Gravitational Displacers need to be removed in PVP

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This is the most overpowered item in the game currently.

For people who don’t know. Gravitational Displacers are an engineering item that can be made for both engineers and non engineers.

It grabs ALL enemies , max 30 yards at rank3, and pulls them to the center point. What this means for Epic BG’s and Reg BG’s is certain classes can delete entire raids/teams in 2 to 3 button clicks.

Fire Mage being the most common but there are others. Even with the upcoming nerf to living bomb these items will still be overpowered.

  • They can be used to force disconnects by abusing certain mechanics.

  • They are effectively a raid wide interrupt that is spammable

  • They have no debuff only a personal 5 minute cooldown. So a team can coordinate and spam them over the course of a battle.

Even premades want these gone because they are so over powered and make the game trivial for them. On the flip side the first team who doesn’t use them is at an extreme disadvantage.

I’m posting here for a couple of reasons. We already tried to bring this to the developers attention in the BG forum and it fell on deaf ears. A lot of casual players join EBG’s/regs and don’t read the BG forum.

Please for the good of an already lopsided broken game riddled with bad mechanics, remove these abominations. Please don’t get hung up on premades, this item is a bigger problem than premades and that’s saying something.

Please remove these items from PVP or greatly nerf the ability to spam them. I feel the former is the easier and better solution.

Edited unbalanced to overpowered to avoid circular arguments

PS Dave likes fire.

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and it has a chance to push players away and there is no button clicks just a req grenade
and these were out when dragonflight was released

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I actually think that is when it’s used in conjunction with a pest fogger (aoe knock back item)

Beyond crazy that they don’t share a cool down considering their effect.

I have seen grav displacer > pest fogger > grav displacer chained together but it’s normally not needed as one good grav displacer + uncapped aoe dmg will wipe out a raid.

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and the grave displacer is not a small hidden item it will glow purple before it blows up

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Looks like everyone can use it, so wouldn’t it be balanced then?

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The problem doesnt seem to be balance but that its overwhelmingly good and unfun.

Judging from the post. Idk really i dont pvp : p

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Hmm, haven’t seen this on any mass scale, I have to say.

I do the epic BG daily, but I don’t do random bgs since Blitz came out. Haven’t seen them in Epics to my knowledge. I have been blown out of AV towers a few times after being sucked to the entrance by something, but I’ve always assumed that was just hunter shenanigans.

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If it is PvP and the other team is getting irritated… seems fun to me lol

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what is wrong with you? why are you calling for nerfs to the way we use living bomb and gravitational displacers??? you’re literally a mage main the heck?? you understand that living bomb that entire right hand side of the talent tree is a meme, right??

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This all sounds hilarious. I really need to go do some BGs. Maybe the enemy team will have a bunch of these. lol

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Why not just disable them in PvP instead?

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How about we disable all toys in BGs instead of removing things.

And you beat me to it…

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Premades use them a lot.

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Ahh, I mostly play on Alliance now, so I haven’t seen as many Premades. I see them all the time when I’m on my horde toon, though, but he’s benched till TWW

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If you know their power, use them yourself instead of advocating for their removal. It’s not like only engineers can use them, anyone can use them; so if you know how powerful they are then grab some and use them yourself rather than complaining they are being used against you. You have the same tools available to the enemy team in this instance.

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Everyone can use them yes. Think of them as a nuclear missile, whoever presses first wipes the enemy off the map. There is little to no recourse. I’m not going to get into some weird circular argument over the word unbalanced.

If you have a fury warrior or fire mage alt go for it, they’re your best bet at the moment to make use of them.

I’m not going to tell people to stop using them, that’s a futile endeavor.

I’m fine with that, I was not aware they were used in PVE and have no wish to hamper other peoples game modes. I’ll amend the title and body to reflect that.

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Should be disabled in rated pvp then. As far as I know you can’t use this on Mythic+ even in open areas.

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true you can not use them even the iwin button we got

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this is the most OP item i have ever seen in pvp. the description is also pretty vague: it’s a 30m throw range but the pull effect is massive. ever see a fire mage pixel pull a whole raid and kill 20+ people instantly? it’s the stupidest item ever.

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I am well aware of their use as I have used them since either season 2 or 3 and deleted 1/2 to full raids with them. The charm wears off pretty quickly. It does not improve the game in anyway. At best its a crutch for some players. They are bad for the PVP game mode. I don’t know if I can explain it any simpler for you.

Pointing out broken game mechanics does not equal complaining

I’m amazed that so many people are missing the exploit that can be used in conjunction with this. Force disconnecting players is not a good thing. Using your thinking are you advocating exploiting?

Man wow forum posters live up to their reputation.

I’m not advocating living bomb nerfs. No where did I say “living bomb should be nerfed” I said it is being nerfed further.

Gravitational displacers need to be removed or heavily nerfed in PVP.

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