Twitch (Link to a clip) This is why you take fire gems btw - slow this down to 0.25 and watch his HP and check the damage from shrapnel. The autos hurt but aren’t the main killer for the most part.
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I play it. I don’t use blast shot after I tried it. Not because it’s op or whatever, I just don’t like it and prefer splitting grenades.
The only counterplay is heavy and high con, situational awareness, and block/counter the leaping strike.
Gotta adapt 
“The only counterplay is heavy and high con, situational awareness, and block/counter the leaping strike.”
You realize heavy and HIGH con is not viable for healers in this meta, right? like I said prior, your heals will tick for nothing and your single targets will do nothing. Situational awareness and blocking/countering the leaping strike are obvious solutions to a problem until you realize there are 3-5 of them just wandering the point waiting to strike. I’ll just slide away from them in my heavy armor with 300 CON until i get away KEKW. Like I said, no way to properly counter it without overly messing with your build. #copium
I agree. BB is fun af. All weapons should be like this. Unfortunately I can smell the nerf bat a mile away.
Yeah cool. Everyone else that doesn’t have riposte is worrying about how many grav wells and ice showers they’re about to get hit with.
Backline harassment is something this game lacks, because you can’t really harrass anyone with a rapier very well unless you have hella cc(spear) but then you’ll have gravs on you in a heartbeat. #adapt
I don’t mind blunderbuss as a light Dex bow spear user. Adds a new dimension for me always having to look out for them.
That said some destroy you with a shield bash, and BB rotation. Seems a bit much for catching someone with a single stun.
freedom exists…
doesn’t work against this combo. tested
that’s why ice shower and grav well have been nerfed on ptr lol - like i said, i don’t disagree backline divers are healthy for the game but this combo itself is just overpowered. u can’t deny that, that’s why everyone is making yt vids and speaking on it xD
I’m using 4 freedom and have been able to get out of this. 
Maybe its a desync/ping issue?
highly doubt it, did multiple tests with people - about 20 tests. all ended up being failures
Remember when people said, “blunderbuss is kinda weak.”
Lmao. This community is blind and spew more than they think.
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I didn’t know freedoms reduces durations of knock downs…
ikr, but it doesn’t leave me on the floor for long before i can dodge away.
So knock down is considered a stun?
Freedom doesn’t even list root but people told me it worked for it.
I believe you, don’t get me wrong, lol.
I just think the UI is trash because I never thought of freedom helping with a knockdown due to it saying, “slow, stun, silence.”
I’m also under the impression that root is categorized in stun or silence because I know it helps gainst roots. Just didn’t know it extended to knockdowns as well which I thought would be a classification of player state rather than a CC in a game coding sense.
The main reason why the combo is able to take down people in 300 con, etc is the grapple animation cancel allowing you to instantly get 2 shots off (both of which are 9 pellets if used after blast shot). This should not be a thing, if it wasnt this combo would still kill squishies easily, but not tankier players.
The current combo is leap → bash → blast shot → dodge + shoot + grapple + shoot → shrapnel blast
Take away the grapple animation cancel and suddenly the damage isn’t as broken, but still very strong.
Yeah I think that they should get rid of blast shot or nerf it from a knockdown into a knock back/stagger so that when you get claw shotted you can roll(after patch) or counter the brunt of the combo with an entomb or riposte.