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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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.
@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
At the point where I am now I don't see a lot of difference between playing the Chomper in GW1 vs GW2.
But I may have learned the Chomper backwards compared to you; I absolutely hated playing the Chomper in GW1. The game was new then and I was already a big fan of the franchise up this mutation of it into a third person shooter so I picked it up and I think I was unnecessarily distracted by the unorthodox, nontraditional, and sometimes fiendishly difficult, Star Challenges required to level up and trying to accomplish some them while having a fun time on the game turned out to be mutually exclusive and I left the game after only about 40 hours of play and hitting Player Rank 34.
Quite frankly at that time I was terrible as a Chomper, or any other class for that matter.
When GW2 came out I had forgotten how miserable playing the first game made me sometimes so I picked it up. With a more traditional leveling up system I was able to get into the game much more and GW2 was where I really learned how to play as a Chomper and the class became my favorite to play and where I get my largest vanquish total along side the Scientist on the Zombies team.
I went back to GW1 after unlocking every other character to be able to add the Unicorn Chomper to my roster so I went back to GW1 with considerable skill as a Chomper and honed my survival skills with it's harsher Health regeneration system and I'm seeing higher vanquish totals now than I did before in GW2 (30-40 average per game of Gardens and Graveyards vs 20-30 previously in GW2) but I haven't exactly returned to GW2 yet since I'm only at Player Rank 242 and I need a couple more weeks to max out at 313 for the Unicorn Chomper.
Once I return for good to GW2 I'll have an extra couple hundred nonstop hours of gameplay on the original so I'll be able to make a better comparison for multiplayer.
What I can say for certain is that at least half the players you meet in GW1 currently are highly skilled at the game at this point so you definitely notice when the opposite team has lucked into having most of those players.
