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Nisshoki · Nov 30, 2005, 10:42 PM // 22:42

Does anyone know how to do an EoE bomb? The other day while my (IWAY!!!) team was in tombs we were doin pretty well, when we came to a team who killed us all in about 30 seconds with an EoE bomb. Now i want to know how to do it!

Waylayer Brixt · Nov 30, 2005, 10:52 PM // 22:52

Minions+Death Nova+Taste of Death=Nova Bomb (EoE can be used to speed up the process, but deals no extra damage to human opponents)

This is the only bomb Ive seen, but if they werent running Minions, then some human opponent would have to die in order to make EoE damage you directly.

Monica Angelina · Nov 30, 2005, 10:56 PM // 22:56

So a suicide bomber died to take out the enemy team, sounds pretty straight forward in that case... Was the opposing team loaded with Wa/Ra's and the rest of the opposing team avoid the damage with Endure Pain or something similar?

Nisshoki · Nov 30, 2005, 10:58 PM // 22:58

I know it was eoe because when we took the damage it said Edge of Extinction. They must have had sac-necs or something.

Nisshoki · Nov 30, 2005, 11:00 PM // 23:00

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Originally Posted by Monica Angelina

So a suicide bomber died to take out the enemy team, sounds pretty straight forward in that case... Was the opposing team loaded with Wa/Ra's and the rest of the opposing team avoid the damage with Endure Pain or something similar?

I have no clue what they were made up of, it was all over before i could get a good look at the team, a couple teammates saw what they had but didn't go into detail.

Sagius Truthbarron · Nov 30, 2005, 11:18 PM // 23:18

How is it that people don't know what EoE bomb is?? Everytime I try to make one I keep getting whispered asking what it is!

Drop Edge of Extinction, gather around your resmer, resmer uses Mark of Protection, kill yourself with Blood is Power or Illusion of Weakness, resmer uses LoD and you do it again to kill anyone that's still alive.

Kyle · Dec 01, 2005, 04:07 AM // 04:07

Or ive seen people drop their hp down to 105 with whatever class and just rush them. Warrior starts drooling when he sees the monk charging him. Wait whats this. I hit the monk once and now every1s dead? pretty funny

Farin · Dec 01, 2005, 07:40 PM // 19:40

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Originally Posted by Sagius Truthbarron

How is it that people don't know what EoE bomb is?? Everytime I try to make one I keep getting whispered asking what it is!

Drop Edge of Extinction, gather around your resmer, resmer uses Mark of Protection, kill yourself with Blood is Power or Illusion of Weakness, resmer uses LoD and you do it again to kill anyone that's still alive.

That's it. And some like to add death nova on their necros for some extra punch.

Diestro · Dec 01, 2005, 07:55 PM // 19:55

I'll never forget my first encounter with an eoe bomb. I was new to the tombs, and hadn't ever heard of it before that night, and I sure haven't forgotten it since.

I was with a balanced pug, and we were taking things kinds slow moving across the maps. Apparently they were moving kind of slow that night too (as most eoe bombs I've seen charge across the map fairly quick to catch the enemy off guard), and one of thier players was out in front of the rest of the group. I was using air spike, and seeing a n/me closing on my casting range, my mouth watered at the sight of his lowered health bar. I never noticed that eoe had been dropped, and apparently thier r/mo didn't have time to put up mark, or whatever he happened to be using to survive the bomb, before I dropped that lightning orb on the necro. One shot, and the chain started. I talked to one of thier players after, and found out that some of them were new to the build, and sacced themselves down to near death, instead of running IoW for the big drop, they were using smaller saccing skills. Turns out a few of them were low enough, that when I killed the first one, it took out the next, and poof...16 quite unprepared, and very dead characters, with most of us laughing ourselves silly, while a few were just staring at thier screens saying "wtf?".

