Didn't get a chance to get on the PTR yet, but since belt of the troved came out I've been obsessed with finding a way to run bombardment without flopping. I've considered hexing cube with rolands in a moving condem or pet build, full cdr with heavens fury, rolands pound shield bash with it as aoe. Generally since you can cube the mortal drama on either a maximum, furnace, blade of prophecy (probably less useful with condem) or any strong 2 hander, perhaps bombardment has some uses. As a flat aoe increase for just a belt slot it's great, but unless you get some damage boosts in likes of FnR it see problems with it. I've considered a fist of the heavens build or blessed shield with blessed shield free spam weapon but seam lacking. Both lack damage, and while FoTH spam with akkans is doable, the damage seams very mediocre.
Atm Rolands Pound shield bash w/ FnR looks the most promising since it has the least conflicting gear, allows use of FnR, Allows furnace to be used with the mortal drama (use the higher damage of the 2), adds passive damage while shield bash spamming, rolands attack speed is a huge boost to bowmen break points and helps with aoe. It's sad the attack speed isn't transferred to bombardment directly, but bowmen pound seam like a rift guardians nightmare, I just worry if it really brings enough aoe Punch. It's nice ensuring you get the bracer bonus to shield bash even in crouds, but i'm still hopeful yet skeptical. Would this be an improvement in any matter besides single target dps over the fire shield bash build?
The new hammer-adin set loots semi promising, however element conflictions, you'd either use icebound hammer without elemental damage (saddly convention doesn't roll cold) or choose between fire or holy runes to match bombardment. Another problem, the hammer-adin set is pretty much a 10 piece set (the falling sword belt is luckily bad though since FS animation sucks and requires the use of judgement). With so much gear needed to run hammers, you're essentially forced to rely on hammers.
So the heavy reliance of another primary damage source as the main output with bombardment augmenting the build seams to be the biggest problem to overcome atm, since it seams not to provide enough on it's on. The last potential build for it would be MASSIVE CDR on all gear slots to bring the cool down of bombardment to around 10 seconds, however devoting so much of your gear to just CDR might not provide enough damage and lack defense. Running only heavens fury, bombardment and perhaps Falling sword just might not be enough. Running 4 piece Seeker of light might feel wasteful as you might be better off running 6 piece of the super buffed hammers. Perhaps full cdr Seeker of light hammers might have a place, but I'm skeptical it can compete with strait up hammer focused builds. FnR would likely have to be dropped to make room for stone of jordan since furnace will be replaced by the new blessed hammer mace in a 6 piece seeker build.
Any thoughts, ideas, advise or help making bombardment usable above gr 40 or to it's maximum potential would be great.
I used to wear the bombardment belt in T6 speed farming for free trash mobs kills.
I don´t know how to make bombardment works in this patch, but in 2.3, I am thinking this: bombardment 2h weapon + In-geom 10 seconds CDR affix in the cube + bombardment belt. If you are able to achieve a 10 seconds cooldown in bombardment (vigilante belt affix in cube), after an elite kill, you will have 15 seconds of free unlimited bombardment spam. 2850% total weapon damage to enemies within 12 yards of the impact zone with 100% critical chance.
With the commander passive and/or all that cooldown reduction, in that 15 seconds you can spam steed charge to find the next elite group.
You can use Roland + Piro Marella + leg bracers with shield bash, with close perma Akkan Champion. Icing on the cake.
Sounds good...
(sorry for my English)
Edit for some math (hope numbers are right). You need a 83% of CDR to achieve the perma bombardment (for 15 seconds after elite group kill and the in-geom passive). It is hard, buy doable. You need perfect CDR on nearly every slot, commander and 1 hand passives, even 2 Crimson set pieces:
CooldownReduction (CDR)
%
PIECE CDR
Paragon
10
0,9
Shoulder
8
0,92
Gloves
8
0,92
amulet
8
0,92
Ring 1
8
0,92
Ring 2
8
0,92
weapon
10
0,9
Shield
8
0,92
Leoric Crown (100%)
25
0,75
1h Passive
15
0,85
Commander Passive
35
0,65
Vigilante belt
8
0,92
Captain Crimsons 2 set
10
0,9
0,8314860474
You need nearly perfect Leoric Crown, vigilante+bombardment combo in the belt (cube), and a Rorg ring or its passive cubed.
To use shield bash with 4 Roland+Piro Marella+leg bracers:
- Leoric Crown: helm
- vigilante+bombardment combo: belt
- 3 Roland: shoulder, chest, gloves
- 2 Crimson: pants, boots
With rorg affix and in-geom affixes cubed, you can equipo free rings (Focus+Restraint, Unity/Coe/SoJ) and free amulet.
You must use a 1 hand weapon, so maybe a combo with Envious Blade (100% critical chance to full health monsters) or Sunkeeper...
