to think web grenade in the devices secondary was nigh on useless... That was until i started pvping... Slap 2 accuracys on the bugger and one immob duration and you can bounce past flyers and take them down
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The -recharge is pretty good for PvP. More use w00t!!1
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