Spiral Knights - Bombing Shadowsnarb

Bombing Shadowsnarb

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Sat, 05/25/2013 - 17:40

Saltyfruit

Pure bomber here, wondering how exactly one is supposed to bomb the UGWW boss.

Last time I went AoA, VT, and SSS... I was utterly useless for the Snarboli themselves.

Any possible way to remedy this?

I was thinking either like, Grav Vortex, though I'm not sure how that would fare on the levels leading up to the boss

Alternatively a DBB as I'm fairly certain the fuse time is much shorter than the net fuse time of shards...

Orrr maybe I was just doing it wrong with my previous loadout.

I dunno.

Suggestions?

Sat, 05/25/2013 - 19:35

Zeddy

You're a braver bomber than I am; I had a horrible time bombing regular Snarbolax.

You could bring Electron Vortex, and it would be great at dealing with all the undead leading up to the boss themselves. There are a lot of problems involved in pure-bombing snarbolax.

You need to lead Snarbolax to the bell.
You need to ring to bell.
You need to damage Snarbolax.
You need to do these three things very quick in succession.

On SL Snarbies, this is only made worse by further complicated factors:

There are two of them.
They will murder you.
There is a silkwing.
There is a swarm seed.

What's your approach when purebombing regular Snarbolax? I would say make sure you're very, very good at purebombing regular Snarbolax, and then also bring DBB (if the regular strategy doesn't involve that one) so you can take out the silkwing ASAP.

Sat, 05/25/2013 - 20:20

Saltyfruit

Well I will be with a party

Well I will be with a party so I'm not too concerned about hitting the bell actually
My main problem was with the damage: getting the bomb to explode before the Snarboli were no longer vulnerable, and getting the shards to actually hit them because more often than not they were knocked away from my radii by teammates, which is the main reason I'm leaning towards DBB for the larger AoE.

For regular Snarbolax I usually just need AoA and SSS
I keep a haze of AoA going consistently around the bell area, and hit the bell itself with SSS when necessary
Granted, significantly slower than your method...

Speaking of which I haven't experimented with Gravi on Snarbolax as I crafted it quite recently.

What I ended up doing in the first UGWW boss run was mostly just limping through swarm seed and trying to keep up an AoA haze to kill the silkwing, before getting promptly spiked and killed. I couldn't really use SSS for seed control without setting off the bell prematurely. Near the end though I did switch to alternating between AoA for the silkwing, and VT to shock the Snarboli as soon as they were stunned which worked somewhat...

Sat, 05/25/2013 - 20:56

Aiden-Curry-Puff

Why kill the silkwing when

Why kill the silkwing when you can drop VV? :P

Also maybe use DR for dmg/swarm?

Sat, 05/25/2013 - 21:05

Saltyfruit

I did consider VV for a

I did consider VV

for a second
and then I realized they're poison-themed and dismissed the thought that there might be an exception, which I suppose is a possibility

Does VV actually work on the Rabid Snarboli themselves though? :o

And DR, yeahhh but P2P isn't quite an option for me at the moment

Sun, 05/26/2013 - 03:59

Zeddy

"Well I will be with a party so I'm not too concerned about hitting the bell actually"

Oh.

Bring a vortex to help pull Snarby to the bell and a DBB to assist in killing the Silkwing and the Swarm Seed. Don't worry too much about damaging the Snarboli, your party will be thankful.

Sun, 05/26/2013 - 10:34

Saltyfruit

...did not realize it was

...did not realize it was that simple

Okay

Thankyouu~

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