For my bomber set, I use Mercurial Demo set, one Penta heart trink, one CTR med trink (for bombs), an ASI High Gran Faust (before you ask, that's my only good PvP UV), Voltaic Tempest, Stagger Storm (as a backup incase I fight a Shock Max striker), and a Dark Briar Barrage.
Some viable Swordie, Gunner, & Bomber Loadouts you like?
What I've been using lately:
-AP
-Carbine
-Valiance
-BKC + Shadowsun
-Dual Pentas
I've juggled anywhere between 2-5 people at a single time with this loadout with moderate success. Better strikers know to cut corners so you have to have a bit faster of a reaction time to do it, but it's entirely viable.
Vortex (preferably electric for random Shock proc) + DVS (for DPS) + Voltaic (for non-shockwalkers) + AP (for long ranged DPS) = Invinciframe Nightmare
Drop Vortex for Storm Driver. Stronger shock chance, occurs more often, and vortexes are nigh useless now that everyone can just use the Dash function to escape them.
@Blueflood I watch all of your videos, and they're all very entertaining. Do keep it up. :) I haven't really considered Carbine and Bio to have that great chemistry, but now that I think about it, players might be so busy dodging Bio that they slow down enough to be hit with Carb. I'd like to try that!
@Rotten-Forums I find it hard to tell if the MSI makes much a difference, but shock and elemental resist and knockback resist (assuming you're Guardian) does sound appealing against Storm/Polaris guys. You're quite a sturdy tank!
@Retequizzle I've gotten so used to the Hail and BTB combo that it flat out feels awkward not having the ability to surprise slash in between gunning. But I do remember that you're extremely hard to touch when you use the AP/Carb. I imagine the Valiance being used for surprise shots and fleeing, I think I'll try without a sword and see how that goes. By the way, been a week or two, hope you're feeling even a tad bit better now. Bronch was awful for me. :(
@Slyveon Oh wow that's a neat use for DVS, I saw Ezho using that once with Storm, I agree with Ret though, you should switch vortex for something more instant like VT, or better, Storm. I think this sounds a lot of fun.
The Cutter + Shock strategy is more effective in Tier 2, as the odds of running into a shock-walker are much lower.
Polaris
Polaris
SuperNova
RocketHammer
Triple Maxes Skolver
jk.
Acheron, valiance and argent peacemaker.
If people complain about acheron being too OP then
BKC, Justifier, valiance and storm and FF
What I've been using lately:
-Retequizzle
-The power of Retequayza
-Reterd
-Rete
-Needles
Lots!
I'm most comfortable with Carbine Biohazard and Flourish with a BKC Shadowsun and two pentas. Even those with shadow armor suffer from hitstun and poison which can set them up bigtime.
I make like 5 different loadouts a day before heading in to LD. Variety is the spice of life!