I have been playing with Bilescourge Bombers (Pre-Patch) in PVP and it does considerably more damage than Demo Strength talent by a huge margin. Bombers consistently doing 6-9% of my damage. I am playing it with Shadow Invocation talent and it pumps. Anyone else have any experience with this talent? I know that Demo Strength is expecting a 25% buff in PVP but I doubt that will get it anywhere near Bombers damage currently in PVP.
I haven’t played PvP in a long time, but I have played Bilescourge Bombers.
The plusses are it’s on a 30 second cooldown and costs no shards.
The minus is that your target is apt to run out of it’s area-of-effect if not held in place.
So, in PvP, how do you hold them in place?
You stand still… because all melee do is train the lock 
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Nice I’ll give it a go later this week. However do keep in mind:
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DS and arguably FG as a whole are undertuned in PvP. Right capstone set of talents are pretty much dead at the moment too
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Armor stat is currently inflated, so abilities/builds that don’t do physical damage will have more throughput in comparison to those that do
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As Demo lock it is my rule of thumb to always opt for spell damage over physical since I favor versa/haste in PVP.
DS has been underperforming since the 50% pvp nerf it got a while back.
With Vilefiend now being on the shadow school if I get kicked on shadow I can still cast HoG and Bombers since it is still fire school.
True targets can move out of it but what I find is that they have a hard time doing so because it is not really clear where the point of impact is and this serves as a micro cc to enemy casters as they have to move or drink the damage.
Shadow Invocation also is a small addition to damage. Overall I have seen Bombers sitting at 6-9% of my damage consistently in melee and caster matchups.
This may change when Demo is back to actually doing respectable damage. But as of now it is a solid lock in for me.