Time Bomb in Traps

Is there any use for it at all? Does anyone like it?



I mean, even as an IO mule if nothing else?

The best thing it does is free up a power selection for something else.

Time bomb really stinks. At least trip mine goes off when a target activates it. Getting the timer in synch with a battle is simply too much of a PITA.

Time bomb in Traps is like the Poison Trap in the mastermind: /poison set-- worthless.

I could see - maybe - possibly using time bomb on a grav/traps, when that combo becomes possible. Other traps - trip mine - time bomb - trip mine - wormhole might actually be an OK use for it, as long as you've arranged things so that the trip mines are just blowing them into a corner rather than blowing them entirely out of the range of the time bomb. It still wouldn't really be any better than just setting an extra trip mine in its place, but it might not actually be *worse* - its about the only way I can think of to get a time bomb, other traps, and a trip mine all into a spawn without interfering with each other. Apart from that, though, yeah it's pretty worthless.

The Blaster and Corruptor versions are at least marginally useful when combined with Stealth since they will virtually kill a spawn on their own. However since the Defender version was rescaled to Defender level damage it won't even do that changing it into almost completely useless.

That's pretty much what I figured.

I wish they'd replace it with something different. Gun Drone would be nice, but I'd settle for smoke grenade or the PPD's glue bomb ...SOMETHING worth taking.

I've had a few thoughts on Time Bomb, or what they could do with it without completely screwing with its basic functionality. Turn it into a grenade style power, a simple ranged aoe attack, although that is less fitting with the theme of the set. Alternatively, something that could be cool is to make it into Detonator from the MM set, but have it target one of the other pets from the traps set (Acid Mortar, FFG, PGT, etc). Basically a self-destruct planted in your equipment; a last ditch effort to take out the enemies.

As it is now, it's pretty bad.

See the other million threads on this but...

Time bomb's problem is that trip mine is too good and time bomb's recharge is too long. If trip mine were not in the set or time bomb had an "up every spawn" recharge, there might be a point to time bomb.

As it is, just lay another trip mine and be happy that you did not waste a power choice.

Edit: spelling

I can't remember who it was, but a one point someone suggested a bomb that would work like a Claymore mine.

One toggle click would arm it. A detoggle would detonate.

I realize that would require a new mechanic, but I always thought that was a neat idea.

Honestly, if they just removed the interrupt and shortened the timer, people would use it even with the long recharge.

The power has way too many negatives to make it ever worth taking.

They fixed poison trap on beta test. It now appears useful, as well as moderate buffing of poison in general.

Hopefully they can look at time bomb next. It needs both a recharge and set time cut to be useful as is. I'd love it if they let you attach a time bomb to a foe (by throwing it and without causing aggro) and you'd have a sniper-like charge-up for the throw and then 15 sec delay on the boom.

Would make it useful even with current damage and recharge.

Time Bomb is awesome... in Devices. Devices has Smoke Grenade and Clocking Device which lets you walk up to a mob's feet, set the Time Bomb and get away, making it a great first, opening move.

In Traps, unless you want to drop a space to pick up some Stealth, it's mostly pointless.