Talk:Arc Trap/@comment-24380741-20140323181746

My question is why are the grineer using shock charges, considering that they have no shields, and hate the Corpus and the Tenno Warframes, wouldn't they use traps that affect shields? Electric damage just makes no sense. I think that they would either be using pillars or something that deal continual AOE magnetic damage or use landmines (or other explosives as per their "DPS or nothing" mindset). The former could also be like a sweeping beam to make things more interesting.

At the very least these arc traps should have a charging period and charging sound before they activate their infinite duration electrical arc. The charging period doesn't need to be long just long enough to make people turn around after hearing the sound and not run through them (~1/2 second).

These things do their job and slow down rushers, but these things (as they are now) have a nasty habit of spawning right behind doors which screws up stealthy players.