Most of the bomb groups I see these days seem to run what Kyle was describing. A handful of supers to lower thier health, then it only takes one IoW for the suicide. The teams are usually made up of necros, but with IoW, anything with mesmer in it can pull off the needed suicide. There's another thread around that has a link to a movie that the poster made of his eoe bomb team, and if I remember right, his teams was mostly mo/mes, which I imagine was done to try to hide what the teams had planned, and give the enemy alot of targets to look at while the ranger prepped for the bomb.

asdar · Dec 01, 2005, 09:01 PM // 21:01

The best EoE I ever saw dropped was back when they had the 6 team tombs fight. We had totally lost and had a handful of people left and there were three teams fighting it out, all with 8 alive. Our ranger ran in at just the right time and dropped EoE and one spike caught a monk and all 25 of the three teams and our ranger died instantly. We had 2 or 3 people that were clear back by our base and won the match. I was dead so got to see the whole thing from the rangers PoV.

Nisshoki · Dec 01, 2005, 09:03 PM // 21:03

thnx for the help guys

Too Hot Fo You · Dec 01, 2005, 09:36 PM // 21:36

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Originally Posted by asdar

The best EoE I ever saw dropped was back when they had the 6 team tombs fight. We had totally lost and had a handful of people left and there were three teams fighting it out, all with 8 alive. Our ranger ran in at just the right time and dropped EoE and one spike caught a monk and all 25 of the three teams and our ranger died instantly. We had 2 or 3 people that were clear back by our base and won the match. I was dead so got to see the whole thing from the rangers PoV.

hehe thats some great fun. Also a variation for an EoE build, as it counts also for pets. What about having Petmaster builds with very low level pets.
As the damageoutput of EoE relies on the amount of diying people, some pets push it higher.

Elena · Dec 01, 2005, 09:46 PM // 21:46

err wont pets dying only damage other pets through EoE ?

Fred Kiwi · Dec 01, 2005, 10:04 PM // 22:04

Yea, this sure sounds cool. I can't find a group though, been spamming 'eoe bomb nec lfg' for the last half an hour.

Rico Carridan · Dec 01, 2005, 10:06 PM // 22:06

My favorite was the first time we ran into an EoE bomb. I think they were playing mostly E/N or R/x. The eles all ran up to us and started casting crystal wave, then someone died suddenly we were all dead, including their ranger who must have forgotten to use mark. Problem was, it was a priest map, so we had to sit there for a minute thirty laughing ourselves silly. Then we respawned and did it again... except this time one of our warriors hid, and when everyone (including the ranger again) died, our last warrior ran over and killed their priest.

Rico

Too Hot Fo You · Dec 01, 2005, 10:34 PM // 22:34

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Originally Posted by Elena

err wont pets dying only damage other pets through EoE ?

ohh sorry, forgot to mention Death Nova on pets. My fault.

Kep · Dec 02, 2005, 03:03 AM // 03:03

EoE Bomb eh..

What about 7 necros which just spam life-scraficing spells like Signet of Agony, touch of agony, you know sacrafice yourself to death, but deal as much dmg possible to the other team. Death Nova etc. Then take someone with Mark of Protection, who can withstand the EoE, and res you all with light of dwayna. Should imagine the other team would die pretty quickly with that.

Too Hot Fo You · Dec 02, 2005, 08:21 AM // 08:21

erm. Yes. That's the actual EoE combo ...
But would be a damn cool version with pets though.
Some people not realizing that EoE is off, their warrior goes on killing the pets.

Chain Reaction *g*

a cadet · Dec 02, 2005, 07:07 PM // 19:07

I heard someone mention an amusing form of an edge bomb where 1-2 people take Unyielding Aura, make sure that the team is ressurected with the use of this skill before the match starts, then literally the instant EoE comes up they can all die from just one person canceling his maintained enchantment.

(The reason 2 people would use it is because it is faster this way: if one person used Unyielding Aura on 6 people, and the last person used it on him, then the last person only has to cancel one enchantment for everyone to die.

The way to do it just as fast with one person would be to have that one person ressurect everyone with Unyielding Aura, and to create the same instant death have that person kill himself by some standard method such as Illusion of Weakness, breaking all his enchantments and killing everyone)

roku-dragonslayer · Dec 02, 2005, 09:47 PM // 21:47

a cadet-that sounds like a good way, but if your whole teams dies, won't you still lose? i'm kind of a noob in hoh so i could be wrong.