How to Chomper
How to Chomper
Ahh, chomper, my favorite class.... ever. having got to 313 in the first game, and currently 1601 in GW2, I have gotten pretty damn good at this game. I just recently mastered my un...
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Best hint i have on how to play Chomper is: DO NOT USE THE BURROW.
Pretty simple.
Find a way to stay alive, to be sneaky. Even a Chomper that simply disappears around a corner can cause an enemy to back off and go another way.
The Burrow is ineffective against experienced players anyways. And why waste a Burrow on an unsuspecting foe?
And you don't even need to bite Imps. Just regular Goop + Spikey Spikeweed. Done.
Meanwhile inexperienced Chompers will just Burrow towards an Engineer and die. And then try it again...
So if you ever get annoyed by Burrow Chompers, just switch to Engineer and teach them a lesson with the stun weaponry.
I have to disagree with "DO NOT USE THE BURROW".
The Burrow is a useful tool, and while I completely agree that the best Chomper is a sneaky Chomper ignoring the ability to Burrow is basically throwing away a very useful tool.
The key is to use your ability to burrow intelligently. Yes; any experienced player is going to recognize the telltale sound of a Burrowed Chomper in their vicinity and react with whatever countermeasure they might have, whether it's a Sonic Grenade, a Rocket Jump or Sprint Tackle but that just means that you reserve it for timing.
The time to use the Burrow is best when you have a target who is aware of you but who has either just used the ability that could counter you or doesn't have one in the first place. I see a large number of players who use their Rocket Jump or Sprint Tackle to just travel through empty map to reach the fighting and if you're alert the Burrow can carry you under their oncoming fire and score you a Vanquish. I've watched my stepson waste his Rocket Jumps just getting to where the fighting is in a hurry only to then watch him not be able to get away from a Burrowed Chomper that he saw coming right at him because his ability was still in Cool Down.
If you're using a Chomper with some sort of spray the Burrow can also be used to carry you into the middle of a Group of Zombies, not to swallow one but to pop up and either spray the group from behind or to come up in the middle and spray in a circle for a Multi-Vanquish. I've done it and either gotten out alive myself or at least traded my own KO for 3 or 4 of the opposing team.
Hiding around corners or getting up high to drop down directly behind an unsuspecting foe has it's place- the best Chomper is absolutely one who is sneaky but the ability to Burrow shouldn't be ignored. You play them right there's no reason why you can't be one of the top scoring players during the game session in Multiplayer.
Yes I agree, burrow should be used, but only tactically. And like i mentioned earlier, a good chomper is a sneaky chomper, so thank you for the good advice for the burrow, i kinda forgot to add more to the burrow part of my guide xD
As for chomp cannon, just don't even bother with it, even if you manage a few lucky kills here and there, its not worth it to get rid of the longevity the goop provides, as well as the goops team support.
I personally don't care for the Chomp Cannon. The slow speed of it means that scoring a direct hit is almost impossible on a moving target and it lacks the splash effect of the more liquid Goop so you need that direct hit.
I'll gladly trade off a couple of lucky hits with Chomp Cannon for being able to Goop a zombie or multiple Zombies who have bunched up together.
@realitysquared wrote:
I have to disagree with "DO NOT USE THE BURROW".
The point is not to never use it. The point is to not use is for easy vanquishes all the time and learn the character. As that is what plagues the game when people play Chomper.
Moving behind the front line to get one vanquish and then die to oncoming enemies just demonstrates how much the Chomper has to rely on positioning. A Sniper can easily open fire at a group from a distance - a Chomper cannot. So the key is to understand how to move. And constant Burrow to get 1 vanquish in a suicide attack does not help there.
And it is completely possible to eat an entire group of zombies from behind - one after another - and come up victorious without a single use of Burrow. But only when the Chomper himself does not have another enemy in his neck.
So again: in order to understand the Chomper, you need to learn how to move. And burrow does not teach you that. So do not rely on burrow to get vanquishes. Do not use it. You will reach a point where you don't need advice anymore.
- Screion: Wrong. Burrow can be used to get behind busy Zombies in firefights and take them out with a little stealth. You don't necessarily have to swallow an enemy every time you use it lol.
It teaches you mobility. - It might sound odd to suggest it, but if you really want to learn how move, hunt, and survive long enough to build up a streak of vanquishes the best advice I could give would be to return to GW1 and put in the hours.
The first Garden Warfare was a lot less forgiving than its sequel; primarily because you can only self-regenerate to half your normal health and if you're shooting or using abilities your self-regeneration gets interrupted. Once damaged the only way to get your full health back, without respawning, is to get outside healing from teammates or potted plants.
This means that most of the time when you're building a vanquish streak you're playing at half your normal health so if you can learn Chomper tactics well enough to chain more than a couple of vanquishes together when the game has you at half health or less then you're GW2 experience with the character class will be so much easier.That's something I was wondering myself, why it was easier to play chomper in the first than second. Maybe players weren't that good in the first? Maybe less threats to chomper? I cant really pin it down, but I feel like doing better with chomper now is not only more difficult, but kinda more.....rewarding? What do you think? I feel like doing really good with chomper is a real show of skill now in this game