Didn't get a chance to get on the PTR yet, but since belt of the troved came out I've been obsessed with finding a way to run bombardment without flopping. I've considered hexing cube with rolands in a moving condem or pet build, full cdr with heavens fury, rolands pound shield bash with it as aoe. Generally since you can cube the mortal drama on either a maximum, furnace, blade of prophecy (probably less useful with condem) or any strong 2 hander, perhaps bombardment has some uses. As a flat aoe increase for just a belt slot it's great, but unless you get some damage boosts in likes of FnR it see problems with it. I've considered a fist of the heavens build or blessed shield with blessed shield free spam weapon but seam lacking. Both lack damage, and while FoTH spam with akkans is doable, the damage seams very mediocre.
Atm Rolands Pound shield bash w/ FnR looks the most promising since it has the least conflicting gear, allows use of FnR, Allows furnace to be used with the mortal drama (use the higher damage of the 2), adds passive damage while shield bash spamming, rolands attack speed is a huge boost to bowmen break points and helps with aoe. It's sad the attack speed isn't transferred to bombardment directly, but bowmen pound seam like a rift guardians nightmare, I just worry if it really brings enough aoe Punch. It's nice ensuring you get the bracer bonus to shield bash even in crouds, but i'm still hopeful yet skeptical. Would this be an improvement in any matter besides single target dps over the fire shield bash build?
The new hammer-adin set loots semi promising, however element conflictions, you'd either use icebound hammer without elemental damage (saddly convention doesn't roll cold) or choose between fire or holy runes to match bombardment. Another problem, the hammer-adin set is pretty much a 10 piece set (the falling sword belt is luckily bad though since FS animation sucks and requires the use of judgement). With so much gear needed to run hammers, you're essentially forced to rely on hammers.
So the heavy reliance of another primary damage source as the main output with bombardment augmenting the build seams to be the biggest problem to overcome atm, since it seams not to provide enough on it's on. The last potential build for it would be MASSIVE CDR on all gear slots to bring the cool down of bombardment to around 10 seconds, however devoting so much of your gear to just CDR might not provide enough damage and lack defense. Running only heavens fury, bombardment and perhaps Falling sword just might not be enough. Running 4 piece Seeker of light might feel wasteful as you might be better off running 6 piece of the super buffed hammers. Perhaps full cdr Seeker of light hammers might have a place, but I'm skeptical it can compete with strait up hammer focused builds. FnR would likely have to be dropped to make room for stone of jordan since furnace will be replaced by the new blessed hammer mace in a 6 piece seeker build.
Any thoughts, ideas, advise or help making bombardment usable above gr 40 or to it's maximum potential would be great.
I used to wear the bombardment belt in T6 speed farming for free trash mobs kills.
I don´t know how to make bombardment works in this patch, but in 2.3, I am thinking this: bombardment 2h weapon + In-geom 10 seconds CDR affix in the cube + bombardment belt. If you are able to achieve a 10 seconds cooldown in bombardment (vigilante belt affix in cube), after an elite kill, you will have 15 seconds of free unlimited bombardment spam. 2850% total weapon damage to enemies within 12 yards of the impact zone with 100% critical chance.
With the commander passive and/or all that cooldown reduction, in that 15 seconds you can spam steed charge to find the next elite group.
You can use Roland + Piro Marella + leg bracers with shield bash, with close perma Akkan Champion. Icing on the cake.
Sounds good...
(sorry for my English)
Edit for some math (hope numbers are right). You need a 83% of CDR to achieve the perma bombardment (for 15 seconds after elite group kill and the in-geom passive). It is hard, buy doable. You need perfect CDR on nearly every slot, commander and 1 hand passives, even 2 Crimson set pieces:
CooldownReduction (CDR)
%
PIECE CDR
Paragon
10
0,9
Shoulder
8
0,92
Gloves
8
0,92
amulet
8
0,92
Ring 1
8
0,92
Ring 2
8
0,92
weapon
10
0,9
Shield
8
0,92
Leoric Crown (100%)
25
0,75
1h Passive
15
0,85
Commander Passive
35
0,65
Vigilante belt
8
0,92
Captain Crimsons 2 set
10
0,9
0,8314860474
You need nearly perfect Leoric Crown, vigilante+bombardment combo in the belt (cube), and a Rorg ring or its passive cubed.
To use shield bash with 4 Roland+Piro Marella+leg bracers:
- Leoric Crown: helm
- vigilante+bombardment combo: belt
- 3 Roland: shoulder, chest, gloves
- 2 Crimson: pants, boots
With rorg affix and in-geom affixes cubed, you can equipo free rings (Focus+Restraint, Unity/Coe/SoJ) and free amulet.
You must use a 1 hand weapon, so maybe a combo with Envious Blade (100% critical chance to full health monsters) or Sunkeeper...
Thoughts?