deloes Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 :confused:Anyone else haven problems with blaster volley? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mordredz Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Depends on the mob level, i follow up a thermal with that and my comps aoe and wipe them out quick... so working as intended... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OresoraSon Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 You also need upper-hand to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polarmole Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 sometimes I have to back up in order to hit all 4 mobs in solo situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurinax Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 It's pretty broken. 10 meters is a pretty generous cone (think Quick Shot's range, but spread out widely in front of you) Sometimes the animation fires wildly off to the side regardless of where I'm facing, or it doesn't hit mobs that are well within the range required when I casted. The ability definitely needs some work. Cone-AOE works great in that other game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leilei Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 I tend to find this awesome for clearing mobs. Backblast -> pistol whip -> volley (the d00d you hit dies) -> volley -> grenade -> volley o.o Tends t oclear out creeps reall well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurinax Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 I tend to find this awesome for clearing mobs. Backblast -> pistol whip -> volley (the d00d you hit dies) -> volley -> grenade -> volley o.o Tends t oclear out creeps reall well Assuming it covers the radius it's supposed to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbalist Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Volley is sick in PVE for leveling purposes.. you can literally spam it and wipe out 6 mobs easy. PvP it is not so great. The problem you are having with it shooting off to the side. As I've seen it happen to me in PvP. If your target is off to the side, that is the direction it shoots as your charcters upper body is facing that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioheadXXX Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 I find it misses my target right in front of me, or currently knocked down or something... when it works properly it's great, but a lot of the time it doesn't seem to work right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurinax Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Volley is sick in PVE for leveling purposes.. you can literally spam it and wipe out 6 mobs easy. PvP it is not so great. The problem you are having with it shooting off to the side. As I've seen it happen to me in PvP. If your target is off to the side, that is the direction it shoots as your charcters upper body is facing that way. Well the tooltip doesn't say it requires any target. Just says a 10 meter cone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnadarco Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 more then 50% of the times i use it when useing pistol wip to proc Upper hand it Shoots of in the wrong Direction..... I point north its starts spraying west or East. Not sure why but maybe a slight lag before animation kicks in i noticed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbalist Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Well the tooltip doesn't say it requires any target. Just says a 10 meter cone. I know it doesn't require a target, but if you are targeted someone off to the side. Your characters torso faces that way. That is the way the cone goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CornBreadtm Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 It's either your best friend or your worst enemy. I've cleared out mobs by spamming it but I've also wasted it because of animation lag pointing me in the wrong direction. Once you get XS Flyby you can pretty much use that then Thermo, Then clean up the pack with Blaster Volley even strong mobs in the pack will fall once the normals start to die and give you enough upper hand to drop 4-6k in 3-4.5 secs. Everything is dead once my last Blaster Volley fires off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twixted Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Great if you can get it to actually hit anything. The ability has caused me so much grief, it is not on my quick slot / action bar or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diremede Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 As stated, the cone direction is very unreliable but I think that has more to do with the stupid camera and targeting options. The UI needs more work to make this function better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strattjw Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Make sure you are facing the right direction when you press the key and then make sure that you have something targeted that is within the cone area you intend or nothing targeted at all. Also, the targets damaged will not always line up with the animation that plays. It is like backblast in that way. Damage gets applied BEFORE the animation actually triggers so the animation can occur in a way that makes no sense. I can not count the number of times I've blaster volley killed what was in front of my but moved my character before the animation played out and had it fire wide right or wide left. Same with backblast shooting it's animation into empty air as the mob I fire at drops dead at my feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abanoth Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Against standard and weak mobs it's great. Toss a detonater, whip something, then volley. Usually kills your first target letting you volley again at which point something else dies or your thermal grenade recharges. I killed so many rhakghouls on Taris this way, helps that they're melee and clump up when attacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niquity Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 :confused:Anyone else haven problems with blaster volley? yeah you prob have the same bug some others have the volley will shoot behind you and no matter were you stand you cant count on volley landing every time because of this. (aka) right in the mid front or behind mobs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reis_ Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 it's also our only tool to catch people trying to vanish away from you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blemke Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 I'm new to the scoundrel class and was wondering if I was missing something with this attack. Now I realize why all of these threads stopped. Everyone took it off their bars as it seems hardly worth it in PVE and not worth it in PVP. Blizz fixed it by adding a snare to their equivalent "cone of cold". Hopefully EA will come up with something as well. At minimum give it a cooldown and remove the need for upper hand. or make it share a cooldown with grenade. Something to at least get us interested in using the attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilTsar Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 more of a placeholder for sucker punch/ df stuff i figure. i use it a fair bit as sawbones when the go-to quickie dps abilities are on cd or something. now, if it was a shotgun blast that'd be something. especially if it would fix that blasted animation delay. although i wouldnt be able to spray it all around me by underworld medicine+spinning when im bored. its a conundrum, i tells ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snaplemouton Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Just run as a scrapper or hybrid sawbone/scrapper in any lowby flashpoint for someone. Pull EVERYTHING.At the end turn around and spam blaster volley.Dodging with the talent will regen around... 50-100 energy per second.And you will generate so much upper hand you can just smash your face on the blaster volley button until everything is dead. Other then that, it's a marvelous ability to do DPS as a sawbones against a stacked group of player in a warzone (In front of a fire pit when they guard the carrier, in front of voidstar door or console, in a hut in fail coast or in alderaan... eh nvm alderaan.)Used on top of a freighter... it's just a joke the amount of AoE DPS you pull out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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